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Came here to say as I was reading this I was thinking "They sure as hell better call out Steve1989MREInfo" and then I got so much joy seeing his photo in the middle of the article.

This is silly. What if you chose to go to a smaller school so you paid for college out of pocket? Should you get paid for the opportunity cost of not going to the expensive liberal arts school?

Forgiving debt isn't about you, it's about unburdening an entire generation of working people so they aren't forever under the thumb of financial institutions. Undoing federal guarantees is also about rightsizing academia, which has bloated itself on these ever growing loan numbers.

There are 84,000 dams in the United States. More than one a day since we became a country. Most of them don't generate any meaningful electricity, but they do disrupt habitat for many native fish species.

I would like to see them all destroyed. We can find electricity elsewhere.

Don't live in a city then. I don't anymore and it's the best thing I've ever done. This kind of performative assertion of space doesn't exist outside highly dense urban areas.

You aren't even engaging with the ideas in this thread. Do you think everything is hunky dory with the kids today?

Yeah and each successive generation since the introduction of mass media has become more deranged.

Do you own your home?

The article isn't original reporting at all, it is basically a press release for a report generated by an NGO. It's fine to question the source material here.

Ah the old Canadian pastime of sitting back and launch invectives at America while coasting on the economic and national security she provides by just being in proximity to her.

Were you in the Trophy Club offices then?

No OP but I personally prefer the simplicity of VS Code's diff and conflict resolution point-and-click tooling to using ediff/smerge. I also work in a project with some very deep directory structures and like the VS Code sidebar much more.

Does tweeting constitute critical reporting?

It's going to need to be more than 20%. There are no shortage of jobs where servers make enough to live because they make unreported cash tips.

I wish 1% or 2% beers were more readily available. I like to drink beers socially and I like to take a little of the edge off, but it'd be nice to lower the amount of alcohol I consume.

Did you commute every day on the subway? If so how long?

I lived in NYC for 10 years and I hated the summer daily commute because all that aliveness led to hangovers and me sweating all that magicalness out daily on my walk and wait on the platform.

You aren't wrong that NYC is great in the summer but it's also a special kind of hell with heat and humidity. Both can be true.

Yep we basically have the same story. I don't live in that part of the country anymore but if I did I would absolutely own land up there. Congrats on the new place.

To elaborate, my views of OK and AR were a sort of common Texas view that it's a backwoods and backwards place. Just sort of run down and no reason to go there. Obviously I am wrong.

This certainly isn't about politics as, well, there pretty much isn't a more conservative place than where I come from. It didn't occur to me that someone would inject left/right politics into my comment, but I guess that's just the way things are now.

Thank you, corrected!

Just as an aside, growing up in Texas I internalized a dim view of western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma primarily due to cultural reasons. A few years ago my family and I took a vacation to a cabin in the Ouachita Mountains which is just north of this state park and I couldn't believe how beautiful that country is. The Ozarks are the crown jewel of that region but the Ouachita range from western AR to eastern OK is absolutely stunning in its own right. It reminds me of the times I've been to West Virginia, beautiful and remote and, in some ways (good and bad), apart from time and, for me, unfairly written off by my own biases. I felt a little pang of regret that I had lived for so long only 4-5 hours from such a beautiful place and was just only now discovering it.

I started my career as a PHP dev in 2003 (mysql/smarty/adodb ftw) and I became a Rails dev around 06. Since then I have, for various reasons, switched back and forth between PHP and Ruby. The interesting thing that I've noticed in that time is that Ruby is, for the most part, the same language (and ecosystem!!) it was 15+ years ago and that is a good thing. PHP has tried hard to not be the language and ecosystem that it was 15-20 years ago and because of that it feels pulled in a lot of different directions. You encounter code that mixes 15/20 year old functions with more enterprisey OO conventions that came out of the post PHP5 era. It can feel weird to switch to that from a language like Ruby that more or less has had coherent approach since 2003.

I'm sure it's nostalgia but I think the PHP 4 -> 5 transition was the best era of PHP. Codebases at that time mixed OO and C-ish function based programming in pragmatic and easy to understand ways. That weird shitshow of objects, functions that accept pass by reference or pass by value, request scoped global state, etc was fun and anarchic and, for whatever reason, totally made sense to a self-taught programmer like me at the time.

I bought my truck used and somehow missed that it had the extended range tank, which is 36 gallons. I was so confused when I filled it up for the first time and it just kept going and going...

For sure these responses, which are predictable and common on pretty much any thread related to American trucks here or on sites like Jalopnik, don't reflect actual, real general sentiments about trucks or SUVs. It happens all the time and I've learned just to ignore them.

One of the things I've seen in the Powerboost (their hybrid model) reviews is that even when people disable traction control to launch it, there is something happening that keeps it from spinning out. I think the electric engine might have a mandatory control mechanism in it that cannot be bypassed.

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Example: https://youtu.be/HGzlV4ggudM?t=425

They said the same about twin turbos in their trucks, but they got used to it.

I have VS Code running 99.99% of the time. If it's open then it pretty much loads any file < 50mb instantly for me.

Here is the website for one of the groups pushing for this: https://www.greateridaho.org/

Taxes are just one part of this. They list these other issues of concern:

1. American Values: Oregon will continue to violate more and more American values and American freedoms because normal rural Americans are outnumbered in Oregon. Not in Idaho. Addicts will be attracted to Oregon from all over the world by the 2020 drug decriminalization law.

2. Law and Order: Oregon refuses to protect citizens from criminals, rioters, wildfire arsonists, illegals, and the homeless, but then infringes your right to defend your family with firearms. Idaho enforces the law.

3. Low Tax: Idaho is the state with the 8th smallest tax burden, and Oregon ranks 33rd, according to https://taxfoundation.org/tax-freedom-day-2019 . Combining all taxes together, including sales tax, the average Idahoan pays $1722 less in taxes per year than the average Oregonian. That’s averaging together every adult or child, employed, retired or unemployed. And cost of living is 39% higher in Oregon than in Idaho. Oregon tax rates will continue to go up due to a lack of willingness to control spending.

4. Safety: Idaho allows forests to be managed to prevent destruction of housing from huge wildfires.

5. Thriving Economy: Idaho has less regulation than any other state, low unemployment, and would allow our rural industries to revive and employ us again.

6. Representation: The ruling party in the Oregon Legislature doesn’t have a single representative from a rural district or from eastern or southern Oregon, except one Ashland representative. But our reps would be in the ruling party in Idaho, where our concerns and needs would be heard.

In particular I'd like to know how document management happens, are these just Google Docs? I've participated in some OSS projects with Googlers and they love to put together crazy heavy Google Docs.

Will this lower the Gas fees at all?

Most all configuration specifications have a limit unless they are turing complete. Complex systems evolve beyond static configurations easily but the question is can you leverage configuration generation to minimize logic inside your CI?

Orchestration ought not be the province of your build scripts, that should be the role of CI. If the configuration isn't capable of variadic functionality but is capable of orchestration... what do you do?

In my opinion generating configuration from Python (or any language with a robust standard library) is still a win if it means less Ops and DevOps engineers are stringing together convoluted bash scripts that torture sed/awk/jq/yq to obscene lengths.