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by usefulcat 5mo ago
I agree, and that's part of the point. "Free money glitch" does not sound like a valid description of any lottery I've ever heard of. There's a reason (several, probably) why you don't actually see cases of pol
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
You're making a big mistake by completely failing to account for the inherent (not to mention quite large) uncertainties in this kind of situation. A priori, it's not "40 days in jail == $800k payday", it's "so
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
Sounds like a glaringly obvious conflict of interest?
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
You mean the same electorate that elected a nominally Republican candidate who campaigned on raising taxes, and then proceeded to do exactly that?
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
> It costs him little to nothing to say, That all depends on how much he values his credibility, I think.. But to be fair, for someone as good at self promotion as he is, I can believe that the value of the hype could be greater than the
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
Is it really that difficult to believe that these residents—many of whom are living out in the country by choice—really just don’t want this kind of development near them? And that they have taken action of their own volition? I laughed out
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
> Experience is so so valuable right now. I think traditional coding experience will be a lot more valuable in 5-10 years, given the apparent inverse relationship between that and LLM usage, and the number of people who seem to already b
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
> Unless you have some theory that correlates the two I guess you meant something more like "shows a causal relationship"? Because they're already correlated, which I thought was the point..
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
I don't recall the source, but I don't believe most (any?) c++ compilers implement compile-time code evaluation by compiling and running code. For one thing they are required to disallow all undefined behavior for compile time exe
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
I mostly use C++ at work, but I love ruby for its expressiveness and use it all the time for small to medium sized scripts where performance doesn't really matter. However I've definitely noticed that the larger a ruby program get
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
auto_ptr is not used in the example that uses sort(), so "on the same page" is doing a bit of lifting here. He's using auto_ptr to demonstrate RAII, which is fine. I would assume that the use of auto_ptr indicates that the ex
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
Look at the chart of their stock price over the past couple of months. There was a huge run that started literally just over a week ago. Even after this 20% drop, the price today is only slightly below where it was before that run. Their st
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
> Cloudflare is paying out terminated employees thru the end of 2026 That's great that they're doing that, but it's absolutely not guaranteed, either in this particular case (prior to this announcement, i.e. when these peo
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
The price is increasing by 20% in Japan and 11% in the US, so the price increase in Japan is nearly double the increase in the US.
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
He's notoriously unpredictable. I would agree that it's more obvious now, but I think it was still quite obvious in his first term, especially after inciting a riot at the Capitol. Given the rashness that he displayed prior to his
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
I do agree that it’s obvious in the way that you describe. But I still think it’s a point worth making—that it could apply to anyone. Because I don’t think that thought is likely to occur to a lot of people, regardless of their particular b
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
Hope they don't find out how much is lost naturally to evaporation each year..
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by usefulcat 5mo ago
I don't see how this is in any way preferable to having an ordinary default constructor that does the same thing: // There are a few ways to let API callers bring their own // memory, as they would in a n
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
Is he important enough to get a presidential pardon? That's how you know whether he's a "little guy". To be fair, that bar is quite a bit lower these days, but still..
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
> And because local property taxes are a major funding source for schools, those are also the schools I'd expect to spend more because they have more. It depends on the state. In Texas, property taxes from wealthier districts are re
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
Agree about lowercase t. I was surprised the lowercase l didn't look more like xx x x x xx
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
> insurance doesn’t cover over the counter medications It depends on the insurance. I have pretty crap insurance and didn't expect them to cover a prescription for Omeprazole (aka Prilosec) since it's available OTC, but to my s
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
If you are an owner of rental houses, I would think that it's in your interest to be able to build ADUs on those properties. Even if everyone does it and prices go down a bit you're still making a lot more per property than you we
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
Do you have a source for the claim that the population of Austin has decreased recently?
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
I've had the same phone for over 6 years now (iPhone 11). It's a bit slower now, but I suspect that's more to do with software changes than anything else. In particular the battery is still in pretty good shape.
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
Right out of college, one of my first job offers was to work on the compiler for the computer for the Space Shuttle . Apparently because I had once taken a compiler course. Even young, naive, optimistic me thought to question the wisdom o
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
If you want to prosecute someone who has previously been pardoned, then you'll have to figure out how to get the courts (that is, the people who would be doing the actual prosecuting) to ignore some of the highest rules by which they
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
In the US, quality of health care is not really a problem. The problem is that the cost is too high, and also availability (in part because of the cost).
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
> Frankly, dependency cooldowns work by free-riding on the pain and suffering of others. I suspect there are some reasonable points to be made here, but frankly, I pretty much stopped reading after that. Way too simple minded.
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
I'd say SQLite is one good example: https://sqlite.org/chronology.html Regular releases for over a quarter of a century now, and it's renowned for its reliability.

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