stasomatic

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by stasomatic 5d ago
I left Ukraine in ‘89, so familiar with the concept. Different trade-offs, my point.
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by stasomatic 5d ago
Bruv! Surf's up.
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by stasomatic 5d ago
But in communism, you are less likely to need to find a bridge to live under.
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by stasomatic 6d ago
It shouldn't even be a term, it sounds fake politically correct, as does "First Nations". It's "indigenous". They were here, someone else came ashore and the Comanche got horses and Winchesters. Not like the Co
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by stasomatic 6d ago
I quit Claude for the second time because of exactly this. Sugary, long-winded, praiseful War and Peace levels of replies that sounded intellectual but with no substance, nah. If Codex is 20% worse in code quality, I am fine with that. No a
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by stasomatic 6d ago
How do you feel about offshoring IT work to countries with much lower cost of living?
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by stasomatic 7d ago
Without splitting hairs, essentially they are self-storage units that are zoned for multi-purpose use. I don't know the right nomenclature to describe them. Heck, I saw a Jamaican barbecue outfit there. I am sure there is some "fa
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by stasomatic 8d ago
Really I don’t mind, I wish there were more archery ranges but I can deal. People all around are nice, all walks of life. But if someone from another continent were to drop in, their eyebrows would have a heart attack.
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by stasomatic 8d ago
How can we deal with this mental overload? There are only so many things that I can keep in my head. Your job was to deliver Project X and you did it in half the time. What do you do with the other half? Your job was to deliver X. Now what?
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by stasomatic 8d ago
I may have expanded the definition of self-storage, apologies, but here's the place I was talking about. There is definitely storage and there are definitely guns and gunsmith shops. Crazy, hey? There are people living out of these, th
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by stasomatic 8d ago
For people who program for leisure, self-consumption or otherwise don't have a major income pressure, it is objectively a huge time saver. I've had much enjoyment recreating my frequently used utilities on macOS. It's not a
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by stasomatic 8d ago
I think there is more of a physiological component to it on the consumer level. I don't care about the fed rate but I care when I see the price of milk and eggs go up each a couple of months. In 2020, a carton of eggs at Aldi's wa
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by stasomatic 8d ago
It's his money. Or, are you worried about your inheritance? /jk
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by stasomatic 8d ago
Not just warehouses. In one facility here in South Florida a family member who is a general contractor, uses the storage just as you described, but a couple of units over, there is a gun range, a gun smith shop, a tattoo shop running out of
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by stasomatic 8d ago
It's not a time saver in that you, as an employee, don't get more time to yourself. You get to work more. Can you walk up to your boss and tell them that you are going to start working 20 hours a week instead of 40? I use these th
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by stasomatic 15d ago
As if CSS is pinnacle of software engineering. You can't learn it, you have to keep up all the damn time. It was an elegant concept for its time but it ran off rails, hence all the hacks. Can't we move on? FE webdev is duct tape o
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by stasomatic 16d ago
I embrace informed skepticism but most of it is ignorant. If you read that back to yourself, you don't throw up in your mouth just a tiny bit? No? Tell me your secret! Skepticism you agree with is "informed" and the rest of
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by stasomatic 16d ago
That's amazing, happy to read comments like this on HN. NZ is on the bucket list! on top of all of the workplace culture differences in NZ. Not sure if I parsed it right, what did you mean? I am a Florida man, by choice but we'l
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by stasomatic 16d ago
It isn't to me, kind of revolting, physically. Very off putting, likely because of asymmetry when shut closed, but that's not an Apple problem, they all look obnoxious to me. The tech is cool. I do want an iPhone and iPad mini in
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by stasomatic 16d ago
Who uses WP outside of legacy installs? I used to love it 15 or so years ago for side hustle work, but over time it gained weight and vulnerabilities, whack-a-mole. Plug-ins were nice, but that <?php...> inlining wasn't. I don&#x
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by stasomatic 17d ago
Only sometimes?
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by stasomatic 18d ago
Could you cite a few issues that you've run across, please? I have used Macs since the late 80s, there have always been teething problems, duds and effups, but nothing that wasn't addressed by independent Mac devs. How can Apple m
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by stasomatic 18d ago
The ads have changed. Back in my adolescence, I would read the back pages of Byte, Nintendo World, Sega something, Computer Shopper. I devoured them, there was no scorn. These days it is ads of folks around my age doing a yoga type of a thi
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by stasomatic 18d ago
I've lived in LA on and off for over a decade cumulatively. If Woodland Hills, Tarzana, Burbank, North Hollywood count as "L.A." :) I love the climate and nature there, besides the fires. Ocean, lakes, mountains, deserts, all
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by stasomatic 19d ago
Roughly 30% of global population uses it. It's the backbone of many South American and Continental European countries. All controlled by a private corporation. I don't use it personally but my wife and the extended family does. As
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by stasomatic 19d ago
Sweden
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by stasomatic 19d ago
If they could actually do it, I would be all over it! If you can save humanity from having to spend years acquiring these skills and judgements, they can do something else with their lives. Isn't the question - how are we going to fe
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by stasomatic 19d ago
It's strange that while many parts of the world rely on WhatsApp for essential services, this weak link is almost never in the news. Don't people know that WhatsApp is under Meta? What if he pulls the plug? Is there anything preve
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by stasomatic 26d ago
Making a bad process more efficient is a negative, not a positive, we should instead strive to improve the situation. This gent can Minesweep his extra free time and not tell his bosmang "I finished my day in 20 mins, what else you g
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by stasomatic 29d ago
Perhaps MSG. Seems to have been proven harmless, but leads to overeating, in my case.I"m not giving it up, I can't eat veggies without it :)

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