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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Makes sense. Is there a reason Pandemic ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/710698.Pandemic ) and The Rift ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271167.The_Rift ) aren't in Kaguya?
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I think most n/x rating systems are extremely weak and the level of detail is irrelevant. Averaging leads to a soup where nearly everything that isn't objectively awful falls in 60-80% rating. There's no signal to determine i
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I like it. Very clean UI. I don't think "UI still looks like it's from 2005." is a bad thing (nor do I know if that's true). I'm working on importing my library from a simple checklist app I made years ago. I p
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
He's just one of today's lucky 10,000. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Higher tariffs won't do it alone. Time is needed, as well. The current tariffs are likely seen as temporary. If you start a factory to produce on shore, you would have to recoup capital costs off the margin available due to undercuttin
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Click and it changes colors.
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I'm disappointed I couldn't mouse over the grid to find my PIN and see how popular it is...
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Bitcoin is certainly extremely high on the speculative spectrum, but claiming gold is anywhere near the same level of speculation is specious. Gold has the Lindy effect going for it. Humans have been trading it for thousands of years. Bitco
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Vanguard says it's more of a speculation than an investment. Vanguard isn't saying speculation is bad entirely. Stocks are ownership of a tiny part of a company that has assets, cash flow, and does something in the world. Stocks a
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Correct, I wasn't critiquing gRPC. I was critiquing a type of person who might push for gRPC. That developer probably thought of it as a novelty and made up reasons to use it. It was a big hassle that added to that teams workload with
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
My only work experience with gRPC was on a project where another senior dev pushed for it because we "needed the performance". We ended up creating a JSON API anyways. Mostly because that's what the frontend could consume. No
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
It's the hammer I have and it works on those nails, hah.
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Micropayment systems don't work well because there are free options. Convincing people to pay any amount of money is incredibly hard. Would micropayments result higher quality? Maybe, but until you have a critical mass no one can reall
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I think what you describe is what infecto was saying. You can't use YouTube to find interesting content anymore. You can only use it to find more of what you've already seen. In the past, it was better at unearthing new things. Pe
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Maybe I don't understand what is supposed to happen, but this doesn't work for me. (Firefox, Pop_OS!)
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I was surprised at $0.99/lb for asparagus. My local Walmart has it for around $6/lb.
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I've been thinking about this lately. For a couple weeks, I was worried about my health insurance for next year through my state's marketplace and I was considering whether it would be worth the unsubsidized price of $350-450 per
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I don't know you, but based on what you're saying, I guess you're in a much different environment than I've ever been in. You're probably also more of a "type A" person than I am. I've always worked i
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I agree with you that's how it should be, but experience tells me that everyone is insecure and it's hardly correlated with position and job security. People lower down the chain are insecure because they could legitimately be let
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media. One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky v
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Nvidia is $3.42T market cap. AMD is $246B market cap. Nvidia makes up over 5% of the ETF I use. AMD is less than 0.5% There's a lot more wealth tied up in Nvidia, so there is more interest and worry. They are also more associated with
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
You'd be surprised how people will stick to a name. At my last job, we spent 3 years building an electrical systems product with the same name as an eye scanning company. We had invested in marketing and sales that was practically usel
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I did this as well for 3 domains that use the same EC2. There were random connectivity problems from my phone for a couple months, but it works perfectly for the past 6 months. I have no idea why the issues went away.
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Lots of people are, they're called nootropics. Whether they are successful and whether they are mostly a bunch of snake oil is another question...
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
At my last job, there was a frontend developer who added a linter rule that variable names must be at least 2 characters long. The project already had 20,000 lines of code. Every time anyone made a change to a file, they would have to renam
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
My only personal experience writing with Lisp was Scheme, which I wrote for two weeks back in college 18 years ago, so I truly know nothing about the language. In retrospect, saying I don't understand was hyperbolic. Of course I unders
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
One counterargument is that people who claim "worse is better" are often making excuses for why their preferred technology didn't win. Often in these arguments, worse means "shortcut" and better means "won&quot
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I'll never understand the obsession with LISP. My guess is it just appeals to a certain type of person, sort of academic in my view. I'm not convinced that LISP was ever the-right-thing. The author didn't express anything abo
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
If PMs are accountable, then I'm with you. Decision making should lie with those accountable. From what I've seen, accountability doesn't mean much. Could be the places I've worked. Poor PMs get promoted despite running
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
That's the practical advice to engineers who are stuck in a dysfunctional organization where they can't really effect change, which is probably 90%+ of all organizations.

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