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by chii 1y ago
golang should not be on the list of corriculums. Neither should any language owned by a corporation. The only language that can be on the list are open standards language that has multiple implementations, and is "free" (as in lib
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by chii 1y ago
but the grandparent post is talking about a browser - how would a browser pre-compute a font, when the fonts are specified by the webpage being loaded?
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by chii 1y ago
It is better than not having it as a backup method. It might even trip the scammer up as they may not expect it. Not to mention that it is your responsibility as the technically minded to hammer it into your family members.
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by chii 1y ago
another good video is this channel, which explains exactly how a telescoping boom works in somewhat detail (using a standing desk as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVTDMO7rlhs
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by chii 1y ago
> 2 factor authentication through a secure app the problem is that the sort of emergency scenario in which family member would need the help is not often done or possible via a secured app. It's often just a telephone, with a number
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by chii 1y ago
the easiest way to defeat phone fraud is to ahead of time decide on a verbal password between family (and close friends, if they're close enough that you'd lend them money). In a real scenario, they'd know the verbal password
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by chii 1y ago
the 'nothing' doesn't mean no data sent - it means you don't get access to the app's features if you don't consent to the data collection.
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by chii 1y ago
organizations that don't trust their engineers to work towards delivering value (by using better tooling, efficiency increasing automation etc), means that they don't improve and is accepting the current status quo. That's wh
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by chii 1y ago
some people who used to have a high-skill job will have their skill be devalued as AI takes over - this is a consequence of technological improvement. It is not a right that society maintains a level of value in an acquired skill. They will
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by chii 1y ago
only if the assumption of a static world, with static demand is true. the past has shown that this is not the case.
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by chii 1y ago
goals imply that achieving the goal will give you the success that the goal is meant to be a proxy of. That's why people go high into debt to obtain that degree - it's a goal, and the proxy for successful job/career. And yet,
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by chii 1y ago
> a bunch of kids learned to program by picking up flash flash does not have a free version (and i recall a trial version is locked after some days of usage). Guess where they got their flash development/program from?
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by chii 1y ago
But apple explicitly tries to make the environment around the old phone obsolete. They have an incentive to do so. Your old TV still works even with an adaptor - but there's no such a method for the phone. I want my phone to work until
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by chii 1y ago
> getting roasted for it. and making bank. I know which option i'd choose.
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by chii 1y ago
> If significant numbers of landlords remove their properties from market, scarcity will drive up rental prices anyway. unless you're imagining they're destroying the property, you cannot "remove" it from the market (
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by chii 1y ago
> otherwise how do you fix it? fixing it implies it is a problem in the first place. It isn't a problem. There is no right to ownership of a property (despite it being called the american dream). As long as rental vacancy is suffici
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by chii 1y ago
> So when new people move in, there is an increase in demand but the presumption that there will be a stream of people moving in is false. The people would just not move to a place with high rent (all else being quite equal). So high ren
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by chii 1y ago
> they can always create more inflation by just buying more and more stuff with freshly printed money. the GFC would like to chat about that. The feds cannot nudge more than a tiny bit in either direction. Look how much money was printed
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by chii 1y ago
username checks out ;D I agree, and the metric for productivity should be clear, and measured, rather than recording and monitoring the process of work. The reason employers want to monitor process is because they cannot find a good metric
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by chii 1y ago
Inflation is not entirely controlled by the Feds, they merely respond, and can make nudges to it in the direction they want (sometimes futilely).
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by chii 1y ago
> passed through 100% to the renter. it can't, because the value of the land must be judged on how much income it brings - such as rent. If rents grew, so will the tax.
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by chii 1y ago
but they're breaking someone else's things, not your own.
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by chii 1y ago
The wind and solar energy would've merely heated up the earth, then get radiated back out. Us capturing some of it, using it, and then re-radiate it back out (at a later date) won't have made any difference. Unless/until the
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by chii 1y ago
> They want to turn artists and craftsmen into assembly line supervisors. the same was uttered by blacksmiths and other craftsman who has been displaced by technology. Yet they are mercilessly crushed. Your enjoyment of a job is not a co
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by chii 1y ago
> Oddly enough. i actually dont find that outcome odd at all. The high cognative demand comes from the elimination of spurious busy work that would normally come with coding (things like syntax sugars, framework outline, and such). If an
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by chii 1y ago
there's a chance that an EU citizen could fight back against these legislation. And it is encouraged to do so. Privacy is agency.
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by chii 1y ago
> "the customer doesn't know what they want until they see what they don't want". like all good NP-complete problems, the issue of making a good GUI is verifiable easily by a customer, but they cannot tell you what a
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by chii 1y ago
water is useful. Diamond is valued. So be the diamond, not the water. Unless there's no water around anymore...
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by chii 1y ago
> A grocery store shortens the time to buy food and so on. a non-patron of the store still incurs the externalized cost of a store (such as increased traffic, noise, etc). A patron of said store has benefits which offsets those externali
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by chii 1y ago
positive externalities are charities, or non-profits at least. There are zero private businesses which generate positive externalities that they do not charge money for (and if they did, then it's no longer an externality). To do so wo

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