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by shagmin 1y ago
Does it really matter? The grandparent comment states the bandwidth is becoming even more readily available in the US, while the article itself says the bots were largely hosted by US ISPs, and that's obviously enough bandwidth to alre
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by shagmin 1y ago
I'm in a zip code that spans two cities and I can think of other ways it gets complicated in different scenarios. There are places where I can throw a ball across multiple zip codes, sales tax jurisdictions, municipal lines, county lin
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by shagmin 1y ago
Life expectancy in NYC is 82.6 vs 78.4 overall for USA. Lots of variables and such, but NYC must be doing something better than the rest of the country and I wouldn't doubt trains (and walkability) are a contributing factor.
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by shagmin 1y ago
Defining what that means exactly is one endeavor. But it's important to the how, because whatever it may mean implies a drastically limited set of capabilities, a ceiling, etc., compared to whatever it may mean - if it weren't the
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by shagmin 1y ago
I don't think it's widespread by any means but the US Supreme Court has been directly pulled into this exact topic. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/g-s1-28919/supreme-court-judg... https:/
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by shagmin 1y ago
This stuff is true in the US to some extent.
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by shagmin 1y ago
The US military drilled it into my head during boot camp in Texas in the late summer - pay attention to the color.
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by shagmin 1y ago
And conveniently around the same time javascript was rapidly evolving.
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by shagmin 1y ago
Sounds like the older developers have some form of Stockholm Syndrome.
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by shagmin 1y ago
Not just same industry, but the same country of origin too actually.
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by shagmin 1y ago
From my understanding that was to be used as a last resort.
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by shagmin 1y ago
Especially for C# developers. You can use any CLR (e.g. C#) objects in powershell, for prototyping, automation, proof of concept, etc.,.
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by shagmin 1y ago
...yes? The way I've heard it from some people is Trump is a business man who got other this other business man to start running the government efficiency, like a business. I don't think these people even knew who Elon Musk was a
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by shagmin 1y ago
Guess it comes down to the individual's attitude either way and what they're willing to tolerate but I wouldn't underestimate the aggressive ignorance you can find out there. Vermont is a short drive from the so-called lesbia
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by shagmin 2y ago
Just within the US you could ask why wealthy people aren't all moving to states without any income taxes more frequently. Plenty do move to certain low tax states but network effects, infrastructure, stability, well-understood regulati
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by shagmin 2y ago
Where I work now 95% of the time it's long-lived things - design docs, architecture diagrams, etc.,.
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by shagmin 2y ago
For work especially if it's for a large audience I use Visio or GraphViz. For my own consumption (and a couple co-workers) I really prefer mermaidjs, especially just to have it embedded in markdown files.
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by shagmin 2y ago
I use snippets off & on. They came in very handy at a previous company I worked with. Curious on the other answers because I've had some vague ideas for making snippets better but haven't looked deeper into what else is out th
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by shagmin 2y ago
Someone who has already bought their last car and it ends up sitting in a garage forever.
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by shagmin 2y ago
Calories conventionally come from grains. If you measure cabbage's nutrition by its minerals and vitamins it packs quite a punch.
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by shagmin 2y ago
I don't know where I first heard this but I believe it - people often overestimate the short term impact and underestimate the long term impact.
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by shagmin 2y ago
...yet where I live all the parks, public landscaping, etc., that are owned by the municipality are maintained with electric leaf blowers except for areas where they have it contracted out and then it's a mix. It's totally possibl
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by shagmin 2y ago
Not sure if this is accurate but I've read he used to sell put options relying on the float from his insurance business as collateral. He could easily be doing this using t-bills as collateral as well. The drops in cash could even part
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by shagmin 3y ago
I'm guessing the closest equivalent in languages like Java or C# are interfaces, right? Underutilized IMO.
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by shagmin 3y ago
> Having a 5g limit just means I’m going to make more frequent trips to the shop to purchase more cannabis That and possibly seeking out cannabis with a higher THC concentration.
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by shagmin 3y ago
I've always wondered how beholden the world is to Microsoft. I was once surprised to learn the US military (and probably virtually all others) don't have their own OS to avoid being tied to a particular company.
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by shagmin 3y ago
Normalcy doesn't matter. I think the point is that you're not going to get much sympathy if you leave your front door wide open, leave for work or better yet go on Christmas vacation and have no sign anyone is home, and then come
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by shagmin 3y ago
According to some posts I read on Reddit about this it was likely a retaliation thing after a family member of the victim was beaten to death by a fellow police officer who is now in prison.
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by shagmin 3y ago
Yeah...pornhub is a good actor though. Maybe people end up on shadier websites with much less savory and/or outright illegal content instead.
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by shagmin 3y ago
The law says it applies if more than 30% of the content is adult content. So won't apply to reddit or Twitter at least but I could see this still leaving plenty of gray area for other sites.

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