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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Oof, yep. Look at a stop sign. And think about all the lives of all the people through all the decades that sign has been standing there. Each person connected to everyone else in a web of history. Every single living being having a unique
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
100% yes. So many things seem like magic. Big things, like big mechanical things or carpentry, I get. But the incredible precision that we’ve achieved at the microscopic scale with CPUs and such always confound me. So many things happening
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Why is it monthly? What happens if you don’t renew?
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I’m guessing that’s a solved problem by now.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
There was no way big enterprises were going to allow those ‘toy’ iPhones on their network. That was the attitude for a minute until the CEO got a cool iPhone. Same with Macs. And jeans.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Correct. Capitalism, by definition, has no conscience. Regulation provides the layer (sometimes facade) of moral and ethical control. The two forces are generally opposed, but, hopefully, balance out to keep our society and environment tena
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Right, I think the questions are going to be along the lines of “Do you feel the proper controls are in place for you to ensure the safety of the aircraft you service?” The NTSB is after Boeing.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
How did you find out that Orange had actually modified the code?
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I had to double check that was an article on a .gov website. I think it’s refreshingly well written and accessible. Not an 800 page blob of legalese. Nice job to the authors.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Or more generally, “Everyone is spying on users, that’s how the internet works.”
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Have quotas ever been tried or considered? Like users being allocated a few upvotes per day or week? I wonder if that would give enough pause for users to consider if a comment is worth their upvote.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I was thinking the same thing. The article didn’t go into what percent is actually recycled vs landfilled. I’d hate for this movement to push people to simply skip the recycling step. The narrative that recycling plastics is never effective
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
"That's what you try and do. You try and make as much profit as you can. That's how free enterprise works. You think Chevrolet sits back and says, 'Gosh, how can we get the price of this Chevrolet down?' No, it&#x27
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I can barely handwrite a complete sentence anymore. I’ve never had good penmanship, but decades of keyboard use has rendered my writing skills almost useless… and I’m too old to care! :)
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
It is indeed tragic that virtue is a childish trait among adults.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
100% agree. Pretty sure the original idea of patents was to protect the inventor while they brought a product to market or licensed the patent to others to improve their products. Holding a patent without even attempting to bring the idea t
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I’d prefer, “Hey, I heard it’s your birthday today, why don’t you knock off a couple hours early and go relax. Happy birthday!”
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
And thank you! Many companies follow CA regulations by default if they do significant business in the state or have even a small footprint there.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
You’re being way too reasonable! A stable, self-sustaining business is for mom and pop corner pizza shops. Tech companies want to disrupt and destroy everything in their market segment or die trying. I wish there were more companies that wo
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Yep, I was on a team that tried to do OKRs only to waste months debating about how to correctly define OKRs. The fad wore off before we agreed on how to write OKRs and we never spoke of it again.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
There’s something to be said about doing the right thing simply for the sake of doing the right thing. Beyond that personal choice, setting an example for others is a powerful tool to promote change.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I’m with you. For twenty bucks it covers my home network and the app covers me when I’m out of the house. Turning it off occasionally reveals the horror of the un-ad-blocked internet. I never forget to turn it back on.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I was waiting for the Rick roll.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
100% If the number isn’t in my contacts, it goes to voicemail. I used to answer calls from local numbers, but I’ve started getting spam calls with my local area code now.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
One possible explanation is that companies try to avoid discrimination lawsuits by laying off employees in a way that provides plausible deniability of discrimination. That tends to mean broad sweeping layoffs that select whole orgs, functi
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I did that in a low basement once. I had to replace the crumbled concrete floor anyway, so I figured I’d dig it down a foot or two while I was at it… then I found out the house was sitting on a shale ledge. Turns out excavating shale by han
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
I was at a big company where this happened. I also knew of a person behind the scenes with admin access making sure softball questions were voted to the top. Then they dropped voting when the questions got too real. Then they lit up the sta
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Corruption can lead to money and fame.
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Mentour Pilot on YouTube, fabulous channel BTW, talks about the Swiss Cheese Model. I’ve started to use this model when talking about software testing. Unit tests, integration tests, functional tests, UAT, etc are all layers that help preve
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by berniedurfee 3y ago
Reminds me of the never ending MP3 vs FLAC argument. The difference can be measured empirically, but is it noticeable in real world usage.

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