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Did you mean "ironic"?
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Really glad to see intended support for remote engineers.
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As someone who uses these "old, archaic command-line interfaces" all day, every day, on Linux, Windows, and macOS, I find this characterization very entertaining. This is an age-old argument (GUI vs command line), and I think each
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Thing is, vegetables have varying amounts of carbs that can set back your low-carb diet. For example, celery, broccoli and lettuce are very fibrous and humans don't really digest the carbs, so they have little impact. Probably only rum
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> Numerous studies show this not to be the case. It's bad for your mental health and it's bad for your work. I've been working from home for 8 years. It is good for my mental health and it is very good for my work. Working
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I suspect that it will be in a very long time. For one thing, I've seen each generation of new managers forget or ignore the knowledge hard-won by their predecessors or the software body of knowledge. Oh, and ignore their current exper
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You mentioned tracing. I'd like to expand on that a little. What many people may be interested to know about Erlang is that you can log in to a production system, start a new shell running a tracer that listens on a localhost TCP socke
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I am sad for all the people who lost their jobs as a result of these failures, though.
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These are, IMO, exceptions. Most slaves probably got worked half to death, beaten, and generally abused. Certainly history tells us that many slaves simply died en route from where they were captured. I can't prove this, but it's
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I wonder if this is a Commonwealth thing? The "tall poppy" syndrome is well-known in NZ and AUS, too.
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The raven must have thought, "Nevermore!" Sorry, couldn't resist the corniness.
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This is insightful. One test we can apply is to ask ourselves, "If I needed to stop working and quit my job permanently because <put compelling reason here, e.g. illness, old age>, could I do so without enduring a financial disas
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Everyone has choices, it's true. The choices that are available, however, have an extreme variance from person to person. At the extremely shitty end, Viktor Frankl, while a captive of a Nazi death camp, worked out that when all other
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Ah, well, that's ok then!
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All employees should be kept as happy as possible anyway, shouldn't they? Why would anyone want unhappy employees?
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> hoist on its own petard Trivial fun OT fact: a petard is an archaic word to describe a bomb or similar explosive device, so it would make more sense to write "hoist by its own petard", i.e. blown into the air by its own bom
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I think this is a very interesting point. How important is it to be something of a generalist, who could answer questions like this at least in broad terms, as opposed to being purely a specialist who has little knowledge outside of their d
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> The methods presented in this paper have many applications in law enforcement such as tracking, counterfeiting, and child pornography. The downside is that they provide a mechanism for a simple device, a printer or a digital camera, to
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When I read about channels and various forms of IPC/inter-thread communication in most other languages, and remember the past pain of threads and mutexes in C/C++, I am so happy to be able to send a message in Erlang to another Er
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Oh, this is just Trump sticking it to Macron for humiliating Trump by crushing his knuckles in that infamous handshake. /s
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This is my cue for a Tolstoy quote: > “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the fal
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> it's completely irrational to fear the things out of your control. Fear is the foreknowledge of (or of the risk of) something unpleasant happening to you. Foreknowledge of our inevitable death, over which we have no control (sure,
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> There is reason to suspect that high U.S. costs are part of a deeper problem. Maybe this is mere cynicism, but if the workers and materials don't cost that much more than in France, my immediate reaction is "excessive profite
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Lmao. To one who was born and raised in Africa, this is both funny and, too often, lamentably accurate.
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> It does fall faster, if you drop both stones in the atmosphere; the heavier stone has more mass per unit of surface area, to better overcome a constant level of air resistance. Not necessarily; for one thing, if the masses of the two s
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Redeveloping large, complex systems in anything, let alone "modern open source tech", is much more difficult and prone to failure than one may think. There are many factors that contribute to these difficulties, but tech is not
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My memory is so terrible that I dare not tell even white lies, so I am forced to tell the truth, preferably in a way that preserves the requester's dignity, not just a blunt "no." The truth is usually along the lines of &quot
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> manager: That's an engineer's response. Just fix it! Translation: I didn't actually require any answer other than "I am sorry, sir/ma'am, it will never happen again." Facts are irrelevant. I may not a
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You don't need to use a web-based password manager. I use the standalone KeePass app across all my devices, and can paste passwords into apps with no browser access required. I believe KeePass is widely regarded by those who know more
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Thanks, that's informative. It doesn't seem like a 3D printing application, though, am I right?

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