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by cletus 4y ago
It's true, it was regex-ish. I did actually think about the space and decided it didn't look nice. It should also be clear from context clues (ie having declared watching the show and quoting it, familiarity with the two show name
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by cletus 4y ago
I grew up watching Yes, (Prime)? Minister. The 70s to the early 80s were really the golden age of British TV. This show, Blake's 7 (if you like sci-fi and haven't seen this it's still great, go watch it), Dr Who's golden
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by cletus 4y ago
This is long overdue. Years ago playing Civ 4 I distinctly remember hearing Leonard Nimoy's voice say "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy". That's what management in these compani
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by cletus 4y ago
This seems like marketing. I tried Duolingo Spanish pretty much every day for 1-2 years at the highest rate (5 lessons/day IIRC) and honestly... I don't remember any of it. The vocab is extremely selective (and limited). It's
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by cletus 4y ago
I'm not sure what the point of this is. In the last 60+ years we've obviously learned a lot and widened our definition of where life on Earth can live (eg subsea volcanic vents, in rocks in Antarctica). We obviously don't kno
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by cletus 4y ago
Youtube is an outlier but Google generally doesn't mess with success (IME) of substantial acquisitions. Youtube has their own culture (so much so that they call themselves "Youtubers" not "Googlers" and have (had?)
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by cletus 4y ago
My belief is that ultimately monopolies are unstable. Google's engine, which it has been specatacularly successful at, is obviously search. More specifically, it's search advertising. Google is a dominant player in display adverti
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by cletus 4y ago
A lot of thought has gone into far-future uses of black holes: - Black hole starships [1] - Weaponizing black holes [2] - Colonizing black holes [3][4] - Black hole computers [5] Black holes may be the most efficient forms of batteries and
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by cletus 4y ago
There are a bunch of factors here but the key one is: what are your goals? How do you see your next 5/10/20 years? The point of this is maybe you're intending to retire in 5 years. If that were the case, I wouldn't sugge
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by cletus 4y ago
Ex-Facebooker Ex-Googler here. IMHO? Absolutely not. Infrastructure just isn't in FB's DNA. I've never worked at Amazon but my understanding was that AWS was born from bezos deciding one day that the whole company would adopt
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by cletus 4y ago
I will add that certain SWE fields rely upon and interact heavily with DS and for anyone wanting to make the switch, this is a natural "in". Any company with a rigorous approach to product development or even SRE will rely heavily
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by cletus 4y ago
You touch on a couple of issues. The first is that civilizations tend to be short-lived. There are only really two ways out of this: they wipe themselves out or they somehow "transcend". "Transcending" is a trope of sci-
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by cletus 4y ago
Focusing on radio communications for SETI purposes and as a solution to the Fermi Paradox I find to be incredibly outdated thinking. Let me summarize: 1. Planets are incredibly inefficient in creating living area per unit mass; 2. Orbitals
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by cletus 4y ago
This feels like a contract issue. Rumor has it the issue is residuals but on the face of it that doesn't make sense. Why? Because you would expect residuals on a streaming service to have somethign to do with how many people watched th
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by cletus 4y ago
The paid upgrade model creates some perverse incentives and support headacches. It encourages a company to declare something a major (and thus paid) upgrade0 Years ago, Adobe used to do this with supporting new RAW formats that came out. it
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by cletus 4y ago
The real problem here is the memtaverse. This is a solution to a problem no one has and it's costing a vast amount of money for, well, nothing really. Why does it exist? Simple. Meta needs a new monopoly since FB usage is declining and
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by cletus 4y ago
Many people (including me) raised this issue internally at Google more than a decade ago now during the Google+ era. Vic Gundotra decided that not using your "real name" was a bannable offense despite the many legitimate concerns
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by cletus 4y ago
I'm so happy for these guys. Selling 300,000 copies @ $30 each is life-changing money. Over the years they've accepted donations but from what I've seen it's tended to a few thousand dollars a month. Decent but not a lot
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by cletus 4y ago
In my mind Monaco is synonymous with Formula 1. Obviously there's the iconic race (which, as an aside, doesn't suit the modern F1 car, which has become too large for a narrow street circuit). But the other side is F! notable peopl
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by cletus 4y ago
So my family has long described ourselves as nomadic. We just seem to get the wanderlust and want to pick up and move after some years in some place. I myself have lived in 5 different countries so far. My great-grandfather (who died long b
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by cletus 4y ago
IPv6 is a case study in the second sytem effect [1]. Realizing you need to make breaking changes and it being rare that you get to do so you decide to make all the changes. The truth is IPv4 only had 2 real problems: 1. Lack of address sp
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by cletus 4y ago
Oh I'd forgotten about Kenny Everett. What a trip. My early years I spent in a rural year where we only had one channel: the state broadcaster. That's why we saw American TV rarely. By the teen years it was different: we got a sec
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by cletus 4y ago
I grew up in Australia. At this time (many years ago) TV was basically a mix of ABC (ie the Australian version of PBS) and British TV (mostly BBC but also some ITV and Channel 4). I cannot adequately describe just how good TV was from this
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by cletus 4y ago
There are different flavors of not wanting to be a manager. The good kind Jobs refers to are people who see the necessity and that no one is doing it (or doing it well). They aren't the kind of people who don't understand people a
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by cletus 4y ago
Americans generally won't appreciate how scary this can be for those on work visas, particularly when the chances of finding a new job have dropped drastically. Generally speaking, work visas and employment-based green cards are based
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by cletus 4y ago
Mandatory Seinfeld reference [1]. Honestly, this is good advice. So much of work is actually just perception management. Looking annoyed or angry without actually being mean or inconsiderate is a bit of a cheat code. Beyond perception manag
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by cletus 4y ago
So after working at Google for 6 years (and doing Java and other things prior) I went to Facebook and programmed in Hack for 4 years. Hack is actually a really interesting and convenient language in many ways. One way I really appreciated i
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by cletus 4y ago
You can't look at total layoffs. If you really want what this means look at how many engineers were laid off. I know some were in Meta's layoffs but how many? 100? 1000? 5000? Each of those numbers means something different. It&#x
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by cletus 4y ago
I find these extreme enviroments fascinating, in this case polar days and nights (months long each). May I introduce you to Cecilia Blomdahl [1] who documents her life on Svalbard. [1]: https://www.tiktok.com/@sejsejlija?lan
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by cletus 4y ago
Or you can just look at the history of the folder.

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