shinjitsu

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by shinjitsu 2mo ago
I think also the ridiculous nature of the automobile market is a significant secondary problem in the US. When the median new vehicle is $49000 and the median annual salary (pretax) is ~$65,000 that isn't sustainable.
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by shinjitsu 4mo ago
I actually require the book the Jon Bodner was talking about in a class I teach every couple of years. The students who do well (the ones you would want to hire) will read it, the others will skim or try to summarize it
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by shinjitsu 5mo ago
Patrick Santore - he worked there sometime in the mid-late 1980s
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by shinjitsu 5mo ago
How much of the school closures are because of declining enrollment? https://www.bostonindicators.org/article-pages/2024/june/emp... https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/public-school-en
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by shinjitsu 5mo ago
How big was the Franklin back then? My uncle worked there in the 1980s, but I was a kid and have no concept of if it was a scappy startup or a midsized company.
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by shinjitsu 5mo ago
As a fan of Heinlein's book, the movie flattened the exploration of the political themes from the book and turned it into said black comedy. It would be like turning Animal House or Lord of the Flies into a black comedy.
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by shinjitsu 10mo ago
>Despising older folks has been a thing a long time, made famous by Zuck starting out. and before that is was hippies with "Don't trust anyone over 30" which became deeply ingrained in at least American culture.
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by shinjitsu 10mo ago
Sometimes people who are able to talk a lot do quite well in interviews - and University students need to be exposed to a wide variety of topics, but rarely support large projects for a long time, so that wouldn't be something that wou
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by shinjitsu 2y ago
So Thundarr the Barbarian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4HBH6Z-Iw
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
Right you are - if cheap was all that matter the Yugo would have been everywhere https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a21082360/a-quick-hist...
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
My parents were public school teachers for decades. When our oldest son was getting to be school aged they recommended that we homeschool because as they said "It is nothing like when you went to school". When I met an old high sc
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
large cities seeing erosion of their tax base are also hiring PR firms I think
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
Well The local governor of Hawaii used twitter to cancel a missile alert - so it isn't that wild an idea https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16923080/hawaii-governor-...
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
Now if only they could do something like this for states. Some of the high pop high tax states are far worse to file for than the feds.
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
Wayland has struck me for years as being the new IPv6, the tech that the deep technical people tell me needs to come and replace the old thing that "doesn't work any more" and yet never quite takes over. maybe the year of cri
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
Was the one who got tenure the one who brought in bigger grants? Unfortunately in the R1 Universities these days that is probably the most important thing, even more than your academic family tree https://academictree.org/
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
>then I'd argue Maine should be in -4.5 instead of -5. Maine knows it should be in Atlantic, it just doesn't want to be more isolated from the rest of the country than it already is https://www.pressherald.com/2
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
An interesting take on this. Will it lead to a general increase for the Global South? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKvT7OS-lbU
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
I was a subscriber 10-15 years ago, but I used steam/proton now, I wonder how large the market for something like codeweavers is in 2023?
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by shinjitsu 3y ago
Command line heroes was amazing, I was bummed they ended - but I guess they did cover a lot. ( https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes ) I'm also a big fan of Coder Radio ( https://coder.show/ )
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by shinjitsu 4y ago
emm386 Error #06 And a subscription to the Microsoft knowledge base which came on CD (in addition to the books others have talked about) And I vaguely remember that the debugger inserted itself between DOS and windows, when meant that it co
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by shinjitsu 4y ago
I've loved ubuntu for a while as well, but snaps are making me want something new - any suggestions for a "I'm middle aged with children so I need an it just works distro"?
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by shinjitsu 4y ago
Most of these (Kosher Butcher for example) are going to be very small companies and these kinds of requirements don't usually kick in till you have a certain minimum level of employees since there is an assumption in most states that v
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Moroccan Wall: The Longest Minefield in the World(amusingplanet.com)
1 points by shinjitsu 4y ago|0 comments
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by shinjitsu 4y ago
This works fine for research universities, but in teaching universities (couldn't find the statistics, but there are a lot of them out there) someone has to subsidize the new STEM programs until the alumni start giving grants. In my ex
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by shinjitsu 5y ago
In my high school a few years before me there was a legendary cheating ring that would tap out the answers to each other in Morse code which was presented as tapping a pencil eraser on the desk like they were thinking. Unfortunately for the
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by shinjitsu 5y ago
Unfortunately a lot of this is because many faculty of 'liberal arts' colleges/universities believe "we are here to give an education and open student's minds and broaden their horizons" but even more often I h
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by shinjitsu 5y ago
The issue here is that for most people (as opposed to highly paid tech workers) these items are all luxury items that are rarely replaced, as opposed to food and energy which are necessities of life. I know a number of university students w
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by shinjitsu 5y ago
>If they have a small mom and pop company that cannot pay workers at least $50,000, then they need to go out of business. wow, this site really does skew toward coastal cities in the US doesn't it? $50k a year is a high end white co
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by shinjitsu 5y ago
Especially families with children- now we are talking $8+ a meal at a time in life when people are very price sensitive.

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