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by blackoil 3y ago
I understand aversion to over commercialization. But I don't think world would have been a better place without Jackson's movies and Batman/Spiderman animated. In the end, it is creator's choice and no choice is better&#
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by blackoil 3y ago
Big Tech is term for big tech companies. Meta, Alphabet, MS, Apple and few more, the companies that have monopolized large sections of the Internet/Mobile and tech in general and are using that power + money to expand further into rela
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by blackoil 3y ago
I was replying to original comment claiming that people commenting out here are hypocritical because they all have benefitted from the mining. My comment implies that not all things that our ancestors do that have made our life what it is t
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by blackoil 3y ago
Riches of America can be traced back to some Europeans getting lot of land by killing all the natives and then getting slaves as cheap labour.
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by blackoil 3y ago
Tech debt is like all other debts, it need to be serviced. You keep accumulating it and it becomes toxic. Never take any debt and you are leaving easy money on table and may loose to competition because you have slower delivery.
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by blackoil 3y ago
That's the most important job of a CTO. Communicate the cost and implications of any development done by tech team. This could be feature required by product/sales/CEO or internally by tech team.
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by blackoil 3y ago
Isn't that a simple decompiler? Those exist since forever. Should be available everywhere, maybe with a plugin.
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by blackoil 3y ago
I would be unhappy if my phone has 20% battery left but I can't make a call or check map/WhatsApp.
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by blackoil 3y ago
Many people prefer the weight of blankets on them. Slightly cool temp allows that.
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by blackoil 3y ago
> momentarily some candid voices admitted that all this digi-crap does not help an iota with our quality of life User behavior was completely inverse, consumption for everything tech went through the roof. H/w for WFH and home scho
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by blackoil 3y ago
Don't know of linkedin, but I remember Twitter went full on to Scala, then decided to create documentation and learning resources for it. Then proceeded to work on its compiler. Though LinkedIn wrote Kafka, which from afar seems to be
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by blackoil 3y ago
It is the other way around, as part of a large company you can take 2-4 weeks' vacation without any material impact to your career or companies' performance not so in your own startup. In many cases you can take 1 year sabbatical
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by blackoil 3y ago
This point is discussed in the article. Title is not for Google/Meta, they'll invest all the billions that they have to. It is for the consumers of these models, is there even a point to train your own or experiment with OSS!
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by blackoil 3y ago
>OCR is seamless Wasn't that solved about a decade ago. Does anyone suck at that?
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by blackoil 3y ago
Good for who? Receiving billion dollar must feel good.
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by blackoil 3y ago
Sounds like a cultist who people listen because of their need to be angry at someone. Even after cleaning, this is a word soup with little substance. LSPs solves two "made-up" problems. Editor and LSP team can be different and ind
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GA of the new Microsoft Teams app (sans electron)(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
2 points by blackoil 3y ago|1 comments
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by blackoil 3y ago
I think this is a 20% improved utilization of CPU, earlier app was memory-bound or/and GC was consuming CPU. Now app has 20% more CPU available. It should be doing correspondingly more work. This could definitely be written clearly.
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by blackoil 3y ago
This will be the Year of Firefox.
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by blackoil 3y ago
I was just now reading exactly similar posts on reddit for Hamas and Israel.
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by blackoil 3y ago
What was the false positive rate? Blocking all posts about Israel and Palestine will bring down misinfo but that is rarely acceptable.
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by blackoil 3y ago
He is not wrong, in 1st image CN is 2k, RO 56k and DE 26k. Across the graph red and purple lines are much higher
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by blackoil 3y ago
I think the author misunderstood the purpose of the 1MB club and removed all content.
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by blackoil 3y ago
To novice, most of these are guidelines, don't treat them as rules. If something feels wrong to you, you are free not to follow them. Also almost always follow the conventions of your team/project. Nothing is worse than multiple c
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by blackoil 3y ago
But 99.99% don't belong to this category, and don't really need same level of caution.
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by blackoil 3y ago
Lobbying will be done where you'll get max bang for buck.
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by blackoil 3y ago
Tell them how China is using github, stackoverflow and Linux.
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by blackoil 3y ago
Which may look huge but not big problem for enterprise web apps. First load may be slow but it is then cached.
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by blackoil 3y ago
Copyleft licenses are a form of copyright. Unless it is some other meaning I am not aware of with left-right word play.
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by blackoil 3y ago
We had regular Samsung phones with waterproofing, all ports and replaceable battery. It is a myth that only sealed phones can be waterproof.

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