thomascgalvin

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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I don't think people want the legislature to cede its power to the other branches, but I do think the other branches are easier to understand. When the President issues an executive order, or a court issues a ruling, there are one, thr
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I agree with this. Money in politics isn't the only issue we need to solve, but it is likely the most important. As long as politicians are beholden to people who can afford to fund their campaigns, the will of t
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I think the actual long-term goal should be a government which reflects the will of the governed. There are a lot of mechanisms that prevent the will of the people from being expressed at the federal level right now, but the two-party syste
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
> What kind of nonsense statistic is an unemployment rate that doesn't count this fraction? Like the inflation rate, unemployment statistics are more bread and circuses than useful information. They're designed to help the peop
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
There is no single silver bullet, but if you combine tree planting with nuclear / renewable power with remote work with electric vehicles ... eventually it starts to add up. Shooting down solutions because they aren't the entire
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I wonder what proportion of new pandemic hires were also software engineers. I have no data to back this up, but my gut tells me that during the pandemic, many companies over-hired software devs, and this round of right-sizing is correcting
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
I agree that this doesn't quite feel programming, but it's certainly a related discipline. It feels kind of like mentoring a junior engineer. We might start with a user story, translate that to pseudo-code, and translate that to p
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
I dropped about forty pounds during COVID quarantine, pretty much effortlessly. The only real change was that I now eat at home, and eat food that I cook, instead of whatever I can grab at the McDonalds near the train station while I'm
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
Why would you want a hello world at all? That isn't a realistic distribution scenario.
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
What an utter load of shit. You know what's good for me? Having an extra fifteen hours a week, where I'm not trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic, breathing in smog. Taking a walk around my neighborhood with my wife and dogs in the
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
I know you're joking, but as a US dev I am very well compensated, and I don't even blink at giving JetBrains a hundred bucks a year for IntelliJ. Good tools make my life better. I'm not a sublime user, but if I was, if it was
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
I only follow this stuff casually, but IIRC hair is notoriously difficult to render realistically without massive computing power. It doesn't surprise me that this would be called out as a leading feature.
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
I just wish I was part of the first generation to benefit from post-scarcity, and not the generation that is going to have to go through the turmoil of getting to post-scarcity.
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
This could be fixed by: 1. Eliminating income tax on 401k distributions 2. Eliminating tax on social security income 3. Increasing social security benefits None of these will happen.
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
My view of the job market might be skewed, because I'm twenty-odd years into my career, and the people that are looking to hire me and often different than the people looking to hire a recent CS grad. That being said, I wonder how much
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
The Fed has been leaning hard into Quantitative Easing since 2007. Joe Biden was inaugurated as President in 2021.
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
The goal is to provide "evidence" for the decision that has already been made. She was "recovered" and no longer "needed" care. Now, generate supporting evidence for that conclusion.
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
The borrow checker is a hard hill to climb for a lot of people, to the point where many devs get to that part of the tutorial and decide to go do something else with their lives.
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
If these drugs prove workable over the long term, pretty soon everyone will suspect you're on it, because the majority of people will be. There would be no more of a stigma about this than taking a medication for blood pressure.
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
This is a drawback, but I'm not sure how terrible it is. If you go off the drug, you regain your weight. If you go off your diet, you also regain the weight. That, then, is a wash. These drugs currently cost a fortune, so lifelong de
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
Elon's bold strategy of "not paying any of his bills" doesn't seem like a great way to keep a service up and running, but then again neither does firing any engineer who doesn't agree to be on call 24/7/36
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
Completely anecdotal, but I rented a Tesla when I was on a business trip a couple of weeks ago. I only had to charge it once over the entire week, but to do so I needed to park in front of a charging station for about an hour, and I was par
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
There are exceptions to warrantless searches and entry given probable cause, reasonable suspicion, and iminent public threat. If a guy is doing 120MPH down Santa Monica Boulevard after emptying a magazine at a Girl Scout who was out of Thin
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
There are plenty of problems with policing in America (and worldwide, for that matter), but this ignores the entire category of "crimes involving stolen vehicles."
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It seems like a drone with a high quality camera would be useful, as well.
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Also: everyone also has Amazon and WalMart on their phones. For many phones, they come pre-installed. Of course their downloads have plateaued. There's little room for growth when your customer base is already "everyone".
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
I think the big difference is that BJJ is meant to be used against a resisting opponent, while gymnastics is not. You can get really good at kata by, well, doing kata, but that doesn't mean you're going to be able to employ your k
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
> I imagine a group of Democrats could have helped vote McCarthy in with a much milder set of concessions. The problem with that is, there would be no way to hold McCarthy accountable to those promises. Republicans do not negotiate in go
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
Digest and metabolize . This would mean that early in the day, you digest food and put it to work. Your body temperature is higher, you fidget more, your body repairs some of the damage you did when you worked out last night. Later in the
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by thomascgalvin 4y ago
> I am interested in reading about healthy eating.... Yet, all I can ever find is how to eat in order to lose weight. I suspect that this is largely due to the fact that industrial food owns the food science in this country, and in most

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