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by blululu 3y ago
For many software products User != Customer.
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by blululu 3y ago
You are citing a cartoon with a dick joke and a mom joke to say that metric is just as human oriented as imperial. Seriously: Imperial: 1 Foot ~ the length of some guy's foot. 1 Second - the duration of one heart beat. Metric: 1 Meter
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by blululu 3y ago
When you have a website & an app that reach >1 Billion people a day there is a strong risk aversion that sets in. People are constantly trying to make improvements, add features, keep up with the competition etc, but the risk of maki
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It was more than money. Back then the crazy Faang pay bump was less of a thing. But the chance to be trusted with broad autonomy and work with brilliant people on projects that could help billions of people is something very special. People
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by blululu 3y ago
Maybe. Hoover was a politically moderate, 54 year old, Stanford educated engineer from the West with a successful career in both industry, and civil service administration? Sounds like a great candidate on paper (honestly sounds better than
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by blululu 3y ago
True. But the broader point is that transposing political positions from 100 years ago into modern politics is always verging on anachronism. In many ways the modern American welfare state and the modern Democratic Party both originate in
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We would probably just do what we did with Italian and German Americans during WWII, or Saudi Americans after 9/11. At the Federal level this means widespread and intensive surveillance to find actual threats. At the social level this
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by blululu 3y ago
The issue is combing reactionary and bigot. The internments were done the watch for Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal coalition - a left leaning political movement that laid the foundations of the modern American welfare state. There were
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by blululu 3y ago
Not sure about the downvotes. In a very real way most corporations act as a localized command economy with a full range of central planners. Workers are consistently asked to think about the good of the company instead of their own interest
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by blululu 3y ago
Undertakers are a grim necessity. The unfortunate reality is that there are legal, moral and personal obligations that must be met even after the all money is gone. Basic things like mailing out W2 forms for all the terminated employees nee
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Rongorongo – undeciphered script of Rapa Nui(en.wikipedia.org)
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by blululu 3y ago
The small area in the South you are talking about has more than half the State's population and is the largest constituency of the Colorado Compact. While the Imperial County claim is the bulk of California's claim to the Colorado
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by blululu 3y ago
Imperial County receives a lubricous allotment from the Colorado River, but it is a better use than most of the claims to this water. The Central Arizona project, for instance, requires a coal plant to pump water uphill into a (even hotter)
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by blululu 3y ago
Totally valid point that swift is only useful for developing for Apple products, but this same criticism also applies more or less to Kotlin on Android. If you are dealing with iOS it is a joy compared to objective C. I would also add that
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by blululu 3y ago
CoreML is a bit of an exceptional challenge beyond just Swift. Admittedly it could really use a lot more documentation from Apple, but it would be unfair to judge swift based on an uncommon and under documentated library (I suspect that it
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by blululu 3y ago
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. It feels more relevant now than ever and there is now a direct Polish->English translation.
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by blululu 3y ago
Talking directly and honestly with your friends is a very good thing, but don't talk trash about them behind their backs - it is passive-aggressive, deceitful and reflects very poorly upon your character.
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by blululu 3y ago
"He's a fantastic dev who's built great systems, but I suspect he is not interested in these aspects of software" would have changed the entire tenor of the article. This person doesn't need to be in the article at
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by blululu 3y ago
The starting anecdote might have been tacked on at the end. It might even be a fabrication. It is certainly unnecessary to the framework they are advancing which is itself reasonable. The fact that the author chose to frame their thinking i
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by blululu 3y ago
Did it help Apple's customers? I would generally bet that a company that is engaged in a highly competitive market would have a better gasp of what their customers would like than a regulatory body composed of people who may or may not
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This Pharmaceutical Does Not Exist(thispharmaceuticaldoesnotexist.com)
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by blululu 3y ago
Astronomical Units and Lightyears do just fine. Maybe the rest of the world will try them someday though, I guess terameters and petameters are useful if you need to know how many microns it is to Jupiter.
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by blululu 3y ago
>>The frequency with which this sort of thing has happened suggests that, for some people, anything is preferable to the simple acceptance of the superior abilities of the people in question. American society has made a huge effort ov
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by blululu 3y ago
This seems like attributing intent where there is none. AI hype guys on Twitter work pro bono. Nobody pays them they just shill whatever the latest thing is. Google has no central AI strategy because the company has weak leadership and is l
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by blululu 3y ago
What? Internet companies are up there with trade unions and Hollywood in donating to the left: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/most-partisan... Facebook is an exception. They really let their brand colla
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It’s a matter of costs. Publishing long form online is cheap and can generate more revenue (a good article can generate a ton of engagement). Publishing long form in print is very expensive and maybe serves as marketing for a daily. Serio
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by blululu 3y ago
You know it’s not really a well defined concept. A friend recently pointed out that whitetail deer can be considered invasive in most of North America. While the Eastern woodlands are certainly their original habit, we have eliminated the w
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by blululu 3y ago
People have plenty to fear from state surveillance regardless of their nationality. The Indian Army had their troop movements monitored by the PLA via TikTok data during a recent conflict, so please don’t pretend that this is merely an abs
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I really wish the New York Times would stop this anti-market, anti-labor spin. An article about a talent 'shortage' that mentions workers being compelled to work long hours deep into the night for modest wages. There are no shorta
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by blululu 3y ago
It might have been great marketing for the same sort of counter signaling as the Mark Zuckerberg hoodie. “A man who can dress that poorly must be really good”. Craigslist is an outlier in many ways. The most significant is that they did not

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