claudiulodro

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by claudiulodro 1mo ago
Yeah they could do a whole slogan and everything about it, maybe something about funding the police less or doing more oversight over police departments! It'll be super popular and definitely won't be misrepresented.
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by claudiulodro 1mo ago
Companies don't expect interns or new graduates to perform at the level of a senior engineer. They expect and plan that they have to ease them into the "professional workforce" somewhat. Anyways, the biggest tech companies in
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by claudiulodro 2mo ago
In this metaphor, your dude in a digger could also be drunk or a thief or bad at his job, and that'd be a bigger problem vs. a few people from a 100 person hand crew.
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by claudiulodro 3mo ago
People are always talking past each other in the comments here because when some people hear "journalism" they think "national coverage reporting like what you see on TV, NYT, or Twitter maximized for eyeballs and engagement&
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by claudiulodro 4mo ago
- I've been playing the original Doom on and off for more than 20 years now. The weapons and monsters are perfectly balanced and fair, and there's a ton of extra levels and mods, with new ones even still being released. - It'
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by claudiulodro 4mo ago
Texas Tribune, CalMatters, Montana Free Press, Mission Local -- there are a lot of very successful nonprofit newsrooms throughout the country. It's actually more stable than ad-supported business models because small donor subscription
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by claudiulodro 4mo ago
- continue - do it - go for it - sure - ship it Something like the above unless I want it to add some nuance to whatever it was going to do e.g. "do it, but don't commit the change"
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by claudiulodro 5mo ago
It's not one particular entrepreneur, but my favorite are the long-term local small business owners, like the guy I met a few months ago that's had a tire shop in town since the 70s. They've found a sustainable way to make a
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by claudiulodro 5mo ago
The role of a CEO is basically to make tough decisions, not really to be some sort of friendly face in meetings. If the AI clone is not empowered to make decisions on Zuck's behalf, what's the point? If it is empowered to make dec
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by claudiulodro 6mo ago
Engineering Ethics is a standard required class in any engineering discipline and a whole field of discussion. The ethics of working on military stuff (or even just government stuff) is nowhere near as cut and dry as your question seems to
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by claudiulodro 7mo ago
More than .07% of my net worth, which is what his giving works out to.
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by claudiulodro 7mo ago
> Based on a lot of real world experience, I'm convinced LLM-generated documentation is worse than nothing. It's a complete waste of everybody's time. I had a similar realization. My team was discussing whether we should h
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by claudiulodro 7mo ago
The largest cancelling brigade in the history of cancel culture was done by the right after the Charlie Kirk shooting, where more than 600 people were doxxed and lost their jobs for "social media posts that celebrated Kirk's assas
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by claudiulodro 7mo ago
Looks like Forsyth County is the richest county in Georgia and has a median household income of apparently $140k/yr (and median home price of ~$500k), so ballpark something close to that hourly rate does seem necessary if you want to h
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by claudiulodro 7mo ago
From when minimum wage was first established: > “It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business
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by claudiulodro 8mo ago
Before now, ICE was primarily paperwork police. Border patrol and occasional visits to round up undocumented immigrants at factories still existed, but the vast majority of their job was related to like customs and visa forms. It's lik
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by claudiulodro 8mo ago
AGPTEK makes decent and affordable MP3 players that still have buttons, and the battery life is really solid (~40 hrs!). I think they also use a dedicated MP3 player OS rather than an Android reskin. That's my recommendation if you wan
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by claudiulodro 8mo ago
Hey! Just wanted to say it's really cool to run across someone that worked on those games. NFS is one of my favorite franchises, and Payback was my favorite in the series. Good work!
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by claudiulodro 8mo ago
Because they don't have a car full of 100 people's meals like Amazon drivers do with deliveries? You're ordering a personal taxi for your burrito.
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by claudiulodro 8mo ago
Interesting. For Hurricane Helene specifically, my team at Newspack actually worked with Blue Ridge Public Radio and a number of other news organizations in the affected area to set up text versions of their websites for low bandwidth reade
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by claudiulodro 9mo ago
I simply live with this, but if I need to download it in a compatible format from Google Drive, I just screenshot the photo from Google Drive instead of downloading it. That solves the problem for me but from a different direction.
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by claudiulodro 9mo ago
Real estate, automobiles, credentials/degrees, and businesses are all assets that would counterbalance their debt. (Credentials and degrees are not liquid, but you'd be hard pressed to argue that a doctor's license isn't
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by claudiulodro 9mo ago
You're comparing what appears to be the MAXIMUM cost of German health insurance with the AVERAGE cost of US health insurance.
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by claudiulodro 10mo ago
I did it the other direction -- I bought a relatively cheap house, and if the winds of change come, I would rather get a different career than location! Two different equally valid perspectives IMO, as long as you're not dependent on h
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by claudiulodro 10mo ago
> I'd say about 25% of them came from a "moneyed" background. The rest were just regular people with regular backgrounds who were obsessive about starting businesses. This is a very similar point to the article though -- t
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by claudiulodro 10mo ago
Super late to the party, but Dale Harris Cash Register is a free Point of Sales TUI program that has been maintained by Dale since the 90s[1]. The website is pretty great too. He originally made it for his locksmith/key business. He ha
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by claudiulodro 11mo ago
A fob on a lanyard would work well I think. It would be nerdy as hell, but in a practical sense, it's better than carrying around another phone-like thing or wearing something on your face.
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by claudiulodro 1y ago
> "How paid subscriptions ate the spread of information" The "irony" here is that news organizations are moving to gate their content precisely because that's the only effective technique for preventing AI crawle
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by claudiulodro 1y ago
I'd also add that the industry is not the same as when the iphone came out. When I was younger I wanted to do shareware games like iD and Apogee, and I'd still be down to do that if it was a thing any more. But you have to meet th
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by claudiulodro 1y ago
While not a whole state, there are municipalities with no property tax e.g. Thorne Bay in Alaska: > Thorne Bay is a Second-Class City within an unorganized borough on Prince of Wales Island. > Thorne Bay does NOT LEVY PROPERTY TAXES.

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