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by sh34r 3y ago
In many East Coast cities, the expected cost of a parking ticket is much lower than the guaranteed cost of garage parking. Fines have not kept pace with inflation at all. In NYC, parking tickets cost $45-125. Fire hydrant violations are at
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Unless you are in prison. You think I'm BSing then read the 13th amendment.
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The thundering herd problem is more like, there's a hundred cooks, one griddle, and only one of them can make an acceptable waffle for the customer. This specific problem we're discussing, of concurrent client retries effectively
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> then what's left but subscriptions? The WeChat model is the obvious answer to that rhetorical question. Build paid services on top of your hellsite with millions of addicts using it daily. For example, Twitter could have easily b
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I'm astounded it took this long to finally die. All those Twitter engineers who were harassed by Elmo's very online fan club, and were treated with such cruelty and disdain on their way out, clearly did an incredible job. Hats off
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I said 3 a day is unhealthy. I’ve been there in my early 20s. It’s not good. You will get fat. It’s definitely risky that it will continue to escalate. And yet I knocked it off before anyone would ever label me as an alcoholic, before I’d t
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Either way, I never have to use Jira again!
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Gaia is fighting back. Nature is healing. As the great George Carlin said: the planet isn’t going anywhere, we are!
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I would seriously consider entering a cage fight to the death with a 260lb guy if it meant I’d never have to use Jira again.
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Lies, damn lies, and statistics… > 4 in 5 tech execs are taking medications ("controlled substances"), and among that cohort 1 in 2 use them "every day or nearly every day." Would it be surprising to anyone to find ou
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Up until 1945, Asian Americans were held in concentration camps after being stripped of all their property. Affirmative action made sense in 1971. Things change. Now it’s just discriminating against another group that’s historically been th
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> The old system of phone calls would have just made the parks out of reach for all of these new folks interested in them. Deep down, that’s what a lot of the critics want a return to. They just won’t say the quiet part out loud.
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I bet they’d recoil in horror when they hear that critical systems still use Ada, too. So archaic, so hard to make changes! Why can’t we write the nuclear weapons code in JavaScript or Rust instead?
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“You even said ChatGPT passed the bar exam!” As entertaining as this is to ponder, I don’t think they’re that clever. I don’t think they’d do so much damage to their reputation for such a flimsy case. They’re just incompetent.
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Ransomware will keep it going for quite some time after the last pump and dump fizzles out, but it only needs a price of ~$1000 or so to facilitate that.
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I agree with just about everything you've said, except that bit about rewrites. Rewrite projects typically go down in flames, and on the rare occasions that they don't, the business stakeholders are still mad because their preciou
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That model is not all sunshine and roses either. Wages were a concession sought by labor in the Industrial Revolution because piecework was considered to be worse. Gig work revived all those old problems for a new Gilded Age. All these prob
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It's worth mentioning that this generalized problem in user space can often be solved much more easily using concurrent fuzz testing (ex: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/cuzz-concur... ).
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No one is perfect, and too often, stress makes people behave in ways they're not proud of. That's mostly understandable. But I think you're vastly overstating the mental burden of trying to be kind and having a bit of empathy
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I was having an issue connecting to Netflix earlier, until I used VPN. I momentarily wondered if Comcast was going back to their old practices of sabotaging streaming services from 10 years ago. DownDetector said Netflix was down, other sit
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In the "real world," estimates are also terrible. Even for something as simple and well-defined as repaving an airport runway, research shows the actual cost exceeds estimated cost by a median factor of 1.25. https://ocw
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Meanwhile, last week in NYC: https://secretnyc.co/nyc-air-quality-photos/ Cool and normal! Nothing to see here, folks. But of course, the planet is fine! The people are f'ed! The planet's not going anywhere,
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The friction of the phone call was a feature, not a bug, from the service provider's perspective. They wanted to make it harder to cancel the service for obvious reasons. They wanted to make it harder to book a table (so you'd be
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The Waldo Moment from Black Mirror...
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Ah, I'm not the only one. Even duckduckgo has been corrupted by censorship and DMCA abuse.
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I think you might be taking it a bit too personally. I live in New England, and people are very blunt and straightforward here. I've gathered, asking if certain things are covered, that the office staff (and even moreso the providers),
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Putting aside the systemic critiques, I really dig the design of that building and its surroundings. That auditorium even puts Apple's to shame.
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Have you tried to find a new GP for an adult with private insurance recently? Many areas have a shortage in general. This has little to do with insurance coverage, and everything to do with the bad incentives of the medical profession. Who
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Godwin's law strikes again... Apply the logic for why Mao was as bad as Hitler, read up on the Bengal famine, and you'll come to the conclusion that Churchill was also Hitler. But of course he wasn't Hitler, and famines aren&
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I'd trust your instincts there. 9 times out of 10, it's not horseshoe theory, it's fundies in disguise. Fascism is syncretic. Christian fascists are more than capable of co-opting the vernacular of social justice for their ra

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