jaltekruse

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by jaltekruse 1mo ago
Lots of studies have shown that the US spends a much larger portion of our GDP on healthcare than other countries, there is plenty of money to solve this problem already allocated to healthcare. I am aware that Medicare does aggressively ne
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by jaltekruse 1mo ago
I had a team that insisted on a linear history and was constantly rebasing things. This workflow strongly favors "just squash it all together" before a rebase to avoid re-resolving the same conflicts. This workflow often produces
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by jaltekruse 1mo ago
Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole? - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ
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by jaltekruse 1mo ago
The US already has a national health insurance network that pays the vast majority of all providers, and as far as I know it is widely popular and covers everyone legally present in the US for a portion of their life, Medicare. Old people e
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by jaltekruse 3mo ago
It feels like at some point we're going to need to re-evaluate the concept of intellectual property. I don't know how to bring about this conversation in a way that broader society will actually engage with it, but it really feels
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by jaltekruse 6mo ago
Sorry about the link, chrome was showing some old auto fill suggestion near where the clipboard contents appear. It looks like I can't delete posts that include text content and a link, as it creates a comment right away and blocks del
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Privacy nightmare, Android now requires sharing your screen to search(support.google.com)
2 points by jaltekruse 6mo ago|2 comments
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by jaltekruse 6mo ago
What the fuck is this, if you hold the home button on android it now enters a special search mode that refuses to let you run a search without sending your whole screen along with the search. And it is rather difficult to even get it to not
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Privacy nightmare, search box on Android requires sharing screen(old.reddit.com)
1 points by jaltekruse 6mo ago|2 comments
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by jaltekruse 6mo ago
What the fuck is this, if you hold the home button on android it now enters a special search mode that refuses to let you run a search without sending your whole screen along with the search. And it is rather difficult to even get it to not
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by jaltekruse 6mo ago
I've written a short 2.5 hour class for tech newbies to walk them through wiring together their own game consoles in breadboards. So far I've taught it to 90 people in the Twin Cities, I'm looking to see if I can get it sprea
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Seeking help spreading passion for CS with class on DIY Arduino game consoles(community.arduboy.com)
3 points by jaltekruse 6mo ago|1 comments
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by jaltekruse 6mo ago
Adding new openly licensed learning resources to the Kolibri offline learning platform. It is designed to be deployed in communities that lack consistent access to the public internet. They currently have a significant amount of English lan
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by jaltekruse 10mo ago
Unfortunately the connection fee does not cover all fixed cost. For a long time the model has been fairly "progressive" in this regard. Some of the fixed costs of the grid have been paid for by amortization over the per Kw cost, w
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by jaltekruse 11mo ago
I have been involved in open source projects with various structures and sustainability models. Open-core Enterprise software startups, unfunded or underfunded middleware/libraries and underfunded end-consumer software/apps. A rea
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by jaltekruse 2y ago
While I don't agree with the response and long detention. This is the artists current Instagram bio. I understand it is likely hard to get a visa for a week that allows you to work, and it is a would be a lot more convenient to serve U
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by jaltekruse 2y ago
While I think the detention was completely unnecessary and cruel. It appears that her Instagram still lists dates she was planning to be in LA, right after a date range of being in Mexico, with a request for DMs under it for scheduling an a
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by jaltekruse 2y ago
Location: Minneapolis Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Java/Scala, Apache Spark, Dremio, Apache Drill, Javascript, React, Express, NextJS Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HbrNUS-
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by jaltekruse 3y ago
If the format is splittable you generally can get similar benefits, and parquet files have metadata to point a given reader at a specific chunk of the file that can be read independently. In the case of parquet the writer decides when to fi
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by jaltekruse 3y ago
https://itch.io/games/tag-godot/tag-open-source You can look through this list for games that have the little "playable in browser" badge, but that doesn't appear to be a search filter option. You c
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by jaltekruse 3y ago
I could barely believe this story when a pretty big youtuber had his upstairs neighbor flood his entire apartment, mold started growing everywhere and all his landlord offered was signing a new long-term lease on a different unit he didn&#x
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by jaltekruse 3y ago
I worked in a factory for a few months as a temp and a bunch of my co-workers that had been with the company for years had this exact thing happen to them, a few years after the 2008 crash. I believe it was a little different in that people
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
I see this as just as simple and misguided of a take as noticing that affirmative action is racist. People have been making this argument forever, we passed all laws and did all the work we needed to when we ended slavery, oh wait nope we g
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
Is the top comment on this thread seriously a reverse racism rant? You are right about something, affirmative action is racist, but I feel it is absolutely necessary to try to balance out current inequities. I strongly believe people making
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
https://freemathapp.org My Open source site where you can record math work like you would write it on paper. Uses a quick copy and edit workflow to save some of the repetitive writing out expressions involved in solving many typ
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
Unfortunately the current (and seemingly somewhat inevitable) architecture of cryptocurrency, relies on trustless distributed systems, which I don't see a clear path to making them give similar SLAs or UX to the traditional system with
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
I think there is an important missing part of this argument that many of the current paths to move dollars around that network in the traditional system take either days to settle and/or cost quite a lot in fees. I see crypto having po
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Winners of the N64 homebrew game jam announced, C source of all games on GitHub(n64squid.com)
22 points by jaltekruse 4y ago|1 comments
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
https://github.com/N64brew-Game-Jam-2022
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by jaltekruse 4y ago
I submitted a game to the N64 homebrew jam this year, along with some team members I met on the discord server. It was cool dusting off some skills I had learned in an intro to graphics course from my undergrad. The game isn't complete

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