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by zdragnar 9mo ago
For addicts, the drug is the last thing they cut back on when money is tight.
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
There's gotta be more to it than that. I've got a pair of dress shoes I wear maybe thee times a year at most, and I've had them for somewhere between ten and fifteen years, perhaps longer. The soles (rubber because winter) ar
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
You may also want to consider Cosmic. PopOS has consistently been the distro that "just works" for me, though I don't use it much as I prefer to tinker more. That said, they're doing a lot of good work making Cosmic as a
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
Yes, and that was years after the ACA took full effect and the rates did not decrease. Most people get insurance through their employer, and most employer plans (at medium to large companies) are self funded by the company and merely admini
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
Ostensibly, the Affordable Care Act was supposed to reduce the average family's premiums by $2,500 a year. When that didn't happen, the story changed to that number being how much more premiums would have risen. Insurance premiums
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
That's what I thought when I bought a Dell XPS. Probably the worst laptop I've owned. There's lots of good options that come with windows preinstalled.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Most metro areas in the Midwest, I think. Certainly the ones near me, at least.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
... And the people at the top are only asking for it because it sounds really good to investors and shareholders. "Powered by AI" sounds way fancier and harder to replace than "power by simple string searches and other heuris
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
This was a problem at my last job. Boss kept suggesting shoving AI into features, and I kept pointing out we could make the features better with less effort using simple heuristics in a few lines of code, and skip adding AI altogether. So m
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
And here I am, still writing sprocs for all of our business logic...
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Lag as a verb does imply following behind, but it can also be a noun, such as in "a time lag". Adding behind after lag as a verb is more of a "because it sounds good", perhaps as a subconscious way to emphasize the verb,
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
They are almost certainly attempting to shut down communications due to the ongoing anti government protests.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Yeah, those lines are for triage, not specialty care. It's nice when you've got an infant and are a new parent and everything is terrifying, or a fever and want to know if it is bad enough to warrant going in somewhere.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
If you don't need to be physically seen to make a determination, most hospitals and networks operate phone lines where you can speak with a nurse who will triage symptoms and either recommend home remedies or an appointment as needed.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Not every human visits to buy either. The real signal is conversions. If the percentage of people who visit and then buy / sign up remains constant, while traffic goes down, you can conclude LLMs are part of the cause. OTOH if traffic
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
The real question is, have your actual qualified leads decreased? So much traffic is bogus or looking for something adjacent to what they land on that I'm not entirely convinced AI is at fault here. It very well could be, but I'd
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
This is what gets me... Even at companies with relatively small engineering teams compared to company size, actually getting coherent requirements and buy-in from every stakeholder on a single direction was enough work that we didn't r
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
FOMO. https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/ai-wall-street-big-tech Have we forgotten this? It'll find its niche, but it isn't yet a truly transformative one.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Well, there's the whole atkins and keto fads...
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
The very first line of your comment: > PSA: If a probiotic is on the shelf, not in a cooler, it's probably not worth buying. is exactly what I was responding to, along with your one word response "Yes" to that applying equ
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
There's a difference between "choosing one over the other" and the original claim of shelf stabilized probiotics being not worth buying. On a few occasions when my dog has gotten sick, or needed antibiotics, shelf stabilized
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
The Internet almost universally disagrees, based on a quick search: https://seed.com/cultured/probiotics-refrigeration-storage-g...
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
The models with the new battery are preorder only, and with a price tag of $35k. The tech needs to go to another company that can produce something more people are able and willing to buy, and that's going to take a few years before it
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
That's not a virtuous cycle, that's inflation. Assuming the local versus offshore good is a perfect substitute, that means that the value has not changed. Paying more for the local good means your money is worth less, as it buys l
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
It isn't the highest paying path in life, but this is what I chose as well. Working for small companies with good people is infinitely better than working at massive companies with decent people. No matter how many good intentions ther
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
You've literally described most state legislators and federal Congress. The Affordable Care Act was 906 pages long (nevermind the accompanying 11,000 some odd pages of regulations typically quoted). You can bet very few Congress critte
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
> The path behind easy only leads to the lowest common denominator. The real artists, fighters, makers—they stick with a truth as old as time itself: The suck is why we’re here, and only those who overcome it themselves will reap all the
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
What Americans call chips (potato or corn) the UK typically calls crisps.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
You'd think Machado winning the Nobel peace prize would be enough for people to not question the popularity of Maduro, but here we are, random keyboard warriors defending dictators nonstop.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
I don't think anyone is really too concerned about DDT harming the soil itself. DDT, like organic mercury compounds, bioaccumulates up the food chain. Contaminated soil is sequestered to prevent it from contaminating insects and animal

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