gbear605

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by gbear605 4d ago
It’s a very small set of buyers that are in that price range. Total annual domestic box office revenue is like $10 billion, maybe $50 billion for global TV and film. And that’s revenue, not profit, and a lot of costs are going to marketing,
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by gbear605 17d ago
You’re unfortunately vastly overrating the world before Ikea. I have the furniture passed down from the 70s and 80s and it’s all falling apart and made from plywood. You have to go back to the 30s and earlier before you get furniture that w
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by gbear605 20d ago
Engineers are expensive, especially good system engineers who are trained in your code base. Very possible that this just hadn't gotten to the top of the priority list.
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by gbear605 22d ago
At the gas stations near me, at the start of 2025, I could get a gallon of gas for around $1.85. The stations near me are now up to around $4.30, a 250% increase. I don't know if I'd quite call it a crisis, but certainly it's
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by gbear605 1mo ago
Best of luck with the weather!
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by gbear605 2mo ago
That's true, but then the people you're selling to have to want to buy the shares. And if you're buying YES at 97%, you're not going to be able to sell the YES shares to anyone at much higher - because eventually someone
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by gbear605 2mo ago
It's worth noting that Polymarket (and all other prediction markets using money) has some fundamental problems that cause inaccuracy. Most notably here, the elections are still several months out, so you're asking people to put up
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by gbear605 2mo ago
Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 in September by $50. And that’s after the Switch 2 being priced $100 more than expectations on launch.
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by gbear605 2mo ago
In many areas, this is left up to the parents - minors can't buy alcohol at stores, but parents are legally allowed to give alcohol to their children to drink.
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by gbear605 2mo ago
I think it's a great read, but make sure to take it with a huge grain of salt.
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by gbear605 3mo ago
The idea of the parameter is stopping the attackers from getting on your system in the first place
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by gbear605 3mo ago
The difference between weight and volume measurements could easily be a 20% or 30% gap. I’ve measured two of my cups of flour before and they were off by roughly that amount. Maybe I’m just bad at measuring, but it’s a lot more than 5%.
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by gbear605 3mo ago
Soccer is extremely widespread and played by both boys and girls at a young age (up until puberty or so), but there definitely is a gender gap after that. I'd guess that there are a lot of other sports that are almost solely played by
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by gbear605 3mo ago
It certainly can matter for proper baking (which this recipe seems to be?), though for traditional pancakes I would never bother. But there's a reason that bakeries weigh their ingredients. It's more consistent and allows for diff
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by gbear605 4mo ago
As discussed elsewhere in this forum, these exploits are being found by security companies in the first few days after they're published, that's just already too late. For example, the auditor who made the very post that we'r
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by gbear605 4mo ago
One easy change would be that before any package can be published, it has to wait a minimum of two weeks in a state where it can be reviewed but it can't be installed without jumping through several hoops with big warning signs, things
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by gbear605 4mo ago
That’s a should , what makes it a will ? Capitalism can just be killed by AI.
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by gbear605 4mo ago
That was the comparison, yes
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by gbear605 4mo ago
Pyramid schemes are defined by the price and structure. A business that sells knives is a fine business. A business that sells overpriced knives by promising that you can then find someone else to sell more knives for you at an even higher
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by gbear605 4mo ago
At least for my software job in the US, and other salaried jobs I’ve seen, there are explicitly no hours listed, and it’s supposedly based only on your output. In practice though, if your butt isn’t in the seat 40 hours a week or so, and us
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by gbear605 4mo ago
My subjective experience was that it got a lot worse post-Microsoft. I could be misremembering though!
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by gbear605 4mo ago
Two thirds of Europeans want this - https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-... > The figures were almost universal across all categories: 62 percent of those surveyed across the five European countri
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by gbear605 4mo ago
Github has had horrible uptime for years, before agentic use was a thing. The killer was Microsoft.
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by gbear605 4mo ago
If you want to do it occasionally, sure, whatever. I have a coworker who solely communicates in the form of screenshots of him asking Cursor my question, even when they’re questions that are interested in his motivation or plans, not the co
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by gbear605 4mo ago
This is Java, but recently I had a case where one library depended on a version of an Apache Commons library, and another library depended on a different version of the same Apache Commons library, and neither version worked with both libra
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by gbear605 4mo ago
> we go to usually around 2 birthday parties a week during school year That's honestly impressive, some 70 birthday parties a year, plus presumably some extra in the summer.
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by gbear605 4mo ago
Speaking as someone who is a bit more familiar with your site, the variety of content you post is really valuable. I know multiple people, myself included, who have either gone from EA to Contra or Contra to EA thanks to both being on your
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by gbear605 4mo ago
That’s exactly the benefit of a law - it’s a forcing measure to require businesses to invest in processes to understand open sourcing, and to go forward when otherwise no one would make a business case for approval.
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by gbear605 4mo ago
From the hay prices I’ve seen recently as a consumer, they’re up by like 20-30%, but not double.
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by gbear605 4mo ago
Everywhere on Amazon.com has bad UI/UX. For one example, the flow on checking out as a non-Prime member (not sure about Prime members) is janky and feels straight out of 2005. Like it reloads the page, taking ten+ seconds, every time

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