hellisothers
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- hellisothersWhat indicates that to you?
- As a not-conservative with a child in middle school (in CA) this rings true though. We pulled our son out of a highly rated public school essentially because of this, the whole class was taught to the lowest common denominator.
- In my experience (of friends who drink and/or smoke weed) weed isn’t replacing drinking wine, it’s replacing drinking beer and booze.
- As an alternative perspective I found no good decaf coffee. I tried maybe 8 different coffees, all very well regarded, very hipster, none came close to creating good pour-over coffee. I admit it’s all about expectations but if you’re currently enjoying pretty fancy coffee and want to go decaf you’re going to be disappointed. Decaf black tea was even worse…
- “It might be true for now…” “As soon as…” “It’s just a matter of time…”
I find myself in this type of discussion with AI maximalists where they balk at me suggesting there isn’t much “I” in “AI” and they get upset that I’m not seeing how smart it is and shocked I think it’s impossible… and then they start adding all the equivocation about time horizons. I never said it wasn’t possible eventually, just not right now. If I try to pin people down to a timeline it all of a sudden becomes “surely eventually”…
- Every person I’ve ever met who espouses “crypto” sounds like they’re in a cult trying to recruit new members. I can’t recall meeting a person who uses crypto who when asked about it (if they didn’t bring it up first) treated it like “oh, yea, crypto, it’s whatever, you just use it or don’t”.
- Wow I’ve wanted this for so long and it was impossible to do previously. At $30/yr and $8/mo I’ll write my own app though.
- I describe this as the Artist vs Scientist software engineer. I’m also an “artist” and approach the problem as a ball of clay, hacking away at it (and sometimes starting with a new ball) until the solution appears beneath my hands. The Scientist approach is to know the solution ahead of time , write tests to ensure it comes out the expected way, and then execute.
- First they came for the TV shows… I jest, they came for the books first
- You can see the headlines though “Apple skirts interoperability law by deprecating API after only one year”. Maintaining a public API is a cost usually only taken in because it has a benefit to the company.
- “You need to know…” do you need to know though? I agree I need to know the things to work in a mature codebase or make something maintainable in the long run but to bang out a get rich quick project? Probably not.
- Consider actually traveling, I’ve been to two different countries recently and one had protests about tourists and the other had shirts. The next two I’m looking at going seem to be similarly hostile.
- I would add one thing my family has complained about wrt road trip charging is it’s not just the time you wait to charge, it’s the time and games/anger dealing with all the people in line waiting to charge.
- Realistically there would be a non-zero cost to allowing this, tech support, or compliance issues, or even PR issues when somebody’s modified hardware does something bad. So few people actually care or want this, it doesn’t feel like a fight worth having as a unilateral mission.
- But at the FAANGy companies I’ve worked at this issue persists. Mobile engineers working on 3yo computers and seeing new hires compile 2x (or more) faster with their newer machines.
- I went with Uplift desks which are not $150 but certainly sub $1000. I think what I was paying for was the stability/solidity of the desk, the electronics and memory and stuff is probably commodified.
- Define punish given the extreme amount of subsidies and preference given to fossil fuels? Did they subsidize renewables as much? Less? More?
- … but not in most cities in CA is the OP’s point, actually not even is most large cities on either coast. Which isn’t to say it’s not possible, you could definitely live well elsewhere on that salary but there is an obsession with coastal cities.
- 2: you can organize photos into folders but nobody does
3: I actively don’t want this nor would I want anybody I care about to have to deal with this.
But props to you for having an argument for Android aside from the usual “I have more control”
- 256 is plenty, I only had 256GB on my last work machine and was able to maintain 4 different checkouts of our entire (large) codebase and still tons of space for caches.