silisili

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by silisili 1y ago
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
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by silisili 1y ago
That's me. If there's one thing I've learned about it, it's that we'll never get rich quick as over logical people. Of course Dropbox is dumb when rsync exists. Of course og Twitter was dumb when group sms existed
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by silisili 1y ago
Same, but for slightly different reasons. I was a big open source contributor of a few well known projects, but the CoC stuff just kinda soured me on it all. Not because I enjoy reading or writing hate speech or anything, but these were pl
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by silisili 1y ago
That's always been my benchmark as well. I'm always super impressed by people who are able to distill complex things into simple steps. Much like K&R C example code, but please, please leave better comments.
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by silisili 1y ago
Then let the military run the schools and cede power to the educators for discipline. You can't have it both ways. I don't blame most homeschool parents for not wanting their children indoctrinated by what's been happening t
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by silisili 1y ago
Outside of corporal punishment, which is a divisive topic, the only thing I can think of are a) not making school compulsory, and b) not tying government money to headcount. If you have problem kids, expel them immediately and let the paren
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by silisili 1y ago
Tomatoes are vegetables, as decided decades ago by the Supreme Court.
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by silisili 1y ago
Um... where do your suggestions come from? I was trying to be edgy by typing something illogical, like 'sandpaper (sextoy)', and the search box added 'for babies.' I'm more impressed than outraged I think, and curio
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by silisili 1y ago
It is and isn't. I'd argue it's not memorizing exact solutions(think copy paste) but memorizing fastest algos to accomplish X. And some people might say well, you should know that anyways. The problem for me is, and I'
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by silisili 1y ago
It's much more likely they're selling tower triangulation data, but let me know if that theory is wrong.
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by silisili 1y ago
That's what I've been trying to determine because of all the fake news on both sides...did they actually do anything wrong? Because if so, this outrage feels a bit "No stop, those aren't the color immigrants we wanted yo
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by silisili 1y ago
I think it's -mostly- an age thing, and you simply matured out of it. For the most part. I say that because I feel similarly, but my out of college coworkers rib me for not having an iPhone. One even commented he'd probably nev
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by silisili 1y ago
Man, the Oneplus 8 I believe had an 'xray' camera that was super cool, until people realized you could use it to 'see through clothes', and so it was disabled. I have to imagine cool camera tech is being held back to so
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by silisili 1y ago
The icing on the cake there was that they just gerrymandered NM recently in a way that took all representation away from southern NM. I know other states have as well, so nothing new there, but seeing as they basically fund all the state&#x
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by silisili 1y ago
I live in the US in a town with particularly bad drivers. I know I know, everyone's area has the worst drivers. But I've lived in dozen cities across the US so have some frame of reference. The sad thing is, it's a small t
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by silisili 1y ago
...the article says otherwise, that we can, do, and increasingly will. > can cost from just under $1 to well over $2 to produce one cubic meter (264 gallons) of desalted water from the ocean. That's about as much as two people in th
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by silisili 1y ago
Uber did a great job convincing lay people that taxis were ripoffs and they were a good deal. For some time that was probably true. Now, I see people at the airport walk over to the pickup lot, joining a crowd of others furiously messing w
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by silisili 1y ago
Super cool. What is your goal wrt performance? Is low 1.x-ish on average attainable, in your opinion?
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by silisili 1y ago
As a 20 year remote employee across multiple companies...in my experience, this is true depending on one's definition of career. If you want to advance high in the company, remote is going to stifle you unless the entire company is re
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by silisili 1y ago
Section 174 was the big one that affected how SE salaries could be deducted, that many blamed for the start of layoffs. However, that's back for tax year 2025, so why aren't we seeing the jobs come back? Maybe it really was 174 t
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by silisili 1y ago
Chicago has nearly 4x the murder rate and 2x the violent crime rate compared to the US at large.
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by silisili 1y ago
Absolutely hilarious and beautiful writing. Do you have a blog by chance?
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by silisili 1y ago
This logically tracks, but remember that correlation isn't causation. It stands to reason that people who see driving as an aggressive venture choose the largest vehicle they can. But as pickups make up 20ish percent of all passenger
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by silisili 1y ago
Google Shopping might be to blame here, and I don't at all blame the response. I say that because I can't count how many times Google has taken me to a foreign site that either doesn't even ship to the US, or doesn't say
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by silisili 1y ago
I'm not precisely sure the point you're trying to make. In my experience running rather lowish traffic(thousands hits a day) sites, doing just that brought every single annoyance from thousands per day to zero. Yes, people -can- e
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by silisili 1y ago
Yeah China Post. It's a combination of factors, including something called the UPU, de minimis, and subsidies on both sides. The USPS loses money on every item sent. Most small trinkets use something called ePacket, check its pricing
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by silisili 1y ago
Yes, well, sometimes. My wife used to shop there a lot. Some items 'came' from the US, which were little more than headshops and small warehouses, but shipping was much faster. Still, many items shipped directly from China to y
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by silisili 1y ago
Not a huge Onion fan, but I absolutely love that they did this. I get so irritated by paper offerings that went 'digital only' like it was some upgrade for me. I spend more than half my day on screens. Sometimes it's nice t
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by silisili 1y ago
Robinhood's support bot is basically like that. Completely useless LLM that marks cases resolved when you give up. I'm sure in some board room some exec is bragging about its smashing success rate.
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by silisili 1y ago
I know it's a petty thing, but I quit using the Pixel when they forced an unmovable and unhideable search bar onto the bottom of the homescreen. Can anyone report if that's still the case? I know custom launchers exist, but I&#x

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