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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 24 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That's basically the best possible outcome.

Toddlers are the reason why, despite being able to afford nice furniture for the first time in our life, we're sticking with ratty couches and old Ikea coffee tables.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

*ought (whoosh?)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago

I once heard a native English speaker pronounce it as "the printer kweeyee."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think a lot of companies view their free plan as recruiting/advertising


if you use TailScale personally and have a great experience then you'll bring in business by advocating for it at work.

Of course it could go either way, and I don't rely on TailScale (it's my "backup" VPN to my home network)... we'll see, I guess.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's see Stephan Miller's card...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago

...are Turing Complete, so what you can do with them is exactly equal.

But they're only equal in the Turing complete sense, which (iirc) says nothing about performance or timing.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

States != cities, e.g., https://underscoresf.com/heres-what-you-make-as-a-low-income-earner-in-san-francisco/

If you own own a modest place (<2000 square feet) in a decent (not "old money") neighborhood in San Francisco and have kids, I would be shocked if your household income isn't $350k+/year. If that's considered "upper class" then it's a very sad statement about how standards of living have degraded


this is likely comfortable living but it is not exotic car + first class airfare money. And it's almost certainly "less house" than you'd like.

And unless you inherited a lot, you definitely need to keep working to afford that modest lifestyle.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237395681

That claims ~$420k compensation with ~$25k "other." If he is playing any substantial role in bringing in $100M+ funds for a good cause, I'd say this person's compensation isn't something I'm going to get worked up about. For VHCOL areas this is middle class household income (looks like they're based in NY NY, so...VHCOL).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I'm too lazy to verify my hunch, but I'm guessing Texas is largely oil (exploiting natural resources), whereas California is largely intellectual output (tech, with some Hollywood and other sundry stuff), though California certainly does exploit its natural resources too (good farming conditions, some oil...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's a pretty standard bandwidth/latency tradeoff in my view: email is high bandwidth (it's in writing, you can re-read, etc.), whereas phone is low latency (several back-and-forth explanations can happen in seconds). Each has its place.

If social anxiety is a factor, that's a perfectly valid, but separate, issue.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well, yeah


dude's brake cables are missing!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, though it looks like the cyan (which would be ~500nm) is actually false color UV image, judging by the same color scale as this https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/5-3-2024_sdo_x1pt6_flare_131/

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