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by wharvle 3y ago
> I bought her a $1500 computer so she can learn about emails, and she hocked it for $300 because she was short for cash one day. You are so concerned about respecting agency, but then this also? Like this is so at-odds I’m not entirely
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by wharvle 3y ago
I think it’s kinda true that poverty is psychologically sustained in the US, if we allow that making very cold choices (let mom die some years sooner and in worse conditions; let a son or cousin rot in jail rather than paying for expensive
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by wharvle 3y ago
A few versions back, iOS started sometimes not finding my searches in settings at all . Like I’ll search the full word “passwords”, pausing after each letter, and not get the entry titled “passwords” in my results the whole time. Back out,
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by wharvle 3y ago
That’s the real nail in the coffin for the argument. You don’t need to pick apart all the specific things wrong with it to tell it’s trash, because it’s easy to see that you can use it to “prove” all kinds of arbitrary bullshit. It’s clearl
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by wharvle 3y ago
Best available restoration, legal or otherwise, is 4k77 / 4k80 /4k83 (4k + the year of the film’s release). A bunch of absolute lunatics acquired multiple 35mm prints of each movie in its original form (the Star Wars text crawl is
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by wharvle 3y ago
The original dvd release was fine. It was every release after the second movie that “fixed” the first by making its color grading as smash-you-in-the-face green as the sequels (except the newest 4k I’m aware of, which put it back to somet
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by wharvle 3y ago
> So I imagine all these AI upscaled film weren’t done for our benefit but to save streamers a bit of bandwidth. You may be onto something here. A 2-hour 4k movie that’s already smooth and blobby encodes down to 10GB or so and doesn’t lo
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by wharvle 3y ago
I must have bounced off a half-dozen books for OOP and OO languages that were all like “Cat inherits from Animal…” before finally realizing (while reading OO code, not looking at a book) it’s just goddamn structs with some sugar and automag
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by wharvle 3y ago
Every time we get better at things like this, all the power tends to stay with organizations, and individual people are lucky if they get anything out of it. Amazon, Wal-Mart, MacDonalds, giant banks, insurers, et c., analyze their competit
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by wharvle 3y ago
> Yes, my Apple devices are the first where I felt AI was integrated for something actually useful. I can just select and copy text in pictures as if it was the most normal thing. I can search pictures based on their content, again inclu
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by wharvle 3y ago
1) The costs are heavily front-loaded. This makes the opportunity cost enormous . 2) I think we paid about $10k per birth, total. That’s not nothing. 3) Health insurance goes up. Kids are cheap but it’s still a couple thousands more per ye
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by wharvle 3y ago
Some absolutely see how full their schedules are gonna be with one, give some consideration to what that’ll look like with two, older and at different ages, and stop at fewer than they might have if they hadn’t thought about that.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Gotta be San Francisco rates, or a very fancy place. Nicer daycares (usually Montessori schools that also take kids under a year) in our US city are around $900-$1200/m. Less-nice, $700-900.
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by wharvle 3y ago
We’ve become far more efficient.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Resistive electric? I’m with you, I truly would just go for my own propane supply before going back to that crap. But you can get propane conversion kits for natural gas ranges, no need to get the camping stove. I haven’t had a chance to tr
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by wharvle 3y ago
Induction’s still pricey, too. The low end of gas ranges is low-priced, indeed. And ranges (can) last a long time, so old-school electric is gonna be the “normal” electric range for many years yet, I expect. Just checked Lowes. Cheapest ind
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by wharvle 3y ago
I can’t even cook scrambled eggs well on resistive electric. I mean, I can , but they won’t come out as good and there’s a much higher likelihood I’ll ruin them. Delicate sauces? Getting a custard to come together just right? Maybe some pe
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by wharvle 3y ago
Foreign keys are wholly optional if you’re the kind of person who thinks it’d be cool to add “manually repair millions of rows” and/or “lose half a day of data; cry” to the todo list for a 3AM emergency deployment rollback.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Last time we bought a house, we did basically everything on our phones, including tapping our way through the closing paperwork on one of these platforms. Easiest time by far—we’d used them for parts of other house purchases, but had never
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by wharvle 3y ago
> Xi has been instructing his military to "be ready by 2027" to invade Taiwan, according to U.S. intelligence. Lines up with what I’ve read elsewhere, regarding that span of 3-5 years featuring an unusual minimum in US naval ca
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by wharvle 3y ago
All the way back in ‘03, in two college towns I’m aware of, it was significantly cheaper to get a 12-month lease on a 1-bedroom or studio apartment within a 5-minute walk from campus than to live in the dorms, even without a roomate (whic
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by wharvle 3y ago
I forgot Win7 had a theme other than the "classic" one, so was briefly taken aback when I clicked the link and saw the screenshots. Classic theme Win7 is peak Windows, aside from the installation footprint being incredibly bloat
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by wharvle 3y ago
My experience has been that the documentation value of a good test suite is its primary value, by a mile. It’s documentation a machine can validate, which is the best kind of documentation. (Static types are documentation a machine can va
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yes, but that’s the same problem as uninhabited “frontier” except less bad . Nobody’s taking advantage of it, regardless. Therefore…
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by wharvle 3y ago
There are tons of awesome 3k sqft houses for under $300k—plus smaller, cheaper ones—all over the US. They’re in shrinking rural towns and small cities. The schools are bad and there’s no economy to speak of. … but they’re better than some i
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by wharvle 3y ago
To the extent people were bothered by the change, I think it was mostly because the blue check is primarily a benefit to Twitter to make it easier to spot people impersonating folks who are worth impersonating. Making it pay-to-play defea
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by wharvle 3y ago
I dunno. Weird that he said it like it was going to happen, then, instead of saying he wouldn’t let it die. But he says a lot of weird stuff, so maybe this is one of those cases where we’re supposed to assume he’s just saying gibberish th
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by wharvle 3y ago
Musk said a couple weeks back that the loss of advertisers will “kill” Twitter, but it’s ok because “the world will judge them” (the advertisers) But maybe he was joking. Sure didn’t seem to be, but who knows. Or he’s wrong.
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by wharvle 3y ago
They’re way more useful in languages without static typing, where it’s easier to write or edit-in stupid bugs and not notice until the code runs. They’re not not useful in statically typed languages, just far less so.
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by wharvle 3y ago
I know a lot of teachers, who’ve been teaching for quite a while. “Each class knows less than the one before, over more than a decade” and “yeah, obviously it’s the phones, they’re a constant problem” are what you’ll hear from all of them i

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