drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
Ghosting is disappearing after back-and-forth contact has happened. Failing to initially respond to an applicant is not ghosting. It's selection.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Maybe. To what purpose?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The shopping malls with all of the crowd noise and disorientingly bouncy sounds. Some fabric noises. Not just parachute pants, but those, too. The high-pitched whine of tube televisions. A certain hallway in a building where I worked that h
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Science is captured by money? Blame the scientists. Never ever blame the monied interests. That would be anti-capitalist.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Foo, bar, baz, etc. are more metasyntactic variables than nonces. https://jargon-i18n.com/en/M/metasyntactic-variable.html I don't think they're related to FUBAR . . . that would be fugazi. Nonsense pop
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> On call pretty much just comes with the job, and always has. If you don't remember the invention of "devops" that's especially true . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I believe they are doing this mostly to get attention And rage-bait gets more views. Protests designed for social media? Well played!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> There is a clear, measurable, and verifiable lose on ticket revenue for the museum No. It's the National Gallery: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/plan-your-visit > And the museum is not even re
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I like the idea of reclaiming the word "buy" Yes. Now let's do "steal."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Don't forget the sudden/emergency expenses of ownership, too. This year I had to re-roof a garage, fix a leaking upstairs shower and the damage that cost, and buy a washer and dryer.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Before cars, we had roads. They were not empty. A big problem with cars was that people had to stop walking on (or near!) roads.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Corollary: Not even a patent cube.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Pair programming does not lend itself well to micromanagement.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Don't count big pharma out just yet . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Before cloud-native applications, MTTR meant one thing – Mean Time to Repair. I remember some things in colos that needed to periodically be restarted. That's definitely "recover" and not "repair." I remember o
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by drewcoo 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shridhar_Chillal Long nails have more serious problems.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> LLMs are pretty good at giving you what you ask for. Not so good at telling you that you're asking for the wrong thing. So they're comparable to rubber ducks. I would like to see data from a comparative study with rubber duck
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Repetition is reinforcement. Toil involves repetition. This is an article on independently "discovering" what education and psychology had already known. I guess it's novel in that it's not someone rediscovering principl
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> you get to roughly the same 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 that I like to use But your numbers are 1/2, 1/4, 1/4. I think you're being a bit optimistic.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Frank. And the valley girl voice was his daughter, Moon Unit. Here they were on Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijg2_vVyu0Q
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Science isn't really concerned with truth. That's more of a mathematical or philosophical concern. Science is concerned with useful models that fit observations.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Well we can: 1. adopt the sex ed model of trying to inform people to try to help them make better decisions for themselves or 2. preach the abstinence-only model, forbidding some speech and policing people's actions Both models have pr
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by drewcoo 2y ago
What a horrible reframing (and re-blaming) of the problem of censorship! It also seems to miss entirely that freedom of speech is freedom of speech for really ugly things we dislike. That's the point.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
This relies on creativity, goodwill, and an understanding of human behavior - three characteristics I can't rely on in my interlocutors.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I think you're wearing nostalgia goggles. There was visual garbage everywhere then. Popup banners. Blink and marquee tags. Every site had a "cute" sign to let the world know that it was a work in progress. All sorts of horrif
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> it doesn't really answer the question "Why I started livestreaming as a Rust developer" is not a question. Or even a sentence.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
In the US, the state school with the best engineering programs will also be the one with the agriculture focus. There are also plant/seed vendors who can tell you about what they sell that's native where you live. Like this (scrol
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by drewcoo 2y ago
This screed reads like someone who doesn't do testing. Or who only does end-to-end tests. With both decent testing and decent monitoring/logging/o11y at each layer, no one should ever have to debug the whole stack at once and
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> safer at the cost of wasting resources Which, funny enough, was one of the complaints about Gillette's disposable safety razor blades long before we had totally disposable razors which are much more wasteful.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Not scale in terms of your company scaling. Only scale in terms of number of companies using the same off the shelf tooling. The difference with those tools is that they were off the rack and not bespoke. There were plenty of bespoke system

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