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by dev_dull 7y ago
Not sure I totally see the equivalence. UK has been part of the EU since only 1973, and then with only one foot in the door (maintaining separate fiat currency monetary policies). Has Quebec ever been a separate country? Has Canada ever bee
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Yes I absolutely do. It’s especially frustrating that politicians speak endlessly about Russia when China is clearly the larger threat to US dominance. Even stories like “senator’s driver of 20 years is Chinese spy”[1] are basically ignored
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> I do fear the damage Brexit do to this type of collaboration in the future. For proof of this look at Canada, a non-EU country which has been unable to collaborate in any meaningful way in the sciences. (hopefully obvious sarcasm)
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> The only possibility is to suppress them lawfully and even that won't finish them off. Government censorship always works to suppress only bad ideas and is never used to preserve power /s
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> Speaking of performance, Zig is faster than C. These kinds of claims make me so dubious for a language. Also who is trying to switch from C to get an ever-so-slightly performance improvement? That use-case goes to specialized hardwar
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by dev_dull 7y ago
The building and deploying of Go code is refreshingly easy.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> * After many restaurant jobs through the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Holys says his undoing came with an addiction to crack cocaine. He stole to fuel his habit and spent a total of eight years in prison.* This sounds like maybe one of the lea
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by dev_dull 7y ago
In that case, isn’t an excellent DevOps/sre engineer indistinguishable from an excellent software engineer? Why hold any distinction at all?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> As a result they also talk about mental health more than programmers do. It really is. All of the lifelong DevOps/sre people I know have spent time grappling with the consequences of this. On all experiences also seem so much m
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by dev_dull 7y ago
No way. The vast majority of us want phones that are totally impregnable. I want a phone that not even Apple can access, let alone Steve down at the repair shop. I’m normally all about right-to-repair, but with my phone I want privacy and s
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Current senior software engineer positions at a FANG company pays better than the president of the United States.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
But — after reading the article - do you believe the benefits outweigh the risks?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I think there’s an abundance of capable and willing people for government positions, but bureaucrats don’t select for these people. They select for other bureaucrats.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Couldn’t they use some other wire format that simply uses the same port?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I’d like a comprise feature that automatically paired back the annoying bots, such as only allow my followers and my follower’s followers reply. That way you get enough of a network effect to get interesting replies without the garbage.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
If you think they’re going to end up with “technically competent” engineers I have some bad news for you: they’re all gainfully employed. What they’ll end up with is the same thing committees always up with: bureaucrats who wouldn’t be able
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> 802.11ac Wi-Fi wireless networking Surprised there's no 802.11ax/wifi 6. Why not use the same wifi chips as the iPhones?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
There’s a difference between people having sensational opinions, and sensational opinions affecting real-life legislation[1]. 1. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolutio...
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Yes sorry about that.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I'll take present day living over any single point in the past. Antibiotics weren't even produced until the 1940s, and before that time a scraped knee could literally kill you. In the cold war people built concrete bunkers in thei
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by dev_dull 7y ago
The thing that really bugs when when discussing climate change is that it's one of the clearest examples of confirmation bias I've ever experienced as an adult. Forget geological time, if anything out of the ordinary weather-rel
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> * In practice ISPs are the almost universally reprehensible in how they collect, track, and sell your data.* This means it would be an enormous leap forward in privacy for vast amounts of people. I never understood the “perfect or no
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Fresh mushroom picking always seems like a dangerous game to me. How were you 100% sure it was what you thought it was and not something that kills you?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Going beyond facts is an important component of “being human”, so in that regard it makes the AI seem more intelligent. The problem is the AI is 100% honest with what it thinks, unlike a human.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Repairability is one of the defining qualities of “old stuff”
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Why use old fashioned machines with buttons (which will become muscle memory in a few months) when you can have a buggy, unresponsive and ever changing touchscreen with poor UX?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Have you taken Amtrak anywhere recently? The people I know who are most excited about rail travel are people who have never used it outside of a small commute. Flight is much more convenient and in most instances cheaper.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Are you using Chrome? It’s probably not geo IP.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Good feels. Family moments like these are one of the joys of having children.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
The painfully obvious answer is that the work is low skill. Why? Because the job market in the Bay Area is such that high skilled labor can easily and quickly find more gainful employment. It doesn’t make it better for them to earn less, an

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