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by usefulcat 3mo ago
I think "self promotion" is a better description than "seeking approval". IMO people who are seeking approval tend to not go out of their way to be assholes quite so often ("pedo guy" incident, for example).
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by usefulcat 3mo ago
Veritasium made an episode not long ago describing the design and manufacture of turbine blades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM
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by usefulcat 3mo ago
> Companies always want to charge as much as they can get away with. In any market where competition exists, companies compete against other companies for customers. Any company that doesn't (for whatever reason) maximize it's
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by usefulcat 3mo ago
So true. We have one older, rather large machine in a data center that's been up for.. (checks uptime): 963 days. It has IPMI but at some point something stopped working and now we have to physically go to the data center to restart it
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
Or possibly the downvoters don't know what The Onion is..
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
It’s true that the meanings of words can change over time. Whether or not that’s a good thing is another question entirely.
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
Not to defend him, but there are actually quite a lot of people who can’t or won’t grow up.
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
> zstd Yes, but also “damning with faint praise” immediately comes to mind
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
> free and open source ML What does that mean exactly? Like sure, you can get some freely available weights and run them on your own hardware, but where did those weights come from? Was the training process in any way "open", o
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
> both are better than the smart TVs I've used. I mean, ok, but that's still a pretty low bar. I used various Rokus for.. I dunno, must have been at least 10 years. Switched to the Apple TV last year because Roku keeps adding m
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
If the labor supply is flexible (which is the case being discussed here with foreign workers commuting to Switzerland), then increasing wages will tend to increase the number of potential workers, but it won’t create additional jobs. Meanin
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
Totally agree. I did exactly this in the recent primaries, and then got to vote again in a runoff. I think of it this way: in a state where one party is clearly dominant, most offices will end up being held by members of that party. That me
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
The solution is to merge more of his PRs on the condition that he takes at least partial responsibility for any resulting problems.
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
Yes, but it was most recently at the same level between 1939 and 1940, according to that graph. And total US GHG emissions are currently at about the same level as they were in 1988.
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
> I think there's some law that lets you stay on health insurance for a few months at least Yes, but often you will have to pay the full cost in order to do so, which will be difficult for many people after having lost their source
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
If Swiss population growth were entirely attributable to the children of existing Swiss residents, then this initiative would be pointless because it wouldn't change anything, and we would not be having this conversation. So yes, it ab
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
> doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys You mean like the time he committed to buying Twitter and then tried to back out of a legally binding contractual agreement to finalize the deal?
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
His talks are some of my favorites; he's a great speaker. Very engaging and has a great sense of humor, which he uses to great effect.
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
Is it cheaper per MW of generated power? I thought that the main reason use of gas has increased so much (for power generation) over the past 20-30 years is that gas became cheaper.
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
I am hopeful (not exactly optimistic, but hopeful) that increased sales of MacOS devices will warrant increased investment in MacOS by Apple.
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
Surprisingly, reading about something is very often not at all equivalent to actually doing it.
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
Maybe you have to be logged in to see that? Because I don't have a login and all it shows me is a bunch of "no data".
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
> it seems to scale well This seems hard to say without knowing how large it is. To me, it seems like a relatively small community, far smaller than HN anyway.
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
At the last game company I worked for (decades ago now) the pay was at best average, and crunch time lasted for at least several months each year, every year (title had an annual release schedule). AFAICT this was both expected and consider
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by usefulcat 4mo ago
This description absolutely checks out, even from ~30 years ago when I graduated. I worked on games for several years early on but quit after going through an EA spouse experience. In some ways it’s too bad, because the great thing about ga
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
> they will now just create a company in Singapore or Mongolia or another such place, which will then own the second home How will that help to avoid a tax on secondary residences? Are they somehow going to claim that these properties ar
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
Wouldn't that mean that they would then also pay NY income tax?
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
Good point, I missed that.
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
Well, you need to read the rest too: "While the tax seems large, experts say the city’s antiquated assessment and valuation system dramatically undervalues properties, reducing the burden. City valuations can often be 10% or less of th
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
For several years I walked to and from the office, about 1.5 miles each way. Typically in the morning I would listen to a podcast or audiobook, and on the way home I would often continue thinking about whatever I had been trying to figure o

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