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by zdragnar 11mo ago
My own college experience heavily soured me on both book stores and especially school run book stores. The markup was obscene and their buy back rates were worse. Half price books and a few other book stores lulled me back a few times, but
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
Properly rendered lard is indeed shelf stable for months, and won't mold or otherwise spoil. The meat is the concerning bit, and where you're most likely to pick up roundworms like trichinosis and other nasty things. Heck, I'
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
I have yet to visit a co-op that had cheaper than grocery store prices. Every single one focused on quality over cost savings.
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
We have such agencies over here as well. Most states have some sort of weights and measures agency that handles inaccurate price scanning complaints. I can't say how effective they are at remediating small figure issues, but no company
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
There's two things here that get overlooked. First, people asking for estimates know they aren't going to get everything they want, and they are trying to prioritize which features to put on a roadmap based on the effort-to-busine
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
I spent the first two years or so of my coding career writing PHP in notepad++ and only after that switched to an IDE. I rarely needed to consult the documentation on most of the weird quirks of the language because I'd memorized them.
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
> If I gave you a gun without a safety could you be the one to blame when it goes off because you weren’t careful enough? Absolutely. Many guns don't have safties. You don't load a round in the chamber unless you intend on usin
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
This is half the basis for the replication crisis, no? Shady papers come out and people cite them endlessly with no critical thought or verification. After all, their grant covers their thesis, not their thesis plus all of the theses they c
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
My mom's mother was so afraid of pork and trichinosis that, if you dropped a pork chop she had cooked onto the floor, it would shatter- that is how overcooked it would get (or so the family joke went). Also, most of the chickens she co
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
As critical as I am of LLM use, the nice thing about it here is your configs can be version controlled, and rolling back changes is pretty painless. I'd still want to go through any changes with a fine tooth comb to look for security i
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
You should do at least a bit of research before you basically accuse someone of being a liar and corporate shill for no more reason than it fits your generic worldview. F1 and F2 are commonly accepted terms for first generation and second g
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
CAFE standards have made that pretty hard. The trucks got bigger to hold more complex engine setups to boost mileage, coinciding with preferences shifting to super crew cabs because buying a new truck is basically the same price as buying a
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
I was confused myself, if only because when I saw Ganymede my first thought was the Eclipse release back in 2008. I know I'm young enough to be too young to complain about getting old, but I still feel like I'm getting old every s
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
I was just in a thread yesterday with someone who genuinely believed that we're only seeing the beginnings of what the current breed of AI will get us, and that it's going to be as transformative as the introduction of the interne
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
Not to mention the penalty of the browser having to re-execute the type checking every time the files aren't loaded from cache.
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
Eh, JavaScript wasn't the originally chosen name, it was LiveScript by Eich. I've never seen a justification for the name from anyone in the know, other than Eich's musing that Netscape wanted the "cool" factor. Tha
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
That's the dream at a big company for sure. The last mega tech company I worked for had the familiar trap of not knowing how to rate higher level engineers. Things basically turned into a popularity contest, with grading criteria like
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
ZIRP is gone, and so are the Good Times when any idiot could get money with nothing but a PowerPoint slide deck and some charisma. That doesn't mean investors have gotten smarter, they've just become more risk averse. Now, unless
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
Where you see exponential growth in capability and value, I see the early stages of logarithmic growth. A similar thing played out a bit with IoT and voice controlled systems like Alexa. They've got their places, but nobody needs or wa
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
What precisely about AI is transformative, compared to the internet? E-mail replaced so much of faxing, phoning and physical mail. Online shopping replaced going to stores and hoping they have what you want, and hoping it is in stock, and h
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
It'll apply to any business that does business in Wisconsin. For example: collecting sales tax on membership subscriptions, or hires remote workers who reside in WI.
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
This reminds me a bit of my Korean professor from college. Perhaps the most memorable thing from his class was when he explained the Korean style of writing essays was to not explain up front what you are going to cover but to "beat ar
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
ISPs and search sites are specifically exempted at the end of the assembly version of the bill. I haven't looked at the Senate version but I imagine it's in there too.
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
I am throwing out a wild guess here, but some services already block ranges of IP addresses on the basis that they have VPN servers running. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video all do something along these lines to protect geographically r
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
The wording of the bill is as follows: (c) A business entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the Internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such mater
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
Let's look at the original quote: > "Remember, if you flip a coin 200 times and it comes heads up exactly 100 times, the chances are the coin is actually unfair. You should expect to see something like 93 or 107 instead".
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
The payment is set up such that the interest is amortized over the life of the loan, so your earliest payments are almost all going to interest and the latest payments are mostly the principle. This looks like a standard 30 year loan. If 10
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
It would be significantly cheaper for my wife and I to have a catastrophic-coverage-only plan, but those are now illegal. Between premiums and deductibles, I think we will have to spend north of $30,000 next year before we break even and in
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by zdragnar 11mo ago
> But you could make the same argument for any single result Isn't that the point? The odds of getting the "most likely result" are lower than the odds of getting not the most likely result. Therefore, getting exactly 100&
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I don't know that Netflix had much of an option. Once the studios and networks realized how much money they were leaving on the table by not running their own exclusive streaming services, the licensing costs to Netflix blew up or simp

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