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by apothegm 2y ago
Sure. But going back to waterfall isn't going to improve reaction times for anyone. So still only the agile shops survive.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Historically a ridiculous percentage of software projects either failed entirely or suffered massive overruns. For larger, older companies, big-A Agile consultancies were able to sell training and services by touting Agile as a way to achie
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by apothegm 2y ago
The civil war was not a popular uprising. It was started by the South’s elites to preserve an institution that benefitted them far more than it did the proletariat. The Confedeeate army was led by elites as well. I believe there were some p
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by apothegm 2y ago
What reasonable alternatives are there, though? Especially for a US national?
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by apothegm 2y ago
It’s perfectly possible to think your coworkers are nice people and pleasant to be around/work with, while still feeling there are better uses of your precious time and (for many of us, limited) social energy than hanging out with them
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by apothegm 2y ago
Depends on the specific dark chocolate. Yeah, Hershey's dark chocolate is mostly sugar. But a lot of people prefer dark chocolates with much higher cacao ratios. 85% dark chocolate has something like 3-4g sugar per serving. That’s less
787.
by apothegm 2y ago
If they’ve been around that long, what changed to make them suddenly so broadly used?
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by apothegm 2y ago
Yes, Covid did cause massive disability. The colloquial term for it is Long Covid. I know at least three people suffering from it —- along a spectrum from slight to severe impairment of daily functioning.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Cost differences and price sensitivity.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Gross.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Did they go with summer time year round? Standard (winter) time makes it brighter in the morning at the same nominal hour. Summer (adjusted) time makes it darker. One of the reasons I hate that the US extended summer time a couple decades a
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by apothegm 2y ago
No, but they do support hardware that’s over a decade old.
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by apothegm 2y ago
The difference is that Apple continues to release security fixes for older OSes that do run on the older hardware — for a very long time.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Yup. And unless the project is something that nobody’s ever succeeded at in the past due to technical limitations, businesses tend to survive and thrive if they spend their innovation tokens on product instead of tech/infrastructure.
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by apothegm 2y ago
And this will thoroughly destroy UX for any user who opens your site in multiple tabs. Or reopens the site after submitting a form and closing the window.
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by apothegm 2y ago
The trust is the only truly perpetual answer so far.
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by apothegm 2y ago
In addition to the network effects mentioned elsewhere: capital-intensive businesses that have raised significant capital and have a head start have moats. So for instance, the reason a power company is a natural monopoly is that power tran
798.
by apothegm 2y ago
This. A database field and a textarea, with old versions preserved in the DB.
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by apothegm 2y ago
> A tab preview is now displayed when hovering the mouse over background tabs I can already anticipate this being incredibly irritating. Please tell me there’s a way to turn it off?
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by apothegm 2y ago
Probably not. And at $5-10/print I’d be more likely to amortize the cost of a secondhand laser printer over a couple years.
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by apothegm 2y ago
I don’t have a printer either, but 80% of the time if I need something printed it’s a form containing sensitive info like SSNs. I mostly rely on a trusted friend. I occasionally will use a business like Staples. I would not trust a random s
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by apothegm 2y ago
$50k/mo would be massive for an individual, but seems pretty minimal on the scale of a city. For a smallish city, that’s $1/resident/mo. A whole $12/yr in taxes for each resident.
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by apothegm 2y ago
It self-selects some of those families. It also self-selects a lot of families who are paranoid about secular education or fail to understand the value of education at all or of having teachers who know their subjects well and are trained i
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by apothegm 2y ago
In our lifetimes, it’s more likely to be (remain?) the other way around. 0.001% leisure class; almost everyone else toiling miserably to enable their lifestyles.
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by apothegm 2y ago
I think you overestimate the capabilities of LLMs. Or if you’re confident they’re capable of that, you could try building it yourself.
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by apothegm 2y ago
I’d go with “all the way out” in this case.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Isn’t the load on the kidneys also mitigated by sufficient fluid consumption and avoiding overconsumption of sugar?
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by apothegm 2y ago
What do you think is the point of having the best man give a speech at a wedding? Because what you described sure isn’t it for me.
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by apothegm 2y ago
What percentage of consumers do you think are educated, or even know about the inventory commingling?
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by apothegm 2y ago
There’s an XKCD about that…

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