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by clnq 4y ago
> Or we could even decouple our sense of time from the Sun entirely, to create a single world time zone in which different countries see the Sun overhead at different times of day or night. A very interesting idea, but probably much too
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by clnq 4y ago
Related: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... .
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by clnq 4y ago
Thanks for the additional comment. > I personally just got tired Its true that a Synology NAS takes some effort to set up initially and a little bit of maintenance work every now and then. But I don't think about my NAS most months.
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by clnq 4y ago
I think the author misrepresented the NAS option a bit. I have the same Sinology DS220j and from my experience, you definitely do not need to constantly install/manage software, configure network access and renew certificates. Yes, the
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by clnq 4y ago
There is speaking truth to power, and there is speaking truth to Twitter's CEO. The latter is neither effective nor impactful. Even if hypothetically we could have some say in how Elon runs Twitter, the world won't be much better
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by clnq 4y ago
I think that Slack is a very helpful tool. Working remote in the video game industry, I can't imagine having as many conversations, screen shares, huddles and files being sent around as this kind of work demands day-to-day without a to
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by clnq 4y ago
I don't think most of the donors know the money is used for things other than Wikipedia and that Wikimedia is very well off. This is an even bigger ethical lapse than funnelling money into charities people might not agree with.
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by clnq 4y ago
More context: the insulin dose diabetics take with meals is called a bolus dose. However, cells in the human body need glucose uptake constantly, 24 hours a day. So T1 diabetics also have to take a basal insulin dose either once daily as an
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by clnq 4y ago
Analogues are not only easier to use, but also allow for regimens and therapies (such as insulin pump therapy) that somewhat improve life expectancy and significantly improve quality of life. The relatively inelastic demand of insulin analo
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by clnq 4y ago
Somewhat. But it's probably not a big factor. I believe a more important factor is that the sw engineering job market is still a seller's market. Many large and well-known tech companies still struggle to compete with the tech gia
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by clnq 4y ago
I'm an engineer. The fortune 100 tech company I work for is ramping up hiring, even evaluating new ways to find junior engineers. We struggle to fill all available roles. There's a lot of panic in the job market because everyone f
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by clnq 4y ago
Governments should not allow such inane profit margins on products subsidized by taxpayer money. It is clear abuse of good will for the sake of profits. Let's not even touch the ethical baggage associated with excessive greed at the co
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by clnq 4y ago
The caveat is very true, and I think that I would be unhappy if a licensing body told me I'm suddenly "not qualified" to do the work I've been doing well for many years. Besides, it wouldn't be just for me to bear l
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by clnq 4y ago
The labor pool of software engineers is very diverse in terms of backbones, ethics and morals. It puts replaceable engineers in an awkward spot to object to unprofessional requests. For an anecdotal example, I have been told that standing u
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by clnq 4y ago
Whether this is offensive or not, I have definitely seen worker visas used to exploit employees. And visa employees dealing with much more insanity than nationals. Sometimes it's overt, sometimes it happens in a proverbial boiling frog
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by clnq 4y ago
I'm not against social media fundamentally, I'm against the lack of privacy and emotional exploitation as means to sell more ads on social media. Social media could be done solely in the interest of its users, and I think that cou
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by clnq 4y ago
That's a great counter-point. Still, I believe that the "moonshot" Google Glass project could have succeeded as well if they listened to internal feedback earlier.
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by clnq 4y ago
In my experience, this is one of the ways that valid problems are dismissed. Engineers (and people in other disciplines) dogfooding and building the product should be listened to when they bring up these issues. They have T-shaped skills an
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by clnq 4y ago
I can mainly think of companies and projects from my professional experience, and it wouldn't be my place to publicly speak about these things. But I believe that many engineers like me have worked on death march projects where their c
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by clnq 4y ago
The culture of ignoring clearly-voiced problems has killed so many projects and companies.
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by clnq 4y ago
It has greatly demotivated me to learn that productivity was measured by commit count in one of the companies I worked in. Interestingly, I was the most "productive" engineer there at the time. Yet my code was garbage (no offence
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by clnq 4y ago
Decisions can be big but still easily reversible. And it makes sense to not hesitate with those, I think. That is indeed something I've applied to buying an apartment in the past. I bought an apartment and ended up not liking it too mu
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by clnq 4y ago
> Does anyone have any useful experience to share on working in a VR headset? Is it comfortable for longer periods of time? How is it on the eyes? I bought the entry level Quest 2 to evaluate the feasibility of this about a year ago. The
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by clnq 4y ago
It's great that UK has these laws. Although there is clear and malicious effort from Twitter to put obstacles in the way of employees trying to get representation (notices sent on Friday evening with period ending on Tuesday morning, u
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by clnq 4y ago
Estimated is fantastic. That's almost all I need before deciding who to buy practically identical SaaS from.
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by clnq 4y ago
Not to mention that they have or used to have fake video game boxes in their stores clearly using the likeness of video games. "Call of Mutti", "Grand Ma's Auto" - https://www.reddit.com/r/gamin
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by clnq 4y ago
Same. I worked for a company owned by a group of friends that owned a few more businesses. We'd do work for all these companies and just log the hours in our human resource system - accountants figured out inter-company payments. Some
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by clnq 4y ago
Through experience, I have come to believe that an idea could seem like all of these, but when a team starts to work on it, a lot of additional not-so-pretty aspects of the idea generally get uncovered. They show up weeks, months, and years
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by clnq 4y ago
The necessity of frugal living while earning twice the national average definitely says something fundamental about a country's economy. There are many countries in Europe where earning double the average salary will make one quickly a
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by clnq 4y ago
There's no financial incentive to improve customer support in most services with a relatively inelastic demand. Most companies know that their call centers have been "experiencing an unusual volume of calls" for years, and th

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