tomrod

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by tomrod 1y ago
Sora is too smooth
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by tomrod 1y ago
Arrows impossibility theorem means someone will always be unhappy, and sometimes those people make the laws too.
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by tomrod 1y ago
If its a local-first app, that could be very good! Even if browser+WASM with local storage that is a step up from web apps. I don't like companies hoovering all data.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Dallas would look very different if they emphasized public transport. Outside of downtown it is so sparse, many of the suburbs suffer from crumbling infrastructure because it turns out pipes made to last 30 years do poorly after 40 to 50 ye
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by tomrod 1y ago
... Why is this the first place to go?
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by tomrod 1y ago
Not sure or the US programs are running, but check out SBIRs
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by tomrod 1y ago
And then, Excel exists as a philosophical counterpoint. As well as runs most businesses.
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by tomrod 1y ago
A half day of work, a half day of office rent, a half day of truck use, a half day to pay for loan servicing, a half day to pay overhead costs, a half day to add to reserves for the half day you don't work, and so forth.
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by tomrod 1y ago
I'm interested to see examples! Is this shareable?
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Musk's $1T Tesla pay plan draws some protest ahead of likely approval(arstechnica.com)
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It can
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That tends to be commercial rates since businesses can have larger spikes in consumption, so the "pipe" needs to be larger. Industrial rates are similar. There are some like ComEd that you call out that can apply the model to resi
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by tomrod 1y ago
0.108 x 168 hours/wk x 4.4 wks/month gives a good approximation for kwh/month. Demand over time gives consumption just fine. A 75% drop is nice and much improved.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Wasn't that the core idea of net neutrality?
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by tomrod 1y ago
A computer is a tool. Linux respects this, Apple and Windows try to monetize it. The tool user is responsible for choice and maintenance of the tool.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Sometimes it's the theory, sometimes it's the engineering, and often it's both.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Better to make it a web app, so you don't have to mess with Apple or Google's broken economics.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Who sponsors curl?
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by tomrod 1y ago
How long until this is made into employer monitoring software?
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by tomrod 1y ago
It could be so much more without it!
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"Good ole boy network" is real!
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by tomrod 1y ago
What a strange thing to say - - "sucks to be you if you don't like it, just leave" is not really how I'd expect people to have a conversation around identified policy gaps, especially among people that aren't there.
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Local state legislature has several car dealership owners that also started their own chartered towns. Wasn't thinking about starbase but that qualifies.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Yep, exactly what I mentioned, more than makes up for it especially once you factor in the higher Case Schiller on recent years causing increases to property taxes since 2022 (date of your image).
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by tomrod 1y ago
All true. Texas worker environment is not great though. Folks typically list income tax as an advantage but property and sales taxes more than make up the difference. Also, govt admin is fairly hostile to any infrastructure expansion, prefe
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Texas solved this with the CREZ
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by tomrod 1y ago
This appears to be endemic at Microsoft. I have two Minecraft accounts, several Live.com accounts accrued over the years, and a smattering of Github accounts for various reasons (professional, self-employed, personal), Logging into Minecraf
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by tomrod 1y ago
> A state can simply order workers to work without pay or be punished, burn debt that they don’t want to pay, or lock traders into a room with orders to buy. There is still an economy, but it becomes one of political favor which is earn
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Then it isn't the economy, since the economy is how people allocate scarce resources -- that is and always will be normalizable by the time a person has in a day. Abstract AI utilization of data centers don't impact my garden dire
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Ticktoks and Phones do not exist without a creator. Buck stops with the software dev and exec.

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