jason0597

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by jason0597 3y ago
I work as an Equipment Reliability Engineer at a nuclear power station. The only programming we are allowed to use is Microsoft Excel Macros, nothing else. There’s a reason why VBA is still alive.
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by jason0597 3y ago
My apologies, I've been up for 18hrs today
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by jason0597 3y ago
Certainly not for money, he lives in a simple house and drives a simple car. Probably because he just likes his job
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by jason0597 3y ago
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by jason0597 4y ago
No, I pay fastmail [1] to do it all for me. I am reading in the comments that a lot of people have success with self-hosting, and maybe I will look into it someday when I am not busy every hour of every day studying chemical engineering, bu
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by jason0597 4y ago
make recompiles source code files by detecting the last modified date on a file, hence it only recompiles source files as necessary. So if you have 10 source files with 5000 lines of C in them, and you only change one of them, it will not r
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by jason0597 4y ago
Because it means less eyeballs on the front page, hence less ad revenue
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by jason0597 4y ago
I think that's an exaggeration of how it works in Europe, it is not the case that it "sucks so bad people end up buying private healthcare anyways"
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by jason0597 4y ago
The level of crime in Rotterdam is lower than in San Francisco though
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by jason0597 4y ago
This is exactly my experience with my differential equation lessons in my maths classes at Year 1 and Year 2 undergraduate chemical engineering. The way we were told to just follow the instructions and not have any critical thinking at all
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by jason0597 4y ago
When AMD or NVIDIA sell GPUs to scalpers, and those scalpers resell the GPUs and keep the profit, there's outrage about it. Nobody ever says to "build more GPUs" to fix the problem. When houses and new developments get snatch
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by jason0597 4y ago
Same stuff can happen with Windows too with unexpected updates. Not sure about Mac though, I've never used one.
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by jason0597 4y ago
> https://twitter.com/techemails/ Slightly off-topic, but wow. What an absolutely brilliant twitter account.
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by jason0597 4y ago
I am genuinely surprised that there is so much interest in the comments here and excitement about fusion energy powering the future. Yet I see surprisingly few numbers or physics being discussed. Kind of disappointed for a forum that is sup
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by jason0597 4y ago
As per the comment: > it is also nice knowing that I never have to worry about losing my device since all of my actual work is on a server I can login to using just about any other device including my phone.
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by jason0597 4y ago
> People wanted cars because, for most of the US, they are the only practical transportation method. And that's because government zoning at the time prioritised suburban single-family house zoning, which in turn created the car-dep
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by jason0597 4y ago
> I think you’re misdiagnosing the cause. Nearly everyone I know—my circle skews highly educated and well compensated—cares more about social issues than economic ones. Of course they would. They are very well educated and very well comp
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by jason0597 4y ago
No I don't think so. People still pay a pretty penny to watch live music, and the human and emotional interaction with an artist just can't be matched.
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America's Lost Boys and Me(bariweiss.substack.com)
2 points by jason0597 4y ago|8 comments
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by jason0597 4y ago
I think the fact that companies like Klarna are downsizing is good overall. Klarna literally offers nothing but interest free loans (3 instalments typically), and they tear out your eyeballs if you miss the payments with ridiculous interest
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by jason0597 4y ago
> Lets be real, you need to be using JavaScript for the internet to be functional, even within Tor That's incorrect, especially the last part. Dark services work very hard to design their websites to work without JS, due to these
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by jason0597 4y ago
There are lots of uranium reserves around the world that are in classically Western countries
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by jason0597 4y ago
Let's not forget the time where the 30% tax refund Apple misinformation spread like wildfire on the front page
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by jason0597 4y ago
> It’s not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US Because working hard is not a guarantee to a successful material life. https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/h
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List of gTLDs available for registration at Namecheap(namecheap.com)
2 points by jason0597 4y ago|0 comments
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by jason0597 4y ago
Wait until you see what hardware the OpenBSD developers use... are you going to claim that they aren't professionals? https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20120425065148 https://www.undeadly.org
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by jason0597 4y ago
Where's the visa? :)
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by jason0597 4y ago
If you make less than $112k abroad, you don't have to pay US income tax (as long as you declare it to the IRS) https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
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by jason0597 4y ago
> "And I don't think that a job makes a person special, why would it? It's just a job. I work on a hot market, someone else does not - that doesn't make any of us special people." Well, a job takes up roughly 1&#
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by jason0597 4y ago
> You have to move to some awfully expensive part of the country and interact with some extremely thin skinned people all day, and spend hours upon hours examining minute details of systems supporting systems supporting systems that you

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