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by 3pt14159 4y ago
"Just" is just like the word "k" To some people it's seen negatively, like they should have thought of something or other, to others it's a stand-in for "merely" or "simply" but I find &quot
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Well, the original article was about Microsoft. Since they're the OS vendor too, I discounted that as being reliable for this use-case.
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> with TLS/SSL inspection built in (you'd need some OS API to enable that). I'm not sure of that. Provided you can add a cert to your OS, you should be able to get away with a piece of protocol downgrade network gear that
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Then imagine this: War over Taiwan. One way or another all the fabs get incinerated. Which companies go bankrupt now?
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I agree that there are similarities, but many of the web businesses these days are legit with happy customers. The challenge seems to be more widespread across the economy and there are a few not-so-black-swan-anymore looking things on the
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
I was there during the dot com bubble bursting. Psychology factored into it, but it wasn't the primary reason the bubble bursted. The main two reasons were: 1. Hype around new technologies is sometimes warranted. Electrification, for e
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
I worked for an SF company as an IC remotely from Toronto. Total comp was $500k USD yearly. I wasn't the only one, either, and the other guy didn't even have a technical education. He was completely self-taught and just steadily m
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
If you hate [war, human trafficking, etc] and live in an honest country one of the best things out there is working for law enforcement or intelligence. You'll use your skills on real problems that matter. Impact and excitement.
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I didn't pretend it was the only way, I was saying that there are times when one is out and needs to make reservations or call the wife that went into labour or call work after a car broke down. These were actual, real things people di
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I've been there? It's very doable and far easier than understanding C++ in my opinion.
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I've had severe depression twice and I made it through it but man was it tough. Defecating over 10 times a day. Total body sweat, shivering in bed wishing I would die. Praying all night for relief. My first win was baking a potato more
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
But why? Why not be an proficient Python developer and make the same compensation[0] with better docs, better libraries, better codebases, no compilation annoyances[1], easier to read code, and fewer not-defined-by-the-spec weirdness? C++ w
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Low-latency for local calls, yes. High quality sound, also yes. But for long distance, no thank you. I will not go back to the 90s just for that one reason alone. It was hellish calling across the Atlantic. Like 15 cents a minute with a 1
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
I dunno, I guess the same could be said about your database then, no? If you're doing: SELECT * FROM serious_money_table WHERE user_id = :user_id; How is it all that different with Redis? Someone can mistakenly send in a :cust
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Sorry, drops what? The cache name or part of it?
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I always put the user id in the cache name. Something like: user_profile_bio.[user_id] If that returns the wrong bio from Redis, then something is broken in Redis, no? Or are you suggesting that I create some sort of format that duplicates
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
But this is built into the Drake equation to begin with! My other response details out what I was thinking he meant in the first place. If you want to argue the Drake equation on its own, that is cool, but it wasn't what I thought OP w
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
I'm sleepy from a bad night, but let me try to explain: > our existence now is so unlikely that it's possible that we actually are the first. Something has to be first. When the OP said that ^ I took we to mean humans with te
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
What makes it ridiculous? Not all nuclear wars need be hundreds of nukes. The military has to plan for the full range of the scale, from small brush fire near a minor ammo depo to full blown WWIII. But the part that is 75% towards full blow
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
First one doesn't really make much sense. There are so many intelligent lifeforms on earth (whales, octopods, birds, monkeys, canines) and intelligent hive-minds (bees, ants, termites) that the leap to exponential tool use doesn't
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
My experience with the premier university grads is that they know the details really well. While a bootcamp trained dev can roll out features and tests for line of work crud APIs, they may not be able to handle the 5% of the job that requir
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
I agree with most of this, though I don't bother checking degrees. Coding samples have way more signal unless the degree is from a premier university. So for Waterloo, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc. I would check if there was any doubt,
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
My default these days in Canada is Greek or Chilean olive oil. I've lived in Cyprus for almost half a year. I know what good olive oil tastes like, and yes, the grocer olive oil back home in Canada isn't as good, but it's way
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
This is kinda what I'm getting at with my original, downvoted post. It's a giant forest of tiny little details that scientists talk about. There is nothing close to the "we're all on the same(ish) page" that softwar
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
Eh—it wouldn't really work. Do you want to hear about a 1mm thick polymer when overlaid on a w-section of a certain size and brought up to a certain temperature has certain properties that make it better for loading patterns of structu
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by 3pt14159 4y ago
I would have used Rails for the current project I'm on, but for one thing: Data science. In the past (around 2010 to about 2018) I did the web stuff in Rails and communicated through the database for the ML stuff I needed from Python,
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It could, but it also could not. Try to imagine the different perspectives involved and their pre-drawn plans.
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Small, playful quibble: Since you're quoting Lewis and mentioning prayer, it's at least debatable whether we're all going to die, depending on your understanding of 1 Thessalonians 4 and how it relates to John 12 and other pa
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I thought from the title it was some JavaScript to auto-colorize essentially any programming language and was excited, because that stuff is annoying to implement for any new programming language out there. Still cool though.
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What I advocate for is not a simple up and down vote by the existing members. What I advocate for is a web-of-trust without the cryptography and with some sane AI to handle things like responding to malicious account take overs and other tr

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