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811.
by collyw 6y ago
What is the opinion here on the lab leak hypothesis?
812.
by collyw 6y ago
The virus really isn't that bad, we have faced vastly worse pandemics in history. The overreaction has been horrendous. (In the UK which is one of the worst hit countries the death toll is about the same as 2003. https://oro
813.
by collyw 6y ago
I was replying to your first sentence > On the contrary, this enables poor people to go to university and stop being poor.
814.
by collyw 6y ago
It doesn't make education more difficult to access, jut expects you to pay if it benefits you later in life.
815.
by collyw 6y ago
In what way does the British system I describe stop poor people going to university?
816.
by collyw 6y ago
The argument against free higher education is that everyone is subsidising the educated half of society, who will likely be earning more. The poor will be subsidising the middle classes. The UK system is interesting in that you can take out
817.
by collyw 6y ago
Depends no? If your "100%" is based on the after value rather than the before value, you have added 100%. Though I guess there is an implicit expectation that it is the before value that is used.
818.
by collyw 6y ago
He does. I tried to find it on youtube, but there are a lot of Sowell clips. >Ignoring the realities of others' lives is how we got rising fascism. Not sure where that comes from.
819.
by collyw 6y ago
A company with an impeccable code base? Fake news.
820.
by collyw 6y ago
He doesn't sound so senior. What can I do in Python 3 that I wasn't doing a decade ago in Perl 5?
821.
by collyw 6y ago
> Where are the stories about people born into poverty, still in poverty, and not likely to be anything but poor for the rest of their lives? Thomas Sowell says that it's actually a pretty small percentage of people like that. Most
822.
by collyw 6y ago
I know in my home town some of the homeless weren't actually homeless, just scammers begging for money at pub closing time.
823.
by collyw 6y ago
He was one of the big names in the Perl world back in the 2000s. Wrote some books (including the wonderful Perl Cookbook) and I remember having a course at work given by the Tom Chritstiansen Perl consultancy.
824.
by collyw 6y ago
I might start using that when people suggest adding new tech. If they can't explain it at that level, then it's going to be a difficult sell.
825.
by collyw 6y ago
My place has Kubernetes for when we are ready to scale. I am not sure it has gone above the default two pods. It did cause problems with moderately large uploads (5gb), as the memory gets chewed up far faster when using multiple small machi
826.
by collyw 6y ago
I do work in web app development, and what you say is spot on.
827.
by collyw 6y ago
They are usually closer to the truth than evangelists telling us how this new tool is going to solve all our problems.
828.
by collyw 6y ago
Well we effectively have foreign keys between tables / collections. Just none of the benefits.
829.
by collyw 6y ago
I bet these people are running on a single server.
830.
by collyw 6y ago
There are here as well, but I can only think of one brand in an aisle of water that uses glass.
831.
by collyw 6y ago
I have worked in tech long enough to see some common patterns. It's usually intermediate devs (though not always) who get excited by new tech. The same people are usually pushing to use shiny new tech in places where it isn't need
832.
by collyw 6y ago
Zero bugs sounds like the zero covid fantasy that some authoritarians are pushing for. Zero code is pretty much the only way you can guarantee zero bugs.
833.
by collyw 6y ago
It´s kind of sad. I am the same. I want to do something different but I don´t know much else and the pay is reasonable (reasonable, not great, I am in Spain).
834.
by collyw 6y ago
> I would get small cuts and they wouldn't seem to heal, doctors baffled. I had a similar experience in the brief time that I went vegetarian. Plus I was skinny at the time and lost weight.
835.
by collyw 6y ago
Or human behaviour, reproducing too much. Meat wouldn't be a problem with a reduced population.
836.
by collyw 6y ago
Won't bottled water be more likely to contain plastic traces?
837.
by collyw 6y ago
And you can be maintaining a system built by developers who got excited by shiny new tech and made a load of inappropriate technology choices because they were flavor of the month and looked good on their resumes.
838.
by collyw 6y ago
Bad developers will cost you more.
839.
by collyw 6y ago
This sounds great but thinking of my system at work, it´s not the language that is the problem. It´s all the moving parts that you need to get to play together nicely before you can even start to develop. Front end, back end, database, ngin
840.
by collyw 6y ago
Crap developers get excited by new tech. Good devs want to get problems solved. If a new tech is the best solution then use shiny new tech. Usually it´s not the best choice.

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