Frost1x

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by Frost1x 3y ago
Having worked in research for a long time, once you've invested a lot of time an effort into some line of work, you're always looking for some way to continue, spin, or create the least amount of iterative difference in previous w
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>As a "my government made our money useless" back up. I think that's where you first get into "some other governments money may be less useless" as a first stage backup. Precious metals in direct ownership are re
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You forgot "that's the only viable option provided by the vendor." Some people are reliant on certain software as a requirement and forced into certain standards imposed on them. They don't exactly choose the standard, t
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In theory, markets should regulate and competitors should be able to rise and provide products over never ending services and be successful. That doesn't seem to happen though. Is it because service designs expose real business costs o
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I'd say in one case it's a strategic corporate tactic: you intentionally build something to attract people with the understanding that you'll slowly boil and eventually gouge them if you're successful, peeling away freed
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Many non-technical people like to look at things that already exist and interpolate or extrapolate. "Well Facebook does this", "well I can buy GTA 5 on a shelf at Walmart for $60 (or something)", "people do this, I
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>As I get older, I just care about boring technology. I want things to work without me having to faff around or spend too long configuring them. This applies to both software and hardware. There's something intellectually alluring a
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It's also worth noting that evolutionary biology tends to lag behind technology quite a bit so while reduced birth rates might be desirable for society as a whole, individuals may still have a natural urge to want to have children. Bal
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If it's something you intend to package to a non-Windows user then sure it's not odd. I send file archives to non-tech users all the time internally. I absolutely do not tarball them, I zip them. When it comes to less tech savvy u
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>Feature wise, I haven't seen any tool beat WinRAR. Locking, splitting, recovery support, And my favorite, SFX archives (msi file equivalent). Creating an installation program was dead easy. Doesn't 7zip do all of this (and qui
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Something reasonable needs to factor in the waves of inflation that have also occurred. TC was definitely over inflation at one point but in many places I suspect people are operating at a pay cut still. The never ending war on labor rates
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>One fact about security which you cannot avoid is that any one particular security feature may fail or be bypassed in some way. What are the consequences of this? Well, it means that you want multiple layers of security. I think the pro
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>As for physical activity, that's a lifestyle choice and has nothing to do with working in tech. That's not entirely true. A lot of jobs have some degree of physical activity, be it walking around or lifting things. In tech, em
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Eh it depends, some python packages do things like pull data samples from my experience and it can be quite a mess detangling the package to give PyInstaller everything it needs to bundle stuff up. It also takes a lot of additional configur
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Land use classification is one of the features advertised. While some may be capable of putting together a classification system on their own, not everyone can (especially reliably). Land use often directly effects things like flooding and
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Absolutely, which is what I advocate for.
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>Optimism is (almost) always required in order to accomplish anything of significance. Those who lose it, aren't living up to their potential. I argue that realism trumps optimism. It's perfectly normal in a realist farming to
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I just hydrate and take a multivitamin when I do plan on drinking a bit. And drink lots of water after.
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Makes sense. This is the (labor) market selecting on services it wants to support. Employers like Google have no sort of leverage or responsibility here what-so-ever.
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A fair deal doesn't externalize costs to risking peoples' lives, that's probably where the negativity is coming from. Compromise in middle grounds assume the two sides have reasonable baselines. Disregard for human life isn&#
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Employee count actually increased accounting for layoffs, so that's not it for sure. Looks like they did need or at least thought they needed that many.
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>I really don't know what to call this weird thing that was created. Micromanagement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromanagement It's not a new concept, agile and project management tools around it d
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Was unaware but not surprising coming from Reagan.
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I'd go as far to say it always is. Sociopathic tendencies are an advantage when it comes to decision making, pretty much always. Emotions like empathy cloud judgement. Obviously in the realm of people management, most of the world ha
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>Pointing out that our copyright/IP system is broken is easy. And you're right, it's totally broken! Coming up with a fix is hard work. The problem I have with these arguments is they ultimately tend to boil down to the de
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I think it's more of a selection bias. In most structures, it's more beneficial have emotional detachment as emotion in most cases can be exploited to adds constraints to your decision space. It's not that power holds a carro
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I'd say this is where more engineering approachable ideas come from or ideas that might be considered translational (or near translational). If you work near the bridge of theory and application, this is probably more the case. A lot o
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There are a lot of reasons people stay in positions. Not everyone has the same degree of mobility in terms of a job. Maybe they have little time in their personal life to deal with interview prepping. Maybe they're older and deal with
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Sugar being a readily metabolized energy source is almost undoubtedly a cancer source because increase in energy results in increase in cellular production one way or another, which leads to higher risk of mutated cancerous cells, period. H
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>...if there was fraud, it was probably committed at a non-executive level by the person whose P&L was directly tied to these resales. Or, it was done independently by the much smaller leasing company where this was more existential

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