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by ergsef 1y ago
When smartphones first started coming out a high school teacher took mine away - there was no blanket ban but I had undiagnosed ADHD and I wasn't paying attention during class. As she was taking it I told her if it got broken while it
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by ergsef 1y ago
I think this reflects on a lifetime of highlighting "think of the children" versus abusing women, stalking, etc. being swept under the rug. "Creepy" behaviour towards someone can actually deprive them of a sense of safet
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by ergsef 1y ago
Personally, as a former meetup organizer, my health has not been good post-COVID. I have a lot less energy to do extra-curricular work or go out and socialize after work.
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by ergsef 1y ago
3. It's very hard to know what kind of compensation employees are actually getting in an acqui-hire. I've been involved in a few of these - money flows through the cap table, so investors and founders get most of it depending on l
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by ergsef 1y ago
There's a lot of nature to protect in Antarctica, and there are very strict rules. This guy is selfishly flaunting those rules and just paying to get rid of the consequences. Considering he's got a personal plane and pilot's
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by ergsef 1y ago
My city has inductive bike sensors at specific intersections but many intersections (even ones with bike lanes) lack them. Cycling infrastructure is so half-assed in the US.
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by ergsef 1y ago
You would be amazed how bad drivers are at actually hitting the correct stopping position for the inductive loops in the ground that sense cars. When I'm on my bike stopped on a small side street I often try and gesture for drivers to
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by ergsef 1y ago
I worked selling refurb computers and this wasn't the case from Windows 95 - XP. The rise of TPMs and EFI is after that time so it's possible some newer system provides a way of tying licenses to computers, but it's not BIOS.
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by ergsef 1y ago
55% net profit doesn't include NRE right? The thing about selling fewer, bigger-ticket items is that the non-recurring engineering costs are amortized over fewer sales. Not to say they aren't printing money, but the unit cost to p
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by ergsef 1y ago
Who are "capable" people? Do you think if the cafe owner was born in the US they would be working at Google? Lots of people in North America work in jobs with positive externalities (teachers, nurses, etc) and they're general
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by ergsef 1y ago
You're making it very black-and-white when there's a lot of nuance to these kinds of discussions. A woman in a leadership role making difficult choices or shutting people down may be abrasive, but a man doing it might be admired f
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by ergsef 1y ago
Speaking out against the hype is frowned upon. I'm sure even this very measured article about "I tried it and it didn't work for me" will draw negative attention from people who think AI is the Second Coming. It's a
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by ergsef 1y ago
> You wait until the enemy starts charging with infantry and cavalry so they're not huddling under shields Why wait for a specific command? It sounds like as an archer maybe you could try and hit a few far-off enemies whenever you w
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by ergsef 1y ago
The fact is that politicians are insanely car-brained and nobody has any enthusiasm for improving rail infrastructure. Via Rail is trapped in this insane spiral of service cuts where it's miserable for staff and riders, and the solutio
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by ergsef 1y ago
"The Word for World is Forest" and "The Left Hand of Darkness" are probably my two favorites "sci-fi" Le Guin books, highly recommend them.
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by ergsef 1y ago
> he apparently want to impose a new economic order on the world where every country basically becomes subservient to the US This sounds like some kind of right-wing conspiracy theory attributing everything to George Soros for some reaso
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by ergsef 1y ago
> I feel that today having a nuanced view, is itself a rebellious act. So brave. Enjoy making six figures sitting behind a keyboard, acting like other people's rights are a sport not tied to any material consequences.
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by ergsef 1y ago
TFA talks about addresses being too long and the compromise to support variable-length addresses. 64-bits would have been fine. Grandparent is engaging in the classic tech industry tradition of talking confidently about something they have
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by ergsef 2y ago
The distinction between "big cats" and "small cats" is whether or not they purr. Ocelots and Cheetahs are wild "small cats" which can purr. Lions, tigers, panthers are "big cats" don't purr. Ther