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by silisili 1y ago
On the contrary, I feel the opposite. Layoffs are a cheap way to goose your stock price, not much unlike buybacks. I exit positions in companies in either case, as it shows they have no immediate plans for growth. I don't disagree wi
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by silisili 1y ago
I think it's worth reading the linked report. That quote sounds bad, and perhaps it is, but beyond it paints a slightly rosier picture. I'm not exactly sure what to take from those points... https://www.conference-boa
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by silisili 1y ago
This got both of my parents. What's interesting is that neither of them really used a computer or smartphone much, but both got addicted to iPads in their late 60s. What they do in their free time is their business, but it often even
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by silisili 1y ago
My personal anecdote? Don't. I have a house where the first floor is served by a gas/ac combo unit, and the second floor with a heat pump. I literally see no advantage to the heat pump and wish I didn't have it. It takes fo
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by silisili 1y ago
The underlying cause is that only well to do parents choose Montessori. None of the pesky low income folks to throw off the test score.
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by silisili 1y ago
I feel like my biggest issue last time I implemented Argon2 was which settings to use. There are so many different opinions, people posting helpful but untrue info, etc that it gets a bit mind boggling on what to actually believe. I spent
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by silisili 1y ago
Interesting. Perhaps related? The Ohio river(and probably others) used to have smoke enemas at points for drowning victims. I'm told it's where the phrase 'blowing smoke up your ass' comes from, as people eventually t
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by silisili 1y ago
I think wording is important here. California doesn't give anything to the federal government. So, I'll try my best to correct it. Because of high salaries and population, the people of the state of California pay more in federa
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by silisili 1y ago
I've always thought more state power was probably a good thing - the US is simply so huge and diverse in thought and religion that you'll always be upsetting a large swath of people no matter what you decide. That said, as a fly o
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by silisili 1y ago
I think wages are a great way to look at it too, rather than just comparing prices. Said another way, I think making 100k in 1995 would make one feel way, way richer than making 200k today.
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by silisili 1y ago
We tend to target 2% inflation. Half in 25 years is under 3%, so on target. That said, I feel like this number is way off, personally, based on changes in housing and food prices between the two times.
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by silisili 1y ago
The knife test is basically ASMR horror at this point, but was originally to identify plastic vs metal in frames and buttons, and also plastic vs glass on cam lenses. The lighter test was originally to identify lcd vs led as they behave dif
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by silisili 1y ago
What's worse is that something, I assume tar, actually seeps in everything. I was looking at a house on a particularly hot day once, and the bedroom walls were 'bleeding' some weird black substance. I informed the owner, who
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by silisili 1y ago
Same with hide. Which is about worse since it disappears. I often figure out I've hidden things weeks after the fact.
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by silisili 1y ago
Oh goodness yes. I was forced from Linux to W11 Pro for my new job. Use wsl2 they said, it'll be fine. And wsl2 is mostly fine. But that doesn't stop the rest of the OS from being a dumpster fire. Why is it asking me to instal
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by silisili 1y ago
Between 18A becoming viable and this, it seems Intel is finally climbing out of the hole it's been in for years. Makes me wonder whether Gelsinger put all this in motion, or if the new CEO lit a fire under everyone. Kinda a shame if i
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by silisili 1y ago
Maybe regional in the US even? We may classify burgers as 'technically a type of sandwich', but nobody would ever refer to a burger as a sandwich by name.
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by silisili 1y ago
I've argued this for years on this site...but AOL. At its best, having IM, email, browser, games, keywords, chats, etc. was a beautiful idea IMO. That they were an ISP seemed secondary or even unrelated to the idea. But they chose to
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by silisili 1y ago
You can say this about most of tech. Sure, we agree spying is bad. But, is it worse than ad tech at large? Is it worse than companies addicting people to their phones via psychological tricks at alarming rates? Or siphoning money from ki
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by silisili 1y ago
I was always curious if the key was truly random and accidentally leaked. The first five letters always reminded me of a jab at a certain rather polarizing(by standards of the time) person who'd just been elected president. Probably, a
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by silisili 1y ago
Not following your logic here. The thought seems to be that prices of everything are high, because the dollar itself has lost value. Makes sense. The conclusion then being a crash. But why? If the dollar is worth less and stops devaluin
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by silisili 1y ago
I was so disappointed my first and only time visiting a casino. I thought it'd be full of show girls, rich people, James Bond types in tuxes...you know, the way they are often portrayed in movies. Nope. 99% slovenly dressed elderly b
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by silisili 1y ago
I've used them all, and they all have their place I guess. ChatGPT is far and away my favorite for quick questions you'd ask the genius coworker next to you. For me, nothing else even comes close wrt speed and accuracy. So for t
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by silisili 1y ago
I'm in awe they are still allowing free users at all. And I'm one of them. The free tier is enough for me to use it as a helper at work, and I'd probably pay for it tomorrow if they cut off the free tier.
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What's perhaps worse - most Americans don't even know it exists. I didn't until a foreign person with experience with it opened my eyes to it, and I did more research. Everyone I happen to tell had no idea prior... Really h
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by silisili 1y ago
> I have already landed 22(!) bugfixes thanks to this, and I have over twice that amount of issues left to go through Sounds like it was a lot more than 22, assuming most are valid.
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by silisili 1y ago
Inertia. It's the new 'nobody gets fired for buying..' A previous project I worked on had relatively little traffic, and AWS costs were rather insane for that. I proposed exploring OVH or DO and probably get costs down to 2
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by silisili 1y ago
Thanks! I actually tried a brief search to get a more accurate time, but all the results were skewed heavily to the last few months so I gave up. I'm impressed you found it.
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by silisili 1y ago
Powell said explicitly a year or two ago that it was his goal to bump unemployment numbers to tame inflation. Kinda sick to think about, but, here we are I guess.
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I've noticed Claude doing this for most tasks without even asking it to. Maybe a recent thing?

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