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by stouset 1y ago
> What I do wonder is whether DOGE achieved any significant savings I don't think you actually wonder this because this information is easily and widely available with essentially zero effort. Not only were there no real cost saving
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by stouset 1y ago
If you learn some of these, you'll also see how interconnected many of them are. A sheet bend and bowline knot are both wildly useful. But a bowline is just a single rope sheet-bent (sheet bended?) back onto itself! And a trucker'
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by stouset 1y ago
Absolutely not. A blade can stay sharp for a much longer period of time than it can stay honed. The edge of a piece of paper is extremely sharp, but it only cuts you in specific circumstances due to being difficult to maintain a firm edge.
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by stouset 1y ago
American suburbs feature poorly interconnected residential-only areas that sprawl endlessly. You can easily be a ten minute walk from a friend (through yards and across fences, not over a walking path) but a ten or fifteen minute drive away
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by stouset 1y ago
Yeah, it’s crazy the number of people who scream about taking their cars from their cold, dead hands when people talk about adding some bike lanes, rolling out more public transit, or removing small amounts of parking for more human-centere
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by stouset 1y ago
Honing is 1,000x more important than sharpening. When it does come time to sharpen, I constantly see places offering knife sharpening services, and they’re usually cheap enough. Or you could get a gizmo that does a mediocre job (and shaves
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by stouset 1y ago
You can’t type on the keyboard though. You can push large buttons to look for and choose gas stations, restaurants, etc.
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by stouset 1y ago
I would wager that’s exactly what the GP thinks. It was pretty clear to me they think the entire system is set up so that anyone with needs is milked to extract the maximum possible amount of money.
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by stouset 1y ago
Because I have used all three OSes extensively, and this is pretty incontrovertible? Settings have been half-assed so many times that random options require going back three or four generations back into the control panel. Modal confirmatio
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by stouset 1y ago
macOS has certainly fallen pretty far, but if we’re going to compare them, Windows is and has been a complete tire fire for well over a decade at this point.
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by stouset 1y ago
> value of money is quite absolute You are conflating price and the value. I assure you that to a billionaire, $250,000 is of nearly no value at all.
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by stouset 1y ago
On the flip side, I see very little actual hatred of Jews, either cultural or religious, but I do see a lot of people claiming that any kind of opposition to the IDF flattening Gaza is equivalent to Jew hatred.
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by stouset 1y ago
This is literally the entire issue behind why people think things like this are a bad idea.
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by stouset 1y ago
Jesus. It had never occurred to me that the front-line people perpetrating these scams could be enslaved themselves.
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by stouset 1y ago
I'll be honest, I hear this every single time. But I've never delayed upgrading, and I've never regretted it. That's not to say every upgrade has been a strict improvement, but going back to my first Mac at 10.4 (Tiger)
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by stouset 1y ago
This is the mindset that will keep USB-A ports around forever. Somebody has to be the one to move the world forward, and it's usually Apple who's most willing to retire old ports. At this point I would kill for an Anker battery pa
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by stouset 1y ago
What if instead we could all collectively agree that access to some amounts of fresh, running water is a fundamental human need? We figure a number, and the first N units are free. Additional units cost money, and perhaps you have two or th
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by stouset 1y ago
If you design infrastructure based on what you think people want instead of what actually produces good outcomes, you end up with gridlock. Travel some time. Take a look at what’s happened in Paris over the last several years. See what’s ha
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by stouset 1y ago
More roads just does not scale. Look at LA. Look at San Francisco. More capacity isn’t just going to magically appear. Waymo is only going to increase overall utilization by reducing the marginal cost of running a car. They aren’t magic tra
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by stouset 1y ago
If it were this, we'd be doing everything possible to make the process of legal immigration less capricious. Instead we're rounding up anyone who looks foreign or speaks with an accent, ignoring even if they're here legally o
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by stouset 1y ago
Don’t forget about Melissa and Mark Hortman. Or the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot.
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by stouset 1y ago
That's wild to me. That's something I don't think I can ever go back to at this point.
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by stouset 1y ago
While this is probably annoying, I have to imagine that non-hidpi displays are becoming rarer and rarer. It's probably not a great idea to spend a lot of work on a feature that will only ever see declining use.
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by stouset 1y ago
I’m slightly confused. jj has named branches. They’re just called “bookmarks”. Once you track the remote bookmark, `jj git fetch` will update your local one to match the remote.
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by stouset 1y ago
> who was challenged at the polling station by a leftist white woman Literally my dude why are you making your voting choices known to poll workers who have no fucking choice but to stand there and listen? I have spent years overseeing p
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by stouset 1y ago
Adolf Hitler was elected. I would still say he overthrew the government of Germany. We are in the midst of a frighteningly similar takeover.
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by stouset 1y ago
What secret American intellectual property is being openly disseminated to university students? If your concern is educating people here and not doing absolutely everything possible to make them feel welcome and invited in order to convince
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by stouset 1y ago
It's unpopular because it's ignorant, uninformed, and actively harmful. To add to the rest of the comments, accepting and enrolling international students in our university system confers enormous benefits to this country. We drai
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by stouset 1y ago
That’s a good catch, but don’t modern CPUs thermally throttle, rather than risk damage? Not that you should rely on this with an underpowered cooling solution but I would expect worse performance, not a fried chip.
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by stouset 1y ago
That's correct. I suspect there's a selection effect where people who struggle with these challenges in their lives find comfort in a space where they can present as the person they want to be without constantly being questioned,

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