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by Merad 4y ago
Another big factor here is that the boomers are starting to die off. The oldest of that generation is 77 now and 80% of them are homeowners, so the next 20-30 years are going to see quite a lot of wealth (including homes) pass from boomers
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by Merad 4y ago
I absolutely care where and how my code runs. And yet I don't give a damn about writing terraform, managing IAM, VPCs, keeping up with backups, upgrades, etc. I want specialists who know what they're doing to deal with that stuff.
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by Merad 4y ago
> A lot of `if (input == null)` checks are because you're just not sure whether the argument being passed in will have a value, and it's too much work for your small feature PR to refactor the whole codebase to resolve it. Null
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by Merad 4y ago
This is an attitude I really try to build up in junior devs. Soooo many people seem to default to writing code like, "if input is null return null" (when input should never be null) or "if valueThatShodBePositive < 0 silen
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by Merad 4y ago
Based on some quick testing MERGE does not appear to cause id gaps, though that does make me wonder if it's able to do so by providing less strict guarantees than ON CONFLICT.
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by Merad 4y ago
Temporal tables can get pretty bloated when the table sees a lot of updates since they essentially save a copy of the row every time it's modified. You could of course add a reaper system to only keep the last N versions, or only vers
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by Merad 4y ago
The US healthcare system is all kinds of messed up, but this sounds like FUD territory. I was hospitalized for 12 days earlier this year for what ended up being a heart issue. Not as "exciting" as a stroke perhaps but I'd h
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by Merad 4y ago
The lucky half would be the ones who got cooked due to facing the burst. The unlucky survivors would get to take a journey with a planet on its way to being inhospitable due to just having half of its atmosphere burned away and half of the
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by Merad 4y ago
Are you maybe thinking of CPUs back when they were marketed by clock speed? Because GPU naming has always been a mess. In the mid 2000s for example you had the Nvidia Geforce 7 series with product names such as: 7800 GS, 7800 GT, 7800 GTX
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by Merad 4y ago
Maybe not a legal reason per se, but even if you have production data access appropriately locked down there will be some people who hold the keys to the kingdom. There's a lot more risk of people peeking at things they aren't su
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by Merad 4y ago
I believe the runtime preallocates an OOME on startup, so if one is encountered it can just fill in the blanks and throw without needing any additional allocations.
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by Merad 4y ago
It's always fascinating how different people approach writing code. I've worked with some very talented devs who preferred dynamic languages because they liked what I call a "smash face on keyboard" style of coding. They
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by Merad 4y ago
I'm not too surprised the fraud claim was denied. You definitely made the payment, you paid a [technically] legitimate business, and they completed some of the work, i.e. it's hard to say they accepted the payment with intent to
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by Merad 4y ago
50k per month (600k per year) is an extraordinarily high salary even in the US. I assume the parent poster meant 50k per month for the team of 5, so each dev is getting 10k per month/120k per year.
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by Merad 4y ago
I first went to college in 2002 intending to pursue an engineering degree. At some point before I started school my dad (who had learned programming in the 90s but never did it professional) told me he thought I'd enjoy a programming
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by Merad 4y ago
Aircraft fires can escalate extremely quickly, and in an enclosed space like an aircraft there's nowhere for smoke to go. Accidents also often result in less than optimal evacuation conditions. Fire may block exits, doors can jam, sl
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by Merad 4y ago
A380s are probably too big TBH. IIRC their size and weight limits where they can operate because not all runways can support them. Also fuel is fairly heavy and dense, so tankers are more limited by weight than volume. The classic KC-135
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by Merad 4y ago
> they like to be fully charged, last virtually forever when maintained that way If that's the case why do the lead acid batteries in consumer UPS's never last more than 3-5 years?
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by Merad 4y ago
Does a child being stabbed in the face make knives evil? Or a child being crushed by a car make vehicles evil? Guns are inanimate objects and I don't really understand the desire to assign them attributes like "evil." Ther
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by Merad 4y ago
IME at least people who are really into guns are also very serious about gun safety. The problems mostly tend to come from those guys who bought an AR or pistol because it seemed cool who only take their guns out of the case once or twice
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by Merad 4y ago
As a liberal and a gun owner, I think it's an intentional stance by both sides. Conservatives dislike gun safety training because unless it's in carefully controlled settings (i.e. controlled by conservative groups) because they&
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by Merad 4y ago
If you like the idea of this but aren't on Linux or want something with a little ui involved, check out the Rainbow CSV extension for VS Code, vim, Sublime, and Atom. It includes RBQL [0] which lets you query CSVs with a sql-like synt
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by Merad 4y ago
This 100%. This line is an immediate nail in the coffin: > This business unit has a pretty aggressive roadmap as management and HQ has no real understanding of these blockers. And post COVID, budget is really tight. I've been at a
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by Merad 4y ago
Meaning no offense but if you aren't exaggerating you might want to invest some time in typing lessons. I'm not even remotely close to being an expert typist and I spend most of the day going back and forth between a C style langu
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by Merad 4y ago
Sure, but if the US government was on top of passing legislation to force businesses to stay up to date in order to protect consumers we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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by Merad 4y ago
We're talking about people often in their 60s or 70s who quite literally hate technology and don't want to spend any money on it unless someone puts a gun to their head. Seriously, the company I worked for had dropped support for
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by Merad 4y ago
I guess you're just SOL if you don't own a Mac?
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by Merad 4y ago
This spring I left a job working with payments in a SaaS for the self storage industry. I don't remember exact numbers but the overwhelming majority of the card present payments we processed were either keyed by hand or swiped with a m
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by Merad 4y ago
> Is it really a better alternative to putting some bomb bay doors on a modern Boeing? The B-52 can carry about 70,000 lbs of bombs. You can't just hang that amount of weight from the floor of a 777, you're going to have to re
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by Merad 4y ago
> In case there are people here who are really to young to remember this I'd guess there's quite a few of them here. Most current college age kids hadn't been born yet. College seniors were newborns. Those under age 30

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