sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
That's the thinking of the people pushing for shutting down municipal fireworks shows.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
The crazy part is that the problem is obviously not the scheduled 20 minute municipal fireworks show that ends at 10:00 once a year. If you have sensitivities, you can just go on a drive for half an hour. The problem is the assholes setting off fireworks for months on either side at unpredictable timings. The first is enjoyed by many, the second is enjoyed only by the few setting them off. The first is legible, the second is not.
What is to be done? Clearly we must do something, and shuttering the scheduled show is something, so we must do it. How much will this help the people with sensitivities? Not at all, of course, because they suffer due to the second thing, not the first thing. But we're obviously unwilling or incapable of doing anything more about the second thing, so we'll pretend that this somehow makes it better.
To me it pattern matches with a bootleggers and baptists situation, but I can't immediately tell who the bootleggers are here. Is DJI behind this?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
Remarkable considering you (I think?) live in a Hispanic neighborhood. In my heavily Hispanic neighborhood, I can expect to hear fireworks every night for many months around July 4.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
They tried with "Stop Asian Hate," but it turned out that Asians are doing better than whites by most measures and the people beating Chinese grandmas for bus money aren't white. So I think we've already seen how such a campaign would pan out (i.e. not at all).
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2d ago
Most illegals have stolen SSNs? Where is the evidence for that? I did not see it in this thread.
If solving the illegal immigrant situation entails solving the SSN theft situation, that's even better. "What if all this is wrong and we create a better world for nothing?"
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4d ago
I have the local hospital put a psych hold on Steve and forget about it.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4d ago
You can’t mass deport without large scale holding camp infrastructure.
Mandatory e-verify would probably be a lot easier to enforce given that employers, unlike illegal immigrants, usually have names, addresses, assets, registrations, tax returns, etc that can be used to lean on them in legible ways. How many illegal immigrants are going to come here if they can't get a job and can't get benefits? How many will stay?
Vanning ten Guatemalans at a time at the home depot parking lot is not a serious strategy. Of course, Trump has already given carte blanche to continue hiring illegal immigrants to politically important industries, so it's just obvious that solving this is not a priority.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4d ago
Picasso has High favorability, rather higher than Monet.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4d ago
AI coding is neither necessary nor sufficient for engineers to dismiss end user concerns. I've seen this sort of thing going on for years in big companies, though fortunately not for anything life critical.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5d ago
I'm unlikely to be fined, jailed, or fired even if I write some seriously fucked up code. The CEO may be fired, and the company may be sued, but neither of those entities knows what my day to day looks like.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5d ago
Even Peter Singer eats bivalves. They are incredibly simple "animals".
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
Her dad died when she was 17 and I'm not aware of her mother having any ties to the MB. For that matter I'm not even sure what her dad's ties are supposed to have been, but I admit I haven't looked deeply into it.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
Not a hoomer, but some thoughts:
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Get Your House Right is a really good resource for basic design questions (proportions, moldings, layouts, etc). You might also see if Brent Hull has any videos on southern style houses.
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Lever handles are much better than doorknobs IMO. I fairly often need to open a door with stuff in my hands and it's way easier to do it if the door opens with a lever handle.
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Think seriously about room ventilation. The house should be set up so that you can get cross-breezes going.
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Make sure you put in a skookum kitchen hood that's sized appropriately for your cooktop. I've lived my life in places with underpowered or non-existent hoods and it sucks.
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Try to avoid making the garage a major part of your house's facade. May not be possible depending on your lot, unfortunately - but it looks much better if you can make it happen.
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Put some thought into sealing your garage to keep insects out.
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If you end up with a small bathroom, consider installing a pocket door. I have a bathroom right now where the room door and the shower door open into each others' space and it sucks.
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Two sinks in the master bath is a must.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9d ago
I... don't actually know what we can do about it, other than to let the blue tribe shrivel up and die from the low fertility this produces.
Considering this guy has three kids, this plan isn't panning out in this case.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
I see tons of pickups in my blue/Hispanic area in absolute mint condition and empty beds. Fairly often they drive around with tow mirrors extended despite not towing anything. Sometimes you even see "duallies" (trucks with four wheels on the rear axle) in similar pristine condition. Hispanic landscapers drive beat to shit Ford trucks.
Does anyone have a sense of why Americans choose pickups over other big-ass form factors?
I think in my area, suburban office workers are alienated from anything to do with manipulating the physical world rather than symbols and feel that a very large and expensive truck connects them in some way to rugged manual labor.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
19d ago
Where do you live that programmers are earning $50k?
Start job searching for an actual industry job. Again, really unappealing to me. The thought of presenting such a false image of myself as someone competent is quite repulsive, and I don't know that I have enough actual accomplishments on my resume to get any chances. I almost feel worse off than when I graduated, but I actually can't say I regret my decisionmaking.
A good industry position is quite cushy, although obviously not without the usual downsides that come with working for a big company. Who knows what will happen in 10 years.
What do you mean by "presenting a false image" of competence? If you write stuff you did on your resume, why is that presenting a false image?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
19d ago
Do you already have a bachelor's degree in CS?
I have not found that the CS bachelor's degree syllabus is particularly useful for becoming a good programmer, much less becoming a good software engineer.
I think the best way to become a better engineer is to find a good engineer and work with them and learn from them. At least, that is what I have always been able to do, and that is what I have found helped me the most. If you are the best engineer around, it's time to find a new role.
The job market right now is not good, and while I don't think it's a permanent downturn, it's not easy to move around. If you have connections, leverage them.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
The period starting December 2024. The problem is, the clips on TV couldn't have started in December 2024, nor could they have had much of an effect even in January 2025 on account of Trump being sworn in on the 17th of that month.
Now, perhaps you will claim that it was in fact the threat of the Trump presidency that caused numbers to drop even faster than they were already dropping. Perhaps, but that's not the claim you made and the claim I'm arguing against.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
Border encounters have been plummeting since December 2023 (or, as they call it, dec fy2024): https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
You're 57 and you've noticed zero deterioration in 37 years?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
21d ago
I wonder if anyone has tried gpui?
It powers https://zed.dev/ which I likewise have never used, but seems interesting and more performant than electronslop.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
21d ago
the very day I become conscious of physical or mental deterioration, I'm checking into a hotel and euthanizing myself with the strongest poison I can get my hands on.
So you're going to kill yourself by 40? Certainly just about everyone is in worse physical shape at 40 than at 20.
This isn't a gotcha, the point is that very slow decay is, uh, very slow.
"Worst" is measured in acres, in this case, 70,800 of them.
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