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> but unless the entire hiring process is remote (I've done this once so it's not impossible) FYI this is the norm for fully remote positions, at least in my experience

I have several Griswolds and they’re my daily drivers. I love cooking on them, but stainless steel is so much easier to clean. I can scour it as hard as I want and it’ll be fine wi…

> Twitter became a global phenomenon with the same UI and an even slower ruby on rails implementation behind it, despite the constant fail whale. I’m not sure what this comment is …

I don’t think the problem I want solved here is replicating forums, blogs, IRC, Teamspeak, or gaming servers. I want something a lot like Twitter but with some way to take my stuff…

I thought Rosetta 2 was a purely software layer

> I would think that would be hard to do if you've already seen what appropriate portions are. This would be true if not knowing what an appropriate portion size is was the one thi…

> Email is very much decentralized. It looks like about 97% of people use iCloud, Gmail, or Outlook as their provider. That doesn't feel like it's terribly different. The people no…

The thing I was responding to was about pricing policy in general, but I would assume so

> Usually the advertised price must be honored, because it may have brought the customer to your store. This is not the case for groceries in Massachusetts at least. If there’s a d…

ATproto does support storing data elsewhere. That’s what a PDS does. I’m not sure what you mean by an offline-first system in this context though or why it’s required for decentral…

It sounds like Blacksky's outage was much more limited and was caused by them missing some spots where their code still accidentally had some Bluesky integration due to it being th…

> If by "decentralised" you mean "0.001% of it is not only hosted centrally" Sure, much like how email is decentralized in theory but barely is in practice. This doesn’t mean that …

The Bluesky app view is centralized in that it can decide which content to show, but A) the hosting of that content is decentralized, and B) alternate app views like Blacksky exist…

My understanding is that ATProto itself is definitely decentralized but the app view most people interact with using the Bluesky app is centralized ...sort of. The Bluesky app view…

Don't the vast majority of young people entering the workforce have no capital gains to deal with at all? That tends to be more of a problem for people who are already well off. Ar…

> I see young people frustrated when their cars get broken into or when they get robbed and criminals are not held accountable. How often are your peers experiencing these crimes? …

> [...] I'm personally stronger than that. Respectfully, I think all of your actions here contradict that claim. It's easy for a person to mistake having a temper with strength. It…

Ah gotcha. That seems much more reasonable!

> How can people be so naive as to run something like Claude anywhere other than in a strictly locked down sandbox that has no access to anything but the single git repo they are w…

> A heat pump house uses perhaps 40-50kwh in deep winter. Over what time period, and where? My geothermal system draws about 1200 watts when heating our large house on the coldest …

No idea. I was just chiming in to say that is indeed the case with YouTube for some people.

To elaborate, I think experts usually use these terms as follows: an addiction is something where you have a continuous and difficult to resist drive to keep doing/using something …