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by Clubber 2y ago
After reading that, it seems TESCREAL-ists, for lack of a better word, currently prefer conservative policy due to its loosening of regulation because regulation tends to tighten the reigns on "move fast and break things." I'
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>the rot in the Silicon Valley ideology What exactly is SV ideology?
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>Being kind "because there are too many unkind people out there" sounds wrong. I have no idea how they measured the "too many unkind people out there" This sounds wrong because you feel we need more assholes out the
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>> I always tell my daughter to be a kind person because there is currently an oversupply of assholes. >I don't want to come across as harsh Found one!
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>Isn't it great we have a massive private entity in control of the financial system that pleasantly reminds you that it is not accountable to government laws, and by extension is not accountable to the people ("A government of
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by Clubber 2y ago
I always tell my daughter to be a kind person because there is currently an oversupply of assholes. I try to compliment someone on something whenever I go out and about. I like your hair, I like your shirt, etc. It's the simple things.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Musk sold me a very expensive feature that still does nothing, six years later. He knew that he was lying about the capabilities of the cars, but still took my $7,500 for a feature that was worth zero. I’m never buying anything from him
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by Clubber 2y ago
The current government is still the current government. Not sure how that applies here.
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>I'm looking for a career fixing problems caused by tech as a techie. Oh, I thought you were looking to do something for the good of humanity. I'm afraid all the paying jobs are antithetical to that goal to varying degrees. &g
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by Clubber 2y ago
Layoffs coming. The government needs to grow a spine and halt about 90% of these M&A's.
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by Clubber 2y ago
I mean electric cars, solar panels, and rockets so we don't have to rely on Russia to get to and from space ain't nothin'. Then there's that torch thing. I can take or leave the other two. Netscape was pretty cool.
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by Clubber 2y ago
Post 9/11 made everything shitty. I feel bad for people who didn't know life before it; now it's the normal. I would imagine other milestones for new and improved shittiness is the drug war, 1993 crime bill, prohibition, Wood
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by Clubber 2y ago
I would suggest writing a FOSS solution to a proprietary software system. FOSS is the great equalizer. It's hard to compete with free. EDIT: For concrete examples, see what the author complained about, there are some good pain points t
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by Clubber 2y ago
IIRC, all the Google/Samsung phones had keyboards because they copied the Blackberry. Once the iPhone was released with the screen keyboard, all the Google phones changed to that. They didn't clone everything, but they cloned a lo
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by Clubber 2y ago
Yes I should have said, "has outside investors," or "institutional investors." It would have fit better. PE companies seem even worse. I often see them take a known brand, cut quality, jack up the prices and bleed the co
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by Clubber 2y ago
Yes, coffee bars were popular back in the 1990s. One of my CS professors opened one up. In "Friends," they often go to a coffee bar. They had couches and comfy chairs to chill in. You just went there and had coffee and hung out. T
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Medical.
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I've seen it a few times. One company replaced the entire QA department with off shore people from India, this didn't go well. Another replaced a bunch of devs with off shore people in Belarus, this did go well. Disney did it back
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by Clubber 2y ago
>we don't know that they're capable of reasoning Apple AI researchers released a paper on it. They say no. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Some of us remember the 90s-00s era of debugging non-tech family & friends windows machines for various critical ailments with great frequency until they all switched to Macs. I second this. My mom switched to a iMac G4 and never ne
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by Clubber 2y ago
>if gaming was one essential feature of a computer. They are, that's why I have to dual boot. If my games worked on Linux, I would never run Windows. DirectX is their lock-in.
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It's aggravating how misleading these headlines are.
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>to signal that I'm a real person with real experience is to know someone in the company who can vouch for me (which I almost never do). You ask your friends/past colleagues if the company they currently work for has any open
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>the truly apocalyptic predictions were ridiculous and never going to happen News had to get their fear views, even back then.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>"Xerox and Lexmark have complementary sets of operations" To me that means, "we can save money because we now don't need 2 marketing departments and 2 accounting departments and 2 support departments, etc. for the sa
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Drug addicts sell their children (in the worst way) for the next hit. It's not the same.
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>If you are working at such a company, that reflects on your skill more than anything else. Maybe he's so good everyone is less skilled than he is.
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It couldn't possibly be that the H1-B's that his company is hiring are bad, because his company is trying to save a buck by abusing the system, because that never happens.
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Random audits, like the IRS does.
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I joke with my friends (I'm old) about how great the internet is for looking up information. When I was growing up, someone told you the wrong thing and you just knew the wrong thing for years. Misinformation and disinformation were te

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