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by cldellow 4y ago
King County, Washington (Seattle) Edit: actually, repealed last year due to racism [1] [1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/kin...
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It varies. I was at MSFT during the 2008 layoffs. My division fired a few percent of people. A friend's group had a "We're firing everyone in Redmond who works on this team and consolidating in Hyderabad."
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by cldellow 4y ago
The author of this post claims that the Internet happened, enabling easier, cheaper access to law databases, which increased the value that "top tier" lawyers could extract from their paralegals. > What happened? Well, if you’r
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Run it if you want. But if you run AdNauseam, people are still getting paid. The publisher, the ad network, the ad agency. The advertiser is getting screwed, but the other parties will work really hard to explain it away to them. "You&
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The only real solution is an ad blocker. I worked at an ad tech company. We all ran ad blockers. The hypocrisy is through the roof. This is the best solution because it severely negatively affects the ecosystem. Publishers make less, so the
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by cldellow 4y ago
It's good to be wary. My home province gave a private company a 50+ year monopoly on our land title records. I would _love_ something like RECAP for our land title records...but I suspect it's not possible to do it without violat
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> Legalities of this? They seem to be getting away with it. The US government runs PACER itself, they don't contract it to a profit-motivated third-party. [1] As a result, they're pretty lenient. At one point, their website sai
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They did fire her and move on. Then she sued them for wrongful termination. The judgment wasn't in her favour. The facts presented to the tribunal were brutal and painted her in a very bad light. She could have avoided the negative out
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by cldellow 4y ago
You can read the tribunal decision here [1] What should Reach have done? They fronted her money to set up a WFH office. They were paying her professional fees. After five months, when her productivity was lower than expected, they began hav
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WAL and synchronous=NORMAL is huge. I love databases that choose safe defaults. That said, many real-life applications of databases don't need to block for confirmation that the transaction has been durably committed -- ETL jobs, integ
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You can still persist them; you just have to wire it up yourself. Using workers is a best practice for any CPU-bound task, so that's not a drawback by itself in my mind. It's good for single-page applications. Many datasets are re
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by cldellow 4y ago
The original tweet can be seen at https://web.archive.org/web/20211119123038/https://twitter.c... It's hard to tell, but it sounds like the user had a question about how to use the `-E` flag. Direct
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> How does that work? Disclaimer: I'm not a Clickhouse user, but I have a bit of experience with Parquet. It looks like the native format is (very briefly) described here: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/int
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Slight nitpick: the credit that was being claimed is that Python allows fast developer speed while not sacrificing overall runtime performance. The code that is written in a language other than Python is often not written by the developer w
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Am I missing something? The OP's comment is that while Python's native interpreter is slow, Python code as a whole can still be fast since people will delegate the hot spots to non-Python libraries optimized for speed. To refute t
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by cldellow 4y ago
Yes, it was bizarre to see: - Python is too big - Python's standard library is too small - therefore, you should use JavaScript It made me wonder if I was hallucinating, so I went and checked... my `node` execurtable is 78MB. Thanks to
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by cldellow 4y ago
Someone is doing something at https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/hI9vrUO4k/home?orgId=4 I have no idea what, though. :)
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Oh, yeah, NA's plans are expensive, no argument there. Just not 50x more expensive.
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Man, as a Canadian, I hate being put in the position of defending our wireless monopolies. But here goes. That website seems... not great? I think you got a 50x ratio by dividing the average prices of $0.12 (Italy) and $5.94 (Canada). That
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by cldellow 4y ago
I'm not afpx, but I understood them to be saying "you have fewer good days when you're 50 than when you're 18." That is, health wise, it's better to be 18 than to be 50. :) A related concept is the quality-adju
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by cldellow 4y ago
Yeah, it's pretty frustrating. I initially tried the https://joinmastodon.org/servers thing in November, but the things proposed seemed like very niche communities. I just tried the https://instances.social&
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> How does one find a good Mastodon server? Hm, what makes a good server? I think for me, I want: not going to disappear, high uptime, low latency, moderate moderation. You can measure moderation by going to most server's /abou
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I think not a journalist, but a journalist's source [1]. I think the facts are something like: - Martin Tripp, a Tesla employee working at the Gigafactory, leaked to a journalist that Tesla was wasting a large amount of raw material wh
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by cldellow 4y ago
That's my recollection, too. I think Instagram wasn't annotating their pages with either OpenGraph metadata or Twitter card metadata, and so you got a bland link vs a rich preview. It seems like Instagram _were_ publishing og:imag
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Heh, the story was published at 4:09 PM EST on December 16. This was 16 minutes after Bill Gates last tweeted, thus destroying the premise of the article. Talk about bad luck.
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The role of appellate courts is generally not to judge the facts of the case, but to judge whether the law has been applied correctly. If you got convicted because the prosecutor and the trial judge didn't know what the law was, that&#
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by cldellow 4y ago
The @joinmastodon account had posted a tweet that linked to the ElonJet account's new home on mastodon.social. Banning them for that seems aggressive (vs: blocking/removing that tweet), but it's at least consistent. Banning a
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by cldellow 4y ago
infosec.exchange and hachyderm.io appear to be affected as well -- at least, I can't tweet links to them, nor put links to them in my bio.
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I'm not the OP. I think the tweet the OP is referring to is not Elon's video of a man in a car. Instead, it is the tweet by Donie O'Sullivan where he published a statement from LAPD saying that no crime report had been filed
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It's not just that Twitter has banned the @joinmastodon account on Twitter, or banned links to the ElonJet account at https://mastodon.social/@elonjet , or banned links to https://mastodon.social in general.

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