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by psadauskas 6mo ago
Its also gotten harder to trust them to maintain that quality, too. A product gets good reviews in Consumer Reports or the Wire Cutter or reddit, and the company making it knows they're gonna sell a ton of them, so they start cutting c
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by psadauskas 6mo ago
I've been using Linux on the desktop off-and-on for 20 years. I used OSX for awhile 2008-2015 when they clearly had the best hardware, and the OS was pretty nice. I've been using KDE since then, and I recently installed Bazzite (F
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by psadauskas 6mo ago
I use opencode, so can toggle between Claude and Codex fairly easily, and do so whenever one of them is having problems (until yesterday, that is, when Claude blocked opencode for good, and I cancelled my account). This means I'm using
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by psadauskas 6mo ago
I need to add another agent that watches the first, and pulls the plug whenever it detects "Wait, I see the problem now..."
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by psadauskas 7mo ago
> I cannot find the blogposts I remember reading, but recall that there were some bad feelings about Ruby Together and Arko’s leadership of it before it was merged with Ruby Central. This is one of the biggest ones that I remember: http
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by psadauskas 7mo ago
I'm not talking about people with x+1, where X is a standard US middle-class amount of money. In that case, $20k or $100k or some amount that would make a tiny difference in the world is a huge amount of money to a middle-class family.
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by psadauskas 7mo ago
Right? If I had enough money that I could make a serious dent in local or even global poverty without noticing the change in my lifestyle, and I just... chose not to, I have no idea how I could sleep at night.
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by psadauskas 7mo ago
A "free market" is one in which all the participants of the market have perfect information and act completely rationally. This is, of course, an academic ideal, similar to solving a physics problem that tells you to ignore fricti
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by psadauskas 7mo ago
The Ruby gem "Faker" is used for generating fake data for testing, like legit-looking names, emails, phone numbers, lorum ipsum text, etc. About 10 years ago I was working on a messaging app, and wanted some real messages to see i
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by psadauskas 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270784 "System76 on Age Verification Laws" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239736 "Ubuntu Planning Mandatory Age Verification" I thought I s
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by psadauskas 7mo ago
How many hours did it take to charge all those illegal tariffs, though? Surely not the 500 years they say it'll take to refund them /s
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by psadauskas 7mo ago
In a feudal government, the laws are created by the wealthy landowners with complete control over how the people should live. The peasants have little say in how things should be run, and few options to leave. In a capitalist society, corpo
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by psadauskas 8mo ago
Axon, the taser company? They're not any better, ethically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yd9nLQx3qQ How about Denver just doesn't surveil its citizens, at all?
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by psadauskas 8mo ago
I think we can lay the blame for this on the wealthy elites, too. When people see someone better off than them greedily destroying society for their own personal gain, they naturally think "well why not me, too?".
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by psadauskas 8mo ago
> financial and time constraints What a passive way to say executives kept a larger share of profits for themselves, forcing workers to be stressed and do a sub-optimal job. Its like the news reports that say "an officers weapon was
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by psadauskas 8mo ago
The amorality was not in plain sight, if your only source of news is Fox News or Breitbart or Twitter.
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by psadauskas 8mo ago
Yes, because a DHS statement, published on Twitter of all places, isn't going to be propaganda. I can't think of any instances of them blatantly lying even against their own video evidence in, like, at least a week. /s
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by psadauskas 8mo ago
Dan Carlin, on his Common Sense podcast several years ago, said something that really stuck with me (and he probably was paraphrasing it from someone else). Society is like a pressure cooker, with built-in safety release valves to prevent t
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by psadauskas 8mo ago
Voting doesn't work as well when there's billions of dollars being spent to influence the votes to make billionaires richer, while the working class that could vote against it is too busy working 3 part time jobs just to survive.
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by psadauskas 8mo ago
Regarding your 2), in other industries and engineering professions, the architect (or civil engineer, or electrical engineer) who signed off carries insurance, and often is licensed by the state. I absolutely do not want to gatekeep beginne
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by psadauskas 9mo ago
I went to go see a Broncos game once about 10 years ago, it was $400 for a single ticket. I was in the top section, 3 rows from the back, I needed a Sherpa to help me get to my seat. I could tell there was a game of football being played do
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by psadauskas 9mo ago
And most Americans are just trying to survive, working 3 gig jobs for barely minimum wage, while the cost of everything is skyrocketing.
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by psadauskas 9mo ago
> In the same way any poorly designed object or system gets abandoned Hah, tell that to Docker, or React (the ecosystem, not the library), or any of the other terrible technologies that have better thought-out alternatives, but we'r
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by psadauskas 9mo ago
I read a study many years ago, I haven't been able to find it for awhile. It took people who had grown up using each system, and asked them to estimate things just by guessing. For example, "How long is that wall?" or "H
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by psadauskas 9mo ago
Sibling comment is correct, also in the US we have "Food Deserts"[1]: lower income areas that lack typical grocery stores, and might only have convenience stores that only stock prepackaged or processed foods. Any raw ingredients
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by psadauskas 9mo ago
Last time I tried, it didn't work well (or at all) with multiple monitors.
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by psadauskas 9mo ago
I’m in the same situation, have to use Mac for SOC2 reasons after having used Linux for 10 years. The apps are fine, it’s the KDE window management I miss the most, and a VM won’t really help there.
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by psadauskas 10mo ago
Location: Boulder, CO Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: 20 years in the Rails webdev stack: Ruby, Rails, Turbo, Stimulus, Hotwire. Various Javascript frameworks as they come and go: React, Svelte, Vue. DevOps with Terraform,
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by psadauskas 11mo ago
A "free market" is one in which all the participants of the market have perfect information and act completely rationally. This is, of course, an academic ideal, similar to solving a physics problem that tells you to ignore fricti
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by psadauskas 11mo ago
I use it quite a bit when I have to monkeypatch a gem to backport a fix while I wait for a release: raise "check if monkeypatch in #{__FILE__} is still needed" if Gem::Version.new(Rails.version) >= Gem::Version.new("

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