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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   Firefox is my default browser on Android for couple of years now. It supports uBlock Origin, and I cannot browse internet without it anymore. I don't have major trouble with it, except 1-2 cases per quarter, when it is faster to open C
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   Both Marxists and SJWs (in the narrow meaning of the word, although I think that Marxists are part of SWJs) want to destroy the engineering culture. OP is attacking it directly, painting it as "free labor for entities that are trying t
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   I am not bucketing, but showing analogies, using the most prominent and at the same time controversial idea from OP that engineers should deny teaching their peers and lower-grade engineers, writing documentation and otherwise undermine the
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   Let me just quote it for you: " If we fall away from meritocracy – if we allow the SJWs to remake us as they wish, into a hell-pit of competitive grievance-mongering and political favoritism for the designated victim group of the week
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   "Naive-utopian hacker culture" gave us approximately everything we are building upon right now. Can't tell the same about SJWs. And yes, they are very much the same as those who call to class warfare and unionizing. Those are
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   I believe that the best antidote for this utterly bullshit marxist propaganda is ESR[0]'s essay "Why hackers should eject SWJs". Please take time to read this (and, if you like it, other his essays): http://esr.ibi
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   At the same time, thousands of companies, where hundreds of thousands software engineers writing the damn code, going into oblivion, generating billions of dollars losses for their investors. Writing the damn code is not a big deal. Knowing
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   The industry is just walking in circles. Nothing new since "Silicon Valley" ended: https://youtu.be/u48vYSLvKNQ
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   by SergeAx 4y ago

   As a hiring manager, I I only welcome taking breaks between jobs. This way I can be sure the new employee will come onboard full of energy and salf-motivated.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    This comment should be number one on this discussion.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Is there a statistics about ships sinking because of rogue waves?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Side note: it seems I am quickly developing a disaffection to ML-generated blog poster images.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    The "Business Insider" title means that they should know a thing or two about business. In that case, they should know that CEO reports to the Board of directors and executes it's decisions. Hence, "executive officer&quo
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    > Use near-black I am not buying OLED only smartphones since first Samsung Galaxy to follow this controversy. Black should be black.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    You have to provision a new server first, preferably the same or better configuration. And then restore all backups, because probably all your components didn't scale beyond one server yet.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    The problem with bare metal is quite sophisticated contingency plan for physical failure. With VMs when any one of them fails - you just re-run your Terraform/Ansible scipts, restore backup (if it was a stateful VM that failed) and voi
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Note there is a very observable difference between computer science and software engineering. In Advanced Programming they offer Haskel, Scala and Prolog. While those languages are fun to learn and use for personal purposes, there's ef
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    This is correct, except the ones between new team member and their mentor during onboarding. Those are specifically designed to give newbie all small ifs and buts we never put into written documentation. But at this time no one expects perf
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    There's a joke among sailors that more than a half of male's corpses fished out from the sea has their pants zipper open. This man was extremely lucky, but at the same time quite foolish. There are number of ways to relieve onesel
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    In China’s Covid Fog, Deaths of Scholars Offer a Clue(nytimes.com)

    9 points by SergeAx 4y ago|1 comments
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Yesterday I asked ChatGPT, how do I use DataMapping pattern instead of ActiveRecord with Django framework. It recommended me a `Django-OOOR` package. When I asked what that package is, it said, that it is an integration package for OORM, Op
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Relatively democratic like in 124 of 167 countries by democracy index?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    My favorite Russian joke of 2012 was this: — Daddy, which camp they are taking us to? — I don't know, son, I am not interested in politics.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    I am asking for more information and, preferably, sources. I am not an Asia politics expert, so the only thing came to my mind is the Chinese take on Taiwan.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    FWIW, all comms of that balloon would be satellite. I don't think it is easy to jam, let alone intercept.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    > about triple the height Hundred times the height, to be exact.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    So, to be leveled by US bombs and then capitulate is not exactly the way to prosperity, right?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    Which exactly China geopolitical goals not aligned with the West do you mean? Where are they declared?
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    What's the difference between them and Germany and Japan? They fucked around and found out too.
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    by SergeAx 4y ago

    "No limit friendship" was declared before the current full-fledged war in Ukraine. Since then Chinese rethoric became much more cautious.