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by dools 2y ago
> Maybe they don't need to compete on talent simply because they're paid well by Durov? Or because they're staffed by the Kremlin!
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by dools 2y ago
This is like saying there is no difference between a postal worker and the getaway driver in a bank heist.
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by dools 2y ago
> One person's 'disinfo' is another's info, that same person's info is propaganda to another Yeah the only difference is that one person is right and the other person is wrong. > The recent acknowledgement by
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by dools 2y ago
Yeah and Telegram is also the biggest source of disinfo. Total Russian operation.
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by dools 2y ago
Sometimes when you see things split up to what seems like an excessive degree it's because it can make the code more testable. It's not always the case that you split up a function for the purposes of "re-use" but that y
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by dools 2y ago
Or just Twitter because X is the dumbest rebrand in history.
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by dools 2y ago
I've never even heard of relative line numbering! I just thought it was broken.
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by dools 2y ago
Early on in my career when I was first put into the position of hiring both employees and contractors, a guy I was working with said "We can ask him for a better price and promise to give him a better deal on the next one", and I
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by dools 2y ago
Haha yeah I don't think there was a manual. I'm pretty sure it was pirated on a floppy disk or something with a label written in biro in my step father's desk. It wasn't until much later (maybe mid-teens) that I saw&#x2F
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by dools 2y ago
Hmmm ... it seems that CRUD has become synonymous with "forms that look like the database into which they write stuff", possibly because RoR and Django made "scaffolding" the admin interface so popular. Of course everyth
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by dools 2y ago
I have never played modern Ultima. I played a very early version on the Mac SE when I was about 6 and I didn’t understand anything that was going on. I just rode around aimlessly. The one thing I remember is that the menu had a “negate time
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by dools 2y ago
Could also just mean they're shit at social media
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by dools 2y ago
Reminds me of the Cindy Li quote “we are all just temporarily abled”
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by dools 2y ago
He does actually mention in that video the need to press a button …
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by dools 2y ago
Some tangentially related trivia: in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams writes: "Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descen
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by dools 2y ago
When there's enough of these things, does that mean Google can launch realtime street view?
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by dools 2y ago
I'm reminded of a management adage: One business owner said to another "what if I hire someone, put all this time into training them and then they leave?" The other replied "what happens if you don't train them and
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by dools 2y ago
If you're saying a "real free market" requires "regulations from cartel like behaviour" then what entity is doing that regulating? And if that entity is superior to the market, then how can the market be "reall
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by dools 2y ago
> You can't really have a free market without regulation Indeed, as such the term "free market" is an oxymoron. Governments create markets, and the currency used to trade in those markets.
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by dools 2y ago
"I just want the market forces to decide the cut, instead of the monopolies" Ironically it is the fetish with free market economics that produces the monopolies. I wonder how many "techno optimist" libertarians are also
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by dools 2y ago
Bolts too don’t forget
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by dools 2y ago
But will they help Afro Man repair his door?
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by dools 2y ago
I think you’re forgetting that it is regulatory capture that has made medicine cost so much in the US in the first place.
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by dools 2y ago
The F35s we have are pretty sweet but we are paying a shit tonne for like 5 submarines that we are going to receive in the 2040s. China already had 10x that many attack submarines. The subs deal stinks.
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by dools 2y ago
How is that any different from a password manager? Instead of being beholden to LastPass I'm beholden to the manufacturer of my laptop and my phone, until I get a new one at which point I just transfer the passkey over to that. I don&#
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by dools 2y ago
""macros""
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by dools 2y ago
> The conclusion seems to be: keeping things in order is easy (or easier) if you have lots and lots of free space. Or less stuff, which is also one of the key points in the aforementioned book.
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by dools 2y ago
I've got a 12 and a 14 year old, they were toddlers once! But admittedly I didn't read the life changing magic of tidying up until they were 3 and 5 so maybe out of toddler stage. However when my wife gave birth to our second chil
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by dools 2y ago
> 2.) instances where we don’t have time to take the item to it’s assigned place (e.g., because it’s in another room). One of the most important things I took away from the life changing magic of tidying up is that, unless you live in Sc
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by dools 2y ago
The #1 thing that brings prices down in a market economy is competition. Fiscal policy is the best policy tool for ensuring a level playing field, ensuring full employment and price stability. Monetary policy is good for nothing! ZIRP forev

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