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by vdqtp3 2mo ago
And neither of those will affect your US financial credit score
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by vdqtp3 3mo ago
> half of the US is living in abject poverty Anyone who believes this has absolutely no concept of what abject poverty looks like.
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by vdqtp3 5mo ago
> an actual war against China, as if that were a reasonable scenario. Most modern military planning considers it a foregone conclusion. Whether that's accurate or not is arguable, but approaching discussions of military spending fro
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by vdqtp3 5mo ago
I'm really frustrated by inflation numbers because there doesn't seem to be a metric that makes sense. CPI ignores the reality people feel (and swaps in cheaper items that aren't necessarily on par with the original to keep t
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by vdqtp3 5mo ago
> so the Democrats are interested in addressing it They're not any more interested in addressing it than the existing administration - it's just a talking point like everything else. Ammunition to get elected and then put away
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by vdqtp3 6mo ago
How are you going to know the appropriate pronoun on your first email to "jsmith@company.com" or "ppatel@company.com"? Are you going to send an email to ask their pronouns before you send the actual email?
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by vdqtp3 6mo ago
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19720005243 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005243/downloads/19...
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by vdqtp3 6mo ago
> How many kernel devs does the world need? A dozen or two? You're low by several orders of magnitude. "The 2025 development cycle saw 2,134 developers contribute to [Linux] kernel 6.18" [1] [1] https://commandl
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by vdqtp3 6mo ago
> If I'm writing an email or a chat message, I will typically have to use a pronoun. It's not that hard to just avoid it. I send emails to a lot of people I haven't spoken to and don't know their gender, so I write ge
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by vdqtp3 6mo ago
https://www.androidauthority.com/anker-power-bank-x-ray-scan...
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by vdqtp3 6mo ago
Same. The responses are consistently "but they only restrict bad speech"
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by vdqtp3 7mo ago
> The unemployed/underemployed American programmer that can actually keep up is a myth. Is your argument that the H1-B folks are better? That hasn't been my experience.
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by vdqtp3 7mo ago
3D printing is probably the easiest entry point in today's world. You can assemble already designed components into a structure and learn about how they work, tweak them for customization, design your own parts to produce, and "gr
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by vdqtp3 7mo ago
Most folks in government service are making significantly less than that. That's midrange GS-15 pay.
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by vdqtp3 7mo ago
> build bases where if you ask nicely, rather than having to invade How much of that actually came from soft power rather than "hard power", like USA actions in WW2?
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by vdqtp3 7mo ago
That same video shows him spitting on an officer.
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by vdqtp3 7mo ago
> Hell, Trump even said in response to the Pretti shooting that only criminals walk around carrying guns in public. If you were paying any attention at all, you'd see pretty much every 2A community, advocate and lobbying group was o
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by vdqtp3 8mo ago
> taking away the ability to create PRs to begin with. > your users don't deserve hostility from you either! No one has the right to demand my time to review their PR to my code and explain or justify a rejection. If I don't
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by vdqtp3 8mo ago
> far more reliable than any other power grid worldwide to the point that most houses and business do not have backup power plans What modern power grids typically have backups for individual residences and businesses? I haven't not
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by vdqtp3 8mo ago
> adoption is low for business travel – is it too expensive Yes. Most companies won't even spring for business/first class, which is 10-20% the cost of a charter. Unless your time is both limited and worth 4 digits per hour, it
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by vdqtp3 9mo ago
Refusing to return escaped slaves used to be illegal. Inter-racial marriage used to be illegal. Gay marriage and even gay relationships used to be illegal. Crime is not necessarily wrong.
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by vdqtp3 9mo ago
Composites in that style are also typically very durable, often more than the original material. I think GP was more likely talking about constructions of pressboard and plywood which is (charitably) less durable.
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by vdqtp3 9mo ago
20 people out of 350MM is pretty damn safe, even factoring for the relatively low numbers of people who actually interact with cattle. We as modern humans no longer have any sense of proportion when it comes to safety.
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by vdqtp3 10mo ago
> There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic Do you have a link? I went through recent ZT issues and didn't find what you're referring to
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by vdqtp3 10mo ago
I don't think I would criticize those decisions for someone working 40+ hours a week either, even if they are on assistance programs. I think it's foolish but you kind of get to make foolish decisions to a degree when you're
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by vdqtp3 10mo ago
My mental poster child for "poor" is exactly this person. She had three kids (all in public school), lived in section 8 and worked part-time bagging groceries. The kids had nothing nice, clothes were all hand-me-down or donations
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by vdqtp3 10mo ago
TBF, the industrial revolution started 250 years ago and the Merlin ceased production 75 years ago and has almost literally nothing in common with the Trent - not design, metallurgy, thermodynamic cycle, fuel... Calling the referenced achie
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by vdqtp3 11mo ago
> stationary target that's 35,000 km long and what, 12" wide? 24"? that's still very difficult to target
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by vdqtp3 11mo ago
On the contrary - commercial aviation does aim for perfection.
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by vdqtp3 11mo ago
A cross controlled stall can result in a spin (which is probably what you mean by flip upside down). The rudder changes aren't inadvertent, they're intentionally opposite the aileron input - the goal is essentially to fly somewhat

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