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by crmd 4y ago
Doesn't MSFT already have a native arm VSCode for M1 Mac?[0] [0] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_54#_apple-silicon
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by crmd 4y ago
Elon seems like a genuinely interesting person, and like many very successful people, I think he exhibits some clear manic depressive and ADHD traits. Just looking at his Twitter feed, he was absolutely on fire in the week after the deal wa
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by crmd 4y ago
The team should report to their skip manager until s/he hires a replacement manager. I would go talk with them and say “I didn’t fire him, you did, and I will have no choice but to resign unless you step up here”.
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by crmd 4y ago
Walmart’s average revenue per store is approximately $44MM and their gross profit margin is a bit less than 25%. Im not surprised they’re having a hard time finding people to be accountable for business results like that for a salary of $20
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by crmd 4y ago
>the great charm of cats is that it is impossible to tell the difference between "No, I don't understand you." and "I understand you perfectly well, but I plan to ignore you completely until I feel like responding&quo
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by crmd 4y ago
I distinctly remember Sneakers DVD having a fabulous director’s commentary track, where they talk about writing and filming the movie shot-by-shot, however it doesn’t seem to be available in my Apple TV purchase. Does anyone know if it’s po
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by crmd 4y ago
I love my M1 MBP but ran into a world of pain doing kubernetes storage work locally. Relatively simple things on x86 like NVMe-over-fabrics are a huge pain in the ass with Apple’s hypervisor framework. I ended up moving everything to x86 de
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by crmd 4y ago
Quoting Adam Curtis from The Power of Nighmares: > In the past, politicians promised to create a better world. They had different ways of achieving this, but their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered their p
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by crmd 4y ago
They are based in the United States of America which is a relatively conservative country.
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No, they are saying don't use the wrong tool for the job. We need low-friction services for splitting a dinner check and we also need highly regulated services for paying a freelancer or buying a car.
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by crmd 4y ago
Can Texans sue Amazon under that batshit crazy “facilitating abortion” law?
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by crmd 4y ago
To convert a partial pressure in torr (mmHg) to ppm, you divide the partial pressure by the total atmospheric pressure (both in torr) and multiply by 1 million.
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by crmd 4y ago
Power is taken not given. This is why highly competent sociopaths are magnetically attracted to founding and leading large corporations and running for public office. Once in power they use their influence in ways that harms society but hel
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by crmd 4y ago
This is the fatal game theory problem with peaceful utopia. All it takes is one sociopath to realize they can increase their power by breaking the rules, and now we need to spend resources on a global police force.
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by crmd 4y ago
If there were an alien invasion tomorrow, conspiracy theorists would immediately begin claiming that aliens don’t exist and anyone who believes in them has been brainwashed by George Soros and CNN. Nothing will change.
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by crmd 4y ago
No I don’t agree - see sibling comment about neurodiversity.
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by crmd 4y ago
Less than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg was giving speeches[0] on the importance of freedom of speech on social media. I like Elon but don’t think this will end well. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/201
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by crmd 5y ago
Children raised in a non-dysfunctional two parent household (regardless of parental gender / sexual orientation) witness healthy interdependence, cooperation, negotiation, trust, respect, conflict resolution, love etc. between their pr
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by crmd 5y ago
Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for, and it was annoying this wasn’t in the specification or details section.
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by crmd 5y ago
Israel was doing it before the US. Going through Ben Gurion airport is next-level unpleasant as a business traveler.
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by crmd 5y ago
It’s all about trust. You can’t develop an intimate relationship with someone who hides their feelings. Being fake in a misguided attempt to avoid disappointing people is deeply unkind (and probably exhausting).
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by crmd 5y ago
Being uncomfortable communicating your feelings, especially with people you trust, is a recipe for social anxiety and dysfunction.
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by crmd 5y ago
“The platform got better when children started using it” said no user ever.
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by crmd 5y ago
Calculus changed the way I look at the world. I suck at math and had to repeat calc ii, but holy hell am I thankful it was a core requirement at my school. I wish more liberal arts kids could have the same opportunity.
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by crmd 5y ago
I avoid online discussions about Israel, but I often hear activists state that American Jewish people are complicit in the Palestinian Conflict if their congregations provide economic support to “Zionist causes” such as birthright and finan
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by crmd 5y ago
Agree no one should be compelled to sell software to Russia, but the topic at hand is the dangers of normalizing national restrictions in open source licensing. Would you be comfortable with an open source license that bans Jewish users bec
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by crmd 5y ago
I’m ethically torn here. On one hand, I ask myself what I would have done if I worked at IBM in the 1930s[0] On the other hand, as an LGBT person, I firmly believe that maximal freedom of speech protects vulnerable people from erasure. What
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by crmd 5y ago
You’re right but i think there’s an immensely valuable lesson here for people who communicate with engineers as part of their job: be mindful of casual precision mistakes. “no one” and “a statistically insignificant number of” are colloquia
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I agree and would argue further that it would embolden belligerent aspirational regional hegemons such as Iran, and scare vulnerable US allies such as Japan and Saudi Arabia into to accelerating their nuclear weapons aspirations. TL;DR appe
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by crmd 5y ago
Unlike during the Cold War, the probability of a surprise strategic nuclear attack from any side is virtually zero. The most probable path to a civilization-ending strategic nuclear exchange starts with a conventional war that escalates wit

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