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by bluGill 2mo ago
Until a few years ago abuse of the escape hatch was seen as something theoretically possible but not realistic. Sadly attackers have abused trust and so even though most people are honest we can no longer trust anybody.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
should is the key here. The lack of something to support is reason to not pay. Like you, I lack a good local newspaper. There is the nearby city, but they don't cover the important local news well. Still I'm on the lookout for if
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by bluGill 2mo ago
If they had a "here is what I'm currently subscribed to" that might be valuable. Everybody should subscribe to the local news paper - to get local news. Things that matter to them that they won't hear about. (Odds are y
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Many museums have a membership. For one price you can visit the museum any time you want. I strongly recommend everyone do this for all their local museums. It changes the experience when you don't feel bad about wasting the admission
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by bluGill 2mo ago
There is no correct way to read Shakespeare. There are many wrong ways, but don't let your friend's interpretation cloud you from the others. It is really magic when you see some other interpretation and understand both are right
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I know a fair number long winded people who like that quote and have no clue it should apply to them despite repeating it often.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
As a general rule you cannot get a job working in my area without fluency in English. Probably the majority of the people who work with my code have English as a second language (I work with people in Germany, India, Mexico, and Brazil tha
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Sometimes. However there are a lot of things that I know that are not worth your time to know. Somebody else in the company should also become an expert (for bus factor reasons), but it isn't what the company does and so spending tim
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I thought a good summary of my comment would be "sometimes you need to hug a tree, even though it is useless for anything practical".
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by bluGill 2mo ago
The problems is those set you up for the rest of your life. Nothing wrong with a trade - but many of them wear the body out, and they don't pay well. I would argue it is worth paying the price now for an engineering degree which wil
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by bluGill 2mo ago
My company spent over a billion dollars just to rewrite a C++ project with a lot of technical debt in C++. We are finally making money after the rewrite, but that was a lot of cost and I honestly cannot recommend it to anyone. I lean to wh
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Good point. Many build systems also want to be a package manager, but the two are and should be separate. If you have a simple problem it makes things easy to combine them into one. However they need to be separate anyway, both for secur
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Because many many builds end up doing something just a little weird that the build system cannot handle by default. Ideally the build system would be fully property/dependency based and so it wouldn't have to run arbitrary code.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> Is it common for closed source software to give the source code to customers to build? Yes, somewhat common. I work in embedded, and where a supplier gives us the ability to build their code it is a lot easier for us to deal with the
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> Can all the maintainers of the c codebase move over to maintaining (forward) the Rust codebase. Surely there'll be some friction, and losses to friction. there are always losses. Anyone who can maintain a non-trival C code base c
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by bluGill 2mo ago
It is far more complicated. I touched on the high level, but somebody in philosophy can write books on the subject (they probably know about many many books on the subject).
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> what’s wrong with having more researchers? Nothing wrong with it. However what is right about it? The world needs research, and that means researchers. However for every person in research the world needs a very large number of peop
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> I want to be [whatever] That isn't the right question. The right question is can you do it, and will it pay enough to provide "a good life" (whatever that means to you). If you love [whatever] more power, that is the b
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by bluGill 2mo ago
There is a real conflict here. People are getting loans for their education. A loan is an investment, and should only be taken if it will pay off. If you are getting education because you are interested in the topic but won't get a j
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by bluGill 2mo ago
A PhD demonstrates the ability to think deeply about something. It thus isn't useless for any good job. However there are often better trainings for that job.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
In the end you will die. Religion can possibly offer you something for after death (depending on if you choose the correct one - this is an argument I am intentionally avoiding even though I have opinions). Very few people have a career i
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Most of the problem is people don't know to look for it and so don't try. By asking them to help improve it that means I'm not shaming them for not looking at it and so they are more likely to read it. Also once in a while
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by bluGill 2mo ago
It doesn't take long to learn to interchange. If you start today you won't be doing it tommorow, but if you keep it up in a few months you will. At least for the common times - you might have to think about what 10pm is if you no
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> Heck, I'm not sure why I can't have it pull my labs by connecting other applications. You shouldn't be able to. while the ability when used correctly would be very nice, there are too many scams/frauds and other ab
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by bluGill 2mo ago
In many cases someone else already knows the answer and your interruption of them is less time lost for the company than you looking up the answer.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Google - even 20 years ago when they were good - is terrible. It often found something that looked good but was wrong in important ways. It often found things that were hard to understand. There is still value in google first (even today w
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I always tell people "Here is the documentation, please tell me what is hard to understand so I can fix it". When someone is new on my team I tell them "here is our team documentation, your first task is to fix it so that th
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Wait, I thought I was going to frame you, but it turns out you're you're blackmailing me. I don't have to frame you anymore. I have evidence of a real crime.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
silhouette has a much better open source reputation if you want this type of machine. Everybody in the crafting world seems to have the circut though, and you can buy their machines (parts, supplies) all over, while I've never seen si
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Are you paying for my mid life crisis? Otherwise my boss expects me back in the office before I could build up the needed tolerance (I'm expecting this to take a month) such that I'd expect to spend all day in the sun without bur

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