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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
I've heard that some universities set aside $5-10 million whenever they grant someone tenure. It's a fiscally prudent accounting measure. And it's also a measure of how valuable the contract can be. (Of course one still needs
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
And a number of restaurants that might as well be diners, but they're just a tad fancier. I'm thinking of the Chatterbox in Ocean City, NJ, for instance. Grace Kelly used to be a waitress.
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
The Costco dogs are bigger too than the hot dogs from that era. Much bigger.
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
Travel and vacation were much rarer. Many jobs gave only 2 weeks a year of vacation. Many jobs didn't include travel. That's changed with the invention of cheap airlines. Alas, some like SWA have changed their business model.
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
Animals do these things. Bears eat berries and then poop out the seeds, complete with fertilizer. It happens up and down the food chain.
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
Exactly. Asia comes to mind. Even its best song wasn't so great.
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
Is "explodes" really the right verb if this headline has been up here for an hour and no one has anything to say? Am I really the first?
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
Hetzner. Vultr.
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
It's tough to work with these publicly traded companies. They need to boost prices to show revenue growth. At some point, they become a bad deal. I've already migrated from DO. Not because of service or quality, but solely because
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
Yup. This way, the people pay for the air conditioning themselves and they probably don't even notice the extra cost.
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
I've gotten my email routed to spam even though it never left the Google cloud. They don't say, "Gosh, this is coming from inside the house. Therefore it's trustworthy." Nope. The push legit mail from other Google h
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
Citation please.
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
> tech jobs that come with relocation support for foreign candidates. So this is only measuring people who live outside the US and want to take jobs in the US?
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
Crontab?
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by xhkkffbf 6mo ago
Yup. Some "teens" can riding down my street with a pellet gun shooting at the cars. They ended up breaking 3 to 5 windows. It probably cost us collectively $3000++. The only problem with the license plate readers is that the &quot
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
Do the servers really require 1.5gb? I've always enjoyed using super cheap instances with just 0.5gb of RAM at places like Vultr. I guess the new version won't handle those chores. RAM is expensive. Didn't they get the memo&#
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
And it's worse than that. In order to "factor" 15=3x5, they designed the circuit knowing that the factors were three and five. In other words, they just validated it. And that's something you can do with a regular CPU.
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
Oh yes, it's the evil publishers and book reviewers who are killing the business. Not the pirates like the people who post these archive links.
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
To be fair, many ancient civilizations played ball games. The Pre-Columbian civilizations in Latin America built stadia for ball games. So maybe the ancient Greeks had an effect too.
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
Yup. I know too many people who have a default message when asked for relationship advice: oh, my, the other person is terrible and you should break up. It's an easy default and it causes so many problems.
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
Sweet. Some copyright infringement to start things off.
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
And this is often taxed at capital gains rates which can be lower.
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
> human time Maybe they just need to rewrite the prompt to say something like, "You want to get good at selling to humans. Money makes the world go around. It pays for the electricity you keep chugging. So quit being an effete twit
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
I have one friend who likes to gamble. I've tried the old math argument with him and he dismisses it out-of-hand. He says that, yes, he knows it's a negative sum game but sometimes he wins and that makes it worth it. Then he says,
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
While I'm also a bit skeptical, I think some formalism could really simplify everything. The programming world has lots of words that mean close to the same thing (subroutine, method, function, etc. ). Why not choose one and stick to i
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by xhkkffbf 7mo ago
One or two students don't make a difference. But if a number of people lie, then that dilutes the experience of the legit students. So it's not just as simple as you make it sound. Here's an extreme example. One boy I know we
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
Uh. Most of us will spend our whole lives trying to earn money but never make it to being billionaires. So are you saying it's rational to disregard the legal system and steal? The irony is rich here. Country X is bad for enforcing its
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
No. If you're "trying to X legally", that means you don't just do X anyway no matter what the legal system says. Next you'll claim that robbers are trying to earn a living legally".
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
That's a bit ironic. If all of the undocumented people in the US spent this much time trying to emigrate legally, the US wouldn't need ICE and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
It's not so easy to do. You can't just daydream about it. A friend of mine spent 18 months just with the paperwork. He's now making half of what he might make at home, but he's happy. The people are definitely friendly a

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