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cgannett··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
Publix has a model similar to this and it seems to work well for them both as a former employee and a customer. Their stores and products are always nice and they pay above average for their sector. They are on the expensive side but also they have good deals when you look for them especially the BOGOs. I definitely had a better time working for them than I did when I worked for Sprouts which is publicly traded and aiming at a similar market segment. I think if we are going to stick with some capitalism we need to switch to models like Publix and away from models like Sprouts and Walmart.

People on both sides of the capitalism/socialism divide also always conflate "Current Way Stock Markets Work" with capitalism. We do alot of extra damage to the average person's health and well being with the WAY we do capitalism. The plutocrats use the heavily propagandized stick of "SCARY SOCIALISM" to give you a more shriveled carrot year after year and tell you you should be thankful you dont get beat with the "SCARY SOCIALISM" stick while they still hit you with the "NO HOUSE, NO FOOD, NO HEALTHCARE" stick if you can't sell your bodily capital for enough value to please them.

The extra damage is all this profit over anything else no matter the circumstance. Look at United Healthcare getting sued because the new CEO, even if it was purely out of self preservation, decides they are going to actually give people some of the coverage they paid for and not do quite as many dirty tricks to skim as many denials off the top as they possibly can. MANY SUCH CASES

cgannett··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
literally proving his point with this question
cgannett··on XMLUI
I am simultaneously in the seemingly opposite camps of "haha we reinvent HTML lol" and "Actually this sounds immediately useful to me".

To be human is to be multitudes.

cgannett··on Perfume reviews
I am just trying to figure out if they are the bigger nerds or if we as commenters on the quality of their nerdy commentary is the nerdier group.
cgannett··on Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century
even if its not faster than DRAM I wonder at what point would it just not make sense to have two separate modules. Like all the volitile storage in a system could be in the L-cache/s on the CPU and for most things that plus this faster non-volitile storage would do the trick. I wonder what kind of optimizations would have been made in a world where stuff like DRAM just didnt exist and we just had to deal with the bottlenecks of non-volitile storage media
cgannett··on Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
Would suck to be an honest dude who happens to share the same name right now.
cgannett··on Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas
I think that's why Alabama despite all its flaws doesn't have quite as much projected warming as other southern states: lots of trees.
cgannett··on I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric
well part of it was there wasnt ^{10}10 = 10^{10^{10^{10^{10^{10^{10^{10^{10^{10}}}}}}}}} more interesting things than chatting with your friends to do online
cgannett··on Internet Artifacts
Gotta love a Neal.fun post
cgannett··on Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford
grug mention grug brain. grug also have grug brain. grug like grug. grugs together strong unless too many grugs then Overgrug think 9 grugs make baby grug in one month and grug not think it work like that
cgannett··on MinC Is Not Cygwin
I had a weird old "laptop" that I was given as a kid, didnt know jack about computers back then so I couldnt tell you what it was. It was one of those that came with a big heavy docking station and it couldnt run without it anymore so I assume the battery was dead. Had Windows 2000 and I used to play AoE 2 on it all day and it was smooth and the interface was snappy. Fond memories. I remember being really confused when people told me that Windows 2000 was bad.
cgannett··on The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
Just realized I got Gruen Transfered into a wikipedia article where I learned about Myrtle The Parachick who technically died in combat fighting Nazi's. RIP Myrtle.
cgannett··on Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
And that is one of the more charitable political reasons that exist. I'm guessing Dolette and the like didnt drop enough campaign contributions. Betting in a couple months Tesla is gonna get a big fat contract.
cgannett··on Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen
I accidentally read this as "There are bees here, lets leave immediately. Why dont the humans?" and for a split second I thought the elephants were concerned by our lack of fear of bees.
cgannett··on Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI
I cant even get the thing to work
cgannett··on The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Just Won't Die (2019)
This is good advice even if you are using a steel or cast iron bowl and a cheaper countertop because replacing countertop is expensive even with cheap materials.
cgannett··on X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left the company
I dont think the metaphor breaks down at all I just think it is saying things that while very true are not meant to be communicated to the pigs and hens.
cgannett··on Tesla to recall more than 46,000 Cybertrucks due to exterior panel issue
That implies they are actually trying to learn anything from their failed rollouts.
cgannett··on Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
Or Mindustry
cgannett··on Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
I wonder if anyone has done something similar with Dwarf Fortress
cgannett··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Well if they are working on those systems I think they count then right?
cgannett··on Programmers should never trust anyone, not even themselves
page is crashing for me so I figure I can share this: https://github.com/carbon-steel/carbon-steel.github.io/blob/...

perfectly readable as its Markdown on regular Github

cgannett··on Mexican Computers: A Brief Technical and Historical Overview
Well now I want it and it doesn't exist. ) :
cgannett··on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
I was able to get this to load by going to the blog site from an older post to antipope.org and then navigating to the latest blog post.

That or whatever was wrong was fixed just now.

cgannett··on What the data says about crime in the U.S.
Its almost as if the policies produced by racist conclusions create the conditions that perpetuate the misleading data. /s

Humans are an "INBRED" species. By this I mean we have little genetic diversity compared to most other species on the planet. Race isn't even real genetically speaking. It is real in a socioeconomic sense because people believe its real and that has real consequences. But outside of human belief and behavior, race is a load of imaginary divisions.

cgannett··on Fishing for oil and meat drives defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays
Your employer frantically googling how much biodiesel can be produced from a human liver
cgannett··on GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power [video]
You can tell that's absolutely what its for because right after the turn you start seeing the static from the electrons messing with the camera.
cgannett··on Signs that it's time to leave a company
This is what drives me nuts. I don't mind coming to work if we are doing in person meetings or something. I like seeing my coworkers. If I am gonna be alone in an office the whole time might as well be at home where my already purchased food is.
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