shaftway

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by shaftway 13d ago
There is zero chance I would approach a kid on their own that isn't mine. Because there is a very non-zero chance that someone would accuse me of that. If it gets to charges, even if I do successfully defend myself, then my name is mud
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by shaftway 17d ago
I appreciate looking at it from another point of view, but no. We worked with a child therapist and checked in fairly regularly on progress and goals. We considered that aspect of it, but there were a few signs that this wasn't the cas
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by shaftway 20d ago
Having a child with technology addiction, the struggle is real. It was my first experience dealing with real addiction. My son wanted to watch YouTube videos all night long. It's easy to say "don't do that"; it's ha
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by shaftway 21d ago
I want to always be able to do the next thing without worrying about getting to a point in my life where I'll need money to survive that I can't earn. How do I do that? Right now the next thing is to build neat stuff in my garage
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by shaftway 21d ago
It's basically contingent on the AGs suing those companies as well. > and paying the same amount, split between the two companies. So it's a bucket of crabs
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by shaftway 1mo ago
> On merchants who netted ginger, cinnamon and rhubarb from the Nile. In medieval price lists, a pound of ginger sold for the price of a sheep; a pound of saffron, the price of a horse. A modern horse costs $3000 - $8000. Saffron at the
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by shaftway 1mo ago
Both. AI code review is built-in, but there's always a second human in the loop. I'm concerned that there are people pushing on the code generation front, the code reviewing front, and the laziness front. Eventually they're g
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by shaftway 1mo ago
I used the Microsoft Surface Duo, and the experience was terrible. I carry a Pixel 10 Fold, and 90% of the time I use it closed. But when I want to watch a video, or I want to show someone something. The bezel very much ruins that experienc
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by shaftway 1mo ago
Thanks for the assist, I typed it up from memory.
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by shaftway 1mo ago
Not a fix for the battery, but if you're on Android, enable developer settings and change your animations to 0.5x speed (there are three settings to change). Every OS animation will take half as long. It makes an aging phone feel much
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by shaftway 1mo ago
> "In a worst case scenario, the hillside can liquefy and actually slide into the community," Assembly member Pilar Schiavo, D-Santa Clarita, said at a news conference last month. Once again, proving that Idiocracy (2006) was p
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by shaftway 1mo ago
I've been going lighter and lighter and am down to a backpack that I carry (mostly just meds and electronics) and a small suitcase that I could carry-on, but I usually check. But my spouse packs heavier and heavier every year. It'
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by shaftway 1mo ago
My parents had a sailboat, and just walking around the marina there were a ton of clever names. My favorites were: - Ménage à cinq - Never Again II
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by shaftway 1mo ago
It's not completely irrelevant, especially if you're planning to move back eventually. If you're a decent software engineer, living in North Elbonia, making $20,000 / year, that's just enough to cover mortgage on a
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by shaftway 2mo ago
My in-laws never had the money to save for retirement, so they got suckered into a reverse mortgage in Florida. They saw it as a way to have some spending money in their old age, but now that they've spent it and they're upside do
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by shaftway 2mo ago
On today's puzzle, `WROGHT` was rejected, and I got `GROWTH` just in the nick of time.
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by shaftway 3mo ago
Two years ago I'd agree with you. Today I'd be concerned that an executive order would direct FEMA not to help out of spite against CA politics. I can already hear the arguments, blaming us for living in a high risk area.
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by shaftway 3mo ago
I don't. Growing up our house was built in 1910. In '88 we do a retrofit, just in time for the '89 earthquake. Zero damage to the house or anything in it. Friends nearby who didn't retrofit had cracks. They were in the p
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by shaftway 3mo ago
I'm insured, but I'm considering dropping insurance for the most likely disaster: earthquakes. I'm in CA, and even though I'm not on top of an active fault, I'm close enough to be impacted. When the big one gets her
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by shaftway 3mo ago
I'm also currently at Google. > [Googlers live in a] vicious culture that can fire someone like Justin Poehnelt [...] without a clearly articulated reason At the end of the day, nobody other than Justin is owed a clearly articulated
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by shaftway 3mo ago
You mean the ex that he actually did make contact with? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czp6cXAsHj8
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by shaftway 3mo ago
How large is too large? I'm American with a roundabout very close to my house. The inner radius is 10 meters with an island in the middle, and single lanes in all directions. I have witnessed it successfully navigated at well over 100
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by shaftway 3mo ago
Not if the economy actually does recover, or at least "looks" like it recovered on paper. Inflation helps with that. The average inflation over the last 10 years has been just north of 3%. If you have tenants today that are paying
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by shaftway 3mo ago
Would it though? Thanks to CA Prop 65 every place I go has a warning that I'll get cancer if I take one more step. If I'm walking into a nuclear waste storage facility I'll never know because of warning fatigue.
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by shaftway 3mo ago
Yeah, em-bee. You should just be not shy. As a fellow shy person, I feel the pain when someone basically just tells you to get over it.
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by shaftway 4mo ago
As a user I actually appreciate it. But most of the stuff I google is coding questions. Before if I asked a question, the top 3 results would be StackOverflow. I'd click into the first one and find out that the question was subtly diff
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by shaftway 4mo ago
I think OP is referring to the 80's movie WarGames - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames At the end a strategic defense computer is asked to play Tic Tac Toe against itself and suddenly "learns" about
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by shaftway 4mo ago
This is the result of systemic problems at Google: - Launching is rewarded, keeping the lights on is not - The hot new teams get far more resources than tried and true ones You could sum this up in three words as "new is better".
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by shaftway 4mo ago
I was at Block and there was an interesting problem around this. A number of Google engineers had come over, and they pushed for a way to structure the codebase where you had a ton of tiny build targets. I think a "jumbo" build ta
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by shaftway 4mo ago
I jumped from Google to Meta in 2022 (Worst. Timing. Ever.) and by that time Google's IDE had pretty much caught up. Android app development at Meta was super painful because of the repo size. My good morning routine was to kick off a

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