Yoofie

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by Yoofie 6y ago
This is a very naive viewpoint. People's wants, needs and desires will expand to fill up all of space-time if you let them. A lot of people (in general) have a huge sense of entitlement these days when its often not justified.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Very interesting article. Some of these are shocking: > Use Source Control: Do you not use source control? How do professional companies not use source control in the year 2021? The mind boggles. > Smaller Commits, Better Commit Loggi
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by Yoofie 6y ago
> I don't think credit card autofill is allowed at all I would consider this a feature, not a bug.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
I used to listen alot more before the Spotify deal. The podcast listening experience in the app is hot garbage. I am a paying premium paying customer. Why do I get ads in the beginning and middle of the podcast? And there was a bug where to
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by Yoofie 6y ago
I use PHP for exactly this reason. I wrote my own single .exe binary (written in C++) that generates JSON files from markdown files + others. The JSON files are then turned into static files via PHP using whatever template I care to create.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
I happen to know the image you are talking about. Luckily I saved it when I first saw it somewhere. https://imgur.com/a/dlo0Y2k
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by Yoofie 6y ago
What you probably want is Windows 10 LTSC. It's barebones Windows 10 but without all extra crap that comes installed with all the other versions of Windows. I have been running it for a while now and its great.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
In the age of the internet, no one needs to suffer when podcasts, Youtube, Audible, Spotify, etc exist.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
I don't know much about this but apparently they can. I read [1] that AMC did just that and raised money to survive the rest of the year based on the inflated valuation. My AMC info from Matt Levine, under the "AMC ATM" secti
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Like the article mentioned, this technique to corner the market has been tried before. I read an interesting story on Piggly Wiggly where the owner tried to do just that. Unfortunately for Piggly Wiggly, the powers that be changed the rules
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Lying is a crime, but as we all know the punishment from the SEC and other regulatory agencies is usually a small "fine" that actually never prevents bad behavior. For many Wall street types, paying fines is literally part of the
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by Yoofie 6y ago
A better option would be just to break up the company. Companies of this size probably should not be allowed to exist in the first place.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
I'm not the OP but ... > Employees out of a job , suppliers losing contracts, customers never getting what they might have already paid for, creditors losing the debt, share holders lose all their investment. This is what bankruptcy
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Tangent: You may or may not be interested in this Youtube channel [1] where a guy buys a Ghost Town. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/GhostTownLiving/videos
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by Yoofie 6y ago
> If there were plenty of talented developers why are they paying such astronomical salaries? Because Facebook (and Google, for that matter) discovered a money hose that is called online advertising, so they can be more liberal with the
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by Yoofie 6y ago
The response email by management claims that it was submitted with one day before deadline. Context: > Timnit co-authored a paper with four fellow Googlers as well as some external collaborators that needed to go through our review proce
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Basically it sounds like they adhere to MISRA C principles (but for Java) which is used in industries where performance and safety is more critical. Think embedded systems in automotive, space, etc.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Can you link to the studies you are referring to?
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Did you read the article? They specifically out out the "The traditional disciplines of engineering" which includes electrical engineering.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
I think Starlink has always marketed itself as a service provider for remote and hard to service areas. I'm not sure why people here keep thinking they will provide service to urban areas.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
I don't have much to say, but this is definitely a thought provoking article and it solidifies some thoughts I had floating around in my head. Thanks for sharing!
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by Yoofie 6y ago
I was just thinking about this the other day when reading the comments on small nuclear reactors and how many organizations, governments and countries can't accomplish anything of significance in a timely, costly or efficient manner. I
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by Yoofie 6y ago
I found this [1] twitter thread interesting regarding herd immunity. [1]: https://twitter.com/yinonw/status/1295152579941249024
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Interesting, I find most videos and the pace of content too slow. If the playback speed setting was not available, Youtube would be borderline painful to use as a learning platform. What bothers me is that most other instructional videos (o
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Shouldn't this be considered kidnapping?
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Can you explain this a bit more? What do you mean they don't contribute on time?
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by Yoofie 6y ago
When I was learning Verilog HDL, named parameters are commonly used and highly encouraged. I wondered why more traditional programming languages didn't use this concept aswell for the same reasons the article goes into.
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by Yoofie 6y ago
The problem with Syncthing for me is that there is no bi-directional syncing on Android if your files are stored on an SD card. You need to resort to rooting your phone or messing with a bunch of hacks to overcome this issue. Otherwise, its
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by Yoofie 6y ago
Reminds me of this [1] old TED talk about horrible architecture that I still find relevant as ever. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
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by Yoofie 6y ago
This is a straight up failure of governments of preventing mergers. If you let all these companies merge or acquire each other without restriction, this is in the inevitable result which ultimately harms the consumer and new entrants to the

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