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by shantly 7y ago
I think it's one of those "the best time to start was 10 years ago; the second best time to start is today" sorts of things.
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by shantly 7y ago
Daniel Tiger’s certainly no replacement for it. And heavy auto-tuning in kids’ entertainment really bugs me. Let them hear natural human voices.
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by shantly 7y ago
Big Bird used to clearly be the "main" or primary point-of-view character. He behaved somewhat older than the lower range of the target audience and so was a good aspirational, but not unrelatably-old, character for them. Then Elm
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by shantly 7y ago
If they'd even make some sub-brand explicitly for "shit we're serious about and promise we'll continue to invest in for a really long time"—and then actually stick by that—it'd go a long way. I think it's
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by shantly 7y ago
I still just want one simple place to stream all (most, or half, even, would be great, for that matter) of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and pre-Elmoization Sesame Street for my kids. Anything else would be a welcome bonus but I mostly j
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by shantly 7y ago
Usually easier to administrate & upgrade than a mess of script files & packages. Especially if you're not in whatever "scene" that junk's from (e.g. you're an iOS developer, mostly, not a Javascript person u
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by shantly 7y ago
Poor people with shitty, cheap, old cars have these problems more than others. Because they're poor.
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by shantly 7y ago
Something I've wondered about this: doesn't opening & closing tons of lines of credit fuck with your credit rating? Or do you just leave them open until/unless the issuer decides to close the (unused) account, leaving you
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by shantly 7y ago
Checking, I'm seeing rates approaching 4% for 30-year mortgages here (the US), down to 3.5% for a 15-year, which squares with what's been more-or-less the norm for a while, so is probably about right. 1% on a mortgage would... not
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by shantly 7y ago
If you (have to) have a car and you've got more than one person in the household I'd say any margin over expenses (savings) under $1000 is just rainy-day money, not retirement savings. It will be eaten by copays, deductibles, ne
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by shantly 7y ago
Professional (Fussell's Upper-Middle) class or higher? That's wildly different from the more Middle-and-under sorts of 50-year-olds I'm familiar with. That's the decade when they tend to start to look tired all the time
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by shantly 7y ago
> Also, as far as I can tell from the article, she was married but didn't have any kids. That's huge. Kids are expensive (and the risk they expose you to, economically, is truly enormous) and that money tends to come out at t
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by shantly 7y ago
> If you're trying to maximize income, you should focus on understanding finance/business and building soft skills. You're probably over the threshold of how much you need to know about computers. Maybe get some training o
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by shantly 7y ago
Don't forget that they value new ways of spying on users at a non-zero dollar amount, and probably intended to slap ads all over the interface (maybe— maybe —not the games themselves) to make up the difference, or at least were holding
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by shantly 7y ago
There must be a lot more people who think the law's helping them than harming them, or it'd be changed. Might take time, but those sorts of laws have been common all over Europe for quite a while and I don't see any especiall
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by shantly 7y ago
> (do you want to live for a few years in a city with no real friends and no nice bars or restaurants?) As someone in a mid-sized heartland city, we've got nice bars and restaurants (no, seriously). Main pain points: 1) decent &quot
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by shantly 7y ago
It's because, absent that protection, workers on the weaker end tend to get squeezed down to very low PTO whether they want that or not. [EDIT] weaker end in terms of ability to negotiate—so, the vast majority of workers.
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by shantly 7y ago
I don't remember software quality being a ton worse before software subscriptions became common. Operating systems and certain development practices (maybe, less certain about that one) have led to some noticeable improvements, but tha
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by shantly 7y ago
Somewhat, rather, not not unprofessional, perhaps.
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by shantly 7y ago
> im presently reading Paul Fussells "Class" That's a really fun read. I had a great time playing "spot the behavior of parents/relatives, described as if he knew them personally" (all of which fell somewher
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by shantly 7y ago
Safe to say it's: 1) It's generally preferable that open-source solutions be as capable & usable as closed-source ones, and 2) having the best option be a subscription service is very, very "ugh", as has been constan
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by shantly 7y ago
I have a suspicion given a bunch of things happening there (of which I have only outsider knowledge, mind you) that they're already well into a transition to a more boring bigco stance & structure, and are just letting their repu
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by shantly 7y ago
It's more like posting a reminder of the current legal minimum wage—and only showed up, apparently, if the user visited the site of a consulting firm Google hired to help them figure out how to avoid unionization. A great and entirely
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by shantly 7y ago
It's a multibillion dollar company. If some of the managers are annoyed/bothered, even greatly, by activities that eventually result in unionization, I'm entirely OK with that. If some of those activities are—oh no!—not nice
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by shantly 7y ago
> IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company Anyone know the likely reasons your average Googler might have visited this consulting firm's site? Like, w
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by shantly 7y ago
My understanding is that the if-anything-heavier-unionized EU isn't experiencing the same rapid growth in (especially public) construction costs as the US has been for some time—still faster than inflation, but lower than would be expl
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by shantly 7y ago
Giant piles of money. Probably still gets you an easy CTO title at a startup after 2-4 years at Google.
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by shantly 7y ago
> Who wants a 30" 30Hz 720p non-HDR display (let alone an old CRT or plasma TV), even for free? "I'd rather watch shows on my phone than on that piece of junk" is a pretty common thing to hear when someone is being o
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by shantly 7y ago
Can confirm, low-end prices for HDR-capable non-OLED (so, worse blacks than higher-end screens but still much better than most of what was typical, say, 10 years ago) 4K screen @ 65" is like $500. Under $400 for 55" and same quali
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by shantly 7y ago
> 3. Install Kodi on an old laptop or RPi. Serve cold over HDMI & prosper. 4. Make sure it's an Rpi4, or the laptop's not too old, if you plan to play H.265 (HEVC) content, so you've got hardware decoding for it.

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