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by SL61 1mo ago
Interestingly, and maybe surprisingly, moving long-distance is less common than it was in the past. The total number of movers has decreased [1] while the percentage of those moves that are inter-state has stayed constant [2]. Another ana
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by SL61 3mo ago
Yep, I remember being told that it doesn't matter which major I pick because there would be jobs that wanted just any bachelor's degree. I'm sure high school kids are still being told that today, and it might not be entirely
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by SL61 4mo ago
One I've noticed, and it might just be Claude, is putting "The" in front of titles and headers. Its documentation will have one section after another with headers like "The Architecture", "The Caveats", &q
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by SL61 4mo ago
It's still pretty popular among younger listeners, even if the demographic doesn't overlap much with the techy people who used it in the 2000s.
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by SL61 4mo ago
The typical answer when people ask why Dropbox doesn't have a cheap low tier is that the more expensive plans are more likely to be underused, and therefore more profitable than a 100GB plan that users constantly max out. But I'm
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by SL61 4mo ago
I enjoy reading really old programming books, the 1997 edition of Learning Perl mentioned in the article being a perfect example. I don't fret over the exercises, but if it's well-written it gives a glimpse into how people thought
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by SL61 5mo ago
LLMs are very helpful for transcribing handwritten historical documents, but sometimes those documents contain language/ideas that a perfectly aligned LLM will refuse to output. Sometimes as a hard refusal, sometimes (even worse) by su
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by SL61 6mo ago
It doesn't surprise me at all that this is going on. There are lots of social media fan pages that are run by real people who post real content 99% of the time but are willing to post promo material for a fee. Usually that fee is prett
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by SL61 6mo ago
It's simple (both in terms of gameplay and graphics) and it's the fastest Civ game to complete a full playthrough. Later releases made the game slower and more complex.
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by SL61 7mo ago
This has been the message at the F100 that one of my relatives works at. The CEO's increasingly aggressive message to their hundreds of thousands of employees is that they should figure out how to get 10x faster with AI or their job is
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by SL61 8mo ago
> I don't care that when I click "delete", the item may not disappear from the screen immediately. The disconnect here between tech people and non-tech people is that most users do care about stuff like this. I run a pop
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by SL61 10mo ago
It's interesting to observe that fame (and the money that usually comes with it) seems to follow something like a log scale. People usually don't become gradually more famous in a linear way. They're more likely to spend a fe
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by SL61 10mo ago
This is a big issue for young people, too. Every white collar career path is very on-rails now - you're expected to get a degree in XYZ and then get a fresh grad job as a Level 1 XYZer and so on. So the stakes are drastically higher fo
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by SL61 11mo ago
It's been years now, but I used to be involved in the trading market for Team Fortress 2. There were people who did TF2 trading as a full-time job, exploiting arbitrage between markets and holding items that were expected to increase i
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by SL61 1y ago
I'm sure DoorDash doesn't allow it. But a lot of older people call for pizza the way they've always done for decades, so it's common enough that the pizza places (at least in my low-crime suburban area) have decided to k
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by SL61 1y ago
> We don't answer calls anymore, and a "fake" pizza delivery, doesn't that mean the person get's a free pizza? In America, at least, it's still possible to place an order by phone call and pay the delivery p
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by SL61 1y ago
I think remote work gets increasingly hard to manage the larger a company gets. My parents both worked for the same Fortune 500 company when COVID hit and the thousands of employees in their branch had to abruptly transition to WFH. Somethi
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by SL61 1y ago
Yes, the biggest fault of those books was that the titles were a cheap gimmick. The implication that you could blow through the book in a day and know the language is kind of a lose-lose, because it undersells the difficulty of the lessons
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by SL61 1y ago
One of the big shifts in academia over the past couple decades is that, for any number of reasons, students today are less likely to self-study or tinker outside of classes and internships. The increased prevalence of basic bootcamp-style c
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by SL61 1y ago
Remember that executives answer to the board of directors. The board's job is to make sure execs do things that make the company money, or in practical terms, "things the board thinks will make the company money". A sensibl
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by SL61 1y ago
A while back I came across job listings for a COBOL consultancy near me that only seems to hire fresh grads for well below market rate (not much higher than retail/restaurant jobs - this is in a cheaper part of the US). They promised t
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by SL61 1y ago
I've made thousands of dollars in cashback and rewards from my credit cards without ever paying a cent in interest. That's the main value proposition of credit cards for people who never carry a balance.
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by SL61 2y ago
I run a free website with a monthly active user count in the 100k range. When something breaks - even if it's a really niche feature or a compatibility issue with an outdated browser - I get an army of furious users contacting me howev
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by SL61 2y ago
A lot of them are probably sales and support.
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by SL61 2y ago
The Onion has always been very political with a liberal slant. I have some of their print collections from the early 2000s and they're similar to today's Onion with maybe a little more edge. Their gun control headline "'
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by SL61 2y ago
There seems to be a split in my area with small businesses, mostly along generational lines. The ones run by younger people are very credit-card-first, love not dealing with cash, etc. They usually have one of those Stripe iPad things. If y
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by SL61 2y ago
This is what happened in my childhood home. We lived within a couple miles of a mid-sized airport. We could always hear the planes to some extent, but over time they expanded their cargo operations, which typically fly at night. They also a
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by SL61 3y ago
Chips, along with cereal, are an interesting case where the normal price is crazy high but then they go on sale for a fraction of that with extreme frequency. There's a store near me that has had a particular $5 chip brand on sale for
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by SL61 3y ago
And, if I'm reading the details correctly, it seems like it's going to push developers toward charging recurring subscription fees for their games. If I install a game 20 times in the span of a decade, the devs are being charged o
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by SL61 3y ago
As a younger person who strongly prefers black text on white backgrounds, I talked to some of my friends who use dark mode and discovered that they almost exclusively use their screens in dark rooms. Scrolling through their phone in bed wit

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