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by vondur 1y ago
California’s economy feels like it’s running on tech companies at this point. Any downturn in their hiring has really big effects on the California state budget.
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by vondur 1y ago
Ha. I remember him being called Bert “be home” Blyleven.
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by vondur 1y ago
I haven't seen his earlier post about Windows. Kinda funny. He's put quite a lot of effort into Omarchy now though.
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by vondur 1y ago
It's still a net loss of jobs. I'm certain the future will involve increasing automation to further reduce headcount. A McDonald's recently opened near me with no seating, and orders can only be placed through the app or at t
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by vondur 1y ago
Yes, I've seen this in rural America. Purchased some firewood at a random stand on the highway. Pick some up, leave $5 in the box. Really nice to see this sort of thing in action.
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by vondur 1y ago
There are vast parts of California that are pretty much empty. However, the lack of competition in broadband at the consumer level does suck.
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by vondur 1y ago
Well, they weren't exactly doing a bang up job with it.
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by vondur 1y ago
Pretty impressive. I doubt you'd find a comparably sized US city with zero traffic deaths in a year.
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by vondur 1y ago
I've heard good things about the Dutch system of healthcare and that it may be adoptable to the US. I'd totally agree that healthcare corporations become non profit like Kaiser here in the US. They aren't perfect, but they se
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by vondur 1y ago
Companies in the US generally offer health care plans which also add to their cost of doing business.
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by vondur 1y ago
I've heard some good things about Bazzite, which is a Fedora immutable based gaming distro. I'm on a vanilla Arch install with the Zen kernel and been too lazy to try something different.
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by vondur 1y ago
I brought my Starlink on a three week RV trip through the western U.S., and it was pretty impressive. I was surprised it worked well even in some wooded areas. I would’ve been pretty frustrated if it had stopped working.
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by vondur 1y ago
Ha, he was tripping over ice buckets at the Metallica shows back in 1986!
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by vondur 1y ago
Saw him live back in 1986 at the Long Beach Arena with Metallica opening. And I think I saw Sabbath at on OzzFest with Slayer. He was a great frontman and certainly lived a full life. We should all be so fortunate.
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by vondur 1y ago
Regarding #1, on mountain bikes, carbon handlebars don’t give any warning before breaking. I quit using them after seeing one that broke on a friend’s bike. That could have been catastrophic.
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by vondur 1y ago
That's too bad. Clear Linux was super optimized. I'd hope someone would continue doing the tweaks to the kernel that they did.
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by vondur 1y ago
It seems like it'd be pretty expensive to convert office buildings to apartments. I'd imagine there are a ton of building regulations that office buildings don't have to adhere to compared to an apartment.
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by vondur 1y ago
If you have a small battery and use it to add ventilation in the vehicle on hot days when parked would be cool.
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by vondur 1y ago
We’ve got some pretty big solar installations here in California, but there are environmental rules and groups that keep us from just tearing up huge sections of desert to put in panels.
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by vondur 1y ago
Secondhand smoke?
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by vondur 1y ago
Sure, but I’d imagine that a large portion of that is spent around Barcelona.
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by vondur 1y ago
Tourism makes up like 13% of the Spanish economy.
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by vondur 1y ago
Ha, this is California and it cost 92 million US dollars
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by vondur 1y ago
The homeless in the US that you see living in tents and underpasses etc. are the mentally ill, and the chronically drug addicted or a combination of both. Those people aren't going to be helped by building new housing. They need treatm
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by vondur 1y ago
We do replace faculty computers every 4 years if possible. However, we tend to pass the older computers down to other areas if they are still usable, which we are not able to do. We do have a lot of Mac's in the College. I'm actua
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by vondur 1y ago
This is a huge e-waste issue. I work as a Sysadmin in a large public university, and I've been spending the last year or so removing and replacing large amounts of computers that can no longer run a supported version of Windows. I just
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by vondur 1y ago
California is almost at the bottom of all K-12 education metrics. It's crime rate in the cities is atrocious. It's near the top in poverty rates in the US. Most of these "safety net" benefits will quickly be cut in the u
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by vondur 1y ago
I've read that back in the day chemists used to nearly bathe in this stuff. Now it's rarely used in instructional chem labs. Heck as an undergrad in the 90's we were using Potassium Dichromate as an oxidizer. I spilled some o
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by vondur 1y ago
I'm going to need some data support that. I would consider it the worst run state in the Union...
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by vondur 1y ago
Ha, we also use those designations in organic chemistry for designating chirality in molecules.

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