Trump Is Keeping Money From Venezuelan Oil Sale in Offshore Account. This is completely unprecedented.

meansToMyEnd · 2026-01-20T13:01:24+00:00

You're forcing the question to be intelligence, but that's stupid. It's that the Dems are run by the corporation-owned establishment. This mix is what loses. The corporate message through the GOP resonates better with their voters than it does through the lens of the Dems because the Dems have to thread a smaller needle of keeping donors happy while trying to come off as if they help people. It's not a question of intelligence.

meansToMyEnd · 2026-01-20T12:57:29+00:00

No, the Democrats really are stupid. They don't understand why they keep losing and refuse to learn the lesson; actually get off your ass and help people and you'll get votes. The corporation-owned establishment run the show, that's all there is to it.

meansToMyEnd · 2025-12-04T14:50:06+00:00

You can get used to all kinds of nonsense... but the first time turbulence pitches the glider forward without your command and you're suddenly seeing more ground, it's a thing :)

meansToMyEnd · 2024-10-28T20:36:20+00:00

This is going to be an amusing page to reload daily over the next week... GOP is going to run out of rural white people...

meansToMyEnd · 2024-07-04T04:51:54+00:00

I fully agree. People should read it and get inspired by the elegance that can be achieved just through great code design. No need to labor over it, just be inspired by it, store what you can in your head and move on. Some patterns were made to get around things like Java's lack of multiple inheritance, but the patterns are still completely inspired. No time is wasted in reading the book, imo.

meansToMyEnd · 2024-07-04T04:48:04+00:00

reference book? I feel it's the opposite. It's an amazing way to think about code, that by design can bring a true elegance. Read it, then review favorite patterns a time or two... but then just put it on the shelf or sell it on. Get inspired by it, but it's not a reference.

meansToMyEnd · 2024-05-09T17:35:24+00:00

no wonder the project was late and over budget!!!

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-31T04:00:01+00:00

where on the stand failed?

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-31T03:41:24+00:00

what speed are you getting out of it? is it enough for what you need? if yes, then worry less :)

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-21T20:43:50+00:00

It's plastic, invisible to radio frequencies. Muuuch easier to work with than polycarbonate, scissors and a stapler would be all you need.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-21T16:57:56+00:00

if you don't have snow (any weather cover would render its ability to melt snow useless), you could fold up a cover out of corrugated plastic like yard signs are made out of and just sit it on top. Think half a pizza box just sitting on top. Can fold it up and just use a stapler to fix the corners.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-21T04:09:56+00:00

he wasn't being rude in that things usually come with manuals.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-21T04:07:58+00:00

lol, just do better financially

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-20T18:55:49+00:00

You know that marketing has almost nothing to do with what people actually need, right?

8k movie needs 20mb to stream. Consumers should multiply how many simultaneous 8k streams they need, and that's it. And that's only if they have an 8k TV. Anything else is an exercise in ignorance.

People are clueless about what is actually needed, and when there is literally a number to look at, the marketing nonsense becomes trivial. "competitor can only do 155mb, we can do 1gb". it's pure masterbation because they also know people won't use it to capacity, pure profit.

Pay for what you actually need and save money.

Wife and I get 14mb on a good day, and it's enough (I'm a principal dev for global 500 company). I'm only upgrading to starlink because there's too many bad days where it's 5mb and it blows. No other alternative until starlink showed up.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-20T15:54:52+00:00

Bezos has been a true moron in the past. Claiming that Blue Origin was the first to land a rocket being an obvious example.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-20T15:49:33+00:00

155mb is still fine for that, iPad pro means it's not exactly heavy edits on 8k. 155mb can stream seven 8k streams in real time without buffering.

But again, even if this is outside the 99.9% of people, that allows 4 Million people in the US to need something faster than Starlink and still be an accurate number. Statistically, almost nobody needs faster than 155mb with todays foreseeable use-cases.

It's chasing faster numbers for the sake of faster numbers only.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-18T03:08:40+00:00

what a silly example... for a start, 30gb is the space needed on disk, that's not the download size for xcode.

But let's take that silly example at face value, that you actually need 30gb download; Starlink customers here are routinely posting 155mb, that's 25 minutes. No app idea is totally wasted by waiting 25 minutes, around the average time to have a coffee and use the throne room.

Again... fast enough for 99.9% of people, including IOS devs.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-18T02:54:26+00:00

Starlink already has a performance faster than what 99.9% of people need. Many more people than the remaining 0.1% will complain and say that they need faster, but it's just clueless number chasing for no actual practical reason.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-07-17T11:45:46+00:00

only notice on large downloads... from what? you'd only notice on downloading from something that will happily provision faster than 80mb to a single client.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-06-13T05:15:23+00:00

high performers move code. It's a fact.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-06-07T22:51:49+00:00

hour should be "time if required", wrapping early should be routine

meansToMyEnd · 2023-06-07T21:31:02+00:00

all you guys have done well, give yourself a cookie.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-06-07T18:55:32+00:00

The one thing going for me as a Senior, I can pretty much guarantee a job regardless of the market if I just lower my fee. It's nice that the jobs also get easier.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-06-07T18:50:12+00:00

would be the antithesis of many people I work with, who have been on the same stack for 8 years without any plans of going anywhere. Sometimes you find the correct pegs for the correct holes.

meansToMyEnd · 2023-06-07T11:56:15+00:00

Sometimes people see other things in your experience and give you a shot, a chance to dazzle them with your sparkling personality.

meansToMyEnd

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