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by bonesss 1y ago
Much of the criticism of Israel is self-serving, one-sided, and predicated on definition twisting. After 9/11 there was ample “glass parking lot” sentiment. If some enclave of Canadians or Mexicans tortured, murdered, raped thousands
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by bonesss 1y ago
I picked up a second hand gaming PC once: 9 months later our entire downstairs floor was still noticeably smelling of their fabric softener despite frequent airings. They’re like sponges.
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by bonesss 1y ago
> attributing feelings here and now to decade old stories and narratives is spooky action at a distance. Pattern recognition, recurrent excitation of particular stimulus chains, formative psychology, neuroplasticity, and extraordinary st
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by bonesss 1y ago
Don’t forget the part where people not even a little exposed to the massive tech infrastructure at hand and local skill pool make WAGs about what us and isn’t cheap. Kafka might seem like extra work compared with not Kafka, but if it’s alre
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by bonesss 2y ago
> "I keep begging people to have conversations in public channels... Guess what, devs refuse to do that." So, stop begging. Managerial directives come as orders, not pretty-please requests. Also, stop letting your subordinate
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by bonesss 2y ago
While this all falls under the same product umbrealla, I'm of the opinion that the intractable problems around Siri have more to do with the lack of nuance in the underlying APIs. Starting a specific album at a specific song, for examp
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by bonesss 2y ago
Yeah, the general attitude that estimation is impossible, guesswork, or useless is simply not commercially or professionally defensible. Other fields do it all the time without our tools, competencies, supposed specialties, or environmenta
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by bonesss 2y ago
A metaphor I heard once, second hand from a neurologist, was that of making a stress stew. You add in the elements slowly over time into the pot -- barometric pressure, painful perfumes, an odd sleeping position, some traffic, marital issu
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by bonesss 2y ago
Sending official letters to the local government isn't spam, and generally not a waste of time. People with cognitive issues, issues typing, language or presentation issues, LLMs provide a massive improvement in how they are percieved
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by bonesss 2y ago
I think it's just such a clear business-razor because of the cloud: can I take my app and spin up a bajillion cheapo servers with no licensing costs using that stack? If the answer for .Net was 'no' then there are meaningful
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by bonesss 3y ago
There's also the context to consider: if I'm scanning someone elses' code in an unfamiliar subsystem, there's a high chance there is a bug or something time critical. Not the time for extra annoyance and work. Finding c
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by bonesss 6y ago
Parler ignored repeated notices of TOS violations from Amazon, were given a chance to address their frequent TOS violations and incomplete enforcement of TOS violation notices, and came back with a very weak plan while still ignoring specif
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by bonesss 6y ago
That you brought that interview up at all guarantees you didn't listen to it. Abigail Shrier is very supportive of transgendered people, and conveyed in some depth her numerous interviews with medical health professionals who provide
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by bonesss 6y ago
Bill Cosby is still on Spotify...
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by bonesss 6y ago
> Spotify employees have the right to voice their concerns if the company they work for is alienating them. For sure... So why is Bill Cosby still on Spotify? And if transgender rights are our priority, why are endless numbers of outspok
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by bonesss 7y ago
Sorry for the loose term. Not package management a la NuGet, but how packages and their references are handled (ie managed), so that they're not available and operative in FSI on .Net Core in VS. Things that work when compiled, worked
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by bonesss 7y ago
There are also some critical tooling gaps that mean .Net Core is still broken for scenarios that worked a decade ago (FSI package management with F#, specifically).
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by bonesss 7y ago
The API is made to make automation around calendaring tasks easy. You can pull up appointments, see who booked them, and manage their state. ( https://developers.google.com/calendar/overview ) Tracking activity in activ
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by bonesss 7y ago
> but does that cost you the opportunity to make even more than that, given you're probably moving slower or at least less efficiently than you otherwise could? The potential opportunity of fast-moving cloud features needs to be wei
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by bonesss 7y ago
Another way of framing that: BOFHs went from being necessary to the business to preventing the business from acheiving its goals, and got replaced by competition that was more amenable at a higher price. They weren't seen as so unprofi
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by bonesss 7y ago
And what's the alternative? Losing your biggest customers because you couldn't be assed to put a new button on some load-balancer configuration? Of course, for small or medium customers whose finger snaps are ignored... WYSIWYG.
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by bonesss 7y ago
That's generally the economic case put out in cloud planning: a startup or expansion does great in the cloud with quick time to market, but once that business has matured and the risk is gone the assets move in-house because it's
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by bonesss 7y ago
> Countless cost projections on top of a complicated billing system I think it's a loooot easier to design and build a cost-efficient multi-tiered high availability application than it is to make reasonable cost projections in whate
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by bonesss 7y ago
The general trend with cloud investment is that it makes utmost sense early in a startup or business expansion when time to market is the most important and uncertainty is high, but once the business stabalizes the assets move in house beca
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by bonesss 7y ago
That depends on your app portfolio (naturally), how impacted it is by k8s version changes, and how much cloud specialization it requires. You're probably better off on k8s than just about anything you didn't write yourself wrt to
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by bonesss 7y ago
Intermittent Fasting (ie skipping breakfast), has been gaining lots of attention latelt as a cheap and easy way to control blood sugar levels and calories (to an extent). Personally I "skip" breakfast and lunch, eating my first me
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by bonesss 7y ago
I started intermittent fasting, eating all my calories at home at night, and the result is no blood sugar dip or post-lunch fatigue at work. When you add up the meal prep and time eating every week (for what are generally low quality calori
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by bonesss 7y ago
> tech stacks like React are necessary and/or seen as good because the frontend is trying to solve overly complicated problems I think a lot of these issues are symptomatic of front-end oriented toolkits trying to solve combined fr
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by bonesss 7y ago
There are a million cool camping gadgets out there... Before I go out on a trip I take a sec to figure out what I'm doing on this trip, and what I'm gonna need. A lot of cool gadgets get left on the floor because they're to
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by bonesss 7y ago
Not by mobs of angry students, but protocol managing entities like Microsoft, Novell, IBM, and others sure could make your interpretation of the protocol invalid. Particularly if you had some competing software out in the wild...

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