bluepizza

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by bluepizza 3y ago
> In the long run, that won't be the case. Nice crystal ball you have there. I, for one, have no idea if that will or won't be the case.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Considering certain technical books range between 70 to 300 dollars per copy, and libraries are unable to afford them, it seems to me that the incentive system is already broken. The publishers are very comfortable with the high prices they
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Because Linux containers solve most of the problems to a satisfying degree, and are much simpler to develop.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Did Bombardier have a scandal where cost cutting measures led to the crash of two aeroplanes and the loss of hundreds of lives?
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by bluepizza 3y ago
No, that's not the real question. Decisions have more factors than just what cash will they bring in. Long build times are an operational risk - it's very hard to apply patches to solve incidents with a 20 minute build time.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
This is no justification. They should have another scale of resilience.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
> 5 women don't have a baby in 1.8 months They have 5 (or more) babies in 9 months, which is precisely the point of empire building: being able to handle more than one priority.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
I have read the book. It is unconfirmed hearsay at best.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Do you have examples? Googling is not yielding any results for me.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
And in the 30 years since closure, which has seen China, USA, and Europe boom and multiply in size, somehow the strategy still has limits? My questions are valid, and there might be valid answers. We don't know, because nobody knows ho
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Nothing can help understand Medallion, because there is no actual information about it. Everything you just said is conjecture.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
It was closed to external investors in 1993, and had gains of 98% in 2008, in the middle of an economic meltdown. How come they figured it out for one single fund, but aren't able to make any alternative strong strategies except the se
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by bluepizza 3y ago
RenTech remains a touchy subject, as their only high performing fund is closed to external investors. Their available to the public stuff performs much less than their closed fund.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
The future we were promised is not being curbed by Apple and Google. It is being curbed by rampant cybercrime.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Article skips one of the major reasons why Apple is so popular: actual physical Apple stores. Any maintenance is dealt with at the store, no stress, no need to call customer support, or to find an authorized shop. I love my Lenovo laptop wi
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by bluepizza 3y ago
They licensed Sys V to build A/UX. That must have been quite expensive.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
> Wringing the life is a pretty mean way to put it. Corporations don't have feelings. It is okay to be mean to multi billion dollar corporations.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
I believe that there two factors that people don't talk about much: - Software engineering wasn't much of a prestige profession (I suspect still isn't), and most bright STEM students ended up studying other forms of engineeri
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Isolation lasted only 260 years, and ended more than 150 years ago. Explaining luxury combs because of sakoku is a bit absurd. It's akin to explaining luxury handbags due to the vikings invasions.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Such traveller can use a snapshot of a Linux distro from 2010. Just because it is out of mainline, it doesn't mean that the past disappeared. A major part of hardware preservation is software preservation. We can't expect Linux in
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by bluepizza 3y ago
> That's a big "if." Not really. Many home routers used to assign all ports to the first device to connect to the router, and you'd need to setup NAT just for your second computer. Eventually the default settings wise
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Home router NAT "layer of security" is equivalent to closing all ports. If an IPv6 home router closes all ports by default, then the same level of security is achieved.
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Whatever Happened to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by bluepizza 3y ago|1 comments
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by bluepizza 3y ago
You won't see me defending EA often. Or ever, actually. But the fact that a few extremists would take an idea way beyond any measure of reason is a human effect, not an EA effect. I can't think of any good ideas that haven't
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Commutes are bad in every major city in Europe as well.
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Are you equating the lack of data around home working, something notoriously difficult to quantify, as developer productivity is very hard (or impossible) to measure, to cancer?
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by bluepizza 3y ago
That's because certain types of CEO feel a need to feel relevant by getting media exposure. They are not the majority. They are a small minority. But these certain types, whenever they feel just a little bit irrelevant, they run to a m
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by bluepizza 3y ago
I wish I could upvote you twice. If my job was a 15 minute drive away or a 15 minute metro ride away, of course I would happily go to the office. But what we get is a 1 hour commute each way, to have to find a place to sit in some sort of d
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by bluepizza 3y ago
How is it akin? What are the similarities?
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by bluepizza 3y ago
Community building won't be achieved by putting a bunch of highly paid, extremely bright people holed up inside office space in downtown SF from dusk to dawn. Working in person in such conditions creates dormitory suburbs, traffic jams

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