Scarblac

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by Scarblac 3y ago
Most of ASML's technology was developed at ASML. Yes, not all, and there are US patents. But there was an insane amount of work they did in making it reality (together with Zeiss).
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Just let it drift. The climate is changing anyway, a bit of drift will hardly be noticeable in the noise.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Just when you think timezone databases can handle absolutely every weird thing somebody proposed somewhere...
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Part of that is that you're taking a fixed number of companies. So if Europe has more, but smaller companies, the value of the top-40 would be lower than if they had fewer but larger companies. To me the first sounds healthier, everyth
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes, it does. You had a 1/1000 chance of picking the right door at once. Monty had a 1/1000 chance of opening only empty doors. He had a 998/1000 chance of opening a door to a car, but that didn't happen. So it's ei
516.
by Scarblac 3y ago
I assume that at the time of writing, most readers would have been familiar with the actual game show and the fact that the host always opens a door with a goat?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes, but it's not only climate change this time. We are also massively overusing every natural resource there is. We're in a mass extinction event and we would be in it even if there wasn't a CO2 problem at all.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> Environmental concerns are selfish. That's overstating it. Yes, life will go on. But it's not only us that will die - as you say, much of the marine ecosystem will die off, we're not the only animal that has problems wit
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by Scarblac 3y ago
What's the genre of Electric Callboy called? Partycore? See songs like We Got The Moves on YouTube. Music can be really heavy and still all about fun.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> You can have nice things like this till they get abused. That can be interpreted both ways. Keeping people off the land is also a type of abuse, as is misuse of the land by a large amount of people roaming there.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Seen from here, in the last half year I've seen far more articles on "OK, we're all addicted now, how do we get out of this mess" than ever before.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
You're not the first to have that criticism, still our political class seems to think it's best to follow them. I think we do have slightly more influence on the US than our size would merit.
523.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Also that's what we do since WW2. We are a close ally of the US, use US weapons, usually follow them in foreign policy. So not very surprising imo.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Isn't that what almost the whole field of software engineering is about? In my experience, key is to keep the code as small and simple as possible, that way there is less that might need changing in the future.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Personally I have never found any consistent, widespread differences in the meaning of the words "software engineer", "developer", and "programmer", or even "coder". It's people who make software
526.
by Scarblac 3y ago
I have had a vasectomy, I'm now on my own in my species :-(
527.
by Scarblac 3y ago
> "I'm from employee success. I'm here to give you an important update about your future at Techaro."
528.
by Scarblac 3y ago
If you are rich enough to do that. But OK, if you don't then you now have a smaller share of a bigger pie.
529.
by Scarblac 3y ago
No, not a shitty client, just one that was written before you decided to make this change. If your API breaks it while it doesn't change, it's the API that's being shitty, not the client.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> Its purpose is to try to answer common questions Yes. And therefore people should be able to assume that the answers are correct. Some people have heard of ChatGPT, and some of those have heard that they hallucinate, sure. But that&#x2
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> Therefore it is in the company's interest to give no advance notice whatsoever until employment is officially, actually terminated. That doesn't follow at all. The notice period exists so you can transfer your knowledge and p
532.
by Scarblac 3y ago
> You can't legislate that someone lose more money than they gain with access to your market. What? Of course they can. That someone will then just leave the market, or maybe change their product more. But there is absolutely no rea
533.
by Scarblac 3y ago
More likely the interviewer was some internal recruiter type who had been given some example questions to ask but didn't know about development themselves.
534.
by Scarblac 3y ago
Disagree on gender re-assignment, people don't choose to have gender dysphoria just like they don't choose sexual orientation.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes, the result would be that they wouldn't have any employees in the Netherlands, let alone in the Bay area.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The company gets the best bang for their buck if employees are reasonably happy, healthy and productive. So most of the time your interests and the company's should be aligned.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes, but that's what banks and mortgages are for already.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I write mostly frontends. Sometimes the APIs I talk to give back beautiful English error messages - that I can't just show to the user, because they are using a different language most of the time. And I don't want to write logic
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> and a human-readable explanation of the issue is set as the value. This is annoying to translate later. At least also include some error code string that is documented somewhere and isn't prone to change randomly.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
'Niks' is an alternative version of 'niets', which means 'nothing'. Niksen is the verbified form, so 'to nothing'. It has an -en ending like most verbs, unrelated to the -sen ending as in those names.

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