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by com 1y ago
But those cars, as has been explained to you, don’t do nearly as many trips per year. Mobility in families is actually higher, since each individual has sturdy legs, and highly likely, a bike after they’re about 5 years old. Kids often trav
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by com 1y ago
Books have limited print runs. Many books in libraries are only borrowed and perhaps read a few times. Niche titles more so. Books go out of print and are hard to search for arbitrary text.
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by com 2y ago
The Romanian justice system didn’t rule the candidate out because “the current government didn’t like him”. Where do you get your information, Fox News? It was because of grievous breaches of campaign financing. The kind of thing that bring
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by com 2y ago
It’ll be very interesting, if true. The ASML EUV machine complexity does seem very extreme, but … physics!
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by com 2y ago
I hate to break it to you but it’s extremely common for Western employees to do the same. I had to investigate what seemed like a new employee attempting to begin an exfil of our source code only to discover what looked like all of EMC’s co
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by com 2y ago
Conrad’s update touched a nerve, where he talked about infrastructure engineering superpowers that aren’t understood by management. The first is subtle bug analysis which needs almost monomaniacal focus and creativity to solve - and is quit
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by com 2y ago
> Europe as a whole has clearly overtaken the US in terms of Ukraine aid [0] 0. https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-af...
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by com 2y ago
Only one half of your comment is true. Election interference does occur, and to protect democracy, courts must act where there is clear evidence. Or are you referring to Hungary in your second paragraph?
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by com 2y ago
Only geographically. For many other attributes, accelerating away at speed.
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by com 2y ago
Filthy non-OED user. The author is probably a Cambridge dictionary person! Seriously, -ize endings in the Cambridge spelling tradition relies on you knowing the etymology of the word, and if it’s from the Ancient Greek, that’s the one you u
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by com 2y ago
> I sometimes wonder what it would be like if we'd continued down that path. Maybe your laptop would have 10,000 processors in it each with a few MB of RAM and we'd be writing very different programs in languages where message
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by com 2y ago
The “internal customer” thing has been the worst driver of waste and frustration I’ve seen in my career. It’s like the MBAs looked at the Soviet Union’s fake markets, and thought to themselves “we want some of that, please”.
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by com 2y ago
I’m interested in the use of things like virtio instead of real hardware. Are there other virtualisation-driven designs for hardware devices out there rather than the qemu stuff?
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by com 2y ago
It’s depressing how far Google seems to have fallen since then.
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by com 2y ago
Organisers of the threats to others. To “stand over” is a verb meaning roughly to “threaten, with menace”. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s the party or parties that have undertaken the attacks.
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by com 2y ago
I’ve heard “kleivormen” in Hoorn, “klei maken” (a little more gross - no surprise given their famous export, disease swearing, I suppose) in Den Haag, and “kleien” below the great rivers. Edit: spelling, never ran into the NL word for clay
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by com 2y ago
Some people jump early. I’ve stayed long enough - or returned later on request after doing a startup - to see whole orgs and product lines in telcos (!!), banks (!!!) and even government agencies (yeah, wasn’t really expecting that tbh) get
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by com 2y ago
I’d disagree, on the pretty front. As I’ve learned it, I found it very charming and often surprisingly sweet - as an example idiomatic terms for urination and defecation are very funny: plassen (making a large pond) and klaaivormen (forming
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by com 2y ago
This is typically the “smart but cynical” position I hear from some bureaucratic actors and those who aspire to become like them. It’s the sophisticated version of “Don’t attempt any change” brigade’s position. My observations from a lifeti
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by com 2y ago
The increasing dependence of line soldiers on centralised professional and organisational support to wage war suggests to me that the “new emperors in the provinces” problem won’t repeat in quite the same way.
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by com 2y ago
Did Phil Donahue use the word “Application” for a graphical software program in 1981? Interesting.
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by com 2y ago
Yeah, I’ve seen enough of both to know that this is genuine. The problem with resume-driven technology choices are a kind of tech debt that typically costs a lot of cash to operate and perhaps worse, delivers terrible opportunity costs, bot
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by com 2y ago
This is a nonsense response. A bank exists not as an isolated entitity, but as a node in a local, regional and global network of transactions. Your phone as a “classic banking infrastructure” (nonsense phrase) can’t do credit card acquiring
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by com 2y ago
Bang on the money: > The final piece of advice for any practitioner of corporate stupidity is to keep moving. It is vital to avoid being landed with your own mistakes. I've obviously been working with masters of this game.
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by com 2y ago
The positive thing is that these defective parts probably aren't making it into the spare parts supply chain, so if planes start falling out of the air because the rudders break off, they'll mostly be 737MAXes and not the older mo
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by com 2y ago
The Dutch system has done international and domestic e-tickets for ages. It’s weird you didn’t get the QR code with your French booking?
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by com 2y ago
I worked in a Postgres for everything business, and the IPO and later value creation for customers and investors (including me) had been stratospheric. Not dealing with loads of technology choices in the early days is a boon. Once we hit mo
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by com 2y ago
I worked in oil and gas in the ‘90s as a contractor in the tech space. Booked off late December 1999 and early January 2000 two years in advance, and had it written into contracts. They tried to cancel my leave in December, lol. Most collea
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by com 2y ago
And the best thing is that until it’s a problem you can focus on product/market fit and delighting your customers. Overengineering is a plague amongst SWEs, and almost as dangerous as failing to sell the product in the market.
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by com 2y ago
Well done Clive Sinclair, your parents and you!

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