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by sli 5y ago
> The elephant in the room is that most societies actively want to penalize people living alone. This rings very true for me. Where I live, and likely many other places, one bedroom apartments and studio apartments have a huge overlap in
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by sli 5y ago
The whole "college = liberal arts majors" is a wildly reductive argument and is extremely common among the types that OP is referring to. It's pretty disheartening to see it repeated here.
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by sli 5y ago
> and online shopping for Amazon Not just shopping, but also AWS. It is functionally impossible to use the internet and not patron Amazon because of the ubiquity of AWS. It's not a monopoly because there are technically competitors,
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by sli 5y ago
Additionally, the term "soccer" was/is Oxford "-er" slang for Association football. The US might use it, but England coined it.
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by sli 5y ago
Threads like this kill all hope I have of making a real living if I stay in the tech industry, because I'm stuck in a hole where I need therapy for my social anxiety, ADHD, and depression to maintain the work, but can't afford it
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by sli 5y ago
Swift is available for Windows 10 and a few Linux distros (Ubuntu, Cent, and Amazon Linux 2) according to their download page.[0] If you're still interested, go give it a shot. [0]: https://swift.org/download/
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by sli 5y ago
> Why? It's not like Windows 10 will suddenly stop working for you. While this is true, Windows 8.1 started to pester me about my hardware constantly on an older (but not old at the time) PC when it was getting towards EOL with an
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by sli 5y ago
The US at the time of those bans and the US now are practically different countries.
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by sli 5y ago
I wonder what that Arrington guy from the YouTube thread is up to these days. They were very concerned about everything.
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by sli 5y ago
I remember seeing a (gag) variation of counting sort that just provided each element as an argument to `sleep`.
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by sli 5y ago
Anyone who believes Microsoft has reformed and is in any way different now is the most foolish of fools. I'm not sorry to say it, because they have been taken to court for antitrust violations for this before but $100 says that won&#x2
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by sli 5y ago
Consumer helium is sold with a good amount of oxygen in it now for exactly that reason.
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by sli 5y ago
First one that immediately comes to mind is knowing when a person has leisure time. Since email is also known, this gets added to whatever body of data that's been collected on the person with that email. You can already make some infe
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by sli 5y ago
I worked for a startup for a while that, late in its life, decided it needed to use AI in their product. Then that turned into needing ML in the product. Then it turned out it was just the owners trying to market the product as AI and ML po
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I sure do love it when a pricing tier openly dehumanizes me.
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It's Microsoft's modern, less-obvious version of EEE. You sell to the managers and equip them with hollow buzzwords because you know they're gonna override the engineers on every decision anyway. By then, MS has your firm&#x2
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by sli 5y ago
A previous employer switched everything over to Azure and it was nothing but constant problems and nobody liked it except for the CEO, which meant everyone had to put up with it and nobody had a say. Teams and Azure DevOps are some of the w
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by sli 5y ago
Not to imply I know what I'm talking about, but I really wish we could find some way to create carbon-based batteries (graphene or something) so we could develop a carbon capture -> battery process. That would be pretty damn cool.
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by sli 5y ago
Even still, the guy got a pardon after 33 federal charges and pleading guilty to one of them. The average person would never get even a hint of a chance at that (or, frankly, such a tiny sentence -- 18 months, 6 served before pardon).
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by sli 5y ago
I just want to say that I love the phrase "maximally not-ignorable," thank you for that.
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by sli 5y ago
And yet the comment here about the most effective way to combat this is flagged and dead. HN's crowd seems to be largely fine with all of this.
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by sli 5y ago
That's exactly where they went.
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by sli 5y ago
This is probably one of the most relatable things I've ever read about that era of computing, it reminds me of setting up fun little git hooks and devops events to play sounds at various stages. Amazing.
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by sli 5y ago
Quickly? Redux is a state container that supports Flux actions and Elm is a language with a companion architecture that's recommended. The comparison would be between Elm and Javascript/Typescript+React+Redux, as it provides the a
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by sli 5y ago
Realistically this will probably spawn a bunch of small scale (i.e. single server), bespoke music bots doing the exact same thing.
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by sli 5y ago
Twitter doesn't seem to care much about established accounts, but every attempt I've made to make a new account under a new name gets suspended.
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by sli 5y ago
More generally than editor support, how is the average person expected to type them? I could easily add them to my keyboard, but if "editor support" turned out to mean "Edit > Insert > Record Separator Character"
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by sli 5y ago
Thanks for this comment, it was enlightening. I'd never much thought about this because physics is really not my forte, but after a few minutes of thinking about it, it's really intuitive why a point singularity can't spin. I
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* { font-family: 'Verdana, sans-serif !important' }
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As long as Intuit can lobby for the tax code to be complex and the process to be slow, painful, and manual, there aren't going to be any viable options that aren't just other commercial alternatives to TurboTax.

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