cmiles74

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by cmiles74 4y ago
I was surprised at how content-free Malcolm Gladwell's position on this really is. The bit about "feeling necessary" really grates and the bit about "sitting in your pajamas" strikes me reductive and borderline insu
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I believe the conflict of interest is not simply that the author reported on a company they had invested in. In my opinion, the conflict lies in the fact that they then wrote pieces, in their role as a journalist, that pretty much were free
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I'm not convinced that they are simply "giving" the data to law enforcement, it strikes me as much more likely that they are charging them.
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by cmiles74 4y ago
In my opinion, making the office great should also cover a change in how office work is managed. Didn't the work-from-home of the pandemic highlight just how many office workers really do not need to be so closely observed and managed?
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by cmiles74 4y ago
In my opinion, breaking a click-through license agreement or violating the small print on some dense and difficult to read web page is hardly an issue of morality or ethics. Let's also remember that a big reason Meta is hating on scrap
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by cmiles74 4y ago
IMHO, XOXC tokens are a critical feature. If I still need the regular Slack client for work chat, now I have two Slack clients. :-(
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I think you may need to take a closer look at these numbers, there is no poll indicating that anywhere near 49% of US citizens are "dead set" against abortion being legal. My understanding is that the number of US citizens who bel
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by cmiles74 4y ago
This is pretty impressive, all on its own: "The Mullvad team has been using Qubes in its day-to-day operations since early 2015. It allows us to compartmentalise and isolate activities with different security requirements, such as serv
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by cmiles74 4y ago
There's been some surface coverage of the US shortage of teachers for a while, yet we haven't seen much movement in terms of compensation. Maybe there has been a push to get people into the field but I haven't seen it. IMHO,
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by cmiles74 4y ago
This whole story highlights how top-of-mind this fear that the "river" of innovation at Apple might be running dry really was for the leadership of this design team.
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I have also suspected that the big conflict here is between Visual Studio and Code. For sure, there is a free version of Visual Studio, but I would bet most for-profit businesses are paying for Visual Studio licenses. I could believe that t
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I had a 7200 and it never really performed very well. The "software" modem/telephony device was interesting, but the backing software was too crashy. Mostly I remember it seeming slower than the last generation of 68k Quadras
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by cmiles74 4y ago
A language model can't raise a child. It won't initiate any conversations on it's own and it doesn't "remember" past conversations in a way a person would find meaningful. When you blithely add the requirements
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I find this super frustrating. This weak sauce on the burrito of disappointment that is downtime adds insult to injury.
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by cmiles74 4y ago
This fear of hiring inept people kind of surprises me. Can't they just let people go who interview very well but are poor performers on the job? If they don't care to follow up on the performance of new hires, I have to wonder if
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by cmiles74 4y ago
Personally, I need to practice leetcode style questions pretty regularly in order to perform reliably without reference materials. If more than a couple of months go by, the details of particular algorithms begin to fade. I think it's
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by cmiles74 5y ago
The surprising part to me is that the school district let parents bring their own Chromebooks. Where I live the school supplies the Chromebook for the students. If your child breaks it, they bill you for the cost of the unit and then supply
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by cmiles74 5y ago
If it was me, I'd write the Chromebook off as now being solely for school use. Your child needs to log into it with their school account in order to participate and complete their schoolwork, I don't see any way around this. As so
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by cmiles74 5y ago
No joke, I see them for $1500 and up on eBay. Many have more than 10 bids. https://www.ebay.com/itm/OMEGA-x-SWATCH-Moonswatch-Mission-T...
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by cmiles74 5y ago
Is it really expensive? Their website lists a 14 day trial but I don't see any pricing, just links to "Contact Sales".
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by cmiles74 5y ago
My bank statements still come in the mail, I live in the eastern US. ;-)
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by cmiles74 5y ago
I don't think poster was complaining, specifically, that the security policy wasn't designed for people who care about security. In my opinion the issue is that they replaced an up-to-date and robust set of policies and tools with
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by cmiles74 5y ago
US currency is backed by the government, a mortgage is backed by property. In my opinion, "physics and math" do not provide the same kind of underlying value as a government or real estate.
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by cmiles74 5y ago
In my opinion, this is not stupid. The way preferred by Microsoft is to mix the ads in with messages such that it's difficult to tell them apart. If there's anything stupid here, it's Microsoft's decision that if you wan
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by cmiles74 5y ago
It's just more anecdata but I live in Western MA and this is exactly the situation we have out here: people are being pressured to waive inspection and to offer in cash and without contingencies. Honestly, it seems crazy risky to me to
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by cmiles74 5y ago
Yeah, I've been working from home for a while. :-P I started about a year before the pandemic started.
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by cmiles74 5y ago
I live and work in a home office in Western MA, the road outside my office is somewhat busy but is hardly the main road through town. Even so, the number of horns honking and brakes screeching has increased enough that I find myself wincing
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by cmiles74 5y ago
I think the whole point is erasure of the all the variables that might help make a person a success (education, parents, wealth, community, nutrition, etc.) The success a person has achieved is somehow an innate part of who the person is, t
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by cmiles74 5y ago
I disagree that the analysis articles from Jepsen, taken as whole, are arguing for a "perfect distributed system without trade offs". In my experience these articles are fairly even-handed, indeed, many products make some changes
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by cmiles74 5y ago
YMMV but my big pain point is sharing a large project between my Mac and the VM running Docker Desktop. I don't think this will make the file sharing bit any faster.

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