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by ragingrobot 4y ago
My intent was not to advertise this as an alternative, and I do not see how you came to that conclusion. I was pointing out that this is not unique to the freight railroads to intimidate employees into coming to work on a regular basis.
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
Quite a few applications do this. For something like the mentioned oh-my-zsh, it can be safely assumed the user is not a novice in most cases. Having to install in this manner may in fact deter the user, as they'd be suspicious. A well
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
I'm not even going to say which is worse, they both suck equally in my view. The problem with articles like this, as they (purposefully, perhaps) make no mention of such employer tactics. So, I guarantee most readers are saying or thin
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
"Total Comp", which typically is more than wages. This includes health benefits, which can be a significant part of the figure. So like another said they get the bare minimum but these figures seem inflated and make the employees
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
Hey, something maybe for one here I can shed some light on, for those who want a little more than the article gives. ;) I am a supervisor on a commuter rail, and in this respect they operate in a similar fashion. Like any other business, pr
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
I didn't disagree with you at all. I was just providing some more substance, beyond the charging and durability factors. I mentioned flooding as one factor. When the remnants of Ida hit last year the entire transit system shut down due
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
The use case for a bus differs from a pickup, though. As far as the battery, at least in NYC there was talk of having quick charging stations at the end of each line. However the typical driver layover time is on the order of twenty minutes
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
That's assuming they get close to the contact transfer limit. A lot of theoretical numbers are stated. Now that it's in use, maybe we'll get some practical numbers. Perhaps they never will get near the contact data limit, so
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
They are indeed an abbreviation for "change". change {root,own(er),mod(e),gr(ou)p}... I am one of those who say "c-h-..." as well. For some reason I find it less awkward to say than "shroot." Perhaps the first
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
If there are no severe restrictions or limitations on what Linux applications under Rosetta can do, that makes WINE a great possibility, at the least.
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
> The way I see it, the period from 1945 to 2020 was the exception, not the norm. Apart from that period (in the Western World), humans have been facing more difficult times than 2020-2022 through most of history. Still we have surivived
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
Right before the 2008 downturn, I had an ING Direct (now Capital One) savings account, at that time with an APR over 8. At once point in the early 2000s it was doing a hell of a lot better than that. It never recovered. I never saw that r
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
Why high? Someone else in the thread made a remark about the insinuation of a "phone in front of my face" but in fact this could very easily happen by a sober person just simply not paying attention, and that is fairly common.
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
> You can break parts that are expensive to replace. Both in the process of tinkering, and out of frustration when stuff goes wrong. So, also developing a bit of anger management skill. :)
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by ragingrobot 4y ago
Technology in late model cars makes tinkering more difficult as well. Back when our parents were tinkering, you didn't have to reprogram a computer when changing heads or a cam. All you needed was hand tools, for the most part. My toys
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
They ditched the concept about ten years ago. Being out of the loop I had to look up if APFS even supported them anymore, and in doing so, found opinions on two ends of the spectrum: the concept was the best thing ever, or one of the most d
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
Last I was past the area, they had stuck a JetBlue ad on the Pepsi one. Not huge, but probably noticeable across the river. Shame we allow this to landmarks. Granted it was temporary, but... eh... kind of tacky. https://libn.com&
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
Interesting, I have never seen such a thing. Perhaps it's more for comfort than mechanical reasons?
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
Everything's on the up. I'm an omnivore, and use tofu for meals on occasion. On my trip to the Asian market yesterday (cheapest price around), tofu was 50% higher than what I paid last trip two or three months ago (was $1.39 for H
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
Engines are lubricated almost immediately. The oil pump is typically camshaft driven, so it's only a matter of seconds before everything is lubricated. In addition, modern oils tend to "stick" to parts better and don't d
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
This has not been necessary for quite some time. With modern tolerances in manufacturing, it is not necessary, even wasteful (burned gas and small amounts of wear that add up over time) to warm up a vehicle. It may have been another story a
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
> We've made it through decades without breaking theming, what changed? According to the GNOME team, application developers were getting bug reports filed against their application about broken interface elements, and GNOME was havi
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
unfortunately using a simple pipe is not going to work, because you're also looking for user input, and you can't do both easily with stdin.
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
This article made me check out my dict out of curiosity (american). It has words like "zorch". No. Clue.
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
Perhaps allowing the user to specify a word list, and defaulting to some value would be better than suggesting symlinks. On Tumbleweed, I have no /usr/share/dict/words, but /use/share/dict/american. A
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
In one side of my mind, I agree with others that such behavior is unprofessional. Then I remember, this is pretty much his project, it may have grown in great leaps but it still started out as his personal project and he gave rules for wo
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
I haven't been following lately, but last "outburst" I had noticed was two or three years ago. It was pretty mild compared to this, but used some harsh language - nothing at all profane, IIRC he still used terms like "id
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
This is pretty cool. One thing is that it seems to get confused by nearby (smallish?) bodies of water. Near my house there's two creeks, they meet sort of forming a D shape. The traced path jumps across a small land mass once or twice
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
A good pair of walking sneakers. If you're comfortable you'll keep at it. If well supporting you'll avoid pain and injury. Call that ROI or avoiding future loss.
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by ragingrobot 5y ago
> I'll be at least spending part of the day in the PacNW forests to keep the depression at bay. Enjoy some of it for me. I will get out there, someday... I keep saying it, before I visit any foreign country, I'm spending some t

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