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721.
by zdragnar 1y ago
Interest and repayment of the debt happens in the future. Though the government does sell bonds to individuals and organizations, much of the financing comes from the federal reserve.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
To the extent that the government runs on debt, that's something of a given.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
America cannot possibly win the space race again, because it has already been won. The first to get there has already happened. The idea that we need to land on the moon once a generation just to say that we are as good at landing on the mo
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Every time I've worked somewhere without one, we've wanted it and wasted more developer hours than the cost of having it trying to reproduce issues while working around the differences in the environments.
725.
by zdragnar 1y ago
Do they ask every single customer if dairy is okay? Because that was the original point... not that the ice cream shop also offered non-dairy versions.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Some parents seem to perpetually live on the verge of an existential crisis for fear that they might do or not do something that will forever scar or harm their child.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Your thermostat is in a far less likely place to be overloaded with CO should the alarms start going off, though. If the thermostat is gone, you have to physically go to the furnace itself or shut off power at the circuit breaker. Freezing
728.
by zdragnar 1y ago
Ostensibly, yes, but it was mostly hacked together with Perl: https://xkcd.com/224/
729.
by zdragnar 1y ago
Aeropress has much more in common with espresso than cold brew or French press, as the immersion step doesn't last very long (based on how it was made for me). In fact, cold press is pretty much the only outlier here. Caffeine is highl
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I found the same thing with aeropress. I can drink coffee all day, and have the occasional Americano no problem, but twice had a shot from an aeropress over ice and it gave me awful anxiety attacks both times. Interestingly, cold brew makes
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Communities used to be smaller, even in big cities, so the number of scammers you encountered was fewer. Now that long distance calls are free, the Internet connects you to everyone else on it, and paperwork is digitalized across entire pop
732.
by zdragnar 1y ago
There's nothing unfortunate about it, because you don't have perfect information. There's plenty of ways for traffic to behave unexpectedly for reasons that are out of their control (deer running into road, tire blows out, et
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Plenty of things are illegal for no reason other than they might cause harm. Speed limit laws on roads, fire hazard regulations in buildings, negligent discharge of a firearm, etc They tend to civil, rather than criminal, offenses, at least
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Higher cyclomatic complexity requires more lines (barring bad code style like writing an entire program on a single line). The inverse is not always true, but often is.
735.
by zdragnar 1y ago
My limited experience is that it's a fair bit harder to do a good job of reviewing PRs with tailwind versus CSS. So many classes tend to blur together in the markup. Might just be me, but I'd rather just see clean(er) markup and s
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by zdragnar 1y ago
If we're going to be pedantic about it, his name hasn't changed, so really he should be shrinking proportionally rather than growing over time
737.
by zdragnar 1y ago
Odds are pretty good that you've got more value in what you have on you than you'd have on you in cash anyway... phone, smart watch, laptop / tablet in a bag, etc.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It really depends on how good your inspecting tools are. Using runtime methods and functions instead of macros mean the code is all right there, and what you're debugging is what you see in your editor (setting aside silly things like
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You don't give people severance when you fire them, you only give them severance when you lay them off. There's a legal distinction which impacts whether or not the employee is eligible for unemployment benefits, among other thing
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I worked for an agency company (mostly T&M contracts) that went through a round of layoffs almost entirely because they wanted to be "like a family" and the managers didn't let poor performers go. I think they ended up cu
741.
by zdragnar 1y ago
That same land was once grazed by massive herds of buffalo. The native species need large animals grazing to stay healthy. Sure, there's overgrazing in places, but that's a matter of degree. The fact remains that cattle grazing
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by zdragnar 1y ago
If you don't need a dedicated graphics card, there's plenty of laptops that get 12 or better hours of battery life (8 under heavy load such as you're compiling things), which is perfectly fine for me. LG gram was my most rece
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The last startup I worked at invested a ton of money- much of their marketing team's time plus a good chunk of development time for a few months- trying to "fix the funnel" in terms of conversions from these so-called leads.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Given the remainder of the comment is "and not understanding the inner workings" it's safe to assume that "getting something to work" does not imply that it worked correctly. Back in the days of SVN, I'd have t
745.
by zdragnar 1y ago
People will protest literally any use of land at all. They imagine the current conditions are pristine perfection, "unspoiled", and see any human activity upon it as something to be opposed to.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Sure, if you don't like Chinese users. The Great Firewall does not like at least some CDNs. They also happen to be a great attack vector! You and your users are much better off not using them for anything but toys.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
A lot of programs and tools will try to be cute and write into your bash files for you. I was mostly waxing philosophical at that point having gotten nerd sniped by "write a gui tool for environment variables" and "environmen
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It's a fair concern. There's a solar install up in northern WI that is part of a microgrid and basically doesn't generate energy in winter due to the amount of snow they get. The lack of solar output is offset by nat gas gene
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> but the usual procedures you find online stops working once you reboot (or close the terminal I think?) The environment isn't persistent between sessions. That means you need to make the change in a way that runs on every new ses
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Most of the "real" opposition is against providing further federal subsidies, along with it doesn't eliminate the need for base load during bad weather. The closing of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility has been making the roun

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