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by beat 7y ago
And what's wrong with fantasy? More correctly, it's something of an unattainable goal. Can we get rid of on-call? Probably not. Can we drastically reduce the frequency and scope of on-call actions? Absolutely! Can we get to wher
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by beat 7y ago
For the record, I've seen a number of attempts to "devops" that were the functional equivalent of saying "We're doing agile now, it just has to fit in the Gantt chart". Heck, I've been Gantted on devops tr
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by beat 7y ago
WPQL. That's the Americanized acronym of the original German word.
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by beat 7y ago
Depending on on-call crisis management is pretty much the opposite of DevOps. DevOps isn't about being on-call; it's about making on-call unnecessary.
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by beat 7y ago
Hi. DevOps person here. Was doing DevOps for about 15 years before the word was even coined. (I did my first "devops" kind of work professionally in 1995.) DevOps isn't a tool. It isn't a team, or a person. It isn't
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by beat 7y ago
Yeah, I wrote about that exact thing a while back. https://hackernoon.com/the-two-hard-problems-in-computer-sci...
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by beat 7y ago
As a "science folk" myself, I care deeply about people just shouting "BUT SCIENCE!" to pretend their emotionally charged opinions are, somehow, facts. Which is absolutely what happens when discussing this issue.
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by beat 7y ago
I'm proof-reading a book that a friend of mine is writing about how normal right-wing/conservative populism becomes corrupted by fascist/hate stuff, and a big part of it is hate groups actively "normalizing" their c
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by beat 7y ago
Nice to see they're banning the Flat Earthers. Because the Flat Earthers need MORE evidence that the TRUTH!!! is being suppressed by Big Corporations.
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by beat 7y ago
I read this, and immediately thought of one of my maxims... "Data duplication is the source of all bugs".
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by beat 7y ago
Look at the numbers. Look at the numbers. Look at the numbers. Do not make assumptions. You're right, most high birth rate is in "third world countries"... but only some of them. Others see their birth rates drop dramatical
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by beat 7y ago
Abandoning monoculture means completely upending the harvesting process. That's a much harder problem. Or abandoning annual crops in favor of perennials, which would have tremendous negative impact on productivity. Don't let the p
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by beat 7y ago
It actually seems like a straightforward problem for solar energy. Just have a little "bot barn" with a solar roof and local storage, and the bots return to the bot barn for a recharge. That's almost a trivial problem. Keep i
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by beat 7y ago
It is, indeed, a cynical statement. But it gets to the very reason why we aren't looking closely enough at the potential social costs. As an aside, I think the conventional wisdom reading of Adam Smith, that somehow selfishness begets
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by beat 7y ago
Billions of dollars for giant corporations isn't a compelling reason?
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by beat 7y ago
Such a world we live in, where the fools are absolutely certain and the wise are full of doubt.
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by beat 7y ago
I am really looking forward to the day we can replace chemical herbicides with weed-hunting robots. It seems such a huge market opportunity... little, inexpensive bots that can roam a field, picking out weeds the moment they appear as seedl
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by beat 7y ago
This topic is so aggravating. On one hand, you have the "Don't eat science words, they give you the autism cancer!" reactionaries, and on the other side, you have the "Everything is completely benign, because science!&qu
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by beat 7y ago
That article is a brief political opinion piece. I wouldn't consider it an authoritative source.
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by beat 7y ago
There haven't really been pro-privacy options before. So no, no one has proven that it meaningfully increases sales. And it'll take years for it to show up in sales. Doesn't mean it's wrong.
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by beat 7y ago
Is it? When countries modernize their economies, the birth rate plummets to near-replacement rates over the course of about two generations. Take Iran, for example. In 1980, their birthrate was around 6. Today, it's lower than Europe.
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by beat 7y ago
It's not just the courts. There's tremendous consumer frustration with the invasiveness of Facebook and Google tracking. Since Apple doesn't really make that much on being a service provider, relative to FB/Google, it gi
533.
by beat 7y ago
The last human being will eat the last cockroach. Pollution and climate change are not an existential crisis for humanity. We're just not that powerful (yet). Humans have survived, and thrived, in far worse conditions than we are exper
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by beat 7y ago
Sadly, a lot of people say we shouldn't have kids because it's bad for the Earth. Which ties to poor arguments about "overpopulation".
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by beat 7y ago
Yeah, it does. And if I felt that HN was intruding on my ability to do other things the way Facebook and Twitter do, I'd quit it, as well. edit: Maybe a better analogy would be that HN can be chewing gum when I'm trying to quit sm
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by beat 7y ago
The company that did not deliberately remove the phrase "Don't be evil" from their values.
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by beat 7y ago
Yeah, it doesn't break anything. It just reveals that it was already broken.
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by beat 7y ago
I concur; Digital Minimalism is his weakest book, and Deep Work is his best. On the other hand, I think Digital Minimalism is also his most immediately useful and applicable work, and is probably a necessary precondition for engaging
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by beat 7y ago
And fwiw, I firmly believe that reading Factfulness and absorbing its lessons does make you smarter. Enough so that I would buy you a copy, if you promise to read it. It's not weird to think a book can make you smarter, either. Ass
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by beat 7y ago
I thought about that. What I decided was to distinguish between social media driven by deliberately addictive engagement in order to sell ads (Facebook, Twitter), and social media that doesn't depend on ad revenue and invites active en

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