cjpearson

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by cjpearson 1mo ago
Mars, Inc is a private, family-owned company. Presumably they still like making money, but the stereotype of daily stock price obsessed CEO doesn't apply here as there is no traded stock.
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by cjpearson 2mo ago
Many years ago as a young developer I read Fielding's dissertation, Fowler's writings on the Richardson Maturity Model and even a book (don't remember the title) on the topic. Then I spent the next dozen years creating, readi
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by cjpearson 2mo ago
The author's case is not helped by fighting a strawman argument and backing it up with atypical examples of AI usage. Those who favor human writing are looking for writing where the words are the product of a human mind rather than an
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by cjpearson 2mo ago
Your example is an interesting one, as the Reagan administration is a broad topic with many books covering just a small slice. If you are solely interested in the foreign policy of Reagan, you could find books on Iran-Contra, SDI, Grenada,
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by cjpearson 2mo ago
Energy is more difficult to gauge, but the average American has over 5 hours of leisure time daily. When there was more of a time crunch in the past, Americans read more.
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by cjpearson 4mo ago
In 2021, Russia was the source of 52% of Germany's gas. Following the expansion of the Ukraine conflict in 2022 imports from Russia quickly dropped. The biggest suppliers of gas to Germany last year were Norway, Netherlands and Belgium
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by cjpearson 5mo ago
This comes off as a quite dismissive and incurious take. Are you quite sure that of the ~500 million consumers who bought a pair, nobody considered utility and it was simply a fashion choice? Or is it more likely that some consumers judge t
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by cjpearson 5mo ago
The linked post on Take Take Take is interesting. Magnus Carlsen created a chess.com competitor and eventually sold it to chess.com and became a sponsor. While working as a sponsor he then created a new chess.com competitor. I'm a Lich
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by cjpearson 6mo ago
Unfortunately, this does not save you. The NYT has a paywall and still has this terrible experience, which caused me to unsubscribe. I remain subscribed to The Atlantic because while it still relies on advertising, the print version is at l
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by cjpearson 8mo ago
It makes sense if you're looking at it from the perspective of a European investor. e.g. You start with 1000 EUR, convert and buy into an S&P500 fund, wait a year, sell and convert back to EUR. Celsius and Fahrenheit doesn't w
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by cjpearson 9mo ago
You can't effectively paywall it because not only is it open source, but there are many nearly equivalent competitors all of which are free. Any subscribers would essentially be donors. There are people like yourself who would be happy
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by cjpearson 1y ago
A big factor in the quick return (and maybe one reason for its popularity) is that Germany has some of the most expensive electricity in the world. The ROI doesn't look as attractive in France, the US or Norway.
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by cjpearson 1y ago
The author was for a long time a developer on Chrome and now works at Microsoft on Edge. I would not expect them to lead an anti-Chrome crusade.
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by cjpearson 1y ago
> Perhaps Google and Mozilla, leaders in JavaScript standards and implementations, will start developing a real standard library for JavaScript, which makes micro-dependencies like left-pad a thing of the past. It's not wrong, but t
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by cjpearson 1y ago
In many cases it is required to access the content. Courts have allowed "Consent or pay" for sites such as newspapers.
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by cjpearson 1y ago
For a magazine like the New Yorker, there was money. You might be interested in Bryan Burrough's experience writing for Vanity Fair in the 90s and 2000s. > For twenty-five years, I was contracted to produce three articles a year, lo
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by cjpearson 1y ago
Those are perfectly good reasons and in the hypothetical world of housing affordability such utility should compensate for the depreciation. Similarly many people find value in owning a car despite the nearly guaranteed decline in value. Id
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by cjpearson 1y ago
There's a common view that home-ownership is important because a home is the most expensive asset most people will ever own and its increasing value is key to their comfortable retirement. But this view of a home as an appreciating ass
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by cjpearson 1y ago
I've generally not had an interest in working for one of the big tech companies, but the opportunity to escape JIRA is tempting.
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by cjpearson 1y ago
It basically comes down to the face that the quarterback position has an outsized importance in the game and those players become the face of their franchises. They are often credited with wins and losses despite those being a team stat. So
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by cjpearson 1y ago
Soon, hopefully, QUERY will save us all. In the meantime, simply using POST is fine. I've also seen solutions where you POST the filter config, then reference the returned filter ID in the GET request, but that often seems like overkil
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by cjpearson 1y ago
I sympathize with the pedantry here and found Fielding's paper to be interesting, but this is a lost battle. When I see "REST API" I can safely assume the following: - The API returns JSON - CRUD actions are mapped to POST&#x
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by cjpearson 1y ago
I don't think Mozilla has always made the right decisions, but they are in a difficult position, and the anti-Mozilla arguments are typically much more vague and directionless. Some common demands: - Mozilla should develop revenue inde
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by cjpearson 1y ago
Vercel's perspective: https://vercel.com/blog/nuxtlabs-joins-vercel
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by cjpearson 1y ago
Some examples that come to mind: cell modems, video game engines, retail space leasing, fast food franchises.
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by cjpearson 1y ago
A different type of radio program (and he also did television), but Vin Scully announced Dodger games for 67 years.
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by cjpearson 1y ago
Germany certainly has its issues with digitalization, but bringing TikTok into the classroom should not be its top priority.
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by cjpearson 1y ago
Possibly, although the fix for this particular issue (Temporal API) is available in the current release of Firefox as well as the preview release of Safari, but it's not in that dominant browser.
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by cjpearson 1y ago
The same way people are replacing C++ on a language without a standard library
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by cjpearson 1y ago
Every couple days I get a pretty blatant spam email in my inbox. It's frustrating that gmail's spam filter doesn't catch these, especially since I recall it working better in the past. But I'm not going to turn off the f

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