AdrianB1

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by AdrianB1 3y ago
Denigrating democracy is not bad in any way; first, democracy is the least worst system that we have, that does not make it good. Second, permanent criticism is required for the health of any system that has the potential to go wrong. That
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Probably the article is written for people that will read it in 20 years. Sorry, 200 years.
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That fear needs to exist all the time about everything. Aviation safety is one of many, food safety, health care, government in general, etc. Becoming complacent will start kill people again at some point. It is called entropy.
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Is the type of problem encountered in a country a sign of the type of civilization you have in that country? In a way, I would expect this article to be applicable also in North Korea, just with different outcome ("42 were shot today d
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Given the level of sophistication and automation in commercial planes, the technological advances makes it the default state to be safer and safer every year. It is like Newton's apple falling and reporting "the apple altitude dec
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The system is corrupt. From planes to tampons, it's self-checking and self-reporting and a conflict of interests: the regulators have no incentive to do more work (or are paid-out not to do), the companies are corrupt to the bone, the
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In some industries when you have diversity targets you need to lower the standards a lot. Why? Because the competence-based hiring and promotion process will not get you enough good candidates to meet the diversity targets, so you take sh
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Back in ~ 2003-2004 I was working for an American company that did exactly that. The story was simple, they outsourced all IT (a few thousands) to a well known tech company. The selling point? " The tech company has a lot of expertise
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Retired, wealthy, that is not pariah means.
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I did the same 10 years ago, but now VS Code is a much more productive tool for me; for example, extensions, Git integration and markdown preview.
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It is the other way around: 10 yeas ago I was using Notepad++ for writing small apps and I replaced it with IDE (VS Code). It makes no sense to replace a decent IDE with Notepad++.
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I have it on a few thousand servers in my department, mostly as a Notepad that can do more, like comment color or editing small config files of all sorts. It is far from the days I used to write entire small apps in Notepad ++, but we still
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I do a lot of code review for SQL. One thing that I always to is reduce the number of lines of code, usually by ~10% on the first read. I need to focus not to become a target :)
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It is organized, especially if you write it correctly (split lines and indent). Minified, it is a nightmare, but with a proper layout it is a pleasure to read it. I just did a code review for a 20,000 LoC piece and it was quite a breeze aft
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I failed COBOL in college in a similar situation: I was professionally writing COBOL, my project was too divergent from what the teacher expected. I took that exam 3 times to barely pass. Good times, good times.
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I really "got" SQL about 15 years after I started using it. The explanation is very simple: until that moment, SQL was a minor component for me in a big pie. Then one day I got into the position to troubleshoot some apps with >
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
You are only partly right: if I am an engineer and you are the CEO, my job is to do my engineering part and your job as CEO includes (but not only) to maximize shareholder value. If your job becomes the problem, the focus and the constraint
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Yes, there was a time then marriage exist before religion, but it was not regulated by the state. The evolution would be unregulated->church->state. I think the unregulated and church ones are very close in term of legal implications
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I don't care about religion, but if the church invented the notion of marriage a thousand year ago why not let them use it and for state affairs use a distinct term? I would not consider the religion to be any sort of law in the land,
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Until 100 years ago there was no civil marriage in my country and no civil laws regarding marriage, it was just some penal law punishing polygamy. Then the state took ownership of the notion of marriage by regulating it by law and forbiddin
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In my country legal and religious marriage are strongly related: you cannot get married in the church until you get married in front of the mayor. So it is not that obvious as you suggest it is.
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I know nothing about the legal system in Japan, so I am asking: why several courts rule independently on the same matter? Is there a supreme court that decides or not? What are the next steps? And the other question is: what is a marriage i
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What I saw first hand: when someone really good is trying to help others there are usually 2 ways this can happen: - they try their best, they need help, they ask for help, they get it - they don't put any effort, they go to the expert
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If engineers are motivated by the success of the company, you get a Boeing situation, where company is doing well and planes are bad. Happiness of the team ... the guy bringing tequila shots and cupcakes to the office will be rated the best
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Not in my experience. I worked in 2 occasions with some older people (~ 65) that were the guru of their departments, very respected and listened. While people learned a lot from these 2 people, they were not too agreeable, but quite grumpy,
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This is what you see from the outside. LinkedIn also looks good from outside. This is the entire point of the story.
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Boeing in action. Luckily nobody is flying LinkedIn MAX, so there are no deaths as a result.
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I clearly stated I am talking about Romania. I don't have any numbers for France.
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Yes, the number of open positions exceeds even the total number of people looking for a job. The number of unemployed people (they are not "workers", some did not work a day in their life) and the number of people looking for a jo
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In Romania we have a crisis of workers in highway constructions and at the same time people living on benefits. The jobs are paying above the average, most are for operators of heavy machinery (trucks, bulldozers), don't require high s

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