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by sgc 4y ago
The confusion here is that different types of items have different margins. but grocery is typically 30%, as is hardware / lumber. However coffee itself might be a profit center for grocery stores, and they might make a bit higher on i
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by sgc 4y ago
I have been using KeePass and variants for a long time, and have never had any problems with it on a variety of devices.
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by sgc 4y ago
That's not the case in many places (including prestigious universities - and due to their research orientation, perhaps it happens more, the more prestigious it is). It is virtually impossible to get into a teaching position post-docto
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by sgc 4y ago
I did my graduate work in Europe, and I think it is crazy how a bunch of unqualified/ semi-qualified students without their doctorates are teaching in US universities. We had exactly 0 doctoral candidates teaching classes, whereas it i
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by sgc 4y ago
Who would ever only want to work for a company that exclusively uses Apple products? That is an insane level of fanboyism that doesn't indicate a fully rational actor.
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by sgc 4y ago
Yes. I worry that they wind up like Mozilla Foundation, and down the road, Linux itself winds up being a fraction of what it could be.
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by sgc 4y ago
I have been duped like this before too! Believe a story that just doesn't ring right when you tell it to somebody else years later. Teaching / communicating corrects a lot of errors.
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by sgc 4y ago
That is literally what I said, so yes, I agree. But the fact he bought a social media company does not impact it, outside of him using it to amplify his visibility.
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by sgc 4y ago
I don't even understand your point. 1. A billion is 1000x more than a million. It is many times higher wealth and far beyond what could be considered required for a family to survive on for generations. 2. A million is not even enough
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by sgc 4y ago
That is like the average FAANG-wealthy programmer buying a modest house with a loan. It has little effect on his wealth outside of the egregious display of his behavior.
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by sgc 4y ago
One of only about three things I miss from switching away from Windows, is that I now have to use Sublime instead of Notepad++. It was just so much better at dealing with large files and batch operations, which are a priority for my work. B
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by sgc 4y ago
Probably not directly related, but mainly due to fewer opportunities. This is one of the reasons I strongly agree with universal basic income. The capitalistic game is harder than many people are capable of playing. They shouldn't have
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by sgc 4y ago
I would never trust that. It is how thing are supposed to work, not the way they necessarily will. Just buy a phone with physical disconnect switches if it is important enough for you.
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by sgc 4y ago
I have been following this work for a few years but I am no expert. Both numbers, and both explanations as to their significance, are from the articles linked in this thread. The next step will likely be net energy in respect to the entire
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by sgc 4y ago
Well, if the definition of "net energy" keeps expanding to include more of the experimental infrastructure, that is progress and we are just splitting hairs about wording - which is a real waste, considering they are one of the fe
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by sgc 4y ago
For somebody who dislikes frameworks in general, this one looks great.
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by sgc 4y ago
You need to avoid spending the principal + inflation, which is significantly harder to do.
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by sgc 4y ago
California is not all sunshine and beaches. They have been driving them over a mountain pass in the Sierra-Nevada between Reno and Fremont for years now. They are willfully ignoring problems, not unaware of them.
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by sgc 4y ago
Sounds like a wholesome reason to me.
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by sgc 4y ago
Was that conversation socially, ideologically, or technically uncomfortable?
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by sgc 4y ago
The bot would need to learn as well as a "reasonable human" from being corrected on SO, and also be able to react in a socially appropriate way to correction (both in the subject thread and in future postings), otherwise it is a d
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by sgc 4y ago
I installed Linux Mint on my elderly mother's laptop 8 years ago and never touched it again until it quit and she replaced it about a year ago. I should have checked on it, but "Windows was working just fine" for her, and on
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by sgc 4y ago
It is not expensive - even when compared to pitchers -, and I guess perceived difficulty, since it is not hard to install.
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by sgc 4y ago
That notification is antithetical to most everything involved in my choice of Linux over Windows or macOS. It is invasive and takes away user control.
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by sgc 4y ago
The resource use has been the death of any full text desktop search I have tried to use. How lightweight is Recoll? I don't see much on this on the website, other than I have to use an third part CPU limiter if I want to limit CPU use.
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by sgc 4y ago
What is the appeal of these compared to just getting a 10 inch under the counter filter set? I have a double filter set, with two different multistage filters. The water is extremely well filtered and it's relatively cheap to change th
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by sgc 4y ago
Do you use Squid content-based filtering? It is pretty resource intensive for some uses AFAIK.
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by sgc 4y ago
Has anybody installed and configured a Squid proxy on a pihole, or using it alone on a pi? Is it relatively easy to do? I would rather have the more fine-grained control a Squid proxy allows, but I have no experience with it.
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by sgc 4y ago
I know several people who help write building codes in the US in various fields, and none of them are incompetent or write code other than to deal with known concerns based on past building performance and materials testing, etc. That there
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by sgc 4y ago
I want to have the podunk builder build my house however I want. What is with all those pesky building codes! Because they (the government) think it is the minimum required for a dignified, safe society. And they are placed in a position of

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