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by antt 8y ago
>Tell that to that doctor currently in prison in Pakistan for helping the US run a completely fraudulent public health vaccination program Not infrastructure. >There is also the US blowing up that USSR gas pipeline that tlb linked to
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1). That very cool. 2). There is a huge difference between a prototype that works with the inventor around and several industry experts babysitting it and a working mass market device. Did you ever put up your code?
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>Could go either way. No it couldn't. That you and some number of other people think it can signals a truly disturbing disconnect from reality on par with global warming denial. Nuclear powers do not interfere with each others civil
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Do you: 1). Blame 50 years of infrastructure neglect to the point that the US is ranked a D+ [0] in infrastructure. 2). Blame a country with the population of Nigeria, the GDP of Italy and the military spending of Suadi Arabia? [0] https:&
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I use espeak to listen to text without having to rely on another human for reading it. I find it's just another tool for getting information, one that's replaced skimming since it's less mental effort and higher retention. A
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>If the working class has no tolerance for these things, then it definitely isn't reflected in the people the working class has elected to 'represent' them. Because regardless of what you hear median income is the highest
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Given that there is no industry in space I'd guess none.
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Not to mention that back then we a performance ratio of edge to node that was order of magnitude better than the one we have today. A laptop today and one from 2010 don't have that much difference in performance, a data center from 201
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I can reproduce this on my secondary and tertiary gmails. They require a phone number or security "questions" that I have no idea about. I have effectively lost access to them because of google.
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And if everything was going well we would be talking about how hip he is, but it isn't. When you've said you will take your company private at $420 a share, then completely back track and admit you weren't and get investigate
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That seems like a very small town, is there enough demand for the machine? Are there any good resources on how fiber lasers work? I have a co2 laser 200W that's pretty good for all things non-metal and would be interested in getting a
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by antt 8y ago
And most CEO positions don't involve you smoking a joint on air during those 120 hours either.
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If you're doing brain dead admin work sure. If you're doing a contract not for profits pay the same as everyone else.
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What the company pays and what the developer receives are two very different numbers. In extreme cases the difference can be up to 30%.
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Throw in Seattle and there are no tech jobs outside those areas to a first approximation. I don't know where the people above are getting hired, but the only places I've ever seen outside those major cities are incidental programm
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Having a 'computer science' class that teaches programming makes about as much sense as a physics class on rulers and stop watches, a chemistry class on test tubes or a biology class on petri dishes. High school classes in the oth
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by antt 8y ago
>You must be in the Bay Area. A 120K salary is above the median for SW developers for most of the country, and grants them a great lifestyle: Big house, two cars, vacation travel, etc. Hardly "living on peanuts". I'm not i
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Conversely, if you want people to be susceptible to mustache-twirling villains offer as little money as possible with no job security what so ever. Modern hard sciences academia is a horrible place and the problem is economic: there are too
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by antt 8y ago
> - SQL - AWS/Azure - Tableau/Power BI/Other BI tools - Python/R - Increasingly Hadoop/Spark Is above and beyond a typical SW developer. That's three languages and two dsls. If you expect that on a 120k sala
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>If you fit that bill you can probably get a role paying $95-120k just about anywhere in the US. You'll wrangle data, make pipelines, build dashboards and occasionally deploy a model or two when the planets align. If you expect to p
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As someone who has been employed in this space recently: No there is not. There is however a lot of middle managers who have heard the term and want to pay crud vba developer wages for people to make pretty graphs in excel. The credential i
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The simple question you need to ask yourself is: If everyone did this thing will it still work? If the answer is no, and you've seen it in popular media, don't do it. Can everyone retire in their 30s? Sure if life expectancy was 3
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This works amazingly well on Linux with the ancient synaptics driver. I've never had to change the defaults
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>there's no cognitive effect from pollution The worst case is that there is a positive effect from pollution. When one looks at the historic data it wasn't until people started living in smog filled cities that children started
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It doesn't help that studies like this are also usually wrong. Don't change anything in your life until something has been replicated a dozen or more times.
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Have you worked at a machine shop? During machine down time I've heard some of the most radical Stalinist politics coming from people who you would think are only interested in football and beer while trying to fix the lathe for an ord
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Unions are one way. Guilds are another. For people who are supposedly so highly paid the majority of my peers can't afford children. The rent of a two bedroom flat/house and the price of daycare means the household needs to earn c
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$ pandoc file1.md file2.md -o file.docx Tada, I two files into one word file. It isn't difficult. TeX and LaTeX have been doing it since the 70s and 80s respectively.
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None of that is version control. At best that's a visual based manual patch file tool. That you can't concat two word files together in 2018 is ridiculous.
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I run Debian Unstable/Testing, at 2000+ tabs on Firefox and three weeks up time the used memory is 3.21G/15.4G. The year of the Linux desktop was some time in the 00's, just that few people noticed.

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