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by teeray 10mo ago
> About three months later, we had a signed deal for 1.21 gigawatts and had started manufacturing the first turbine. Great Scott!
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by teeray 10mo ago
Here’s the AI. I’ll take my billions in investment please: ``` func reviewClaim(claim *Claim) ClaimStatus { return StatusDenied } ```
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by teeray 10mo ago
I’m describing the general principle. If x + x = 2x, then it already follows that 1 + 1 = 2.
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by teeray 10mo ago
Saying everyone should just quit streaming and go touch grass or read a book is not a productive recommendation. It's been tried for decades and fails because people really like TV and Movies. Given that, the discussion here needs to s
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by teeray 10mo ago
You can only vote with your feet if you can step somewhere else. We are watching locations for your feet to go shrink in real time.
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by teeray 10mo ago
If you have the disposable income to pay to remove advertising, you are exactly the market segment advertisers want to reach. They will always be willing to pay to outbid that segment’s own desire to not see ads.
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by teeray 10mo ago
Corporate fines should all be percentages of profits.
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by teeray 10mo ago
“Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”
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by teeray 10mo ago
> Did we feed the cat? > Is the cat okay? The cat is going to love this new toy
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by teeray 11mo ago
> the unintended consequence of that is that we’ve spent a decade normalizing senior engineers opting out of developing the next generation. This is because "management" includes a bunch of BS that few engineers want to actuall
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by teeray 11mo ago
My point being that healthcare costs for pets are immediately calculable, where it’s a big damn mystery for months on end about how much equivalent human healthcare will end up costing. Clearly, if the former is possible, the latter should
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by teeray 11mo ago
Meanwhile, I hand my credit card to the vet for a bottle of Gabapentin and I’m out the door.
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by teeray 11mo ago
It would be nice to have minimum standards for being allowed to post for things like you mention. Identification of violations and enforcement is, of course, the challenge.
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by teeray 11mo ago
> Remove the antennas. Do not give in to the mirage of convenience. ERROR: unable to start engine.
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by teeray 11mo ago
Probably needs more delta-v to match orbit than a suborbital ICBM would. Not less risk—just more expensive. Depends how valuable the target is.
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by teeray 11mo ago
If you have a bullshit measure that determines some phenomena (e.g. crime) to happen in some area, you will become biased to expect it in that area. It wrongly creates a spotlight effect by which other questionable measures are used to do t
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by teeray 11mo ago
Interesting, but I was hoping for applying vinyl to actual retroreflective sign blanks for private road use.
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by teeray 11mo ago
“We’ll finish up your feature soon. In the meantime, have you considered a timeshare in Vegas?”
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by teeray 11mo ago
Not to worry. In high school, my friend and I used the cafeteria microwave for this particular experiment. It was only a modest, baby fire… and some yelling from a teacher. Miraculously no detention. But science was done on that day.
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by teeray 11mo ago
This quote is basically the TL;DR: > memory suppliers have both the motive and precedent to coordinate behavior, even tacitly, in order to keep prices high. When only a handful of firms control the taps, it doesn't take a formal car
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by teeray 11mo ago
So it's really not the astronomical salary, it's the astronomical debt.
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by teeray 11mo ago
Some of these causes of death (“dead in the streets”, “scalded in a brewer’s mash”) remind me of The Gashlycrumb Tinies [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gashlycrumb_Tinies
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by teeray 11mo ago
My dream is that the answer to this is “making a good product that people find is a good value for money.”
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by teeray 11mo ago
I’d rather not hack my process around the deficiencies of someone else’s poor UI choices. As long as the data is stored in a powerful, structured format, you can serve that up in any way that’s sensible to you with `git log` and other shell
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by teeray 11mo ago
> strictly enforces the Conventional Commits specification (feat, fix, chore, etc.). Nope. Waste of bytes in my commit message header that are better done by git trailers. Otherwise, I love the idea of the tool. I personally try to answe
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by teeray 11mo ago
> The over-the-top characters, the cheesy story I love that they don't take themselves too seriously in this series. RA3 had some hilarious cutscenes with characters barely holding it together (the Soviet Premier was an underrated T
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by teeray 11mo ago
sigh and it should be the opposite. Divulging trade secrets into records that can be FOIA-ed should be tantamount to publicly releasing them.
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by teeray 11mo ago
I wonder what the author’s development process for all this is like. It’s fascinating seeing the end result, and I certainly learned a ton. However, I’d love to see some of the trial and error process. My own process is starting from a conf
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by teeray 11mo ago
Juniors, at least, have the capacity to learn.
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by teeray 11mo ago
...and suddenly no one is allowed to VPN back through their home router.

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