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by balls187 3y ago
Nothing. Just a markedly different technology than how it’s implemented in our universe.
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by balls187 3y ago
I tell my wife that she and I always end up together in every multiverse, including the one where our relationship somehow causes that universe to collapse on itself (also that’s the same one where Hacker News is implemented as ASP.Net app)
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by balls187 3y ago
Really hard to do ios dev on a non mac.
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by balls187 3y ago
And Xbox Cloud
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by balls187 3y ago
Back home, not only do we not wear shoes in the house, we wash our feet anytime we enter after leaving the house.
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by balls187 3y ago
Don’t wear outdoor shoes inside. We asians figured this out generations ago.
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by balls187 3y ago
They can be, but how often are they in the time a home is owned by a single person? I mean if you care about waste single family homes are very inefficient.
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by balls187 3y ago
GCP lost me when I had to enable API errors from the console in order to see actual error in the console rather than a user hostile “Something went wrong” type message. There is probably a rational reason for this behavior, but I don’t care
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by balls187 3y ago
Those behaviors aren't limited to substance addiction--perhaps most well known is gambling addiction. It's no secret that technology companies (especially social media companies) spend billions coming up with ways to keep users on
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by balls187 3y ago
Why? They’re 5 years old. I dgaf what their opinion is—smoking is bad. Period.
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by balls187 3y ago
I didn’t bother asking my kids what’s their opinion regarding cigarettes.
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by balls187 3y ago
Why not make 80% the new 100%?
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by balls187 3y ago
> But it totally does not jive with the 20-somethings that just start their career, and need guidance the most. Hostility towards new users is an issue across most communities, see Reddit and Discord. Perhaps it has less to do with Linus
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by balls187 3y ago
Wait Stackoverflow employees chewed you out?
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by balls187 3y ago
Exactly! Look, RJ Reynolds was perfectly within their rights to market cigarettes to young children, and shops were within their rights to sell to young children. It’s not their job to parent children. And if I want to open up a strip club
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by balls187 3y ago
You’ll feel different about collateral damage when you have children of your own.
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by balls187 3y ago
Doing something that is illegal is still illegal.
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by balls187 3y ago
If an iframe displays that content, could the creators webhost be contacted and would they cancel his account?
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by balls187 3y ago
We exist. Complain to your company for poor recruiting.
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by balls187 3y ago
Taking your logic to it’s conclusions—getting rid of all levels will reduce communication?
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by balls187 3y ago
Also ensures communication vertically and horizontally across the org, works with partner teams, provides guidance and mentorship, and who’s efficacy is the number 1 cause of attrition. If you deal with “bad” managers, that’s a function of
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by balls187 3y ago
I read the original comment as it didn’t make sense that prices in the US aren’t inclusive of taxes. It’s less about harping on political ideologies and instead provided rationale as to why US prices aren’t transparent. The commenter who b
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by balls187 3y ago
I agree tangentially with the sentiment—specifically in the US, we should be judicious about how our money is taken and used. Not because we work our asses off, rather because it’s our duty as electorates (not to mention general good practi
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by balls187 3y ago
They get away with it by using fine print that discloses additional charges. If you think how we handle sales tax is odd, just wait until you see a medical bill from the US!
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by balls187 3y ago
What makes a fee undisclosed? If a restaurant raises food prices by 10% to pay for healthcare, is that an undisclosed fee?
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by balls187 3y ago
Balmer got out when the getting was good.
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by balls187 3y ago
Real BBQ should be a close 2nd!
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by balls187 3y ago
Means dont destroy, don’t disturb. Stay away from peoples homes, and dont bother gardens/farms. Other than that you can enjoy. Not sure if you need a hunting or fishing license, but a family reunion is fine, so long as you abide by the
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by balls187 3y ago
This is akin to the argument that bike helmets makes people less safe (and invariably has a comment about the Dutch and their safety record)
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by balls187 3y ago
I also misunderstood the point—but if I now read correctly—it’s that to err is human, and something that we do as software developers constantly

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