JackFr

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These Are the Best of Times(ocregister.com)
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Maybe your empathy towards caterpillars says more about you than it does the caterpillars. It’s difficult for me to imagine being a caterpillar let alone a paralyzed caterpillar being devoured from within. Why is there any more or less mor
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You'd not be the first to tread that path: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Augustine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Storey_Mountain
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The specifics if this case notwithstanding (I recognize that communications about workplace conditions are protected), if someone was on a slack channel, bulk emailing other employees undermining and disparaging their manager, were asked to
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I understand that in this case communications about workplace conditions may be specifically protected, but is there some level of insubordination for which you think employees should be allowed to be fired?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/nyregion/tunnel-vision-ki... Token sucking - described by police as the most disgusting non-violent crime committed on the NYC subway.
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I was going to suggest that they hand out soap and laundry detergent to riders.
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I was being sarcastic, I don’t think I was necessarily being glib. I suppose the deeper point I was trying to make was that “this time is different/special” is shallow thinking, as is believing that the real issue is with our “current
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Chipping flints into sharpened edges may not be a good thing. Sharpened flints can also be stone axes, spear heads, etc. But beyond that, we should not have such easy to access cutting technology. It’s just too much power for our current g
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I think LLMs may really change the IP landscape. Culturally we’re taught that there is a moral component to copyright and patent law - that stealing is stealing. But the idea that words or thoughts or images can be owned (and that the might
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> should be available to all participants of that society. Who pays?
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The Plague of Justinian killed between 40-60% of the eastern Roman Empire in a decade. Pretty sure that disrupted some supply chains and yet humanity and civilization persevered. TFA is simply a laundry list of early 21st century faddish co
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If you have a business, you have a business without an app If you don’t have a business without an app, the app is the business .
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My (possibly incomplete) understanding of ‘gardening leave’ in finance is that it’s based on the idea of specific knowledge of trading positions or specific deal term sheets. It’s not that you can’t compete against us in general or use gene
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> I used to work on an application where ALL database accesses were via stored procedures. Genuinly the best dev experience, to me, so far. I found such an environment to be simply terrible. In general, I think stored procs certainly hav
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Indeed - I immediately thought of hypothetical system (similar to many systems I’ve worked on) where SELECTS are 100x more common than INSERTS which are 100x more common than DELETES. The 5x speed up on delete performance is a useless optim
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Sometimes Kubernetes is the answer. I don’t need Google scale, I don’t need all the bells and whistles, but what I get is abstracting server infra, and pushing it onto a dedicated corporate wide team.
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> darwing rather than writing... Indeed! :-)
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You know what would be good? No longer repeating: > “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein Does anyone writing that really think Einstein said that?
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> The form exists neither on the object nor in a Platonic heaven, but only in our minds because it is 'imposed' on the table by our reason and intellectual categories. This. I was looking for this in the original article. Thank
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In my day all we had was Martin Gardiner, and that was only once a month!!
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> Eventually, after some fairly harsh replies, he went away, and the pages stand to this day. Which brings up the point I was going to make about TFA. If 'toxic' comments are an effective way to reduce the impact of bad editor
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Free lunch at start up - workers: “We want healthier options!!” A dozen catering trays of salad get tossed into compost. All the fried chicken is gone in less than 5 minutes.
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The thing is, Facebook was never awesome. Really. Never. It demonstrably reduces happiness and life satisfaction. It’s just bad. And it’s easy to quit. Really.
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Replying to this 3 days late, so likely this won’t be seen, but I assure you the retention factors are not being ignored. (Well … see my last sentence.). For 2 years in the early nineties I worked in software with an extensive, sophistica
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That is not any COBOL I’ve seen. Straightforward, well documented and comprehensively specified and tested. When we needed changes (this was back office clearing stuff for a bank) they wouldn’t even talk to us until we specced out the chan
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Beautiful analysis by Michael Brendan Dougherty: “MacGowan was able, as an Irish-Londoner, to take Irish music in hand with a joy, pride, and inventiveness that seemed impossible for the native Irish who either revered their musical tradit
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I have posted this before, an argument in defense of stack ranking I had heard from a friend's father who was a long-time manager for a large industrial conglomerate from the 60's through the 80's. Simply put it was that the
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I had an argument with my wife about funding our public libraries. (We live in NYC which I believe supports 3 out of the top 10 public library systems in the country. Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan maintain separate library systems.) I am
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Biometric data as authentication vs. differentiate my shitcoin so I can get in on the crypto grift.

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