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by topgrain2 3mo ago
That’s… about how I might have written that.
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Yeah right after I posted I thought about editing in that a 3-4 all-programmer team with one person (maybe half-time) acting as basically team secretary was already the best unit for software writing, but bigcos seemed to have trouble for
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
As my company experiments with AI-heavy programming, I don’t feel like my job’s going away, but as a “full stack” programmer who’s also good at and comfortable managing a task board, walking “stakeholders” and SMEs through requirements-gath
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Maybe it’s trying to split the output into more than two audio channels when in CarPlay mode? If it were only Apple Music doing this I’d be sure this was triggering its Atmos output, not sure how it’d be affecting other players, but maybe
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Companies’ executives and top investors should let us see their location data then. And open up every part of their internal comms that don’t directly disclose trade secrets. At least the metadata! It doesn’t hurt them, just lets us make be
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Plenty of them hate at least some of it! Source: have spent years at a stretch in pretty great shape. I definitely hated a good amount of what I had to do to achieve and maintain that. Disliked the activity, or simply would rather have been
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Good Google was functionally gone when Doubleclick took them over. That was a loooong time ago. They gave up trying to fight search spam and just permanently broke their search in like 2008. Not long after that (IIRC) they started serving t
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
On the other hand, a pill to replace all the un-fun activity needed to stay in shape while having a family and office job would let you enjoy fun activity a lot more, and want to do those things more often, since they’re all more-fun and sa
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
The idea of simply mounting a filesystem and selecting from a list of titles which roms to download and add to your local games, unloading them and transparently re-downloading when you need to free up space, all without relying on a centra
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
The worst is when you get a manager who’s either too clueless to realize you’re seeing a pay cut from an “increase” so small, or one who knows but is pretending otherwise. That awkward pause in the comp update meeting when they tell you a
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
I was seeing the fake light fixtures in listing photos at least four years ago. Fake furniture is bad enough (the scale issue you mention is the main problem) but fake parts of the house should definitely be illegal.
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
This has pushed me to high levels of brand loyalty with direct ordering from the brands I like and trust, plus a lot of buying used… also mostly products from a handful of trusted brands (this is largely clothes, nearly all of which I buy
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
I think all browsers have that now. I use it 3-4 times a year with Safari on both macOS and iOS. That way I feel comfortable closing them all without worrying about “losing” anything. I’ve been doing this, or something similar, for at least
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
1800s? We had actual open borders with the rest of the Americas until, like, the 1950s. Farmers at the time were super-worried about the shift, since they already relied heavily on immigrant labor. Their concerns didn't manifest as m
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
There are more taxes than federal income and corporate taxes. State taxes and especially the ~15% of wages that go to FICA also matter (the topic was small businesses, so presumably the owner's not making so much more than the FICA l
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
> I don't think the second amendment is particularly relevant. The point of the second amendment is defense against a tyrannical government so by definition we're in extrajudicial territory and don't care if it's lega
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
> Incidentally, corporate taxes are why many small business owners pay themselves wage income, rather than doing stock buybacks or dividends. You've been sold some BS. Usually this is because you're required to take a "r
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
I do at night, just for the bedroom. Need it to sleep well. I Keep it around 75-78 in the house in the daytime, on hot days, and just dress for it, no problem then. I've lived in a house with no AC and even slept outside on a hammock
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Who had much more firepower? That the cops knew about? The shooter was accused of ambushing the cops, but didn't fire until the cop drew on and aimed at a retreating protester (that part wasn't in dispute, it was part of the cop&#
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Can it be defense of self or others, to shoot a cop who draws a lethal weapon on someone who's not an immediate threat? If it can't, the second amendment is even more pointless than it already appears to be.
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
> Uh, I think firing a gun at someone is a bit more than "inciting violence", more like attempted murder? The shot cop had drawn a gun on someone who was running away. The judge didn’t even permit the defense to argue “defense
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
It used to be possible to bust up a company based (more or less) simply on their having too much of the market. Right wing interests built up think-tanks after the Second World War, having seen the success of especially the Brookings Instit
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
> There's no difference between what you can do in a "real" computer and what you can do on a smartphone. In fact, it kind of runs the other way: even my "portable" "real" computer is terrible as, say,
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Same here, apparently it’s a major ADHD thing. I can take notes or I can pay attention and try to understand, but I can’t do both, you have to pick one (a calculus teacher in high school was very insistent that constant note taking for he
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
A person can take a shot every week. What’s a person supposed to do about a problem that’s probably tangled up in several major areas and would require large reforms across the economy? We can’t even get mandatory minimum paid leave or heal
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
The drug is more likely to work long-term. Diet & exercise, as a treatment plan, are distressingly ineffective. Well-studied problem. It makes more sense when you realize that something like sheer dieting/exercising willpower isn&#
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
It got rare enough that by some time in the '90s they stopped even using solid wood for trim and doors in mid-priced houses. Before the '60s or so, you'd see a lot of narrow-ring old growth flawless, knot-free stuff used in
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
It’s tricky. Buy 1970s or earlier and risk asbestos and lead issues (look how late asbestos was still used in a few things! It’s surprisingly late). Buy later than about 1985 and all the good old-growth wood was gone so it all sucks in diff
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
I learned the rules to and terminology of (American) football by playing football video games (mostly nfl2k1 on the Dreamcast). Similar story for ice hockey. What’s the video game to play to understand cricket?

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