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by techdmn 4y ago
Presumably standing around outside, waiting for the SWAT team, and not letting anyone else enter the building. How the Uvalde PD didn't all get charged with aiding and abetting is beyond me.
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by techdmn 4y ago
Fantastic. One problem I've seen a few times, is the desire to consolidate teams to tackle the flavor-of-the-month project. You have an infrastructure team and an applications team, but somebody up the chain has staked their promotio
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by techdmn 4y ago
In my area there has been a lot of consolidation in healthcare in the last decade or so, and care has gotten noticeably worse. My dad, living 200 miles away, has similar experience. He describes his provider as "Procedure oriented&qu
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by techdmn 4y ago
No need to denigrate teenage girls.
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by techdmn 4y ago
The town I grew up (about 10k people, in the midwest) had exactly one bike cop. I don't recall his real name, but everybody called him Lurch. The story was that when he was new, he spent a day speed trapping outside the police statio
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by techdmn 4y ago
I remember watching Jacques Villeneuve crash pretty hard in the 2000 Australian Gran Prix (tragically a loose wheel stuck and killed a marshal). I read an interview with him later, he said he ran back to the pits after the crash, but he
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by techdmn 4y ago
My dad taught me that when I was learning to drive. What's the last thing you do before impact? Let go of the wheel.
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by techdmn 4y ago
Similar to suggestions that Android offer the option to provide fake location data to apps that require it without good reason: It's a fantastic idea and seems easy to implement, but might make it less painful for users to opt out of a
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by techdmn 4y ago
I've been a gearhead practically my whole life, so I totally understand. Personally I think ICE cars will soon be thought about much the way we think of steam locomotives. They're pretty cool, some people will always love them,
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by techdmn 4y ago
Prices are up, wages are up, but last I checked (admittedly a month or two ago) profits were doing just fine. That profits are still solid under so many adverse conditions indicates to me that there is a lack of competition in the market,
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by techdmn 4y ago
I agree. As a parent, I both want my kids to learn, and I want care for them so I can work. I think if we were more honest about both these needs, we could do better at both. I have seen a certain mania that schools are only for educatio
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by techdmn 4y ago
The Democratic party seems to be a lot more competent, and try a lot harder, when they are combating progressives, as opposed to when they are combating the other party.
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by techdmn 4y ago
Also likely that your average CEO is not spending time washing dishes, doing the laundry or grocery shopping. There is more capacity for "work" when the only work you do is your day job.
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by techdmn 4y ago
The problem with taxing consumption is that it's pretty regressive. Not to say that there aren't solutions, but the existing sales tax, gas tax, etc aren't it.
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by techdmn 4y ago
We have a century plus of developing resource extraction and refueling infrastructure for ICE transportation. It seems unreasonable to expect electric infrastructure overnight. New charging stations are being built all the time. Renewabl
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by techdmn 4y ago
I'm shocked at the lack of humanity in this story. Every once in a while an "enemy" will start a war, and we'll get a bunch of coverage about orphans and mothers and fathers and horror, and I think maybe just maybe peop
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by techdmn 7y ago
Sure, in an emergency situation making someone uncomfortable is a pretty minor concern. I commented specifically because you said "works in most situations, not just a traumatic one". I think it's worth considering that ado
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by techdmn 7y ago
This sets off pretty big alarm bells for me. Touching people is a pretty personal thing, and doing it with ulterior motives seems wrong. P.S. Don't touch me.
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Target Cash Registers Back Online After Chaotic Nationwide Tech Failure(text.npr.org)
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by techdmn 7y ago
I grew up with a 400 in the house. The keyboard was truly awful. Didn't stop me from firing up BASIC, but between the keyboard and lack of storage it sure wasn't my ten-year-old self's primary development machine. (We had
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by techdmn 8y ago
Personally I think the legal drinking age should be 18. I started drinking when I was 18, but didn't learn to do so responsibly until I was doing it in public. A bartender can refuse to serve, or call you a cab. Not that they always
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by techdmn 8y ago
The nukes didn't exactly go away though. We're still welcome to worry about it. :-)
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by techdmn 8y ago
This. There is a term for failing to look where you want to go, the result of which is going where you are looking: target fixation. It's a frequent cause of motorcycle crashes, and I see it quite a bit at the track. A rider gets sc
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by techdmn 8y ago
For sure. I ride a 2000 CBR929RR. 150 horsepower, only weights ~ 435 lbs, and it's fuel injected. Sure, a brand new CBR1000RR has ~40 more HP and is 2 lbs lighter, but 150 is still ridiculous for a street bike. I can't get to
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by techdmn 8y ago
It isn't necessarily a trivial problem to solve either. Retrofitting a touch interface on to a game designed to be played with physical buttons doesn't always work out well.
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by techdmn 8y ago
I especially like this when I'm riding a motorcycle behind them. Nothing like people casually tossing flaming projectiles at you while you're on your way to work.
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by techdmn 8y ago
I had some contact with the unschooling movement while growing up, and came away with some interesting conclusions. It isn't uncommon when a kid stops going to school, for them to basically mope around and play video games and not do
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by techdmn 9y ago
Supporting your third paragraph, I had some contact with the unschooling movement while growing up. The experience is typically that kids will do nothing for a while. Maybe quite a while. But then they get bored, and start to pursue thin
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by techdmn 9y ago
I think "Slower traffic keep right" is part of the problem, nobody wants to think of themselves as "slower". The signs should read "Left lane for passing only" or similar. Also, I pass people on the right all
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by techdmn 10y ago
Strangely more people seem to know about this than about only using the left lanes to pass. I have seen several people get worked up about being passed on the right, to which my response is "why were you driving on the left"? Th

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