sojsurf

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by sojsurf 9mo ago
This thread was a follow-up to squibonpig's comment about the parental responsibility and the value of giving young people access to things that are dangerous when it's done with proper guidance. I agree with him, with the caveat
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by sojsurf 9mo ago
> Are you implying one cannot be taught those skills if they have access to games? Nah, I think games can be very valuable, especially communal, in-person games. I don't mind access to games at all... I think I look at the various
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by sojsurf 9mo ago
A few thoughts: - Perhaps we have different ideas of the appropriate age to wean kids off of toys and teach them to use real (and sometimes dangerous) things. Today's discussion is about guns, but the same could be said for boats, mot
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by sojsurf 9mo ago
Well written, and I agree with you on everything you wrote. That said, "the internet" is a large place, and I think parents would find more clarity thinking of it the way they think of a physical place. In my mind, letting my son
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by sojsurf 10mo ago
Probably using off-the-shelf analytics because rolling your own analytics takes time away from solving the central problems your users are paying you for. No one is _using_ the data. It's often not even really PII except that GDPR&#x
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by sojsurf 11mo ago
hah, thanks. It's a bit more nuanced than that. Let me try again. I completely support Apple's right to publish software that makes it difficult for unapproved software to run on it. Similarly, I support your right to try runnin
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by sojsurf 11mo ago
I bought an iphone knowing that Apple has a review process and that I'm limited to apps sold in their store. Similarly, when I had an Android device I knew what I was getting in to. I appreciate the fairly high level of review that ap
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by sojsurf 11mo ago
One thing I've noticed is that our current economic model, which builds in constant inflation, forces buyers and sellers to have this conversation non-stop. Why are prices higher? Because our costs are higher. Or because everyone el
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by sojsurf 11mo ago
93,000 new homes per year? That's an impressive figure: The second largest city/settlement in Ireland, Belfast, has a population of about 350,000. If these new homes house three people each (a family with one child), it means th
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by sojsurf 11mo ago
Interesting idea. What are your thoughts on the following questions: - Who decides who gets the valuable land (high rent value) and who gets the land no one wants to use? - What happens when the population changes due to birth/death&#
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by sojsurf 1y ago
I live near Detroit, not Hollywood. Most union workers are not movie stars, directors, staring quarterbacks or soccer stars. Most are cops, teachers and automotive workers. Speaking with a friend around me who worked in automotive, the un
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by sojsurf 1y ago
I was just reading up on wifi 7 today. It sounds like the spec was designed with WIFI sensing in mind.
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by sojsurf 1y ago
> I think there is value though in carriers saying "no, wait, I'll do the lookup when I am ready to deliver!", because then I order something today with a 3-month lead time and if I move house, the delivery "follows m
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by sojsurf 1y ago
I have used Google meet exclusively for a number of years, multiple times a day on the cheapest Internet connection I can buy in my area. It is consistently a better experience then Zoom or Teams. The only caveat is that the experience is n
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by sojsurf 1y ago
I went back recently. Maybe I'm in the wrong circles, but I'm seeing neither of these. I _am_ still seeing lots of recycled content looking for clicks.
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by sojsurf 2y ago
Air pressure differentials, to be precise!
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by sojsurf 2y ago
Henry Ford did something similar with a beautiful English cottage from the early 1600s. > In 1929, Henry purchased the property for $5,000 and immediately hired a team of local builders to restore the structures to more accurately refle
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by sojsurf 2y ago
> basic fiscal responsibility currently exists at odds with the reality most people need to exist within to be content. Thanks for pointing that out. There are expenses that have gone up significantly compared to the average income. At
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by sojsurf 2y ago
I disagree with the statement that credit is basically mandatory. The issues you raised may be real, but borrowing money does not solve any of them, it just hides them. My experience is that credit cards are predatory and offer an easy al
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by sojsurf 2y ago
Under President Johnson, government funding began to incentivize single (predominantly black) mothers not to marry the father of their children. IMO this had disastrous effects on our urban centers. Before the social welfare solutions of
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by sojsurf 2y ago
Raw milk drinker here. We've been drinking raw milk for some years now. What makes it work is that the milk comes from a farm (which we can visit), which has a small number of cows and follows modern best practices when it comes to m
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by sojsurf 3y ago
The foundation for healthy interpersonal relationships seems deeply tied into the core values of (some) "restrictive religious ways". "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It d
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by sojsurf 3y ago
Perhaps as opposed to "Firefox got faster in the benchmarks", which do not always correlate to how normal users use the web.
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by sojsurf 4y ago
If you split profit equally, you should also split investment and risk equally. Many folks who start a small business owners put their home and other assets on the line to fund their company. Most employees appreciate that they are getting
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by sojsurf 5y ago
Counter opinion: I don't want to host Elasticsearch myself, which is why I pay Elastic to host several clusters. That said, I really don't want to be locked into a single-vendor situation, which is what Elastic is realistically a
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by sojsurf 6y ago
It's easy to forget that old designs are not necessarily bad designs. The "original" shingles are wooden shingles, clay half-pipes, and slate shingles. These have some good things going for them: - Modular design makes tran
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by sojsurf 6y ago
+1. One of my clients got scratched on her wrist by a house cat she had nurtured for years. She ended up spending a significant amount of time in the hospital with a serious infection that nearly resulted in amputation.
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by sojsurf 6y ago
Amazon customer here. We use Elastic's offering because it has a fairly good management layer. That said, there's a lot of room for either player to improve things. One example is user/access management. Kibana tries to b
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by sojsurf 6y ago
Also from Detroit metro, and was coming here to say the same thing. I moved here from out of state and the more I talk to folks who work in the auto industry, the more I'm convinced that unions are a large obstacle to the revitalizati
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by sojsurf 6y ago
I recently learned that if you mute yourself in Zoom, the space bar acts as a push-to-talk button.

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