the_sleaze9

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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
We all start from somewhere and nobody was born starting from perfect. First label your fundamental concerns. You cannot improve what you don't measure. Error-prone code? First number the errors then classify the errors. Are your error
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
I learned in training to trust your motorcycle to keep it's footing when you encounter quick losses of traction. They had a bike that was equipped with a roll-cage, like an exoskeleton that prevented it from actually flipping but did a
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
good managers in a bad ecosystem. Sounds like you were lucky to have them. Y'all should've written some automation to send random buzzword paragraphs and system diagrams at a regular, random cadence.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
> new-ish small storefronts tend to be long and narrow ... not popular Take a look at the picture of the boarded up storefronts in the article. Those storefronts share the widths almost exactly of the apartments directly above them, all
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Imagine all the corn that gets subsidized in the United States.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
> We could not cover even 1/1000th of the US in ~30 feet of carbon per year. We wouldn't ... ? Billions of gallons of crude oil are removed from the earth every year, millions upon millions of tons of stone are mined from the e
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Robot butlers, Ray guns, Laser swords and Aliens.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
More than likely using the water source to generate electricity that then powers whatever modern machinery you'd ever need is going to be significantly more efficient. Windmills were used to crush grain too, but wind turbines are order
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
I'm reading this a single-use carbon sequestration solution, is that not correct? As in - you pay the carbon to crush it, ship it and spread it. Then it captures carbon exactly once, and then what do you do with it?
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Laughs in XUL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Are they not? I believe they voting mccarthy out in the first place was only possible because of the dems' votes
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
I'm curious - can you give an example of a pain point?
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Once you choose a path, the cost of switching compounds. And truthfully language makes much less of a difference than we engineers feel it does. Can't say it better than Mr Jobs himself on this subject. [0] https://www.youtu
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
4. Without ads, YouTube cannot exist In my view, you did call it tiring and were thereby stating that you had seen someone make that assumption.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
I'd be interested in helping out as well, looking forward to it
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Not even close to being a single-party problem. I know it's almost Halloween but you can do better than jumping out from around the corner yelling "Nancy Pelosi!" > https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Exactly. That's why I only play the `Skill Games` at the back of the gas station with my savings.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
I believe his statement lies in the fact that wealth is not money, but productivity. He's saying if every atom of the economy is n% more productive, that will grow the economy by n%.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Maybe, more likely an issue of incentives. Manager is not incentivized to do X? Then forget it. Not my job, not my problem.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Absolutely - almost nauseated actually. The actual content felt a bit tortured as well which didn't help anything.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Color me corrected. I did pull federal data.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Oh for sure, please don't read my comment in a demeaning tone - very much the opposite.
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
What an odd form of comparison, Military spending is almost entirely a function of tax, not Gross Domestic Product of a country. But taking just one aspect of that graph – overall military spending - it's true that spending has decreas
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
Nothing about the story of this project suggests they are top-tier sound engineers, and when you don't really know what you're doing (said very respectfully) the proposition "we need to fill windows and this is what other peo
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
I believe something similar to this happened to me on a ~20 minute puddle jumper flight. Late at night, nothing unusual then out of nowhere we descend to what felt like just above the tree-line, as in low enough to make out the edges of lic
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
I have swollen nasal polyps (or something) which causes every single cold I get to eventually transform into a 2 week sinus infection + cough ordeal. Netty pot with salty water and a pinch of baking soda, and an even saltier water gargle cl
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
I lol'd
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
> Which in practice is never for anything remotely successful. I have yet to see Time be easy. Anywhere. At all. From daylight savings being state-dependent, system times resetting to rand, right down to CPU monotonic timing. Using Time
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
I would generally pass this comment by, but it's just so distastefully hostile because you totally missed the point. GP's comment was expressing sardonic disbelief that a modern jet wouldn't be able to receive remote software
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by the_sleaze9 3y ago
You what

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