SkipperCat

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by SkipperCat 1y ago
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but most if the Internet should not be anonymous. Anonymity has led to bots, awful cases of trolling and abuse. There should definitely be ways to communicated peer-to-peer anonymously, but
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
Sadly, DOGE probably fired all the people in the SEC and other agencies that would have gone after corporate price fixing from this current debacle. Hard to believe that this administration may have made prices worse than the Biden adminis
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
They voted against inflation. Most people don't care about politics, they only care about their pocketbook. And to your point, Trump hasn't solved inflation, so he's left with only his core supporters now.
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
This isn't an example of incompetence. DOGE staff broke laws when they connected their personal computers to classified system. They knew better, plenty of people told them not to do this and they still did it. They could have follow
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
I worked in Federal government on classified systems. There were many safeguards in place, most importantly networks that were 100% disconnected from the Internet and locked down workstations. That made sure that even the most inept user
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
I've used Redpanda and I like it. Its Kafka compliant so all the tools that work with Apache Kafka also work with Redpanda. Plus, no JVM and no zookeeper. Redpanda most importantly is faster that Apache Kafka. We were able to get a
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
I've been using Redpanda for a few years now and here's what I've noticed. Its a compiled binary - no JVM to manage. Java apps have always been a headache for me. Plus, no zookeeper - one less thing to break. The biggest be
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
Redpanda community edition operates under the BSL license - https://www.redpanda.com/blog/open-source IANAL, but it looks pretty open source to me.
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
Biden quitting was a big change. Not enough to win the 2024 election for Harris, but still a change. I think failure is the biggest motivation for change, and the Dems have failed bigly. I think there's a decent sized chance they ru
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
The Republican Party changed dramatically in 2016. They became something they never were before and due to the populist trends in the county, they won the election. There is a very high chance that the next democrat contenders will be very
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
The only good thing about this is that it will be reversed by the next administration. Of course, that's only if we have another election...
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
I've come to liquidate your positions again...
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Fair point, but America is getting rid of the parts of government that provide stability across the country and world. I don't see any major changes to the US war machine. Shutting down USAID, cutting education, health benefits and di
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Where’s the due process? Executive orders for this stuff are not the way forward for a democracy to exist. We have laws, we should use them and let the judicial system work. You’d want the same for yourself if the roles were reversed.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
And this is fine because hacker news is just a web site and getting flagged may damage one’s ego but it doesn’t impact your freedom. Law firms being attacked by POTUS for their lawful actions, networks being frivolously sued and people bein
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
True, but what you mentioned involves active participation, creation and social interaction. Sitting around scrolling on TikTok feels more like empty calories.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
I feel that the West is backsliding because for the past decade, we've addicted ourselves to social media dopamine hits and we stopped observing the outside world because we've glued our attention to our phones. Seems like this h
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
We've found that ClickHouse is extremely fast for write-once/read-many. So its great for recording logs. If Telescope provides the search/index features that Elastic provides, this could be a nice performance bump. FWIW, I
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Honestly, this is exactly how Silicon Valley operates. Uber broke the laws until they could fix the laws (in their favor). AirBnB did the exact same thing. Meta knew their platform was causing damage to children and teenagers, and they ga
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Yes, but this is not the way to go about enacting change. This is just carnage to prepare for tax cuts.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
You have no evidence to back any of this up. You're just trying to flood the zone with bullshit in order to smoke screen the destruction of our liberal society. And I mean liberal in the classic sense of holding the truth paramount i
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
I’m a wall st bro and I work with a lot of other wall st bros. We all use the subway to get to our job in manhattan.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
You are omitting that each of those events happened after the neighboring Arab states declared war on Israel. Israel won those wars. If they didn't, Israel would not exist. Israel should get out of the West Bank, just like the way Isr
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
"I take issue with that the land provided for this project was taken without the consent of any of the nations from which it was taken, which is colonialism and why it's impossible to separate Israel from the colonialist roots tha
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Yes, there was a lot of factors, going back years before WWII, but I still believe that the aftermath of the Holocaust was major contributing factor to the creation of the State of Israel. https://www.yadvashem.org/articles&
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Israel is not the product of "the latter end of colonialism". It was the product of the Holocaust, which occurred just three years before its founding. Should Europe have used Palestine for this purpose, that is debatable. But t
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
Democracy dies in darkness was a promise, not a warning.
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
If someone told me "I don't know. I went to business school", I'd then ask "So why are you managing programmers, shouldn't you be managing business people?" But all joking aside, I think there are few MBAs
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
This stuff may happen, I can't say it is untrue, but I've never seen a manager terminate a decent to good programmer because they didn't understand their workload. The companies I've worked for spend a lot of time recrui
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by SkipperCat 2y ago
As someone who uses Mac products (macpro, ipad, iphone), I can say I've never had hardware from any other vendor which has lasted so long. Their gear stays functional for several years (especially the macbook pro) and the only reason

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