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by wharvle 3y ago
I've run the numbers on "average likelihood of a given student being present during any kind of shooting on school grounds—the overwhelming majority of which aren't the kind of shooting one thinks of when one sees the term
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by wharvle 3y ago
One observation about private v. public schools: Private schools, perhaps counterintuitively, have greater ability to enforce rules that some parents dislike, than public schools. They can organize around and enforce a general culture in
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by wharvle 3y ago
To be clear, it's bullshit these are even remotely a real thing we have to worry about in a rich OECD state. ... to be more clear, if you run the numbers, they're still kinda not . Our reaction(s) to them aren't rational (
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by wharvle 3y ago
The fear of harm from shooter drills that the parent expressed is, sadly, not overblown. That we have so many school shootings is shameful. That we've decided a good reaction to them is to traumatize huge numbers of students (and sta
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by wharvle 3y ago
School shootings come up a lot in these kinds of conversations. Of course you can run the numbers and realize this plainly falls way below the level at which anyone should be using that use-case as a justification for anything. (nb. the vas
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by wharvle 3y ago
I don't understand your concern. Guaranteed (if you control the clients, for ordinary values of "guaranteed", not, like, mathematically-rigorous ones) deletion is a handy feature if you need to be able to comply with regulati
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by wharvle 3y ago
This right here. Parents ultimately run schools, and a surprising proportion of them get really pissy if their kids can't have phones in class. Schools aren't letting kids have phones because they want to. My wife used to teac
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by wharvle 3y ago
It's a handy feature to have in the protocol if you're operating detached networks using it, and can control all the clients. If you're using it as internal infrastructure. Which, personally, is the only way I've ever be
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by wharvle 3y ago
Being written in Go may have made development of the reference client fast (that was the creators' contention when I asked, anyway) but killed its growth as a standard. Inability to have a portable lib-ipfs that could quickly, easily,
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by wharvle 3y ago
> That is a loto f hand waving there. Or just a description of my experience with both. Incidentally, the switch pro controllers are excellent, among the best I’ve used, period. > For the steam deck, set family view, parental controls
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by wharvle 3y ago
I can’t plug the Steam Deck into my TV, pop in a cartridge, and start playing with four players on excellent controllers, all with almost zero screwing-about. And have that all keep working for years with no intervention on my part. And my
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by wharvle 3y ago
They expect the kind of incoming skill an arts program does. Music or what have you. But they don’t filter applicants the same way, which is kinda weird.
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by wharvle 3y ago
I could have bought, say, a Tesla with cash for just what our three kids cost in medical expenses for their first five years of life. And ours weren’t that expensive. I could take a $4k trip to Japan every year for the next 20 years and not
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yeah, US model is that we prefer independent living for seniors as long as possible, then living with family, and only then assisted living (not that it always goes that way, but that tends to be the ideal) at which point not enough seniors
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by wharvle 3y ago
Well, yes (I also use Apple Pay when it’s available—best overall experience by a long shot) but it’s still quite fast and often involves no typing or copy-pasting.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Well, I was maybe a little unfair because the competitors have at least partially “caught up”, but at one point, of Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Little Caesars, Godfather’s, plus a couple online pizza store SaaS used by smaller local chains, Domino
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by wharvle 3y ago
"Computers are in fact very fast" and "certain programs do in fact demonstrate that" and "the real-world experience of using computers for most people is that performance is largely treading water or going backw
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by wharvle 3y ago
For all the treatment of markets as "natural" I've noticed the particular kind of ethics you mention are very much not natural. Two places this is evident: 1) It is very, very common for small business owners to be "un
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by wharvle 3y ago
I don't recall ever seeing or hearing "compute" used as anything but a verb until several years into the rise of the "cloud".
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by wharvle 3y ago
> With our wallet, we can only choose between those alternatives which are offered. In many cases, we can only choose between bad options. One weird thing markets do is make unusual alternatives far more expensive than the difference in
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by wharvle 3y ago
They do a lot of interrupting the buyer with up-sell attempts. I'd have singled them out as notably bad , among fast food pizza chains, actually.
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by wharvle 3y ago
That, I don’t, but I only have those on work accounts anyway. None of my work stuff is set up to be as nice as my personal stuff, but that’s mostly outside my control. Oh, wait: Steam has them I guess. Every so often (once every few months?
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by wharvle 3y ago
That whole process in the top level comment is much faster, in practice, on my phone. Everything auto-fills (unless a site manages to fuck up their forms). I don’t typically have to type or manually copy anything, including 2fa tokens. Wait
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by wharvle 3y ago
And in French, “i” is pronounced as English “e”, when naming the letter. And many adjectives of this sort follow the noun in French—this pattern may be familiar to English speakers from the names of French foods, e.g. “beef bourguignon”, or
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by wharvle 3y ago
No joke: I wouldn’t have a programming career if remembering syntax were a requirement.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Can confirm, filed some “R&D” hours at a company some years back that did software development but nothing I’d call “R&D”. They straight-up told us it was a requirement for some tax benefit or other. Like they did have us do it only
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by wharvle 3y ago
Basically all of that's a rounding error compared to commercial traffic (heavy trucks). They're heavily subsidized by non-commercial drivers, and a Tesla being 20% heavier than a Mustang (or whatever) isn't really making a bi
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by wharvle 3y ago
Last I heard (admittedly, like 9 months ago) multiple dealerships were willing to buy our 2015 model year Honda Odyssey for more than we paid for it, when we bought it used in 2019. With like 90k more miles on it or something. And of course
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by wharvle 3y ago
I once bought whatever jamb saw they had available at one of the big box stores. It was basically unusable. Fundamentally flawed design. There's no possible way anyone tried it and went "yes, this is fit for purpose". Worse,
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by wharvle 3y ago
Make $/inch-of-floor-space prominent and easy to compare in flight listings and you might see something different happen.

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