SicSemperUranus

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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
So far 3 out of 5 items in the list have been called into question. Seems like an entire domain of knowledge might be a bit too broad to be summarized into listicles, even with the caveat that they are "rules of thumb".
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
A bag of flour would be noticeably better.
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
I didn't really believe in schadenfreude until this happened. Now, every day is filled with pleasure!
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
Finding good devs is hard enough without a dictatorial style of leadership. I find that people like democracy, for some reason.
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
Don't forget to cook and eat that potato!
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
It's a magic trick!
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
Your sarcastic implication being that being good at managing car and space companies make him good at managing a social media company? Not only that, good enough to be better at it than his predecessor? Not only that , he's better at
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
Are people really expecting Twitter to survive The Musk? His rash actions almost feel like sabotage. I honestly expect Twitter to be dead or irrelevant in 2 years at most.
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
I am actually familiar with some of the research actually, but thank you for your condescendence. I didn't mean to imply that the SAT or grades are not predictive of future performance, only that lower socio-economic statuses will corr
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
> Test scores are highly predictive Any study in this area that doesn't control for socio-economic factors is near useless, because it mainly predicts that children of successful (ie rich) people will likely grow up to be successful
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
> in favor of other methods for classification and discovery Aka the toxic engagement trap. I miss the days when unfathomable AI didn't dictate what's popular.
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
There's still a dislike button, it just doesn't show the like to dislike ratio, so it's barely worth pressing. The outcry at the time seemed to indicate that this is explicitly to appease bigger media companies, who put out c
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
It depends what the point is. You wouldn't let a motorcycle participate in a horse race. I think there's a place for AI art and it's fine if "manual art" remains the same. The difference can be arbitrary at times, b
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
So your argument is Amazon is too dumb to be a threat? Even if we assume this is true for the present, seems very short-sighted to me.
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
> never found a legacy JS codebase that has a robust test suite, so any refactoring I do can be hard to test and verify. Wouldn't you just... make a test suite?
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
> Let me rent real servers, but expose it in a "serverless" "cloud-like" way, so I don't have to upgrade the OS and all that kind of stuff. I think you're describing platform-as-a-service? It does exist, but
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
How to know if a Google project is getting shut down: Is it ad-related? If not, it's already dead and just doesn't know it yet.
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
"return to Uranus" sounds like a SpaceX kind of mission!
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
That was very informative, thank you
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
To me this is obviously unethical, but wouldn't this also be obviously unconstitutional in the US? At least if done deliberately? 14th amendment and all that.
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
Would you consider candidates outside the US? e.g. in Canada?
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
The article is paywalled, but this seems like a nothing burger. The point of ESG isn't to save the planet, it's to make the world a better place to live/work in. Union busting is bad for workers and therefore society at large
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
But every community has their rules. Just because they're cultural rules doesn't make them anymore debatable. You: Break user space. Linus Torvalds: We don't do that here. You: I feel excluded. Good? If you want to do tha
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
Part of the issue with the mindset of never outsourcing mission-critical tasks is, if something is not important, why are we doing it? Do we just like wasting money? For example, if I work at an accounting firm and we build our own account
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
Even if that were 100% true, people don't actually know what they want. "Business requirements" undeveloped in the minds of non-technical people are just ideas. There are immeasurable differences between what people think the
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
In a way, writing software is translating human speech into machine speech. Any good software developer is fluent in the "machine" part, but trying to "translate" from a language (and culture) you don't master is a
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
I agree, people who are only fluent in one language (and who don't study anthropology) tend to ignore the huge cultural factor in these things. Indian people already have a hard time getting hired in your own country, you think your bo
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
Wow, as lifelong web developer, you really got fleeced. This reads like a list of rookie mistakes to be honest, but not just on your side. Agencies should know when they're too big for a client, and they often do. It avoids exactly thi
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
Any rational individual can see this is chicanery of the highest level. It takes an entire committee to be able to rationalize away the absurdity.
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by SicSemperUranus 4y ago
> I find/found the lack of colloquialisms one of the biggest problems with it. This is actually a big problem with how people perceive language in general. It's hard to understand if you only speak one language, but the idea of

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