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by dagw 1y ago
We can’t have any “your python 2 code doesn’t work on python 3” nonsense This only happens because distros insit on shipping python and then everyone insisted on using that python to run their software. In an alternate world everybody wou
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by dagw 1y ago
But it’s still $5.1bn of taxpayer money being reigned in here That's assuming that all those consultants were not providing any value and that they don't need to be replaced by hiring more staff.
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by dagw 2y ago
As a new and naive parent I thought I would get my kid into hacking and computers by giving them a laptop with a basic Linux install as their first computer. I had visions of teaching them how to program and doing cool things with Arduino a
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by dagw 2y ago
Those are two different uses of 'cannot'. I know how to kill a cow, but 'cannot' bring my self to do it. I 'cannot' build a train because I don't know how to, but if I did I would be happy to do so.
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by dagw 2y ago
My wife works at a European engineering university with students from all over the world and is often a thesis advisor for Masters students. She says that up until 2 years ago a lot of her time was spent on just proofreading and correcting
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by dagw 2y ago
explain the legal basis... tl:dr Congress has for various historical reasons decided to cede more and more power over trade regulation to the executive branch over the years, starting all the way back in the 30s. This has resulted in the
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by dagw 2y ago
I'm finding profiles where the only reference to the thing I was searching for (PyTorch in this case) is in their profile text. None of their repos or commit history seem to use pytorch. I also refuse to believe that there is only one
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by dagw 2y ago
The big question for Rivian is if they can break into the global market or if they will remain an essential North America only brand. Say what you want about Tesla, but they were really the first US car in forever that really broke through
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by dagw 2y ago
A lot of people look down on companies that solve 'boring' problems with 'boring' technologies. I guess it's an open question if having been writing in-house CRUD apps using a 10 year old tech stack for several year
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by dagw 2y ago
I think we can safely assume that Tesla, in it's current state, is done for. I wouldn't bet on it. People have short memories, and Tesla still make pretty good cars. The new model Y launching now has gotten a lot of praise from
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by dagw 2y ago
whether I would need to worry too much about looks at the office 'Uniforms' can go both ways. Would a person who only owns white Oxford shirts and monochrome dress pants have to go out and buy a new wardrobe he would feel very u
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by dagw 2y ago
First impressions do count but I think the above poster has a point, a suit can actually harm your chances in an environment where no one wears suits. There are many ways to wear a suit. If you walking in wearing a suit that doesn't
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by dagw 2y ago
Maybe I'm using it wrong, but it's way less cognitive overhead for me to just type for for x,y := range something {} than it is to try and prompt "Iterate over this list of values...etc." I'd say that prompting &q
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by dagw 2y ago
This requires a lot of passion and motivation from individual developers within the company. Of all things they could be slacking off with during a pointless video call, they have to choose to spend than time doing thankless bug fixing.
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by dagw 2y ago
U.S. can barely afford to fight the Houthis at the moment I'm as critical of the US as the next person, but that is just a ridiculous statement. What the US does and doesn't do militarily with regards to the Houthis has nothing
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by dagw 2y ago
>> When exactly did GNU ship a complete OS? I want to say around 2006 or 2007 was the first time a 'normal' *nix hacker could install and boot[0] a complete GNU OS[1] and get something resembling work done (ie edit and compi
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by dagw 2y ago
You do not seriously believe that he got hired based solely or even primarily on that, let's face it, quite mediocre military service resume.
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by dagw 2y ago
And make sure your bosses boss knows who you are and how good you are, so that they'll want to keep you when your boss ends with said potato.
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by dagw 2y ago
Could it be because those companies are full of people who somehow occupy important positions without understanding the basics of the engineering work. Every company I've ever worked at has more work that they would like to do than t
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by dagw 2y ago
Writing Notes/Dominos apps was my first 'programming' job (if you ignore cutting and pasting random javascript into HTML files...) back in 97. We created a whole suite of in house apps that basically ran the business, includi
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by dagw 2y ago
externals could have been anyone my advisor approved of Don't they at least need to have a at least somewhat relevant PhD? Where I live that is definitely the case.
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by dagw 2y ago
History mainly. Lotus Notes/Domino in the 90s was way ahead of its time and pioneered many technologies that would become mainstream only a decade plus later.
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by dagw 2y ago
That's kind of my point. We don't know from the data if the problem is that Tesla has worse FSD than the non-accident brands, or if all brands are equally good/bad and Tesla owners are more likely to use the feature. Tesla co
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by dagw 2y ago
Without knowing how many FSD miles Teslas have done compared to other brands, it's hard to judge. It could just be that Tesla owners are far more likely to trust and use their cars FSD capabilities, and thus end up in more FSD accident
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by dagw 2y ago
You can build the most secure app and install it on the most secure hardware, but if people simply instead use their private phone to chat with other people on their private phone using a random app from the App Store, then it just doesn&#x
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by dagw 2y ago
You know that there's actual, indepently owned, restaurants that are way better than these Sure, sometimes. But honestly I find that this is rarely the case. The same economic pressures exist for the small independent restaurants as
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by dagw 2y ago
Shakespeare wasn't really 'Shakespeare' in his lifetime. He was 'just' a very popular playwright with both fans and detractors. He didn't really become 'Shakespeare' until a century or so later. My po
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by dagw 2y ago
hit up a good food truck, or go somewhere fancy. I agree it seems the whole middle part of the of restaurant market is terrible. I can think of several places where I'm happy to pay $15-20 for a meal and several places where I'm
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by dagw 2y ago
In Europe, apart from TGI Fridays, they were never a thing. And they were seen as just simply fast food. I remember when the first TGI Fridays opened in my country (early 90s) and it was definitely seen as a pretty fancy 'foreign&#x2
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by dagw 2y ago
Decline in quality of food I honestly think this is a big one. I love restaurants and love going out to eat, but the number of restaurants I feel I want to go to just keeps declining. Places I used to love and go to weekly, I don't

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