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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Yep, I open Xcode several times per year, but haven't done it on purpose since... uh, 2014 or so?
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
If a take-home or anything else (automated half-hour online test or whatever) taking more than a couple minutes and not requiring as much time investment from them as you comes before they've winnowed down much of the field—if it&#
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
In his first campaign especially, he talked exactly like a normal Republican voter. They say shit like "why don't they just build a wall?" (or they might suggest planting minefields along the border, super-common suggestion
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
We used to limit local market monopolization and total reach of, at least, public airwaves broadcasters. That was a good idea. But we stopped.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
The current far-right effort started with the postwar "think tank" boom, and that crowd has been working (successfully) to bend policy and law so they can enable and guide the creation of massive right-wing propaganda networks sin
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
> When I had a bad experience at a chain pharmacy 10-ish years ago I spent less than an hour, googled "independent pharmacies" and found the National Community Pharmacists Association. They have a locator for locally-owned inde
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
The noun sense does not.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I don’t get drawing a distinction. If a company has it, there’s at least one government out there that either also already has it (some telecom companies just give them data portals, for example) or can any time they choose. Corporate surve
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I think the author needs to shop at "richer" places for the treatment they want. Service is rich-people shit, and they're evidently not spending rich-people money. Inflation may recently have fucked up their expectations. It&
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Yeah this is like saying Aldi “automated” cart return. They didn’t, they got every shopper to do the work themselves. Automated cart return would be if you just gave the cart a little “giddyup!” when you were done and it found its way home.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I read it as the word aff-ect, not uh-ffect (American pronunciation; both are spelled “affect”). Noun sense of “affect”, not verb. But it’s possible I was reading too generously and this was a botched attempt to employ “effect”, which would
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I did a ton of looking into this over the years. That everything is a little bit at fault, is why if you exhaustively eliminate (say) insurance overhead, it leaves a weird amount of the elevated costs intact. Thinking you’ve found the one
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I do their work. No work got automated.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
It 100% is one of the reasons. We pay medical personnel way higher wages than peer states. US healthcare is so expensive because basically every single part of it costs more than it "should", by quite a bit. Including, yes, doct
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
What's the error? I'd hyphenate "poorly-composed" (most wouldn't these days, but they can go to hell) and I think it's a bit too wordy for what it's communicating, but I don't see what I'd call a
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Nah, I've been using them correctly for years. My preference for them came by way of reading a lot in generally, but especially from Salinger. I do them without surrounding spaces, because that's... how you're supposed to use
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Self check-out machines aren't automation.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Even my home wifi sometimes has enough packet loss to kill SSH connections. And if my computer sleeps for a even a quarter-second, yeah, connection dead. Mosh means a lot less, "Sigh..." up-arrow, enter . A small thing, but why l
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Is that an actual problem we've had? Nb announced revisions aren't a problem at all, and not one that "blockchain" prevents anyway (you can publish new stuff on a blockchain, no problem)
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Yeah this is entirely pointless. You can put anything "on a blockchain" but the cases in which that does anything useful versus any of several simpler and cheaper solutions are fairly narrow.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
To put this in very-online terms: this is a skill issue. Your life will be richer if you learn to take more things in, and to appreciate them. And it may require actual learning! And practice!
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
More relevantly, it’s an open secret that a lot of churches are heavily into political advocacy directly for candidates, which they’re not supposed to do under their tax status, but they’ve been playing with the boundaries unchecked and are
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Black hole goes into a barbershop. Barber goes, "You're kiddiinnngggg mmmmmmeeeeeeeeee, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii...."
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I thought the return vehicle was a to-be-developed direct-return vehicle from both SpaceX and Blue Origin (both got contracts, and supposedly both's versions will fly)? [EDIT] Apparently there are multiple plans involving even more spa
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
IIRC, the expected return payload for this is lighter than Apollo. In no small part because they're dropping all their return fuel and their entire return vehicle into the Moon's gravity well, rather than leaving it in orbit. Su
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
The mission is wildly more complicated than the Apollo missions. There's a whole oddball-orbit space station that has to be placed as a way-station, for one thing, and none of that's happened yet (remember how long it took to bu
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
If you've talked to many "real American" Republican voters, Trump is exactly what they've wanted since at least the 90s. "Traditional" Republicans were just all they had as an alternative to Democrats, who ar
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I can't imagine wanting to go to even a local conference unless it's a paid alternative to doing real work in a shitty office. Like sure, it's better than that. But certainly not wanting to travel for it. Like if it's
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Before his take-over, like 50% of my attempts to load a linked tweet in a browser failed with an error, which would sometimes, but not always, be resolved with a few refreshes. If the tweet loaded, I couldn't see the discussion, to inc
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
"Modern" Web UIs to make backpack-portable supercomputers feel slow operating on text files that wouldn't have been challenging to work with by 1990 standards. The Cloud to make single-digit-seconds operations on a local Rasp

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