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by readingnews 3y ago
I love these arguments: To help with inflation: >> Have a higher savings rate Uh, right. So for someone who is just getting by, does not "overspend" and does not have luxury items, how do they do this? I hear over and over t
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>> In this day of 24h/24 porn accessible online it stands to reason that would be a major contributor in the ED problem. What? I am confused by your statement. Are you saying porn causes ED? I would casually think that would mean
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Reading between the lines, I see the great institutions are doing the same things the small universities that I worked at also do... do not admit failure. It is amazing that proverbially across campus in the psych or history or sociology de
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Define "online"? Sure, I have that ebay account that I created when ebay started in 1995, but if we just say "any online service", well, I have run my own e-mail server since 1994, so I guess that predates it. I do not e
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Exactly, with sequential, I may loose count... in the countrysides of Germany going 145 in my rally car. But for H or HH, I do not really get it other than novelty.
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>> it set me back $6,000. The issue is that most modern households in the U.S. can not hack that kind of pricetag for a sofa / couch. Hell, I could never spend that kind of jack on a couch, even if I literally saved up for it (wh
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by readingnews 3y ago
I agree, while I just can not stand MrBeast or his videos, and I can not explain it (maybe they are just nothing but attention grabbers and have nothing to offer), I feel like this article also falls into "attention grabber with nothin
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>> Desktop and mobile shouldn't have the first couple of bars obscured. I am on a desktop with a huge monitor in ultra high res. It is pretty bad. >> The sideways text is meant to be a subtle nod to the fact the page scrol
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by readingnews 3y ago
You need to do some soul searching (or, I like punk rock, "you've got soul doubt", to quote Fat Mike)... Are you just nervous because of the news you are reading OR "my interest in webdev is still dead" Hav
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There be wallet burning dragons here...
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I wonder if this is: AI use in the real world is still early on, and so it is expensive. OR Whoa, slashdot (I guess I'm old, perhaps reddit) effect and we can not afford the bandwidth, quick turn it off! OR Same as above but with CPU c
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>> Hundreds of bookmarks I'll never re-visit. It is like the books on our shelves and the proverbial pictures in our parents shoeboxes. I recall when I was very very young, my parents would break out the shoeboxes at holiday gath
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I did woodworking long before programming of any kind. There are some subtle but critical differences... Mess up bad in programming, you may loose your job. Mess up bad on the {table,band,radial arm}saw or jointer,planer,lathe and you may l
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by readingnews 3y ago
I thought of that, I am not rural (town is about 300,000 people)... Perhaps that is rural in some areas I guess. The HVAC contractors here are pretty small, maybe they do not want to take the risk. As someone else said, if I had more time,
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by readingnews 3y ago
I just replaced a furnace... everyone I called for a quote would not touch a heat pump with a 20foot pole, or they wanted prices that were 2X what a separate furnace and AC would cost to install. It was very strange. This is the second home
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by readingnews 3y ago
I have only ever read Snow Crash. I enjoyed it. However, I read it in 1992. When I think about it now, I bet reading it today would seem odd... like watching old 1950s shows that make predictions about the world of tomorrow.
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While I mostly agree, I think one thing to keep in mind is that we still need people somewhere who know how to do that. e.g. FAANG might have data center people and sysadmins that know the hardware... we (they? not sure) just need to ensure
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by readingnews 3y ago
I was (not figuratively) thinking "they are still here??" too. I am partially shocked. Thought they were no longer a company.
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Anyone wanting to build that circuit should do a quick search, it has been much improved over the years, and there are even off the shelf PCBs that fit right in the case for cheap. Personally, it is still cool. I think I have three or four
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by readingnews 3y ago
I must be an immature adult. Saw the picture of the while bike (is it really a penny-farthing?), and all I could think was: it has an electric motor in the back...then... Pop a wheelie!!
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This is the "problem" today that I see in the classroom (I used to teach CS until recently)... learners today do not want to dedicate the time it takes to truly understand. Not all of them, but a LOT of them have the opinion that
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by readingnews 3y ago
Right. When I saw "Debian kernels ranging from 2.6.32-21 to 2.6.32-24..." I was like, uhhhh. Someone should change the title of the HN post to say 2011.
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Time marches on, but I wonder how many new linux users will never see so many cool old programs as they just do not know about them. Does that thing everyone keeps trying to get us all to move to (I am a hardcore ICEwm / *boxwm user) s
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Totally agree with this... If you say it will live forever, but _you_ are doing the hosting, it can not, by default, live forever. I need to own the HTML, then it will live as long as I will.
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I sometimes wonder how new users of some of this tech get going with it... Example: I have been a vim user for geez, decades. I just read this article and thought "wow, I know I have heard of neo-vim, never used it, maybe I should chan
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by readingnews 3y ago
I have a CIO who stated, our churn is no worse than anyone elses, on average. The problem with that statement was that our churn was department specific, so if you looked at the average, it looked great. But if you zoomed in, the highly ski
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by readingnews 3y ago
That makes sense. I threw in my favorite (used to be underground) artist and saw every side-project they had pop up (and they have around a dozen). OTOH, I just threw in Nujabes and saw a number of people I do not recognize, which I find in
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I actually like how the document dates itself, for example in the /opt description: "For example, StarOffice, Kylix, Netscape Communicator and WordPerfect packages are normally found here"
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I like your explanation and examples.
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It is just a pet peeve of mine (disclosure, I am a terminally degreed engineer), but it is something a lot of non-EE people forget: circuits do not "push" current, your wall outlet does not "push amps" and this applies t

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