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ngdev
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My friend's brother just died of heroin overdose a few weeks ago and I just couldn't help but feel for him. How many dark alleys did he have to go to to get his high? How many sketchy people were involved? Did he have access to clean needles? He overdosed alone, and likely felt subhuman due to being relegated to the fringes of society just to get his high.
Legalization would not have kept him from getting high, but it certainly would have enabled him access to clean drugs from a safe place, clean needles, and possibly made him viewed as someone who enjoyed getting high and not a piece of shit addict. He had a problem and it being illegal only made it worse for him.
Legalize it all. He was an adult, it's his body. He can do what he wants with it, it's nobody's place to tell anyone what you can or cannot consume. He loved getting high on heroin and I don't see a problem with that.
The point they made enhances yours. Yes it is hypocritical, but is arguably worse on the conservatives' part since sexual orientation is something you're born with.
Go to a local business, steal the bowl of business cards for a free dinner raffle, and start an immortalized game of connect 4 in your door.
Let's be real, it is a valid correction that was prefaced as "Pedantic nitpick", so it's odd to see you continue calling it one as it had been established at the onset. Seeing how you take this correction and double down on it shows that it was a good one to make, as it seems that you remain confused as to what "the Fed" refers to for one reason or another.
You are mistaken, and that's not such a bad thing. I enjoy being (correctly) corrected because I would rather know the moment I utter something incorrect, than go around being incorrect to everyone I know.
How do you not know what a pool house is lol
Na, they've got managed forests and it's fine. Your comment had me google to see and it's actually pretty interesting.
Been hard-lurking (no account) here for a few weeks, made an account finally and this is my first comment. I was a hard lurker on Reddit too, but that was because most of the interactions I've had were... bad.
Definitely seems to be a gentler place, really enjoying the Summit app, it reminds me of Boost. I've got an unRAID server I was thinking about spinning up a Lemmy docker container on, but there's not a ton of info on this specific implementation, so I will likely wait for an unRAID community app to do that more easily.
Anyway, cheers from an ex-lurker!
You sound like you have a lot of hate in your heart. I'll be praying for you 🙏
Congrats! Some unsolicited money advice I wish I had known earlier in my career:
If you have a mortgage and the interest rate is less than 7ish percent and you're wanting to pay it early, something to consider:
You might put whatever extra you were planning into a Roth IRA until it's maxed and also max out your 401k if your employment has that. Historical yield is 7ish% and compound interest will help you immensely 20-30 years down the line.
Paying off the house early is nice feeling but you can possibly refinance for lower rates later if it's currently similar to or higher than historical investment yields. You could also do a little bit of both but prioritizing retirement accounts is the smarter move imo. So if your mortgage rate is 5% and you want to pay that down, you're leaving 2% on the table by not putting it into either an IRA or an index fund instead.
This is assuming you're not carrying other debts at higher rates like credit cards, those should be your priority. Next would be 3 months of all bills saved up, you can find some decent interest rates on savings accounts. I have Acorns and it's at 5% so the 3 months reserves will stack interest for you too.
This was the experience Android users had initially, then Android started parsing them and adding the reaction to the message. This is also when iMessage started getting that type of message instead of the reaction, as a sort of dig at iMessage
Seriously. I mean, this isn't brain serjury
It's still an accident. Just look up the definition. I'd wager to say most accidents are entirely preventable as well, but that's not what determines whether something was an accident
I think they're using definition three from Merriam-Webster
If I started an AI chat bot that was capable of sounding human, why wouldn't I make a crappy AI writing detection tool and then shut it down shortly afterward saying "my AI chat bot is too good! You can't detect it!"
Bad take, straight men can enjoy a good pegging. Also empathy is not a prerequisite for homosexuality. I wager empathy has nothing to do with sexuality nor is it any indicator of sexual preference.
This is just bullshit he's spewing to justify forcibly spawning more meat for the grinder, by hook or by crook. While I don't know if he's married to a woman, I highly doubt he'd think this would apply if his wife was raped and became pregnant as a result. Carrying a rape baby to term is for proles in the eyes of people like this
Not what out of pocket means, out of pocket means that you will be personally covering expenditures
e.g. "I broke the company monitor so I will be coming out of pocket to replace it"
Actually now that I think about it, your usage comes from the AAVE usage so it's valid. Whoops
I'm not a big fan of the idea of abortion
Are you saying you're not a big fan as in you don't think it's a great, fun thing to do? Like "I'm not a big fan of _____ sport"? Or against the idea itself?
I'm assuming that by "the idea of abortion" what you really mean is that you're not a fan of killing babies, which is not what abortions are doing.
And if that's not what you mean then I ask that you clarify what it is you do mean since, sure, you make decent points here but it's important that everyone understands what an abortion is and what is being aborted, which is almost never a living baby.
If I'm being honest, someone who says they don't like the idea of abortion sounds like someone who doesn't know much at all about what one is or what it's removing. Or someone who thinks abortions are for sluts who go out fucking everyone and getting pregnant and just aborting 3rd trimester babies bc they're sluts (I will clarify here that I also don't see a problem with female promiscuity resulting in abortion either)
I'm ok with people beginning to call
They aren't beginning to, and being okay with people calling things whatever they want isn't the point. You can call a shoe a turd holster if you want, but that doesn't mean people will know what you mean nor would that make them any less intelligent for not understanding what you mean.
Easy, just use AI to word it for you
Ah yes, the tired, old "perfect being the enemy of good", so let's just let it all go to shit since we can't get it perfect
Yeah it's like 21.5k for 2024. They have yearly maximums on retirement accounts in the US, and that number is higher if you're past a certain age ("catch up"). IRAs are a lot less, like 7k this year
Oh yeah and if you math it out over 30 years, 2% can be a difference in the hundreds of thousands
Okay then, here ya go:
For all intents and purposes this comment triggered me
while i admire your spirit, this likely won't work without an extremely large amount of holes. so many holes that the water coming in is greater than the water being pumped out of the bilge. im sure bilge pumps on a superyacht are insane
Nice, sorry if I came in hot. The issue you have is with health ramifications of the procedure which is also totally sane.
The issue I had with using it for code is that the scrolling in the video seemed pretty bad, which is pretty essential for it. Would love an e ink monitor dedicated to code/terminals, so I'll be waiting to grab one when the frame rate's a bit better. Also, in some of the footage of them writing in Word looks like there's a decent amount of burn-in. I'd do it for $2k today if it had better frame rate for scrolling/typing and much less burn-in.
Loosing isn't the right word
I think it's also true in reverse. Like if the book cover looks really cool but the story is hot garbage.
Yeah, printing directions off of mapquest was a lot of fun (or alternatively asking directions from someone who doesn't understand cardinal directions)
I had to do some legacy app modernization for one of the largest telecoms companies in the US, and their mainframe system and the UI, while ugly, performed so much faster than the modern approach.
Given, we weren't the most talented team out there, but rendering the UI on the server side was unmatched in performance versus what we could get out of a web browser. I was the UI guy so I didn't really touch mainframe side, but it was wild to me that they made this system like 30 years ago and it worked so much better than our modern implementation
Absolutely! I grapple with that all the time. I love having fun and traveling and having cool stuff. It's fun having some money you're not afraid to spend.
You deserve it, you're the one who got yourself to where you're at. At the end of the day do what's right for you, just maybe spend a little bit less over the years and instead put it toward the end game.
As time goes on, sitting on ass collecting interest and being able to live off that interest comfortably will be awesome, and if you were able to live it up the whole time is priceless. Treat your now self and future self, but future self likely won't regret now self traveling etc. (so long as you're not doing illegal tax evasion and damaging your body long term lol)
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Best view of the stars this side of the Canadian border. Love this park.
The "cover art***" sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol
lol i was more or less just remarking on the fact that yes mainframe and other legacy apps are pretty old, however that does not mean that they're necessarily worse than a modern implementation
That means nothing imo, last book I read was years ago and I'm in a field most consider to be for sharper folks. Software dev. The book was the last in the three body problem trilogy.
In a world where the Twilight series exists, I really hate people who use the act of reading books as some intelligence measure
LOL you're wrong. That's it. And then you continue to refuse to accept that fact. You haven't provided any actual argument here except for that straw man about whether or not it's okay for people call things whatever they want. Your anecdote about "I've heard people call it that" carries no weight. I mean, just look at their website: https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed.htm
Or wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
I mean seriously, you've gotta be trolling at this point.
Nobody likes being wrong is more apt
I think they just stare at it, hoping the vulnerabilities come to them in a moment of revelation. A Linux Joseph Smith, the kernel playing the part of the Golden Plates.