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by donkeyd 4y ago
I was put on a project as an architect recently. My conclusion is that it's over-complicated. Why? The problem that was put in front of the dev team was pretty complex. So if you ask the dev team, it's a complicated solution to a
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Again, the snob and the gatekeeping. > watched Spotify's editorial playlists ... leading to a slow homogenization of music culture All based on the assumption that people only use editorial playlists and there's no other way. &
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> Aye, aye. Honestly, at about €1 per MP3 (which is on the low end, looking at Beatport), I couldn't afford listening to the amount of different music I do now. > fed by a recommendation algorithm As opposed to being fed by the m
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I can see a future where we can't do that anymore either, because climate change will displace many people and weather will also become a topic that might hurt some people's feelings. While typing this, I realized we're there
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A couple of guys were escorted out of a conference and then fired, for making jokes about 'forking' repo's and big 'dongles' [0]. It's a perfect example of the loud minority ruining lives over what most people
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> Isn't it upon those wanting to change... No. It isn't anymore. Because the loud minority now has the means to globally and publicly destroy you if you say something they dislike. You might lose your job or even your personal
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> Those words can still do real harm to real people Pretty much anything you can say that has any form of content can do harm to someone. If we want to never ever accidentally hurt someone's feelings, we need to stop talking about:
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by donkeyd 4y ago
So I need to purchase the MP3's in order to do this? Then I need to spend time on other web sites for music discovery? This would work if you almost never venture outside of your existing music catalog. If that's you, it's pr
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> and I dont know of any systems starting out today using it I do... In a project I was working on for a major Dutch government organization, they were building stuff in COBOL. This was a project where we were using NLP for automated dat
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Interestingly though, the accounts for Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram are still on Twitter, but the one for Mastodon isn't. I wonder why...
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As a European, I'm surprised about the silence from Brussels around this. They're always really good at calling things anti-competitive, but this is just about the most anti-competitive thing I've ever seen and I've not
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People who say yes without questioning their superiors or clients tend to get promoted. This is what I assume they mean.
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> to write something to a Blockchain I'm going to need to pay a fee to do so >I've not seen any web3 projects tout themselves as free data storage Well, of course, because the main reason for building blockchains is currentl
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> LE lets this goes on for longer than it needs to There's an incredibly limited amount of people working in cyber crime. Building a case, getting subpoenas takes a lot of effort. Even if something may be obvious to outsiders, build
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This may be the one of the few true benefits of Web3/decentralization. As long as people see value in the network, it will stay online. Even if it's just a few people.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
It won't be his downfall. He still owns SpaceX, which is starting to become very influential. He still owns a large part (though less than he used to) of Tesla. If (when) Twitter crashes and burns, he will get sucked further into his d
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> Elon jet wasn’t political afaik. In the current political climate, anything that isn't political but does something one side of the spectrum dislikes, automatically becomes political. Elon has turned quite extremely and vocally to
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> Humans can't tell that difference, except in the sense of "it's good when my side does it to you, and bad when it's the other way around." Many humans can though. There's a very big group of people that th
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Yes, they pretty much are. It's trickle up economics in this world. Employees only work for the benefits of investors and executives.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Yup. Working for early stage start-ups is like entering a lottery that sells incredibly expensive tickets. Sure, you might get really rich some day, but there's a much bigger chance you miss out on wages and spend more than 40 hours a
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Currently, about $3B is invested in fusion per year, while about $6000B is spent on oil subsidies. That's just to show how little we spend on fusion. Any decent increase in spending would really help speeding up the process. I think th
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Tell them to make the videos they're missing on Youtube. If there's already 100 people making that exact video, then there's no gap to fill. Anything else can bring in some money (if you play it right). I personally made some
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> Also has there ever been a society where flaws are just accepted without any kind of judgement? We're moving goal posts here. You asked whether it was socially acceptable to be a flawed person and I responded to that specifically.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Not North America, but my SaaS start-up grew mostly through networking and just cold and luke warm approaches to potential clients. We got a very extroverted team mate that didn't have any from of restraint in approaching people. This
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> That sounds low to me and attainable in Europe if you have 5+ YoE at the right places. It sounds to me like you are being lowballed. I'm getting similar offers with way less experience. Where you at? In the Netherlands getting any
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Tech hasn't slowed down. High-burn SV companies are slowing down and large SV companies seem to be cutting cost. Small, normal companies haven't been able to fill positions for ages though, so they might finally be able to catch s
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> seems most of the interesting cryptocurrency activity (like million dollar liquidations) happens entirely off blockchain, on centralized exchanges (maybe?). Correct. I commented this before, but if you compare (for Bitcoin) total daily
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I tried, the results were pretty much what you'd expect: https://imgur.com/a/5F4AS2D
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Another interesting thing I found out is that Chrome seems to store pretty much all of these notifications, indefinitely, on the filesystem. It's a great source for reading messages someone has received on Whatsapp/Telegram web cl
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Most hacks, these days, seem to fall into one of three categories: 1. State actors 2. For profit criminals 3. Teens for lulz and street cred I guess the first group would probably keep it pretty quiet. The second would keep it quiet until t

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