socalgal2

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by socalgal2 1mo ago
> Measure. Measure. Measure. The problem is knowing what to measure. There's another saying "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." As an example from memory, there was a game dev company that ce
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by socalgal2 1mo ago
What games has he shipped?
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by socalgal2 1mo ago
It shouldn't have that bug in the first place. It's not about yak-shaving
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by socalgal2 1mo ago
OH! TIL! Apparently contiguous fragmented ------------------------------------------------------------------- PCIe 4.0 NVMe Read Speed ~5,000 – 7,000 MB/s ~80 – 250 MB/
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by socalgal2 1mo ago
Except for some backups, all of my machines use solid state storage so I don't think there is a point for most people, is there?
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by socalgal2 1mo ago
Same for Linux and MacOS users. Fans are blind to their own OSes problems because they've become blind to its issues or gotten used to the workarounds. I use all 3, I run into issues on all 3 all the time.
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by socalgal2 1mo ago
> I find it difficult/distracting to move my eyes to the beginning of the next line every few seconds. You must find it difficult to read books, magazines, newspapers, as all of them have short lines
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by socalgal2 1mo ago
I'm with danluu on this, at least as far as the headline, and not actual details. I run into 10 to 20 software bugs a day (feels like more). If it wasn't for the all the private data I'd leak I sometimes wish I could just put
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
It would be hilarious if the AI CEO also fired all the developers
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
I suspect there are a few 10s of thousands of websites that still only accept Jpeg (as a user upload). Some accept PNG. Few accept HEIF, almost none accept JPEG-XL
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
Imgur is 80% posts of text for people trying to post political messages vs what it used to be, interesting or funny pictures I guess that's their traffic so that's their market but ugh. Imagine if flickr or some other photo site w
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
Except for the part where they try to inject their woke agenda into it by trying to suggest Jolene is a lesbian song. Nothing wrong with LGBTQIA+ but that part was super cringe as it was clear they were inserting their own adgenda rather th
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
Oh, you mean like MacOS (OSX) installer deleting whole hard drives if there was a space in the volume name? It's so funny how fan boys can selectively ignore the bugs by their favorite company
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
> I've briefly tested M5 Pro in an Apple store and was surprised by how quick it felt and did anything. A tangible and significant difference, and I really feel it would be good getting it, or M6. How did you measure this? I have an
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
Because from the restaurant's POV it seems like free money. If no one tips, they perceive no harm. If someone tips, then free money. It's also more money to the company providing the payment system so they are incentivized to tell
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
> We did as little as possible to deal with homelessness and mental illness SF would beg to differ. They have a budget of $100k per homeless person. They can't solve the problem because the problem is not money
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
So what have you done to avoid using fossil fuel in your own life? fossil fuel, like almost all things sold, is a demand driven market. You want it to stop, stop doing things that use it.
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
Cancelling those contracts *IS* letting the market decide The RWE paid 1.26 billion to acquire the lease on offshore wind. Payment is a refund. Further, offshore wind is expensive in terms of maintenance. Stopping the project now is protect
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
that's a spin. > Peter Thiel wrote an essay in which he said he no longer believed that freedom and democracy were compatible and suggested that women and other people getting the right to vote marked the end of freedom being a thin
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
I think there is more to this. Here's a presentation that, kind of claims the opposite. More specifically, it claims figuring it out on your own is not as good as having a teacher tell you, and then having you use the info, and it clai
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
Elon is not a literal Nazi.
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting#Employment
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
Feels like clickbait to me. There were lots of OSes. Things like GEM, OS/2, Next, BeOS, GeOS, MSX, ... they didn't succeed and I'm sure you can write some clickbait article about why with conspiratorial anecdotes.
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
If rust has a well featured standard library, why do the rust docs need to download 741 crates?
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
So this means you can not use AI for the majority of open source projects since GPL, MIT, BSD, etc are all copyright declarations and they'd be being made for code which you can not copyright.
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
The Wikipedia article is irrelevant. that’s like claiming “alot” isn’t a word because the dictionary says so even tho dictionary creators point out themselves that dictionaries don’t set the rules, they record usage カツ is clearly used as “b
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
What a strange question. I guess we no longer need monitors because a phone display is all anyone should need? Why do I need two devices when one would do? I get we are not there yet but I can certainly imagine having just one device and vi
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
Love your anecdata. Would you like me to list abusive parents as counter examples?
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
https://www.komeda.co.jp/menu/detail.html?cat=904&item=10125 https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/5a2a8d4deea967f273a... https://everypan.jp/menu/371/ カツカレー
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by socalgal2 2mo ago
I don't know what the right answer is but I do kind of feel this desire for equal effort might be misguided. My sister wanted to spend her time raising kids. Her husband less so. That is decision they made together. It's no differ

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