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by prewett 1y ago
It's usually used as a slur, though. Not letting 3 year olds drive is changing behavior based on age, but sometimes you should be treating people differently based on some external attribute they cannot help. If most people a certai
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by prewett 1y ago
For that matter, look at Europe. France has gone through 5 republics and an empire since 1789 and they got a new constitution around 1958. (West) Germany has had three governments in the past 120 years, most recently in 1945. Spain has only
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by prewett 1y ago
And people complain about both being a danger to democracy.
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by prewett 1y ago
I thought it was pretty well-known that capital letter come before lower-case. I think it's punctuation, then numbers, then capital letters, then lower-case. At any rate, that's what textbook indices do (assuming I remember correc
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by prewett 1y ago
The ancient Romans claimed to have had a 10-month calendar [1], which is what I assume the reference is. Either that, or when month 6 got renamed August in honor of Emperor Augustus [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom
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by prewett 1y ago
You could try software consulting agencies like Toptal. However, international freelance work as a junior dev is probably an uphill battle (especially since experienced local developers are having troubles finding work). If there's not
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by prewett 1y ago
I'm not Roman Catholic, but Bishop's Barron Youtube channel seems to be a good introduction to Catholicism and how Catholic teaching interacts with with current events. It's not systematic like a catechism, though, but quite
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by prewett 1y ago
The world has a future, and a species that flourishes from the freezing Arctic to the tropics is not going extinct any time soon. But if you don't think you have a future, you are likely to not have a very good one. Nihilism isn&#x
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by prewett 1y ago
"Solve quantum physics" meaning generating closed-form solutions to the Schrodinger equation for atoms of any composition? Of arbitrary molecules? Good luck with that... Even for the hydrogen atom, the textbook said "so it ha
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by prewett 1y ago
Well, Apple spends some of that pre-paying TSMC for their next node in exchange for exclusivity...
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by prewett 1y ago
> Why would I have an emotional connection to the Coke logo? Decades of Coca-Cola advertising creating an emotional connection? Maybe it's your favorite drink? Maybe it was a special treat on your birthday? Maybe Warren Buffett gave
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by prewett 1y ago
An MBA is sort of a de facto license. I'm given to understand that you basically won't get into upper management without one (unless you found your own company, of course).
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by prewett 1y ago
Huh... Finland is #1 in happiness but has the third highest suicide rate in Western Europe (behind Belgium, France, and Switzerland) [1]. Belgium is medium happy, but has the 15th highest suicide rate in the world, substantially above the U
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by prewett 1y ago
That's kind of a one-sided view. Yes, you need to treat your employees honorably, but a company isn't a jobs program, either.
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by prewett 1y ago
To be pedantic, it's "socialism with Chinese characteristics". The idea is to save face by renaming "capitalism" as "Chinese characteristics".
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by prewett 1y ago
I've been happy with the AirGradient One, which does have VOC measurement, as well as CO2, and PPM 2.5. It seems that VOC on the hardware side is relative, so the amount is just compared to a baseline (last 24 hours in the case of the
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by prewett 1y ago
But presumably the total use of energy has been going up, so while the relative percentage might be the same, I doubt very much that the absolute quantity of GWhr/year has stayed the same.
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by prewett 1y ago
To my knowledge, "marriage" has meant "a man + a woman for a lifetime" in most societies that I am aware of. (In the context of this conversation, I think the lifetime part is what the parent was talking about.) Frequent
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by prewett 1y ago
Microsoft's APIs basically shove all the implementation details onto the API user. This is, of course, abysmal API design, but "tasteful design" (in any sense) and "Microsoft" have never been in the same building. B
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by prewett 1y ago
The Chinese State hasn't provided jobs and housing for decades. Their own statistics shows youth unemployment at 19% (August 2025). The struggles of migrants in the cities is well-known. I personally witnessed homeless people in Beij
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by prewett 1y ago
This not to say that Ticketmaster is not scummy (and the article elucidates some of their scumminess). But this seems like partly a consequence of "ticket stabilization". As is commonly cited on HN, rent "stabilization"
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by prewett 1y ago
Well, that's my point. The modern purpose of the browser is for applications, and for very good reasons, namely to abstract away the OS. The problem is that the design of the browser is for documents, and is really unsuitable for a
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by prewett 1y ago
Except that Nvidia, Inc. doesn't own any of that NVDA stock, other people do, and they cannot access that money. Nvidia, Inc. owns net profit, which is orders of magnitude less than market cap. Last year's net profit was just unde
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by prewett 1y ago
I guess I’m just a crusty ol’ greybeard C++ developer, but it seems like a video editor is out of place in a document browser. There’s a perfectly good native operating system that nobody uses any more. If we think we need a more thoroughly
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by prewett 1y ago
> No form is going to extend a job offer autonomously. Just wait... some time-pressed startup is going to find a killer LLM prompt that filters in exactly the people they want, and then post something on the benefits of "vibe hiring
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by prewett 1y ago
Oh fun memories! "Crystal Quest" and "Beyond Dark Castle", which I played on an SE are still some of my favorite games.
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by prewett 1y ago
> parents can give the economy their best Surely parents should be giving their child(ren) the best, no? Giving the economy your best only makes sense in Communism, and since that has never gone well, I'll assume that what was meant
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by prewett 1y ago
And since we don't have the technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere efficiently, buying offsets is spending a lot of money fooling yourself.
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by prewett 1y ago
My understanding of the history of Chinese writing is that it kept trying to go phonetic, but each time they prevented it, because the writing had to be read across an empire with multiple languages. Even so, something like 20% of the chara
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by prewett 1y ago
I find the LLM on Google's search regularly regurgitates StackOverflow and Quora answers practically verbatim.

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