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by nsvd2 7d ago
Yes, let's bring the experience of waiting at the DMV or dealing with the IRS to payment systems. Great idea
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by nsvd2 24d ago
The bottom line is that the country cannot spend more than it makes in tax income indefinitely and anyone who says otherwise is delusional. Unfortunately, I think the reckoning for all this debt will come sooner than many people expect.
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by nsvd2 1mo ago
The watermark is in the text. If you copy the text you're copying the watermark which is part of the text. Computerphile on YT has a video explaining how models can fingerprint the text they produce. Essentially they modify the probabi
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by nsvd2 1mo ago
How terrifying that a bit of nature may be near a person! Better cover it with roundup so they don't have to suffer the horror of seeing a spider
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
3% is typical for a HYSA (Ally, for example)
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
1.75 is less than the money is losing value from inflation. If that savings is in USD it's quite a bit less than inflation over the past five years.
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
Actually the high income households are becoming a greater and greater share of spending, referred to as the "K shaped" economy. For example, the top quintile of households accounts for about 40% of all consumer spending.
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
It won't let you use the same letters in the same order again (e.g. LEASE -> LEASED). I think that's fair.
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
How could race-determined discrimination be anything other than racism?
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
Complexity is cost.
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
Surely a tax would be a better incentive mechanism than a hard cap.
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
All according to plan if you believe that Trump is a foreign-sponsored "useful idiot".
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
And US loses 1-4 even with their striker.
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
All states require tipped workers to make at least minimum wage, that's what a minimum wage is. However, usually they can make part of that wage in tips. In theory, if they make less then minimum wage in tips plus hourly wage, the empl
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by nsvd2 2mo ago
How does deep packet inspection work on encrypted traffic?
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
I'm reading this comment as sarcastic, you don't think that the recent infrastructure build out is a positive?
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
If this is happening in software engineering it would imply that Americans are moving to other, higher paid work which doesn't seem to be the case.
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
If the government wanted people to take holidays off they could just legislate that people can't work on those days. I doubt there is any political will to do this, though.
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
If at any point your counter-governmental action actually threatens to take some share of power away from the government, they will swiftly and quietly deal with you (they have about 1000 ways to track you, and AI reduces the cost of tracki
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
Surely all of those metrics can be easily gamed by a competent software engineer.
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
Well, yes, China has a large number of tarrifs imposed on it from the U.S.
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
It surprises me that any municipality would make that legal, seems dangerous.
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
There is no difference, from the model's point of view, between code it wrote and code someone else wrote. It's all just context.
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
Analogies can provide insight without exact equivalence.
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
While true, that doesn't distinguish between Zig and Rust, as both allow you to manually allocate memory and create custom data structures.
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
Jon Gjengset has some live streams where he does agentic coding.
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by nsvd2 3mo ago
Yes, but in my experience Claude is much better at diagnosing issues on Linux than any other OS because it's text-native and is the best documented OS.
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by nsvd2 4mo ago
Where I live (major city) because of zoning there are few apartment buildings and basically 100% are only for rent, not individually owned units. So if you want to own where you live it must be a townhome or detached house.
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by nsvd2 4mo ago
In fact, being able to "play the game" so to speak is probably part of what the interviewer is looking for.
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by nsvd2 4mo ago
I've always been interested in Fossil, especially how they handle all the things in a project that aren't strictly code but still need to be tracked.

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