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by crmd 2y ago
Support your local restaurants. Don’t let these vampire platform companies enshitify your city’s food scene.
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by crmd 2y ago
My last Irish passport photo was rejected for smiling (I’m American born). The embassy lady said your expression is supposed to be “dour”.
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by crmd 2y ago
There’s nothing on earth like the low end torque of an electric car. Everyone should experience it once. But I went back to ICE the same way i go back to vacuum tube guitar amps.
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by crmd 2y ago
Mellanox IB were ubiquitous in storage networking. None of the storage systems I worked on would have been possible without mellanox tech.
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by crmd 2y ago
>as evangelists whose enthusiasm for the drugs compromised the integrity of their findings. The integrity of most drug research is compromised by commercial incentive. Molecules like psilocybin, MDMA, and DMT can’t be patented. I am more
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by crmd 2y ago
I’m 100% pro union and not the guy you’re thinking of. Apologies if that wasn’t clear because of the first person writing in my comment. I’m an engineer on the vendor side that begrudgingly got promoted into CTO role where I was helping ge
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by crmd 2y ago
The UI, retail pricing, and reliability reputation are not primary factors for large enterprise IT infrastructure and cloud decision makers. They look at: 1. Executive Support - can you assure me that MSFT will have my back when (not if) t
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by crmd 2y ago
I strongly suspect consciousness will be the next great paradigm in physics, following electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity, now that the ‘detour’ of string theory is mostly behind us. Some, like Penrose, are already t
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by crmd 2y ago
In my view, the sole focus of the healthcare system should be maximizing human wellbeing. Humanity’s GDP is around $100 trillion per year . There is plenty of money for healthcare with many orders of magnitude to spare for other endeavors.
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by crmd 2y ago
Most of the time, Find My can’t find my AirPods when they are fully charged, recently used, and in my apartment. I wonder what I’m doing wrong (or the Ferrari owner was doing right).
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by crmd 2y ago
I wish the regulation around customers’ personal data caused companies to treat it like nuclear waste: strive to store the least amount humanly possible while allowing the business to function, and every executive team assuming that a serio
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by crmd 2y ago
The business model of every industry I look into, from electrician and carpenter shops to investment banking and management consulting, seems to run on the backs of an army of new hires who are worked to death by a small number of well paid
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by crmd 2y ago
I’m not convinced that IBM’s ecosystem and business model is more complex than, say, market leader AWS.
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by crmd 2y ago
Data separation in enterprise-land means customers don’t want components that touch their data to be shared with any other customers. So a shared but sharded database is no good. In practice you often run a standalone stack for each custom
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by crmd 2y ago
Having a sales meeting with the CIO, CTO, VP Procurement, etc. of a Fortune 500 company is unlike any conversation a non-customer facing engineer would have ever had in their life. Dealing with these people is like golden gloves boxing. Eve
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by crmd 2y ago
A workers union would never allow this. For example the ALPA in the United States where I live has strict rules about when the cockpit voice recorder can even be accessed and by whom. Even after an accident it’s virtually never released - o
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by crmd 2y ago
>Welchian capitalism This is a good phrase to describe a certain kind of late-stage industrial corporate strategy. I was at IBM when Sam Palmasano was doing the same thing at big blue. People thought he was a genius because of the short
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by crmd 2y ago
The Sun E10k/15k was the last big ox in my tech career. I miss the big ox days.
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by crmd 2y ago
Real talk. I’ve been working in tech for 20 years, am coming off a year-long sabbatical, and for the past couple of months have been struggling with the feeling that the joy is gone and I should consider a radical career change. Reading (wh
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by crmd 2y ago
This is why tech conglomerates are anti-competitive and need to be broken up. There is no reason a leading operating system company should be allowed to also be a word processing, video conferencing, and music-selling company. They will le
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by crmd 2y ago
You can fire an SLBM from the Pacific or the Sea of Japan without traversing Russia or China.
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by crmd 2y ago
Airliner crashes would be as common as data breaches if regulators set the same expectations.
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by crmd 2y ago
It’s like how we still specify power plants in ‘thousands of megawatts’ instead of gigawatts, I assume because of the back to the future reference
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by crmd 2y ago
As is common, the article does not link to the actual opinion. Here it is: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
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by crmd 2y ago
>Organisms that appear blue must absorb very small amounts of energy, while reflecting high-energy blue light. Since penetrating the molecules that are capable of absorbing this energy is a complex process, the color blue is less common
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by crmd 2y ago
I like this, it reminds me of xeyes and similar early UI toys.
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by crmd 2y ago
I would like to see US regulators bring the hammer down on “platform” tech companies who leverage their power in one market, such as operating systems, to gain massive, unearned competitive advantage in unrelated markets.
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by crmd 2y ago
In the old days, our cars were powered by gasoline and every house had a ~25KeV particle accelerator in the living room.
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by crmd 2y ago
Can you elaborate? I’m a proton user who chose them based on their privacy claims.
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by crmd 2y ago
My concern with curbing Apple’s anti-competitive platform abuse is that they will pivot away from privacy into advertising/surveillance to make up for the lost revenue. Maybe as a consumer I’m better off leaving their ATM machine alone

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