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by 49bc 8y ago
> I enjoyed the comradery of those gentler times and have no regrets. I had just closed twitter when I read that. Indeed, the times are not gentle on the internet.
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by 49bc 8y ago
That is exactly what it’s trying to do, going off the “4th trimester” theory. Make the baby feel as much like it is still in the mother’s womb as possible.
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by 49bc 8y ago
This doesn’t make a big impact in the end because of how prevalent password reuse is.
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by 49bc 8y ago
I'll tell you what pierced the veil for me: being involved with code reviews and looking at other people's code. "Oh, THIS is what constitutes senior software engineering? Then I'm much more skilled than I thought I was!
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by 49bc 8y ago
Wait a second. The entire population of New York state is 20 million. How could they possibly have paid an extra $616 million? Each person in New York paid an extra $30 million?
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by 49bc 8y ago
Companies here are so litigation-averse that they’d never fire someone outright for being too old. They have an entire department (HR) to help build a solid, believable paper trail for firing them for “performance issues”.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Exactly this. There’s nothing special here, just a new generation that will learn a hard lesson.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Are you the exception or the rule for the population?
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by 49bc 8y ago
I think this would be a big step up for more than 90% of the population, do you agree?
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by 49bc 8y ago
also it’s not static linked, so you need to make sure all of the shared libraries exist on the host, requiring to install a whole bunch of trash.
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by 49bc 8y ago
If I was living in India I’d probably take that deal.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Since when do we send snake-oil salesmen to prison? There must be more to this story.
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by 49bc 8y ago
In your free time you can think about any cool problems you want. It’s always fun to bring cool solutions back to work from my own personal weekend hacking.
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by 49bc 8y ago
The Wells Fargo effect: if you optimize for a number, you’ll get that number.
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by 49bc 8y ago
When they can write AI to understand and implement the entire US tax system, then I’ll start worrying about the incoming AI apocalypse they’re always taking about.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Telephone numbers are well delineated between counties with “country codes”. I don’t think anybody is confused about which country owns what number.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Seems like the right idea for IP addresses, but not domain names. I don’t know why they can say all three belong to the same jurisdiction. I hope there’s an appeal.
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by 49bc 8y ago
That’s a really narrow view of the world by someone that’s probably never sold to business. MS products worked exactly the way people who were paid for them care they worked.
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by 49bc 8y ago
They’re not talking about the mechanical operation of the car, it’s things like gap consistency between doors and the frames.
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by 49bc 8y ago
> Right now I’m working in the previous position with almost double my paycheck, so it’s a great turnaround. I don't know if this was a good idea. You've signaled to your company that you're willing and able to take lega
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by 49bc 8y ago
How can this work with no fire stations? Won’t a single fire wipe the entire city out?
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by 49bc 8y ago
Can AI help us defeat nimbyism?
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by 49bc 8y ago
Basically doing the work of the same IDEs we’ve been using for decades?
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by 49bc 8y ago
> As that'll not happen all by itself because there's less money Aren’t we both reading the same article about that happening “by itself”?
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by 49bc 8y ago
Yes, and that value is commensurate with the number of remote workers.
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by 49bc 8y ago
Let’s just get a few things straight regarding remote work: * Your job is not to “write code” no matter how much you wish it was that simple. Your job is to provide value for your company. * You provide much more value for your company when
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by 49bc 8y ago
Even if it was just “this is the cash price for item X” this would be a huge benefit for he consumer.
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by 49bc 8y ago
> Some companies will dangle money at you as an alternative to going on the PIP. Can someone tell me a little about this? Is this a situation where a company pays you to quit without firing you?
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by 49bc 8y ago
I really don’t think anyone is underestimating it. We’re just not buying into the hype. We somehow managed highly-realistic fake images. Why can’t we do the same with video?
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by 49bc 8y ago
Gossip about people you’ve never heard of or seen completely defeats the allure of gossip doesn’t it?

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