jkmcf · HackerLangs

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Not to mention that car dealerships seem to resist providing software updates. You have to beg them and even show them proof an update exists.

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Technically people do benefit from having a dump or power plant.

Very few people are affected by having a dump nearby or a nuclear power plant, whereas it seems like the power generators for these AI data centers really belong in an industrial park.

These data centers also don't employ many people, though I've read they are wonderful for city taxes, assuming they haven't gotten too many enticing tax breaks.

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2 maanden geledendiscuss

On the website for the algebra I book:

  Grade Level US 6–8 / UK Years 7–9

"Asia 2-4" is missing.

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3 maanden geledendiscuss

  It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer travelling with the goods than to a stationary observer.

It's actually an interesting question!

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4 maanden geledendiscuss

I'm tired of long winded posts that bury the lead, AI or otherwise. Long form can be worthwhile, but many times it's just the writer performing an unnecessary guitar solo.

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4 maanden geledendiscuss

I was going to use this quote yesterday, but correlation is not causation.

I prefer the one where the national debt increases more under "fiscally responsible" republicans.

More correlation: more jobs are created and inflation is lower under democratic administrations.

GDP is also better with a Dem president, but it partially depends on the makeup of congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deficit-us-presidents-sinc...

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6 maanden geledendiscuss

The day before the night I first saw Office Space, way after becoming an underground hit, I had my first encounter with the TPS communication barrage. It made the movie funnier and my work life sadder.

Similar thing happened with Idiocracy recently...

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7 maanden geledendiscuss

Funny, I got it wrong because the reader view showed the equals sign, but I had to go to the website to check my answer, which does hide it.

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7 maanden geledendiscuss

Lots of complaints about Netflix, but for the money, combined with Prime, I only miss affordable NHL, which is split between too many providers.

I agree that I wish Netflix had less lowbrow content, but they target a wide audience, and let's be honest, most people willing watch crap.

And seriously: go for a walk, read a book, play a game, or work on a hobby? TV shouldn't be your life, and it's long been one of the big societal problems.

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7 maanden geledendiscuss

I love to support creators, but I wish there was something common between free and significant subscription price so that I could show appreciation more readily.

Examples I would use without thinking for worthwhile-to-me content:

  - "tip" options in the App Store
  - 10/year
  - 1/month

Similarly, I'm surprised these newsletter gatekeepers haven't implemented a tip jar where you put in $/year and it gets divided based on readership.

I know this has been tried in other ways, but I think Substack and Medium could make this work.

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8 maanden geledendiscuss

Your first sentence is gold.

It's only in the past few hundred years where focus actually matters: knowledge workers, and some factory work where lack of attention resulted in injury.

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8 maanden geledendiscuss

They were called Sophists in Ancient Greece and were despised by Socrates because their arguments were based, not on truth or facts, but whatever rhetoric would convince the audience.

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8 maanden geledendiscuss

We have similar problems in Colorado re: pipes leaking. People don't want to pay the full cost of water, which includes supporting infrastructure. Municipalities are caught between these unfunded costs and taxpayers refusing to pay 1¢ more. I believe the utilities require political approval to raise rates, so that doesn't happen either.

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8 maanden geledendiscuss

We replaced e pluribus unum with in god we trust. How's that working out?

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8 maanden geledendiscuss

I would add that these finds would, and many did, find there way to the black market, ending up in private collections, which is almost as bad as their destruction.

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9 maanden geledendiscuss

Contrary to what others say, I don't think MacOS is that bad. In general, it's perfectly stable. There has been an increase in situational paper cuts -- I haven't experienced any I recall, but one cannot discount that others encounter weird problems. In the end it's significantly more stable than Windows and completely free of crapware.

Personally, the new look is annoying at worst, but it doesn't affect my day to day at all.

The biggest Apple problem is the same as its been for a decade: languishing Apple app development.

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9 maanden geledendiscuss

I love my merino wool socks and non-base layers, but my skin is generally too sensitive for most brands.

I should try the smartwool underwear because there stuff is better than the competition, especially the small players.

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9 maanden geledendiscuss

My 2¢: Feedly's free plan is great and their web UI awesome. The features I want from the pro plan do not warrant the price.

I've switched to using Feedbin. I don't mind paying for it even though I could keep using Feedly for free, but the web UI ads annoyed me enough to look elsewhere.

The best Apple app is easily Unread, both for UI and UX. It still is t perfect for me, but the problems are minor and the author pleasant to interact with.

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