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by usefulcat 6mo ago
More likely you’ll return to an industry utterly swamped in technical debt.
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
> a single president It's a lot more than "a single president". It's the two thirds of American voters who either voted for him or couldn't be bothered to vote against him, even after having seen how he behaved i
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
I love the music on defcon but could really do without the sporadic interruptions. At first it was ok but gets old after a while.
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
Agree about the lyrics. Phillip Glass is one of my favorites for flowing. His style usually involves a lot of repetition, which I find meditative.
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
Reducing the frequency of mail delivery would have a much larger impact, since most of fuel is probably consumed by last mile delivery. Delivering less mail each day doesn't really make much difference if the mail carrier still has to
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by usefulcat 6mo ago
> He's not going to be up for re-election anyway I would not assume that he won't try to run again, nor would I assume that his party would not support it if he did. Though I do agree with the rest of what you wrote.
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
> the price of oil has gone up considerably (that may have been an actual objective) Even Trump isn't that dumb. There's a reason he dialed the tariffs back so much; price hikes lose elections. If there's one highly visibl
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
> 3) move the copy to it's original location Copy and edit do, but move (aka rename) generally does not, and that is the part that is problematic. I don't think the described sequence of operations is all that unusual. Not the
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
I know of a dentist named Dr. Payne.
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
> a populist demagogue who was promoted by russia American voters witnessed this demagogue incite a riot in an attempt to steal an election, and after that 2/3 of them still couldn't be bothered to vote against him. As an Ameri
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
Oh, I agree. I never said unchecked inflation was at all desirable or even ok. My point was that local and state governments do need your tax dollars, in the sense that that is literally their income. But for the federal government it&#x2
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
The federal government can basically print money. The only reason they "need" your tax money is to limit inflation.
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
The price of oil isn't just about the "cost of gas at the pump". It's about how much it costs to transport anything . There aren't many products that don't need to be transported or that don't depend at l
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
Maybe some of them don't remain employed for very long.
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
If they're living in NK then maybe their alternatives for making a living are mostly much worse than this?
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
In that example it would be more common to describe the watch as a "fake Rolex", for the reason you give (it's a real watch).
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
He said "holding on to it any longer benefits nobody", implicitly including himself. He may believe that it's to his advantage for the patent to be more widely used. Which makes sense--I don't doubt that he is a subject
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
It may be a bit uncommon, but it's not at all new. For example, on a Linux system I have, there are several files in /usr/bin that use hard links to refer to the same file (inode) by different names: bunzip2 / bzcat &#x2
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
> There is a reason why one can't pay off a credit card with another credit card. Isn't that exactly what a credit card balance transfer is? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_balance_transfer
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
There's no such thing as a hiring process that avoids that problem 100% of the time. After all, most people will be on their best behavior during an interview, and even a lengthy interview process is a very short period of time compare
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
Bzip is slower than zstd and doesn’t compress as well as xz. There’s no place for it.
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
That may well be true if you need to be persuaded to exercise and eat right. OTOH, if you don't need to be persuaded and just want information on how best to go about doing it, then I think it makes little difference where the informat
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
I would, and have. I disagree that I shouldn't expect a new laptop to still be useful (not perfect, not great, just useful ) after only five years. If it's not even useful after such a short time, then I question whether it was
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
I don't doubt that 8GB is enough for most uses today . But is it closer to "more than enough" or "just barely enough"? Seems unlikely to be the former at a price point this low. Five years from now, I have no doubt
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
// call foo() one day from now: sleep(86400); foo();
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
If there wasn't a need for this then I might agree with you, but there is a need and that's the much bigger problem here.
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
I had the same thought, but really I think a lot of it is just spectacle for his more gullible followers. I mean, FFS--we have a nominally Republican candidate who campaigned on raising taxes and was elected anyway! You'd have to be
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by usefulcat 7mo ago
Agreed 1000%. But that can be a lot of work; creating a good set of tests is nearly as much or often even more effort than implementing the thing being tested. When LLMs can assist with writing useful tests before having seen any implementa
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
It’s also great for when you have a lot of data on local storage, and a lot of different processes that need to access the same subset of that data concurrently. Without mmap, every process ends up caching its own private copy of that data
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
Are you really asking whether corporations can be sued?

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