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by bruce511 1y ago
This 100%. I'm in a space with developers and customers deploying web servers for the first time. This traffic freaks them out. Basically a simple server listening on a port will experience hundreds of random script-probing attacks per
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by bruce511 1y ago
You would do well to start by identifying the size of B you plan to sell to. Selling to owners of < 10 employees) is very different to < 100 and so on. If your business is tiny it can be hard to sell to a business that is large. The l
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I love seeing the progress in mechanical (real world) tech. I'm becoming somewhat (although not completely) cynical in a "devil is in the details" kinda way. It seems we see a lot of hype which either fizzles out, or never se
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by bruce511 1y ago
When it comes to new car producers there's always yhe "quality" question. We saw that with Japenese cars in the 70s (turns out quality was high) and some of the most valued brands now are Japenese (Honda, Nissan, Toyota etc.)
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Ok, your point is valid. You can't disconnect from the grid if you want all the benefits that the grid bestows. But then the reverse is true - if you are enjoying the benefits that the grid bestows then you need to pay for that. Yes, i
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I'll add that Hawaii currently generates 20%+ of their electricity from non-fossil fuels. Plus they are actively reducing fossil generation with a view to removing it completely. Changes on this scale take time. But to make the islands
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I don't think this comment should be down-voted since it is indeed a real point of difference and it is worth discussing. The key takeaway is that there are differences to driving an EV to driving an ICE vehicle. Equally those differen
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I (fortunately) haven't had to look for a job in 30 years. So I'm not sure this advice will work in your context. I have employed people though, so maybe that makes this a valuable point of view. At the moment the market is crowde
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>> But I think we should also encourage people to build interesting things, even if it's not clear how one could make money from these ideas. I agree. As long as you make it explicit in your encouragement that they should do this
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You don't. Disconnect from the grid completely. If you don't need the power company then disconnect from them. The problem lies when you need the power company 'some of the time'. The costs of the power company are in 2
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by bruce511 1y ago
Lots of truth here, but context matters. Firstly some tracks have a lot of overtaking. Some are harder, Monaco has none. The need for DRS is primarily because the aerodynamics of the following car are affected by the dirty air caused by the
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I spent several years working on an embedded hardware project. The key skill is C. Most everything else can be learned on the job, and will differ from project to project. Obviously not all embedded programing is in C (although a lot is) bu
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I get the "client side" of this equation; some number of users want to keep their actions/data private enough that they are willing to pay for it. What I don't think they necessarily appreciate is how expensive that woul
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What if driving an LLM well is actually a desirable skill? What if changing from a "write code" based idea of programming changes to a "remove technical debt from code" skill? What if the next generation of programmers i
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Even figuring this out is valuable. Say I've got an idea for a hot new academic thing. I know who needs this, I understand their pain, but its really valuable to understand their procurement process as well. If they need to have sale
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Landing page might be overdone, but you follow up with talking to users etc. The mechanics may differ, but the point is the same. Validating the idea with real customers, finding those customers, getting them to be interested, is exactly th
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by bruce511 1y ago
This reply will likely sound disrespectful, but I post it not to be so, but rather to perhaps spark an alternate path. As the world changes, education can be slowest to adapt. My father did his math on a slide rule. I was in high school as
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by bruce511 1y ago
I'm so old I remember when calculators started appearing in general people's hands. Schools first banned them (what da ya mean you can't add a column of numbers by eye?) But gradually we switched over. We had a flirting inter
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by bruce511 1y ago
I'll roll back the clock somewhat to 1992 when I graduated. A different time, but also a challenging one. (As with all reminiscing context matters, and those elsewhere likely have a different history. ) I graduated into a world without
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I like to think of this as a analogy to biology. Consider this question in the context of say DNA. What DNA strands should be present in the "standard library". In practice there's no right answer to this - I mean sad librar
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by bruce511 1y ago
Luck plays a huge part. But it's not the only part. All the luck in the world won't win me an Olympic medal. Yes, luck plays a part. But it also takes the right work, learning the correct skills, having the discipline and so on. W
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by bruce511 1y ago
It's a good practice to question the premise of the question when writing an answer. (In this case interpreting the question as "how do I make money on the side.") There are indeed other reasons for side gigs, but the parent
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by bruce511 1y ago
It's so, so , so hard to walk the line between persistence (which leads to glory) and stubbornness (which leads to more time following already wasted time.) Congratulations for walking this line correctly. I agree that some sort of mar
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by bruce511 1y ago
In the book I found the character of Ian Malcolm fascinating. He was the math guy, grounded in "chaos theory" which basically posited that things don't work out the way you plan. Jeff Goldblum's portrayal was pretty spot
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Obviously it will vary by location and age. But I was in high school in the early 80s, and plate tectonics & Pangea were already in our text books. (And in my country it takes forever for stuff to make it into textbooks.) I don't r
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by bruce511 1y ago
When you vote for a guy who plans to raise prices, when you vote for a guy who already tried to remove Healthcare, when you vote for a guy who gives tax breaks to the rich, when you vote for a guy who is a grifter, then don't complain
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I am not saying that the reality exists. I'm saying that the blind acceptance of the status quo does not allow for that status to be questioned. You see the welfare amounts, or retirement amounts as limited. Well then, what would it ta
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I agree its often exploiting. But presumably people who choose to participate in that relationship are getting something out of it, or they'd stop.
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Oh, think people should be properly compensated for their labor. And I'm still programming. But lots of programmers don't get properly compensated. Some by choice, some by external factors. I'm saying that's a reality. H
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Im not sure why you are being downvoted. You make a reasonable argument. I would contest some of your points though. Firstly, not every country votes, not all that vote have 2 viable parties, so that's a flaw in your argument. Equally

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