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by wharvle 3y ago
My in-laws bought two new—yes, new—ICE cars (some Chevy model, I think) for under $10k, total, not each, 12ish years ago. Car prices have gone totally bananas since then. I hate whatever’s happening with that.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Delivery is a thing and the price tag may sting but it’d take a shitload of it to pay the price difference between a truck and a sedan. Plus the cost of worse gas mileage, pricier insurance, higher property taxes, and so on.
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by wharvle 3y ago
There’ve been apps to use them as a second monitor to a Mac for some time, but as of a few years back, it’s a built-in feature. Last I checked it does require the iPad to be signed in to the same iCloud account as the user on the Mac, which
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by wharvle 3y ago
Not necessarily? Most of us don’t make most of our money through command of capital, so we aren’t capitalists in that sense. Far more are probably capitalists in the sense of liking capitalism and more-or-less promoting it, specifically, bu
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by wharvle 3y ago
Wireless keyboard and mouse, MacBook, 12.9" iPad, adjustable folding stands for both to put them around eye level. Gets you dual monitors (plus the iPad's better for use in an economy seat on an airplane, than a laptop). External
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yeah, same, it’s about ergonomics and tendencies over a population, though. Hard to make a book as small as a cell phone that is really readable (it’d probably have to be spiral-bound, for one thing, or have ultra-tiny print crammed on the
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by wharvle 3y ago
7:35 start time here. Worked 4-7 most nights, age 15 on. Only saw briefly saw the (low-in-the-sky) sun during a ~30 minute gap between those things, 5 days a week, for months on end (Winter). Took me years to get over a kind of situation-
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by wharvle 3y ago
Schools would work very differently if this were truly the primary reason they exist.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Schools in my area start elementary schools way too late for that, unless you're paying for pre-care and not using the bus. They do this so high school—and nb many high schoolers can get themselves to school in the morning, so parents
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by wharvle 3y ago
> If you're unhappy, you'll be be just as unhappy spending time with your family as you are spending time staring into a terminal. If this is coming from either Buddhist or Stoic traditions, both of those strongly emphasize
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by wharvle 3y ago
Lots of communities aren't served by rail, ship, or barge (or nowhere near enough capacity of those, or efficiently connected to the wrong places—how much raw iron ore or coal does a small town need?) so truck shipping's all they&
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by wharvle 3y ago
Getting dropped on, say, Dec 1st sets you back about 6 weeks on being able to start your job hunt. That stuff all but shuts down in the second half of December, by the time you might really have your search rolling, plus many fiscal years,
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by wharvle 3y ago
A great deal of highway spending is subsidizing truck shipping. Most of the damage done to highways comes from big trucks, and taxes on them don't come anywhere near paying for it. [EDIT] Incidentally, maybe we shouldn't subsidize
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by wharvle 3y ago
Seriously, the point of occupying one's time with most any activity is to avoid ruminating on this stuff. As expressed in the Internet-famous comic: https://imgur.com/gallery/d9KdAvH (It's the "Don&#
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by wharvle 3y ago
Most men, at any rate, wore a jacket almost everywhere (as in: suit jacket, sport coat, blazer) in the heyday of pulp fiction, when quite a few could make working-class wages pounding out words on a typewriter. What do those jackets have? B
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by wharvle 3y ago
At 5-10 books a year, there's also the "problem" that you've got more than a lifetime supply, just sticking to time-tested, very-likely-to-be-excellent classics. That's even true for relatively-modern genre fic an
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by wharvle 3y ago
Hand-me-down or used Windows laptops that were $300 to begin with [EDIT: when purchased new, I mean] don't tend to last a super long time. Maybe, if you're lucky. [EDIT] What I've seen break on mine and my wife's, back w
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by wharvle 3y ago
Most of the people I know who run Windows personally (not at/for work) either do it only because gaming's easiest/best there, or because it's easy to get free or extremely-cheap used Windows machines that'll hold
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by wharvle 3y ago
I wonder how many gamers now run both Windows and Linux. I bet it's a high percentage of Steam Deck owners. ~100% of Steamdeck owners run Linux (they have a Steam Deck), but some proportion of those, which I'm guessing is fairly
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by wharvle 3y ago
I'm... confused by the question? In the browser: a dozen or more things by Google: sheets, docs, gmail, keep, and so on. Jira, Asana, et c. Several graph or diagram-making apps. Notion. There are tons. Outside the browser: Everything t
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by wharvle 3y ago
Literary fiction, yes. That market's so fucked that the vast majority of literary magazines don't pay at all and you'll often get sneered at for asking about pay. Anyone trying to make any amount of money at writing writes
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by wharvle 3y ago
> * Reputation. It can just feel cool to say "Oh yeah I have a book published by Tor" (or whatever). This one is pretty weak for me. Trad publishers don't hold that much special prestige anymore. I think it's a valida
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by wharvle 3y ago
But there are tons of web apps. We don't lack for examples.
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by wharvle 3y ago
I was issued a Lenovo Thinkpad at work, recently, for the first time in more than a decade. "Sure, let's see. I used to own a(n IBM) Thinkpad back in the day—sure I ran Gentoo on it, but it was nice enough hardware. I've used
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by wharvle 3y ago
> It's not outside the realm of possibility for web apps to have as good of an experience as binary apps for most use cases. But Apple has no motivation to make "the good stuff" easily available to web developers. How’s Ap
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by wharvle 3y ago
Not impossible, but for the case of Beavis and Butthead, you’d need tight control over the start/stop timing, the ability to choose a specific version of the video (can’t have some newer one with extra stuff added or some cut or whatev
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yeah, I’m not sure how often these tools will really help me with the things that end up destroying my time when programming, which are stuff like: 1) Shit’s broken. Officially supported thing kinda isn’t and should be regarded as alpha-q
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by wharvle 3y ago
That’s how it’s been released, but that’s a huge part of the show.
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by wharvle 3y ago
One of these major “no closing tags” templating languages had been chosen for a Rails project I once onboarded to. I wanna say it was Slim, but it may have been another. It was dog slow and it had some really stupid api you had to use if
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by wharvle 3y ago
WKRP, Beavis and Butthead (obviously), even more-recent shows like Skins (UK) have had this problem. One of the major causes of the best version of certain things only being available for those sailing the high seas.

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