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by Slartie 4y ago
That's exactly what I thought as well: build a golf course that's effectively a giant funnel, with the hole deep down in the bottom spot where the ball inevitably ends up. The entire thing must be large enough to have enough &quot
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by Slartie 4y ago
Are they insuring densely populated countries against the consequences of disastrous nuclear reactor accidents?
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by Slartie 4y ago
That's a definitive 'yes'. He is extremely good at finding great and very qualified people, placing them in the right positions and getting 110% out of them.
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by Slartie 4y ago
Musk also does not run a rocket company. Musk owns a rocket company. Gwynne Shotwell runs it.
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by Slartie 4y ago
Facebook in particular however is beyond the user growth phase. Everyone knows that, including investors. Nobody expects FB to add billions of additional users, because that is close to impossible. Investors expect FB to instead defend its
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by Slartie 4y ago
> Meta's platforms reach BILLIONS of people Yes, but most of these are leafs on the (imaginary) unified global social graph. Twitter's active users are much more likely to not be leafs, but multipliers, some able to reach even
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by Slartie 4y ago
The relevance of Twitter does not originate in generating the biggest number of eyeballs on advertisements (it doesn't do well at all in that regard). Twitter is relevant because a very specific audience of multipliers (particularly jo
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by Slartie 5y ago
This is so true, and it's why I passionately hate pair programming. Also: Scrum, which is another one of these attempts at turning software engineering into assembly line work. Partially successful in case of maintenance-heavy projects
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by Slartie 5y ago
"Our software has some sort of race condition, it gets stuck every few hours, should we debug it? Could be difficult to find." "No, just write a cron job to restart it every few hours, and we'll increase the error tolera
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by Slartie 5y ago
I have seen quite a bit of code in the Java ecosystem over more than 15 years, but far less than 90% of it. And even in the small slice that I've seen, I'd say the quota of ignorant error handling is way lower than 90%. Especially
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by Slartie 5y ago
Anyone not seriously considering option 3 as the default, with options 1 and 2 being the exception that one must have good reason to take, automatically disqualifies himself as ignorant of proper error handling. Of course you catch and hand
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by Slartie 5y ago
Great! And what about all those non-Apple users? Or all those Apple users not on a paid iCloud plan?
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by Slartie 5y ago
The "major gains" don't come during the time in which all signs seem to point towards the end of the world being near. The gains materialize when the end of the world that everyone expected yesterday eventually fails to mater
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by Slartie 5y ago
> Spray on magic glass cooktop spray There's your error. That spray-on stuff sucks. It does not work as advertised. What you need is the stuff that is largely solid and dry, comes in a jar and which has a sand-like feel to it. Sorry
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by Slartie 5y ago
If someone with an account at bank A transfers some funds to someone at bank B, this transfer can occur by bank A decreasing a number and bank B increasing it. That's "just a message". However, it also is only part of the sto
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by Slartie 5y ago
No. Swift is "just" a messaging system. No money is transferred over it. Blocking Swift access makes it very inconvenient for banks to perform international settlement, because banks today rely on automated Swift messages to coord
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by Slartie 5y ago
Maybe we should call it a Secondary Public Offering then.
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by Slartie 5y ago
> Well, it depends on "way above human intelligence". I think what you are trying to say is you need a supersapient intellect with IQ 195. I'd say even "normal human intelligence" would suffice for at least getti
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by Slartie 5y ago
> think faster Computers cannot "think" at any speed.
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by Slartie 5y ago
So, self-driving cars are supposed to be, at the same time... ...much safer than human-driven cars, because they never tire and they never break traffic rules and thus never cause accidents and ...supposed to bend and break traffic rules li
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by Slartie 5y ago
>The gloomy narrative, which says that an invasion of job-killing robots is just around the corner, has for decades had an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination. This "gloomy narrative" first and foremost served well fo
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by Slartie 5y ago
I have found that the attitude of "just silently do the robust and proper thing immediately and push it, instead of letting the entire team discuss this important infrastructure topic forever in order to ultimately come up with an abom
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by Slartie 5y ago
It's clearly the Uber/WeWork playbook: masquerade as a tech company, even if you're not, because then you can lose money all the time without investors stopping their injections of fresh cash.
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by Slartie 5y ago
Based on current market valuations, it seems more likely for Microsoft to be able to buy Disney than the other way round.
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by Slartie 5y ago
I'd add ransomware payments to the list, but otherwise your take "the problem was found back in 2011 - it's just that nobody wants to admit it" is spot-on! An interesting tangent of your BitTorrent analogy is that, for B
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by Slartie 5y ago
> Like I said, in American culture, the norm is that if you have the means to make yourself or your family happy, you should do it, and it's not that hard to get a 5 lb bag of dino nuggets from Costco when we go. That is a perfect e
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by Slartie 5y ago
Tangentially related: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/680467/ex... Had Microsoft used an unsigned int to store the date - which can't ever be negative in this notation - Exchange
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by Slartie 5y ago
The one thing I really, really hate Java for is its lack of unsigned integers (there are a lot of other minor inconveniences, like in any language, but nothing comes close to the missing unsigned types). This of course has to do with me fre
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by Slartie 5y ago
However doctors cannot currently order Comirnaty "directly" from anywhere except from the government-controlled distribution system, which operates along the same basic distribution lines that are also used for other vaccines and
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by Slartie 5y ago
BioNTech distributes directly in Germany for sure. Also as far as I know in all European Union countries, because they basically bulk-ordered their vaccine supply together (though the deliveries are individually split up to each country). B

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