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571.
by synu 4y ago
“What happens in the 80s stays in the 80s, except for Perl.”
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by synu 4y ago
If it requires predicting the future isn’t that by definition riskier? The potential outcomes if you spend money you have are that you recover your money (break even), lose the money, or make a profit. The outcomes if you take a loan are th
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by synu 4y ago
If you can’t afford to buy your options, but take out a personal loan to buy them, that must have been a riskier approach than just buying them if you had the cash, no? The leverage increases the personal risk at least as I understand how
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by synu 4y ago
I get that it's better for the producers if everyone agrees to make throwaway appliances that need to be replaced every couple years, but how do they prevent someone from entering the market and selling high quality equipment that last
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by synu 4y ago
I’m not being left anything either, but there is a lot of wealth in assets held by that generation in aggregate, and that’s the wealth transfer they are reporting on. Not just the junk in hoarders houses.
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by synu 4y ago
Unfortunately there’s article driven product management, article driven executive leadership, and probably the same thing can be found nearly anywhere someone is in over their head.
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by synu 4y ago
I recall at one point a code smell meant something more like “this may be off, but not necessarily, so you should investigate and be sure in your context.” It was better than “considered harmful”, which was more absolute. That nuance may on
578.
by synu 4y ago
Out of curiosity, as someone who doesn’t use FreeBSD what does “Current” (not all caps) imply instead?
579.
by synu 4y ago
Exact same computer, and we were poor too. I learned BASIC on it and basically never stopped coding since then. It’s strange to think about how different my life might have been without that computer.
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by synu 4y ago
Perhaps it’s more to see if they can, or for fun, than strictly for some useful purpose.
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by synu 4y ago
Presumably that the fine will be much, much less than whatever the value of the benefit is that they earned from the omission.
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by synu 4y ago
It may have been more of a small town thing? I’m not sure, but that was where the one I went to was. It was there until the early 2000s but the writing was on the wall in the late 90s.
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by synu 4y ago
It isn’t kerning, it’s the space for the page binding in the magazine this was printed in.
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by synu 4y ago
Local independent computer shops, where people would hang out almost like an impromptu local computer club are a real loss. I miss them a lot.
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by synu 4y ago
That was M87, a different galaxy. Same group of scientists, though.