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by ghaff 16d ago
Even with the newer keyboard, the iPad just doesn't work for me as a MacBook replacement. And really isn't lighter at that point. Yes, an iPad is better for watching movies on a plane but that's not really a reason to bring o
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by ghaff 17d ago
It's very use and location dependent. I'm going to get a good or at least relatively good dining room table. Some cubbyholes/shelves for a closet? IKEA is fine. I also have an IKEA bureau in my bedroom. I occasionally wonder
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by ghaff 19d ago
Apple is such a vertical stack, I'm not sure how to generalize from that. Certainly the same was true on IBM mainframes. And, when I wrote open source, I could probably have written abstraction more broadly.
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by ghaff 19d ago
I looked at this for a client close to 20 years ago. The problem is that you need to get software support for it. Arguably easier these days with open source but still doesn't magically happen.
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by ghaff 19d ago
Probably a fat finger of some sort or it came through a copy and paste. Nothing I do deliberately.
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by ghaff 19d ago
I honestly don't know the last time I've had a credit card transaction fail, including internationally, unless I've fat-fingered some number. In fact, in my experience, random fraud failures are significantly less common than
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by ghaff 20d ago
In general, project/lab courses are pretty useƒul even iƒ they need some lecture/theory tacked on. Certainly, in school, I found hands-on and other project work, both individually and in groups, some of the better course work I di
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by ghaff 20d ago
I did not notice anything about the document in that regard that was worthy of note.
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by ghaff 20d ago
There's no magic rule that you have to give grades. A few colleges don't and MIT doesn't for the (I think) first term.
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by ghaff 20d ago
Assessments are arguably the least important part related to post-secondary education.
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by ghaff 20d ago
>actual discussion in classrooms Which works in some contexts; I've taken seminars. Not sure how that works with a multi-hundred person core calculus, physics, or chemistry class.
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by ghaff 20d ago
I am not an LLM and use em-dashes and they were house style in my last 20+ years of employment. The whole em dashes == AI thing needs to just stop.
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by ghaff 21d ago
Absent visibility into AWS P&Ls--even notwithstanding AI--Mechanical Turk has been a real outlier at AWS for a number of years now, so not really surprising.
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by ghaff 21d ago
Or where you may choose to work elsewhere on a whim. (Never mind that a partner and/or kids may place constraints.)
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by ghaff 21d ago
>The electrical was a mix of modern and knob & tube. Buyer didn't bat an eye, they knew the score. That's sort of the key. If you have your eye on a >100 year old home, love on unless you're OK with a lot of what pr
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by ghaff 21d ago
Or have plausible deniability. When I've have had some new windows installed a couple of times, the installer tacked on a lead mitigation fee which was fine because they knew there was probably lead paint buried somewhere but I don&#x2
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by ghaff 21d ago
It's not unheard of. Gas sometimes. My car dealer for one. (Whether it's a credit surcharge or a debit discount is semantics.) Though with the cashback on my usual credit card I use for domestic credit card purchases, the differen
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by ghaff 22d ago
Home inspections are pretty normal when you buy a property. I have no idea what work on my >200 year-old house was permitted. While the latest batch was, I'm guessing a great deal wasn't. But I don't actually know. And, if
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by ghaff 22d ago
There are people on here who live in this fantasy world where all house work is permitted and performed by licensed tradespeople which is... counterfactual.
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by ghaff 22d ago
Barring very obvious problems, I think you're way overestimating how deeply either home inspectors or town/cities are going to be deeply inspecting (especially older) properties and/or permits. My property is over 200 years o
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by ghaff 22d ago
This isn't new. Every job dating back multiple decades was through my network. I had a resume but it was essentially a formality. The last two long-term ones were through very senior folks at the companies.
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by ghaff 22d ago
So revert to more of a mean for white collar work in other words.
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by ghaff 22d ago
That sounds about right. There was a well-established funnel from schools directly into entry-level positions. Absent that funnel, it's not clear how getting those entry-level positions was ever especially straightforward outside of a
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by ghaff 22d ago
Seems about right given labor. If you do most things yourself other than electrical, can probably cut cost a fair bit. But tradespeople are expensive when you can even get them.
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by ghaff 22d ago
In NYC or London theater district (or an airport) at least, it's pretty common for the server to ask at the beginning about time constraints.
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by ghaff 22d ago
In general, the Anglosphere differs in quite a few ways (though not consistently) from everywhere else.
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by ghaff 22d ago
I get asked (and expect to be) and I usually refuse.
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by ghaff 22d ago
So you say "I'm good or maybe in a bit." Was that hard? (Versus trying to chase someone down to get your beer refilled.)
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by ghaff 22d ago
Although in the UK, there is often an "optional" service charge tacked on for table service dining. (Yes, you can get it taken off but I'm guessing most people don't.)
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by ghaff 22d ago
Oh, I don't think it is--haven't lived there but have spent some time for conferences and surrounding time. However, just pointing out, it's not unheard of.

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