uniqueid198x

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[–] uniqueid198x 14 points 2 years ago

Shipping can certainly be made much less impactful, if that's what you are thinking. A lot of shipping is overland trucking, and a lot of overland trucking can be replaced with trains, and a lot of trains can be replaced with electrified trains. That would make quite a bit of difference

[–] uniqueid198x 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What this number suggests to me is that Tumblr has revenue less than 20 million dollars. I figure:

  • about 100 employees
  • based in new York
  • average $100,000 salary
  • 10m annually in humans
  • 2-3m annually for office expenses
  • 20-30m annually for hosting

Some of these numbers can be up or down, but when I worked at a similar company in New York, we had operating expenses in the same range. (Coincidentally, we had revenue on the same range, and got sold off in a fire sale)

[–] uniqueid198x 2 points 2 years ago

Vivo with Michelin soles is really interesting. I'm running on a 6mm stack height right now, and I remember vivos are about the same. Will definitely give them some attention

[–] uniqueid198x 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BSD boosterism is a meme, I know, but honestly this is the incorrect take.

Anything as large and complicated as a kernel has bugs. Some of those bugs may be security related. If security is your concern, you want to use the kernel which has people actively publishing those bugs so they can be patched.

The fact you haven't seen privilege escalation vulnerabilities in BSD isn't necessarily because they aren't there. We don't know that. What we do know is that not as many people are looking.

[–] uniqueid198x 2 points 2 years ago

I keep it for r/watchexchange. Nobody has written a sales moderator bot for Lenny/kbin, and I don't even know if the apis are mature enough for someone to do that. So communities like that will probably stay with reddit until they can't or the alternative is mature enough

[–] uniqueid198x 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there is a legitimate complaint about "contact us" pricing, but not in this case. How do you price bespoke work without knowing what the work is?

Is it ten hours by a schmoe front end, or 2 years by the guy who invented Ethernet?

[–] uniqueid198x 1 points 2 years ago

The set of sets is not a set only because it results in inconsistencies. In systems which break consistency, the set of sets is allowable.

I posit that human social systems are inconsistent

[–] uniqueid198x 4 points 2 years ago

Not certain the rich feel pain the same way, but you're right. Punching up has value and often is the right thing to do

[–] uniqueid198x 58 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Dark humor is humor generated from your own pain.

Edgy humor is humor generated from the pain of others.

The first one is funny, the second is boring and shitty

[–] uniqueid198x 4 points 2 years ago

Or my thinking:

4/17 is less than 4/16 (0.25) but more than 4/20 (0.2). It's on the fatter side of that difference, so I would go with 0.225 with some rounding... If I need a better answer than 0.22 or 0.23, I'll use the calculator

[–] uniqueid198x 2 points 2 years ago

A lot of that stuff is about internalizing rules. By doing times tables up to 10x10, you have just enough memorized to understand patterns of multiplication, how it behaves and how to manipulate it. By working out long hand you understand the patterns of positional notation and some mechanisms to manipulate it. Division long hand also gives you an opportunity to experience how division is the inversion of multiplication, as long hand division is literally running long hand multiplication backwards (it's trickier cause you are more likely to run into a fraction tho) - and the concept of modulo is also incredibly useful for daily life.

Even these things are building foundations for later math. Times tables and long hand division aren't the only way to teach math, but they are a way that works. It's not directly relevant, sure, and hasn't been for almost 100 years. But it's a foundation and has importance in that way

[–] uniqueid198x 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The community is based around the objects... For enthusiasts, watches are neat. It's an interesting thing because they are functional jewelry, and you can't actually own that many cause they are expensive, and you can use even fewer at a time cause you only have two wrists (and even watch people will make fun of you if you wear two watches at once).

So the real community is talking about new things, what's coming up, what you like and dislike, surprising history, a lot of stuff. In my group, we absolutely celebrate when someone gets a new watch, but not cause they've passed some kind of gate, but because they now have something they can enjoy and build memories with.

The truth is, marketers will take advantage of any hobby

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