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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Just for some additional context here, look at average housing prices for a single-family home, not even something nice, I mean like 1000sqft 2/2 in a neighborhood without a drive-by shooting once per week. Calculate the mortgage payme
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Don’t forget the water subsidies and the fact that many are living on land that their family got for free through homestead acts if they’ve had “the farm” in the family for a few generations. Talk about government handouts.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
>REI branded "hiking pants" are 100 USD. Made in china, lowest quality possible. My 7 dollar puma running pants are exactly the same and saw me hike through ireland just fine. False. A lot of REI brand stuff is made by the same
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/ and https://www.rtings.com/ are two more awesome review sites for outdoor gear and electronics, specifically TVs and monitors but now also things like cameras and headphones
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
JSON is the version of XML we deserve.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
The solution to this that I’ve seen many businesses taking now is to refuse Amex.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
The companies figured out that if they all suck, you’ll have no choice but to accept the suck. This is what happens when we have no real consumer protections and why stuff like USB-C iPhones and replaceable batteries and banning some bad in
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I would strongly encourage anyone who regularly consumes Coke to switch to black coffee or tea for a month and take notes on how they feel.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I still have PTSD from dealing with HIPAA and SOX stuff. Don’t run your own credit card processing if at all possible.
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“We can’t afford to not do it”
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
PEP582 - “Python local packages directory” is my personal bugbear when it comes to Python annoyance: https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/ I believe PDM still supports it. I just hate virtualenvs for builds and deployments
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Supporting Unicode from the beginning probably would have been a good idea too but it is what it is. Happy to see them taking this on.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
For example, Samsung fridges with their poorly-designed ice makers and defrost cycles: https://www.classaction.org/blog/looking-for-updates-on-the-... After repairing this myself half a dozen times and seeing how they
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Walmart and Amazon sell a lot of the same stuff, sometimes just under different “brands”. https://youtu.be/4UrqlMfwUC4 has more info. There aren’t that many companies making cheap neon curly straws — they probably come from
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
If you want a “BIFL” microwave, get a commercial Panasonic unit https://youtu.be/y53UOFerOFU
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Those “Congress-created dust bowl” signs on I5 should say “Thank you taxpayers for you subsidizing our desert farming industry!”
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Their great grandpappy, who immigrated from Eastern Europe, stole that land from the Native Americans fair and square!
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Meanwhile, a drive down I5 will show many farms with political signs complaining about how water is too expensive and advocating for conservative viewpoints while they shamelessly employ underpaid illegal immigrants while enjoying the spoil
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
“Do you recall __X obscure fact__” just like too much of standardized testing. Edit: another example would be something like judging someone on if they remember the option name in an API call for a specific library. Trivial to google. White
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
You’re not the stupid one, their UI designers / devs are for hiding a useful feature and making the default UX suck.
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It seems to be working well enough for a certain other high-profile defendant at the moment.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
“For the greater good” For us personally, a quick thought experiment with 4 quadrants: - wear a mask vs don’t wear - mask helps vs mask doesn’t help The balance of inconvenience in the “wear mask, mask doesn’t help” vs
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
You mean “Meet (original)” with the green camera logo, not the new “Meet” app with the multicolored logo that’s nearly visually identical to all the other GApps apps making it hard to discern which does what anymore? And also not “Duo” (no,
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I used to be an AMA member because of the roadside assistance until I realized that they spend a ton of their membership dues fighting helmet laws. AAA has great motorcycle and car assistance too for about the same price.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Then COVID happened and we un-came to that realization, especially when one person’s decision affected others in a very direct and deadly way.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
> allowing 7.5 million to override 60 million, simply because they physically live in an area that was formerly a different state several hundred years ago would be disenfranchisement on a vast scale Like how in the Electoral College her
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“Half of the people are below average”
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
https://www.usboverdrive.com/index.php/information/ Can also do some useful things for mice, keyboards, and gamepads / joysticks on MacOS. I’ve had a license for many years.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
and the fact that among the 3, MacOS is the hardest to virtualize on any other platform (technically against their ToS to do so on non-Apple hardware too last I checked half a dozen years ago). This effectively puts a stop to most practical
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
MacBook Pros definitely “do the trick” for hundreds of thousands of us software developers in Silicon Valley every day. Docker works fine on M1 MBPs and it’s not much of a chore to target amd64 with a Dockerfile eg FROM --platform=lin

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