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by tharne 3y ago
Some may be shortsighted, but others are often an act of desperation. Keeping everyone on the books isn't worth anything if you can't make payroll.
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by tharne 3y ago
> This is a classic layoff debate -- is it better to do it with zero warning, or is it better to let employees know that a layoff is coming? No good answers here. They're both bad, but in different ways, and I suspect that whether
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by tharne 3y ago
Exactly. Companies really don't care as much about talent and performance as people think they do. Most of the time good enough is good enough. And companies almost always prefer attrition to layoffs or firings. Corporations are very c
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by tharne 3y ago
I'm not a fan of Smart Homes, but I can appreciate this take on it. Making it all work is the cool part - everything else is just a side effect.
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by tharne 3y ago
I'm always amazed that everyone seems okay with this, and will even say so when pressed on it. But those same people will get a look in their eyes as if they're going to shit their pants, if someone else picks up their unlocked iP
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by tharne 3y ago
The Smart Home is the ultimate triumph of capitalism. A product that nobody needs who's biggest value is mining user's data in order to sell that user more shit they don't need.
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by tharne 3y ago
RIP Mitch, you were one of the greats.
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by tharne 3y ago
True. It's kind of funny that Microsoft did a better job implementing linux than they did implementing windows.
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by tharne 3y ago
They've really decreased in popularity. As far as I know there are only a handful of manufacturers even making minivans for the US market: Toyota, Kia, Chrysler, and Honda, and they each only offer a single model last I knew. I'm
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by tharne 3y ago
How is that a good thing? The internet is a dumpster fire of half truths, infotainment, and objective falsehoods. I'll take human memory with all its warts over most of what's on the web any day.
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by tharne 3y ago
I love that we've come to an era where supposedly educated people are in the habit of telling others that the use of their senses and mind to understand the world are invalid because someone didn't put the conclusions on a website
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by tharne 3y ago
It really depends on the vehicle. Minivans are quite large and are some of the safest vehicles on the road.
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by tharne 3y ago
> source? A bunch of us were alive in the 90's and driving cars.
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by tharne 3y ago
> Yeah, the article very conveniently ignores the "integrated" part of the IDE acronym. How's that? In unix (mostly) everything is a file, which in turn is just a stream of bytes that you can pass to any unix-y application
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by tharne 3y ago
Works great on Macbooks. Some would say better since copy/paste on a mac, even to and from a terminal in tmux is much less of a mess than on WSL or Linux.
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by tharne 3y ago
What's the name of this company selling this cotton candy flavored nitrous oxide? Asking for a friend.
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by tharne 3y ago
I really wish we could be more honest with ourselves about the tradeoffs inherent in the level of technological sophistication we achieved and continue to push the boundaries of. There just isn't a way to have privacy and human dignity
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by tharne 3y ago
Very true. What's more is that even if we did find a way to scale these, the cure might be worse than the disease. Do we really want a bunch of AI-driven robots taking care of infants for example? Would we want to treat sick people wit
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by tharne 3y ago
Prior to the last half century or so, there was never a period in human history where you, as a norm, had both parents working outside of the home. I don't think it's realistic to provide affordable childcare at scale. Why not? Be
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by tharne 3y ago
I don't know why you're getting so many down votes here. What you say is unpleasant but it's all true.
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by tharne 3y ago
I keep seeing more laws and potential laws like this. It just goes to show that most of the folks who work in government and public policy are the type of people who were really good at school but don't have much in the way of common s
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by tharne 3y ago
> I'm not sure how you reconcile your claim that you don't believe there's a clear answer to whether it was wright with the emotion-laden and leading statement you made just before. The parent commenter stated that the way
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by tharne 3y ago
You really can't do that legally, at least not in the US. HIPPA prevents you from sharing other people's health info, which disability is. That includes sharing it in the aggregate when it would be easy enough to de-anonymize the
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by tharne 3y ago
That's a bit circular isn't? Of course the people that still live somewhere don't worry about the crime as much, that's part of the reason that they're still there. The folks for whom it's a big deal, tend to l
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by tharne 3y ago
New York has always had expensive housing. It's not as if that became a problem yesterday. On the other hand, crime varies considerably from decade to decade. I'm getting a good chuckle watching people bend over backwards to downp
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by tharne 3y ago
> You really think that the idea of defunding police is a bigger factor than a global pandemic that shut down the city and drove many small businesses out of the city? What an odd take. It's tough to say, but seems like the defund
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by tharne 3y ago
> The amount of pushback these measures got, when we were literally just trying to save lives and prevent disability through long covid absolutely staggers the mind and erodes my faith in humanity. Or you could reasonably conclude that t
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by tharne 3y ago
> Nowadays things just get worse with each release, when it comes to user-interfaces and desktop apps. This is spot on and it makes me sad. We have hardware and programming languages available to us that people could only dream of 30 yea
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by tharne 3y ago
> Yea, more and more with computing, when I hear I should switch to something because it is "the future" or "modern," I am instantly suspicious. Same, but I'd take a step further. If the most common argument in f
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by tharne 3y ago
> How does that have anything to do with disabilities? Honest, it sounds like a form of fancy customisation and I don't doubt Wayland may not support it, but that's not why accessibility is a thing. Only on the internet would s

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