tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
Ironically I have been riding with the local Yellow Cab again, the fixed prices they quote on their app consistently undercut Uber/Lyft and the drivers actually show up in a reasonable amount of time
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I read the gp comments as questioning the relevance of the CPI. From my experience it understates the very real price increases I am seeing where I am
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by tomc1985 5y ago
So you’re saying they will lower prices after they’ve made up for the shortfall? I doubt it. That would be leaving money on the table, and that’s positively unamerican!
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by tomc1985 5y ago
But… that is inflation. Prices are going up. Such is the anecdata? Is this effect global? Who knows, it’s anecdata
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I have tons of anecdata suggesting worse… I just filled up a propane tank, 3lbs of fuel was almost $10 whereas a year ago it was $5-$6 The price of a California burrito most places here is almost $10, they were closer to $7/$8 before p
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It does, actually. FinCEN does not fuck around. Source: just finished renewing my AML training
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It is so weird how many people seem to have a stake in the version number. Personally I'm all for date or build numbers, and removing version numbers entirely
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I know, like how many times has this happened and people keep jerking each other off about smart contracts
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by tomc1985 5y ago
There's lots of other finance stuff you could be writing bots for... automated technical analysis on stocks, for example, and you can very neatly skirt all the crypto bullshit.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Well thats the perk, you get games compatibility. Windows runs in a window with direct access to the GPU. I primary Windows because of games and music software, and I'm looking forward to trying it out. As another comment points out, i
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by tomc1985 5y ago
On the desktop front, I've been hearing about virtualizing windows on Linux with a framebuffer that maps directly to the GPU. Then you get to keep something like 95% performance. I forget what it's called, but I remember seeing a
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Personally I hate large font sizes. What do they think I am, 5?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Before I had an 11 I had an SE, and by year 2 or 3 the battery was so weak that I had to carry around an external charging pack for it. This got really awkward (and a little scary) for traveling and was part of the reason I upgraded to a ne
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> I've grown used to picking the phone from my bed at 100% battery in the morning on days where I had to do a lot of stuff outside, be out and about for 4-5 hours and only pick up the phone once or twice, and then get back home and
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by tomc1985 5y ago
What's to fix? It seems like the prevailing business culture is to optimize the shit out of everything, and for managers it means getting the most work that you can out of the employees that you have. No matter where I go I am expected
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yeah I've adopted that strategy for my current employer. It is exhausting in its own way and difficult to maneuver without being blatantly dishonest.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
You're right, in that it's great to be always given new work and interesting projects. But unless the completed work can be handed off to someone else what happens (at least in my case) is that I spend more and more of time making
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Broadly speaking my job as a programmer is to turn repetitive activities into processes and code. If I’m still “working hard” a year in you should really wonder about my capabilities. As much as I want to agree with this, what I'v
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Aren't they in the process of recalling some of that money?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
And this kind of thing is exactly why you should never trust the cloud.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
There's a meme floating around that America is no longer the Great Melting Pot (where everyone assimilates to American culture), now we are the Great Salad Bowl (where everyone is their own unique and special thing) Personally, I don&#
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Dude if UE makes me a millie I would happily hand them 5% for it, considering that would be all I owe them, ever. Especially for all the free assets they provide. But right now, where certainties aren't...
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Thats a ton of money for something an indie dev won't even own or be able to possess once the subscription is up. Indie dev is super saturated. It's hard to make money without a ton of promo and virality. Yet another predatory sub
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> The idea that alien lifeforms we could recognize are visiting us and traveling in space is utterly ludicrous [...] > I believe There are a whoooooooole lot of assumptions being made here that don't seem to based in any kind of
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by tomc1985 5y ago
everyone pays for Facebook with their data. In fact, people not even on Facebook pay for Facebook with their data
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by tomc1985 5y ago
A starting and stopping clock is one of the things I absolutely can't stand about American football. Games last entirely too long because of it. One of the things I like most about soccer is that games start and end quickly, and I ca
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by tomc1985 5y ago
There are several Dollar Trees that are fully stocked and busy in the suburban Southern California city I used to live in. Not sure how that makes them "defunct"
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by tomc1985 5y ago
How about we call an infrastructure attack an infrastructure attack, not something that has a completely different meaning like terrorism Hackers are not terrorists!
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Optionality is one of those things that product managers hate right now, so the likelihood of that appearing if it hasn't already are slim That said, Windows has highly configurable font hinting/rendering so I'm perplexed as
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yeah, how do they expect that to hold up in court? Isn't that the sort of misconduct that gets evidence suppressed or cases thrown out?

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