Sodman

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by Sodman 6y ago
I would take this to mean a replacement for the "original" Facebook feature set, of sharing personal news, stories and photos with a pre-selected list of friends and family. Many people (myself included) don't _want_ the newe
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by Sodman 6y ago
This seems like a much more polished product, but it seems more targeted as a PaaS for professional content creators. The minimum requirements[0] are pretty high for somebody who just wants to self-host a blog for friends and family: - Ubun
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by Sodman 6y ago
In the US, they are very specific, distinct things. Tax Evasion[0] is not paying taxes you legally owe. Tax Avoidance[1] is finding ways to owe less tax. Evasion is considered illegal, but Avoidance can practically be considered encouraged,
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by Sodman 6y ago
This seems to be affecting a lot of folks - https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/map/
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by Sodman 6y ago
I was in a similar situation about ~4 years ago as one of the only devs running linux in an all-windows shop. I used Pidgin as a Lync client. It had some downsides, I remember "status" notifications were particularly buggy, and sc
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by Sodman 6y ago
I used to love using Pidgin to aggregate all of my chat clients into one UX. These days with most of the platforms I use running on proprietary protocols I'm too worried about getting my accounts banned for using questionable clients b
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by Sodman 6y ago
I should clarify that I was talking specifically about unionizing as tech workers. Warehouse workers are a totally different situation. My opinion is admittedly strongly influenced by the fact that at most tech companies I've worked fo
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by Sodman 6y ago
This particular scandal involved FANG companies... While obviously bad for employees, I don't think "we don't get paid enough" is a primary complaint amongst the FANG workers currently trying to unionize. Outside of FAN
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by Sodman 6y ago
The problem is that democracy is imperfect, it can be (and is) frequently gamed and manipulated. Many people are worried about the following scenario: - Software engineers unionize - Some "bad" rules get implemented, perhaps passi
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by Sodman 6y ago
These do seem nice! I'd like waterproofing for swimming, but in reality it's not a deal breaker.
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by Sodman 6y ago
Another original Pebble kickstarter here. I still feel that "smart" watches peaked with Pebble. Long battery life, physical buttons / no touch-screen, waterproof, shows notifications / allows basic actions to be taken on
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by Sodman 6y ago
My experience so far with companies that operate in this manner, has been something like: 1) Community member asks question. 2A) Answer is already in documentation, which can be easily linked to. Or 2B) Can be answered in-line, with an acti
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by Sodman 6y ago
They obviously need to fix the actual problem first, but they only just found out about the new "actual problem". Surely somebody somewhere has actually looked at this status page before now, so this should have been a known issue
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by Sodman 6y ago
I don't think it's fair to blame this on gamers. With all of the hyperbole over various games being "broken", most people that are hyped about a specific game are just going to buy it and see for themselves. Unless it&#x
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by Sodman 6y ago
Most people's whole family is already using WhatsApp to communicate amongst themselves, especially outside the US. It's not that signal is any harder to use, it's that you now need everyone to unlearn their "Use WhatsApp
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by Sodman 6y ago
If you use a service-mesh (such as Istio), you can have all inter-microservice communications be over mutual TLS. Assuming you only expose an API gateway to the outside world, have the gateway handle authentication, then each service can ha
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by Sodman 6y ago
B) is basically what we have already. Contractually only required to work 40 hour weeks, no [official] pressure from management to work more, but anyone who does will most likely have higher output / receive better performance bonuses
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by Sodman 6y ago
It's not a huge stretch to imagine the following scenario play out though: 1. Tech workers unionize, negotiate with employer that any work > 40 hours / week get paid overtime. 2. The company now has two choices: A) Pay their em
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by Sodman 6y ago
Well it's at least an indicator something has gone terribly wrong. Your project management software, one of the flagship features of which is reporting - now tells you essentially "no work is being done". Somebody in manageme
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by Sodman 6y ago
The biggest problem with Jira, is that they give you the gun and the bullets to shoot yourself in the foot, while trusting you not to do it... The reality is that most teams (or let's be real, managers) can't be trusted not to sho
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by Sodman 6y ago
ICE powered regular passenger cars are going to die off sooner or later sure, but I don't think motorcycles are going away in our lifetimes without some heavy regulations. My gut says an annoyance fee makes sense, but I think we need t
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by Sodman 6y ago
I'd be more amenable to this argument if motorcycles etc were products that stopped production years ago, and we were left with a handful of privately maintained vehicles. The reality is though that you can still buy a brand new Harley
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by Sodman 6y ago
Exercise is certainly helpful once you start getting close to your ideal caloric intake. If at rest you'd burn ~2000 cal/day, and you're consuming ~2300 cal/day, then exercising for one hour, three days a week can certai
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by Sodman 6y ago
Professional athletes, along with most people who work out 4+ days / week, have their own more advanced/expensive ways of determining their own personal weight and judging where they should be, factoring other measurements like mu
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by Sodman 6y ago
You should check out "Angels of our better nature" by Steven Pinker - it's a fascinating book about the decline of violence, both over the course of human history, and recently. The local woods by you may indeed be worse than
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by Sodman 6y ago
He didn't kill anyone this time . There's a non-zero chance of transmitter failure, or a "flyaway", where the drone basically enters full-power to the rotors and just goes whatever direction it happens to be pointed in.
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by Sodman 6y ago
I think the 180k fine is reasonable. As others have pointed out, the maximum fine (250k) is publicly available to look up, and was most likely also in the letters he received from the FCC. This didn't come out of nowhere. Think of it a
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by Sodman 6y ago
This is largely true in the US as well, the Mavic Mini is 249 grams intentionally because most of the FAA rules explicitly only apply to aircraft >= 250g. They know exactly what they're doing, it's literally the first question
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by Sodman 6y ago
I've never once seen a drone and not been able to pin-point its operator within 30 seconds. Usually you hear the whirr of the drone and look around, there'll be somebody standing nearby with a massively conspicuous radio controlle
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by Sodman 6y ago
> I just don't like the idea of a flying high def camera in my face that I can't grab and smash against the wall. Because it's literally flying above me out of reach. I mean, also because laws? When you're out in publ

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