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by trboyden 6y ago
I'll just leave this here... https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-... Take what you will from it, but if the purging of opposition political groups and mass control of media source
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by trboyden 6y ago
Sure, made 50k on consulting billable hours bonus in the manufacturing space. 10k over the year before. Company profits up 25% YoY. If you are willing to work for it, the work and money is out there.
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by trboyden 6y ago
Unfortunately that poses significant justice issues. If every city-state can impose their own form of justice, you would have an exponential increase of injustices where a legal act in one city-state could be illegal in another. While the c
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by trboyden 6y ago
The 33% solution. Add a group equal to 33% of representatives and senators to both congressional chambers that are filled via a jury-pool like system of common people with a term of one congressional session. Participants would earn equal p
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by trboyden 6y ago
Good point, except that was pilot error not outside interference. Plus planes aren't supposed to be flying near ski resorts or mountains in general.
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by trboyden 6y ago
Obviously they don't rely on just one type of system for low altitude altimeter measurements, because they just basically told you how someone could go out and broadcast interference in that spectrum and crash a bunch of planes. Common
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by trboyden 6y ago
Yet government space travel is dead, and private space travel (SpaceX) is booming. So there's that. Just because it doesn't happen on your timeline doesn't mean private is inferior to government. It means private is waiting f
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by trboyden 6y ago
I still have no idea why people don't buy printers by first looking at what refills cost. It is simply baffling. The only way to penalize manufacturers that practice this type of anti-consumerism is to stop buying their products, not c
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by trboyden 6y ago
If Java was the end all be all, people wouldn't keep trying to create cross-platform UI frameworks. The truth is Java never lived up to it's hype, Flash ate its lunch when it came to browser-launched applications, and given Oracle
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by trboyden 6y ago
HTML is not a UI platform. It is a language that provides structure and meaning to otherwise static content. The web browser is the equivalent of a WinForms or WPF application that interprets the HTML content and turns it into a visual pres
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by trboyden 6y ago
I guess I may be part of the exception. I had been handed so many terrible VB6 and VBA projects by that point, that I jumped into C# when it was released. Of course I also did a bunch of Java programming at the time as well, so the similari
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by trboyden 6y ago
For me, it is probably more the toolset and ease of deployment of C#-based apps that keep me using it, even for side projects. I love working with Python, but it is a pain to deploy once you get beyond console-based apps. You have be able t
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by trboyden 6y ago
No it is not. Inventory, for example, can have two basis values, taxable inventory, and fixed asset inventory value. One is what the IRS requires via GAAP reporting, and the other is used to secure lines of credit.
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by trboyden 6y ago
I always get a laugh reading the comments on a new Apple offering. This time - OMG! Mini! Until you go back and review the specs and style of the original iPhone SE which these new phones get their styling from. The original iPhone SE was a
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by trboyden 6y ago
That never was a goal of Microsoft. Their goal is to get Microsoft apps, technology, and development toolsets embedded everywhere, and to a large extent, they have already succeeded in that. Projects like .NET Core, SQL Server on Linux, Vis
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by trboyden 6y ago
Tell that to Canonical. That's how it installs out of the box. It's annoying to have to do extra configuration for something that has been the default for most Python developers for years.
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by trboyden 6y ago
So what exactly is the difference between those and the ones Amazon https://www.amazon.com/OnePlus-Buds-Wireless-Earbuds-Chargin... says I can get tomorrow for $79?
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by trboyden 6y ago
Taken to another level, why is HN showing articles from news sites at all, when it's own guidelines say if media would cover it, it's probably off topic?
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by trboyden 6y ago
Based on the trends in at least the US passenger industry, airlines seem to be moving more towards smaller planes and shorter hops. I don't think a new Concorde would have had any impact on that at all. If the airlines wanted a long-ra
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by trboyden 6y ago
Not very well. Watched a Google Meet meeting for the neighbor's Honor Society induction and the quality was horrible. Video kept freezing and audio cut in and out. Was probably only about a dozen attendees in the meeting room. Wasn&#x2
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by trboyden 6y ago
Barack Obama, an African American, who had eight years of American presidency, four of which with a super-majority that passed ObamaCare, and did nothing for the average African American during that time? Or even better, tens of thousands o
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by trboyden 6y ago
I found the blog post to be just another take on the micro-services vs monolithic application debate. Where micro-services = library and monolithic = framework. As a full-time coder I take a different approach - documentation is everything.
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by trboyden 6y ago
If I want to use an operating system based on Unix O/S with a fancy window system, I'll use Elementary OS and pocket the $600+ bucks, thanks. There is not a single Mac-only app that can't be replaced by a better app at free o
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by trboyden 6y ago
$2k for an i5? No thanks. I can max out a HP Spectre x360 with an i7, 16GB, 4K OLED touchscreen, and 2TB NVMe and come in under $1900. Plus its lighter, has better battery life, better cameras, and a better keyboard. Get it with just the 25
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by trboyden 6y ago
I use it for my data grids on https://pysyteline.boyden.us (Flask is the framework I used for that site).
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by trboyden 6y ago
Here is one of the first studies ( https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01248-1 ) on the relationship between lock-down policies and death rates. In the graph shown in the middle of the article, you can see there i
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by trboyden 6y ago
HTML/CSS is the web, so if you want to develop web apps, you have to learn it/use it. To enable any meaningful front-end interactivity, JavaScript is required as well. But with Microsoft Blazor ( https://dotnet.microsoft
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by trboyden 6y ago
There is a lack of evidence to support either assumption. There is anecdotal evidence that suggest it might work and plenty of examples where it was not done and there was no significant increase in Covid infections/hospitalizations (S
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by trboyden 6y ago
I actually thought this was a fairly well reasoned post rather than the expected hit piece we see so much of these days. If you listen to the politicians and certain medical experts, they keep spouting that testing is the only way out of th
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by trboyden 6y ago
Work/Life balance is probably the most difficult. Most of my pre-Covid after-work activities revolved around going out on group activities, restaurants, movies, and travel. All things we currently are unable to do. So I definitely find

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