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jacobyoder

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    Comment #45783203

    In 2004 I was at a company that dedicated a team of people to rebuilding a bunch of tables (lots of financial data) in to styled divs because... "tables are depreciated". The fact …

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    Comment #44896412

    > and without evidence either way it's a matter of opinion The absence of evidence is used as evidence of the thing (hostile deep state actors) existing, because they're so good th…

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    Comment #44896105

    Hovering over the netscape link renders it slowly, line by line, like images used to come down...

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    Comment #44836705

    > Instead of firing the commissioner, the president should be giving the agency a raise in the form of a bigger budget. The goal should be to restore public trust in government sta…

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    Comment #44836663

    https://archive.ph/el7mM

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    Comment #44582208

    > I'm willing to bet 99% of users run their browsers fullscreen. 99% of the folks I interact with usually just use whatever size the browser opens in initially, then maybe resize i…

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    Comment #43929276

    > I think the total reliance is a legitimate concern that needs to be addressed. > I still think this approach to addressing that issue is complete madness. You're assuming the 'to…

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    Comment #43928482

    Going directly in to the Treasury. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/static-data/published-report... $252 million was collected from excise tariffs on May 6. You can look at this PDF…

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    Comment #43928418

    More to the point, if high tariffs are GOOD , we should be embracing them and the WH should be working to promote 'pride in tariffs!' messaging. Show how much you love your country…

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    Comment #43928381

    And for things that can not be manufactured or grown here... we just suck it up and pay the extra 10-20-30% anyway? If the 'intent' was to spur manufacturing, you'd enact laws with…

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    Comment #43928283

    If a business in France uses tech X imported from China, and a competing US business uses the same tech X imported from China but has to pay 145% more than the French company, is t…

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    Comment #43928257

    I watched the UK/US press conference this morning. Lutnick is infuriating. Anything remotely resembling an explanation or justification for 'tariffs' devolves in to obsequeous prai…

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    Comment #43751702

    Came to post the same thing. How can you not be biased? You built something. You want people to use it (assumption).

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    Comment #43705433

    I just can't believe your take on this. The White House press secretary has directly said, multiple times, "this is the most transparent administration ever". /s In reality, this e…

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    Comment #43162375

    forge is really just cloud provisioning, not the hosting/execution directly. and... shout out to ploi.io, a forge competitor doing good work.

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    Comment #43061689

    vultr has fractional GPUs you can get as a VPS. I think I was paying about $55/month to test one out.

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    Comment #42576735

    I need the audio streamed in - usually white/brown noise. This blocks out distractions. 30 years ago perhaps people could do 'knowledge work' without these, but most of the people …

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    Comment #42543746

    After that, I need to be using my hands more - washing them, putting stuff in the locker, tying shoes, etc. Standing there for 20-30-40 seconds is one of the few times one or both …

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    Comment #42543591

    I do it. Typically just checking a few message alerts, or finishing a news story, or starting a podcast download. It's less disruptive than checking those items in front of someone…

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    Comment #42205985

    I'd tried to put together an RFC years ago to introduce groovy-style accessors in PHP. $this->foo would look for a getFoo() method, and execute if it existed, or not if not. Felt l…

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    Comment #42165857

    Not sure I'd care to experience Beatles @ Shea, but would liked to have seen some Cavern and Hamburg shows. Would liked to have gone to some early AC/DC shows too... I actually sto…

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    Comment #42157336

    Those projects can be demonstrating your skill/ability in all areas - testing, docs, UI/UX/DX, support, project management, sales/marketing and more. But now you're possibly (likel…

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    Comment #42157331

    But if you don't have a job right now... you have time to put in to projects that can showcase your specific skills. But then... you may end up demonstrating that you can take raw …

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    Comment #42157127

    Odd... you're not the first person I've heard this from, but have been hearing this particular process happening from multiple colleagues over the last 18 months. They are all out …

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    Comment #42157051

    Take this online test in 30 minutes with awkwardly or ambiguously worded abstract problem. You don't get to ask anyone for clarification on anything like any normal developer would…