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by dogleash 1y ago
> But westerners have been doing stuff like this for ages and prattling on about it - it's kind of a cornerstone of Orientalism. This was actually a plot point in the recent White Lotus season. People rarely go to Appalachia to have
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by dogleash 1y ago
Normies expect platforms to have a vibe that it's full of their kind of person, regardless of how many thousand/million/billion users it has. It's a fundamentally broken understanding of internet communication, but cater
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by dogleash 1y ago
> However, please do not let the absolute state of things cause you to give up on security. I'm the security guy on our team and I'm pretty much over it. Once you get a project's security up to baseline status quo, then t
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by dogleash 1y ago
It's not one instance. Most people who have this happen to them don't tweet about it. Every instance could have a "well, you should have ______ better" stapled to it. Here's another one that I already know exists
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by dogleash 1y ago
Waxing philosophical about accidental/essential kinda sweeps under the rug that it's an orthogonal dimension to practical for a given status quo. And that's what a lot of people care about even if it's possible to win a
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by dogleash 1y ago
> the company actively does its best to treat you well and preserve your job long-term Like fuck they do. They make a cost-benefit guess about proactive moves to reduce attrition, and the amount they do is tied the cost of replacement f
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by dogleash 1y ago
You did something good while working for the devil, people were right to be suspect. You gain no redemption points from pointing out the people describing facebook as evil misunderstand the precise bounds of facebook's evil. Also, you
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by dogleash 1y ago
Oh, I thought you were disagreeing with hamandcheese's point that every little decision doesn't need to go through a product owner before anything happens.
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by dogleash 1y ago
So what? I've worked places with lots of regulation. Part of every development job is learning the product domain. In that case devs become comfortable with reading standard/law/regulations and anticipating when software i
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by dogleash 1y ago
Alternate frames of reference aren't inherently misanthropy or make people lesser. And the "if you disagree, you're proving me right" style dig at the parent poster is toxic positivity.
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by dogleash 1y ago
I don't want to dismiss your premise, I know I don't pay much attention, so please tell me what I'm missing. I suspect the main thing I'm missing is Schedule I. And I think even that can be had if I go enable proton or
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by dogleash 1y ago
Nick Naylor: [out loud] "I just need to pay the mortgage." Nick Naylor: [to self] The Yuppie Nuremberg defense.
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by dogleash 1y ago
...but you can't overwork them to the point of burnout and then replace them the next round of rubes. YC and their startups were big perpetrators of the practice and spurred the trend further in software. I'm getting old so I was
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by dogleash 1y ago
Telling a 3d engine programmer not to have opinions on data formats? Good luck with that.
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by dogleash 1y ago
I too subscribe to the idea it's the collection of data that invades privacy not (just) usage. It used to be more widespread. But as software people there are traitor in our ranks. People who decided to become conman to justify abus
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by dogleash 1y ago
About a year ago ago I bit the bullet and frankestiend together a TrueNAS scale box. I hated the idea of the DIY route and stuck with frustrating SOHO nas devices for way too long. An all in one NAS product that has an app store or support
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by dogleash 1y ago
> I noticed that while everyone on hn is quite clever Are we though? I see a pockets of world-expert level knowledge, some reasonable shop talk, and quite a bit of really dumb nonsense that is contradicted by my professional experience.
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by dogleash 1y ago
What's funny about having empathy for people who don't express empathy outwardly? Or maybe don't even have it internally either? I thought that was the whole deal about empathy. If it wasn't, then it's just being
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by dogleash 1y ago
> As a senior engineer Who? I described a SME. There is a difference between a manager mentoring a SME's career into becoming a well rounded senior, and just expecting a talented engineer to immediately operate as a fully developed
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by dogleash 1y ago
>On the "very-online right," there's a lot of "go woke, go broke," but there is generally not a lot of precision when it comes to actually measuring whether this is true. In other news: Despite many chants to the
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by dogleash 1y ago
I'm not saying this is the case here, but every time I've been in internal or promotional videos related to my work, I've been performing for a camera. I'm not playing a theater character, but it's also not what yo
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by dogleash 1y ago
> This is just extrapolating into trends as a thought experiment The late 2000s and early 2010s are here to deliver their "I told you sos". This is the surveillance systems they were warning you about. And then so many people
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by dogleash 1y ago
> is it not accepted I haven't been fired, if that's what you mean. But I also just read an article calling out my non-committal cowardice. I'm OK-enough at managing up these days that you could weasel word around and say
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by dogleash 1y ago
My opinions became trusted in decision making because I spoke up only when I had well-founded thoughts on things I understood. Now that I'm looked to for opinions on a wide breadth of topics, apparently "let's find (or train
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by dogleash 1y ago
Regardless of the degree that is true for the parent poster, those (and more) qualitative differences can also be felt among different pieces of software that are all quite new.
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by dogleash 2y ago
"What about Nix tho?" is the "Rewrite it in Rust" of reproducible builds.
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by dogleash 2y ago
Oh come on. I have this thing open all day when I'm working, you can't bullshit me like that. It's a not good UI, its serviceable. It's not good by any conceivable metric other than those they have internally decided re
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by dogleash 2y ago
> not any less scientific In theory, no. In practice, yes. One doesn't even need to make a subtle case about all the ways it's gone wrong. Just say "Reproducibility Crisis".
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by dogleash 2y ago
>healthy middle ground I think it's worthwhile to point that if you're using "panopticon" in the literal sense (rather than shorthand for "boy that feels too far to me") then any surveillance that relies on
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by dogleash 2y ago
People get tricked by heat pumps advertising CoP as "efficiency" and ignore the legwork to calculate BTU/$.

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