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Yeah, suburbia is not the problem. I'd much rather live in suburbia than a city. But if you can't go outside on your own, that loses a lot of the benefit.
Re:Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:32PM (#38199303)
They'll have to google. Only dinosaurs read manuals.
Re:Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:10PM (#38196236)
I viewed an apartment recently that had quadruple pane windows! The aparment faced a noisy freeway. They worked quite well.
Re:Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:04PM (#38169702)
(guessing)

They want a minimum that is visible, even during the day, so people don't think their phone is broken.

"begin".

Other comments says this can take days to get to everyone.

Re:Why doctors in America earn so much on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:49PM (#38104981)
I seem to recall a study that showed, per hour worked to get into medicine, that being a physician did not pay particularly well.

Consider opportunity costs for all those hours spent studying. Salary, in isolation, is not a sufficient measure.

too small a market to be worth investing.
Re:Making Rust supply chain attacks harder with Cackle on Friday October 13, 2023 @04:32PM (#37875294)
> I'd go so far as to say that build tools shouldn't even have an option to automatically pull the latest - "version" should be a required field for all dependencies

When I'm developing, I frequently grab latest versions. Until i share, I want to keep up to date.

They are all very pretty, but they are also the sort of photograph that it's hard to spot errors in. What color should it be? What is the texture of the rocks? I have no idea. This could be an accurate picture or an inaccurate one, I have no way of knowing.

Picture of the human face are best for picking up artifacts. You'll spot anything wrong almost immediately, you have hardware for that.

Re:Why (and How) I Write Code with Pencil and Paper on Monday October 09, 2023 @06:09PM (#37826091)
I've seen the same tutoring math. It's tough to get through, as it's a learning style that got them this far. Of course, not they are needing tutoring, so it's stopped working.

How does writing code by hand fix this? They can still write the same things from the same understandings. I've had some luck having people explain things to me, without looking at the code/math.

Re:The Details Are in the Devil’s Tumors on Friday October 06, 2023 @04:08PM (#37795650)
What is absolutely insane about this disease is the Tasmanian devils that have this do NOT have cancer in the way you'd think about. They have an invasive parasite.

So, my understanding (layman who reads about these things), is that, long ago, one particular Tasmanian devil got cancer. This devil bit another and transferred some cells, which grew on the recipient. Note that these cells belong to the original donor. ALL of these cells, on all of the affected devils, genetically belong to the donor. It's literally a separate parasitic life form that reproduces parthenogenetically. Like "Henrietta Lacks", the cells are still alive, long after the original being is gone.

So, none of the recipients cells has cancer. They have someone else's cancer living on them!

Re:The Details Are in the Devil’s Tumors on Friday October 06, 2023 @04:02PM (#37795563)
The other species I usually see mentioned in articles about this is dogs.

https://www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/about

Re:Building a DIY Pen Plotter on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:48PM (#37770647)
If you want the simplest plotter you can make: https://www.brachiograph.art/en/latest/
Re:Building a DIY Pen Plotter on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:47PM (#37770631)
I'll look for you!
Re:I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @06:09PM (#37758281)
There used to be many of these, but they became mostly scams that preyed on desperate job seekers. By the time I started job hunting, many years back, this industry was viewed about like nigerian princes. No sensible person would deal with them.

There are career coaches to be found these days, I'm not intending to include them in this rant. I've had a few friends use them, and I've talked to one and he was reasonable.

As an individual, I'd avoid anyone that wants a percentage. Specified fee for helping with resume, linkedin profile, etc., fine.