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jwlake
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Comment #49252839
Unzoned means industrial. A slaughterhouse is MUCH worse than living next to a data center. If you want it zoned residential only do that.
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Comment #49245217
Has no one heard of the concept of industrial zoning? When you live next to an industrial zone you get all the consequences. I love how literally all these projects are on shuttere…
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Comment #48470809
haven't we had hypervisor.framework for like years now?
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Comment #48378063
Its also a teaching machine. There are several classes I had in college I would have killed for ChatGPT to cut through the terrible instruction.
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Comment #48362832
I would love a RTX Spark Shield. ;p
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Comment #48242706
It was more fun when people implemented gates. :)
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Comment #48242697
2008 was literally people getting mortgages on unrealized gains, and then getting more loans. Even if the market wouldn't support the sale, they borrow against it and then get anot…
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Comment #48242421
If its not written with blocks its not real.
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Comment #48242380
The point is you should realize your gains before you reinvest the money. Circular borrowing causes asset bubbles. You could collateralize against OTHER assets, but unrealized gain…
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Comment #48239449
Loans against unrealized gains should just be taxed directly as income. Not indirectly creating more loopholes. Same way stock buybacks should be taxed at the same rate as short te…
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Comment #47732180
my m1 max macbook pro 14 has small little divots out of the edge on the right side (not on the left) presuambly because of where my wrist sits when using the track pad. It would be…
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Comment #47732173
Whats it look like closed?
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Comment #47566646
ifixit sells just the keyboards, why doesn't that work? https://www.ifixit.com/products/macbook-pro-14-a2442-a2779-a...
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Comment #47533277
did they ever add #define? bridging constants from the build system to swift with static NSString * const kConstValue = @XSTR(CONST_VALUE); is soooo annoying.
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Comment #47533212
nodejs itself doesn't have very many breakages; i have plenty of code that is unchanged from 0.12 to 24. npm is a whole other kettle of fish but I don't think you can blame the cor…
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Comment #47509293
The "isPresent()" in the example gives me alot of ick. It's confusing why thats not actual javascript.
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Comment #47508433
I would expect Apple to actually simplify the problem and not overreach and just do activation / provisioning / deactivation / lock and none of the other stuff MDMs try to do that …
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Comment #47505470
A non-terrible MDM that actually works would be really nice. The rest I doubt they get much traction on. Gmail is too easy, Google docs and sheets if you don't need Microsoft is al…
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Comment #47448279
Anyone owning 4chan should be very anonymous and only operate in a very friendly jurisdiction. Normal websites, no one cares.
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Comment #47445906
If android security is so fucked that the 24 hours helps, why do they maintain it has security?
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Comment #46876163
I remember when they invented kibibytes and mibibytes and shaking my head and being like they have forever destroyed the meaning of words and things will be off by 2% forever. And …
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Comment #46411756
its very odd that apparently everyone working in Apple software dev either refuses to dogfood this stuff or just uses iPads for everything.
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Comment #44773494
this is similar to the g modifier in javascript?
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Comment #44206585
These NEW 20 year olds are scary!
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Comment #44206575
Its so funny to me that people freak out about amortization when I spent several years at a public company having to document my work as being R&D to amortize it to make our EBITDA…