unbalancedevh

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by unbalancedevh 2mo ago
This is like the on-line game Text Twist.
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by unbalancedevh 3mo ago
> Please invest in some happy backyard chickens I guess that depends on your interpretation of "invest." I don't know of anybody who claimed to save money on eggs by raising their own chickens. It's more of a lifest
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by unbalancedevh 3mo ago
Two cases when I've received a bank check without being able to choose an alternative: 1) as payment of proceeds in a class-action lawsuit; 2) when I got a refund from my insurance provider after changing the terms. These might not be
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by unbalancedevh 3mo ago
> kakistocracy New vocab word, thanks. The word's been around for a while, so I guess there's some solace in knowing that this isn't the first time. Hopefully this is just a speed-bump to progress, and not a long-term de
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by unbalancedevh 5mo ago
Understandable. Most wives don't like it when their husbands proposition others.
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by unbalancedevh 6mo ago
Reminds me of "Mr. Pine's Purple House"
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by unbalancedevh 7mo ago
> Agree with you on the foldables. God, no one wants that. I think there are a lot of people who would love to have a smaller form-factor for when the phone is in their pocket, with a large screen for when it's being used. The curr
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by unbalancedevh 7mo ago
> If you want to solve the problem, you need to go to the source. Which is precisely why it's so short-sighted to try to solve your problem by "wiping out the entire Amazon jungle and replacing it with a world class high techno
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by unbalancedevh 7mo ago
> If I had a button that would wipe out the entire Amazon jungle and replace it with a world class high technology industry, I wouldn't even think twice before pressing it. I used to think this way, but I've come to realize tha
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by unbalancedevh 7mo ago
I think it was "Smarter Every Day," but there's a YouTube channel where the guy went all-out in trying to design, source, and manufacture a simple grill scrubber 100% in the US, and failed. He got the product finished and on
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by unbalancedevh 7mo ago
Each new fire is a distraction from the chaos created by the previous one.
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by unbalancedevh 7mo ago
In the US anyway, calling yourself an "engineer" is only regulated if you sell your services to the public as one. Inside of a business, like a car manufacturer, the position title of "engineer" can be applied to any jo
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by unbalancedevh 7mo ago
It depends on how you define humanity. The singularity implies that the current model isn't appropriate anymore, but it doesn't suggest how.
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by unbalancedevh 7mo ago
> What is the actual use of this? From the article: "Our analysis of road segments in California and Virginia revealed that the number of segments with observed HBEs was 18 times greater than those with reported crashes. While crash
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by unbalancedevh 8mo ago
The reality in 2024 was that yes, the alternative was more of the previous administration. Maybe that was never a way to whatever ideal solution or policies might be possible in the future. But the only possible benefit of the current admi
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by unbalancedevh 8mo ago
This kind of failure-to-enforce is endemic to government. Oversight and enforcement are implicitly expected of well-regulated governments, and that costs money that nobody wants to pay. Laws get enacted with little thought to how much it
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by unbalancedevh 8mo ago
I have this setup, and the Firestick UI is horribly slow. Sometimes it takes 30 seconds or more for it to give any response to a button press. It's worst when I'm trying to watch something on Amazon Prime, to the point that I ha
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by unbalancedevh 8mo ago
9 May 2012 at about 20:00, a dot comes streaking out of the east, across Africa and into the Atlantic. What's up with that?
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by unbalancedevh 8mo ago
And then there's the "nightmare" difficulty, but you have to find that hidden door!
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by unbalancedevh 9mo ago
> requiring my team to review their own PRs before they expect a senior developer to review them I'm having a hard time imagining the alternative. Do junior developers not take any pride in their work? I want to be sure my code wo
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by unbalancedevh 9mo ago
> We should impose, by law, the following rules on all companies that offer accounts to their customers. When the services that a company provides gets to this level, it starts becoming like a public utility. If it's not possible t
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by unbalancedevh 9mo ago
I apply my own meaning to the 5-star rating, and find it to work really well: 1 = The movie was so bad I didn't/couldn't finish watching it. 2 = I watched it all, but didn't enjoy it and wouldn't recommend it to any
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by unbalancedevh 10mo ago
> Perl is most human-like programming language This claim always seemed bizarre to me. What kind of drugs do you think a layman would think you were on if you showed them a typical Perl program and asserted how "human-like" it
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by unbalancedevh 11mo ago
> You would think Google Analytics would help a lot with this, but they seem to not care. Not just not care, but don't they have incentive to report higher traffic?
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by unbalancedevh 1y ago
Unfortunately, the amount of money invested in something isn't indicative of it's utility. For example: the tulip mania, beanie babies, NFTs, etc.
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by unbalancedevh 1y ago
> Chinese officials claim these new satellite networks will be used for Internet connectivity. That may be so, but Pentagon officials worry China can use them for other purposes, just as the Space Force is doing with Starlink, Starshield
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by unbalancedevh 1y ago
Good cooking smells delicious. Let it permeate!
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by unbalancedevh 1y ago
The article notes several examples of reduced use of fossil fuels: > California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023 > total carbon emissions in China had actually decreased >
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by unbalancedevh 1y ago
I work for a major tier-1 supplier for the trucking industry, and the outlook is not good. This year was supposed to be a good year as customers pre-buy to avoid upcoming changes in emission regulations, but the drop in trade with China me
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by unbalancedevh 1y ago
> It's statements like this that make me question the intellectual honesty of people. It doesn't take much thinking to understand it, right? It isn't a matter of intellectual honesty. People who think assault rifles shoul

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