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by srockets 2y ago
That's not guaranteed, and not how you save for a fixed goal. I don't know of any lower-risk and higher-interest alternative to the 30-years-fixed that is currently offered to US consumers, and based of the above answer, neither d
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by srockets 2y ago
Many times the marching orders were to fire the high earners, assuming that the remaining, less well compensated workers, could together do the same work for less.
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by srockets 2y ago
Which real world financial instrument would give you that 8% interest?
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by srockets 2y ago
That $8k may cost another $5k to implement: current systems used by the would be employer may not be geared up to handle that non-standard asks.
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by srockets 2y ago
Comic sans was created due to the improper use of Times New Roman in Microsoft Bob’s speech balloons[1], but it turns out to be quite useful: the significant differences between the glyphs make it very dyslexic-friendly. —-- [1] http:&#x2F
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by srockets 2y ago
Why not? This isn’t TED: the impressive stuff is the content, not the presentation.
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by srockets 2y ago
My experience differs: if at all, they get me unstuck by trying to shove bad ideas, which allows me to realize "oh, that's bad, let's not do that". But it's also extremely frustrating, because a stream of bad ideas
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by srockets 2y ago
An extremely large commit with Azure. AFAIK, none of the other non-hyperscaler competitors have access to that much of a compute.
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by srockets 2y ago
I found those tools to resemble an intern: they can do some tasks pretty well, when explained just right, but others you'd spend more time guiding than it would have taken you to do it yourself. And rarely can you or the model/int
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by srockets 2y ago
Back when people were suspicious of buying things online, Amazon used to set a percentage in the low double digits, of revenue they assumed would be lost to refunds. That allowed an amazing customer service experience, and immense trust: if
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by srockets 2y ago
Part of the problem is the cost. Very few daily wheelchair users can afford to pay a 5-digit price for one.
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by srockets 2y ago
The OP isn't about hospital wheelchairs, but daily use wheelchairs. It's just most of the commenters here showing ignorance or ableism by suggesting the two are equivalent.
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by srockets 2y ago
Not just sitting, pushing yourself. Making a comfy chair is one thing, making one that you can also be mobile in, much harder.
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by srockets 2y ago
Motorized wheelchairs are not a good fit for everyone. They are much bigger, heavier, harder to transport (you need a van), and even with a clutch to allow emergency non-motorized use, because of their design and weight, they can't be
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by srockets 2y ago
You also lacks knowledge of bikes: a bike built from similar materials, at a similar quality of craftsmanship and weight would cost you north of $5k.
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by srockets 2y ago
Don't forget labor: welding lightweight, exotic materials requires a lot of experience, as every imperfection in the weld will lead to it cracking with time, which would be extremely dangerous.
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by srockets 2y ago
No, you can't buy a reasonable quality wheelchair for less. You can buy what a person who doesn't need a wheelchair consider reasonable. If you had to use those cheap chairs for 16 hours a day, and pushing yourself even just for a
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by srockets 2y ago
But can you use it to play Flappy Bird[0]? -- [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUSNWkdvoRo
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by srockets 2y ago
No, hate speech is hate speech. If it’s free speech to you, then you’re exactly in the group of people I’d rather not sharing infrastructure, or anything else with.
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by srockets 2y ago
What old is new again.
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by srockets 2y ago
Won't apply to everyone (most?), but some compliance assurances your customers may require can't be fulfilled by Cloudflare. And personally, I would hope their laissez faire attitude towards protecting hate speech should damage th
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by srockets 2y ago
Based on https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/11 it's their own code, just a different service they didn't decide to release the source for.
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by srockets 2y ago
We know, from multiple leaks, that clandestine services from multiple countries, including the US and China, have supply chain attacks, where they intercept computing equipment and install hardware backdoors into it. Intercept an iPhone, re
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by srockets 2y ago
Part of senior engineer’s role is to lift other ICs up. It’s one of the highest ROI things you can do.
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by srockets 2y ago
AWS used to just bake keeping the light on into the cost of launching a product. They wouldn’t launch something they weren’t ready to support until the sun becomes a supernova. Sadly, that seems to not be the case anymore, and it’s a worryi
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by srockets 2y ago
Yes. When a carrier orders lots of phones, the manufacturer would customize the built in software to some extent (how much depends on the manufacturer and the order size)
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by srockets 2y ago
That’s on the more senior workforce, and especially their managers to fix. Their incompetence to do so shouldn’t be solved by worsening the working conditions.
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by srockets 2y ago
It’s a job, if you’re not there for the pay, you’re also hurting every other worker by reducing the market price for similar labor. The people who are there to “solve interesting problems” are there to do so for pay. But, they can also get
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by srockets 2y ago
Another fun fact: this isn't the only software named after Trogdor: Apache Kafka's test framework is also called Trogdor[0]. -- [0] https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/trunk/trogdor
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by srockets 2y ago
The ven-diagram isn't empty, but also isn't a circle. And ride hailing apps surely aren't too convenient: you have to wait for the car, drivers attitude is always a hit-or-miss (my last ride, the driver threatened me with phy

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