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by ativzzz 3y ago
Luckily we as humans can choose to agree with certain aspects of an ideology while disagreeing with other aspects of it
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by ativzzz 3y ago
I've found one by going to smaller EDM/DJ sets on weekdays and talking to people - it's not a huge crowd so people tend to chill and chat. Never ended up going to the actual event - it was more of a local burner/art even
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by ativzzz 3y ago
2030 will be the year of the linux desktop
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by ativzzz 3y ago
1. makes sense, our app is limited locally because docker on mac is not fast 2. Our test suite is pretty good! It's limited by the longest test runs (basically selenium tests that are slow because browser interactions are slow), circle
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by ativzzz 3y ago
My opinions on this as a rails dev > You get a concurrent request processing spread across all of your cpu/vcpu cores out of the box That's neat, but this doesn't matter until you reach serious scale, as scaling a rails ap
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by ativzzz 3y ago
> while the developer only has to think in single threaded mode because deadlocks and data races are literally impossible Does Elixir somehow automatically solve the case where a row in a database is loaded into memory simultaneously acr
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by ativzzz 3y ago
There was a joke in soviet russia - "we don't get paid much, so we also don't work much either"
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One is VC funded
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by ativzzz 3y ago
> -Assume everything you send can at some point become available to everyone, forever. Forever is a hard concept to grasp for a kid - I was doing stupid things in my 20s that could have had forever consequences. Much worse than something
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by ativzzz 3y ago
> Sure, there is 20% of tech workers doing something new and innovating Try closer to 1%. The vast majority of us are just making software to make businesses chug along
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by ativzzz 3y ago
> The right answer is to work on fixing that culture. Why? What if the company is OK with their monoculture? Or what if they're OK with dealing with the higher cost of cultural transition later once they are more profitable? Kind of
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by ativzzz 3y ago
I am totally on the other side of this - I would much rather get my work interrupted to unblock a colleague than to pretend that anything I do is so meaningful that it's more important than working with other people. In any company lar
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by ativzzz 3y ago
I've been "depressed" if you want to call it that based on the DSM-5 definition both before and after the LSD trips. And no not during - that's one of the benefits of fun events - you forget about depression because you&
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by ativzzz 3y ago
Or because it's not really medicine and person specific? I've taken LSD several times in varying doses and it's never been anything more than "a really really fun time". Nothing profound, but damn fun times, the sam
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by ativzzz 3y ago
All the hackers I know right now are dabbling heavily with AI since that's the new hot thing
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by ativzzz 3y ago
It's fun to see the lengths people go to avoid writing javascript
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by ativzzz 3y ago
I feel like I never understand anything well enough to tell other people about it - the bare information I have can easily be acquired by anyone else without reading anything I write so my writing is a waste of time (when it comes to writin
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by ativzzz 3y ago
I think the vast majority of us don't either
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by ativzzz 3y ago
The other hard part besides hardware is that an OS is useless without useful apps (or at least a browser) so the OS dev also has to recreate the entire suite of browser/email client/word processing, etc etc which now requires even
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by ativzzz 3y ago
Hacker culture is great. Hacker culture is less great at work when I have to deal with over-engineered over-abstracted code that's hard to debug and solves simple problems in seemingly simple ways until inevitably you have to dive in a
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by ativzzz 3y ago
This is how I feel about devs forcing rust onto web UI development ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35722681 ). JS exists and people already make new toys (frameworks) for it every month. That's not enough and now
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Coding is already mostly debugging existing systems if you come into a large codebase that you didn't build yourself
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by ativzzz 4y ago
> I think the average engineer spends less than 20% of their time on "true" R&D Based on all of the items in #2, the average software engineer spends close to 0% of their time on R&D - with rare exceptions for those wor
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by ativzzz 4y ago
For me it's the nature of the things I do on each OS. I use MacOS almost exclusively for work. Most of my file browsing is done via terminal, most of the docs I access are somewhere in the cloud. I don't really mess around with st
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Aren't Apple starting to roll out more ads in various places?
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Oh true, I try to always fly without connections if possible, but if not it can get stressful. Depending on where you live you might always have connections, I've been lucky to live near well connected airports that have direct flights
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Just show up the airport an hour earlier than needed and go grab a beer. Less stress, more relaxation
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Spain has the highest unemployment rate in Western Europe. Let's hope their weather doesn't change much and continues to attract tourists so they can continue to support their unworking populace through regulation instead of innov
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by ativzzz 4y ago
People who have earned enough wealth to not for a living do, though those who've worked hard enough to do that typically don't have much in their life but work. People who simply have enough wealth to not have to work are on a hed
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by ativzzz 4y ago
Or you know, the problem the people in the article encounter is primarily other people of a neighboring tribe who are killing them. 30% of their males died from violence. They worked less than 40 hours a week because food was abundant, easy

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