drewcoo

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by drewcoo 3y ago
The story is a little misleading. > 2024 will mark a rare natural event as two distinct cicada broods emerge together for the first time in over two centuries. That means these two particular broods haven't seen each other in that l
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by drewcoo 3y ago
The lengthy quotes that are the bulk of the article are from the much more verbose source the author linked to: https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/article/view/6655/89... That piece explains th
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Which presumably sells more ovens!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I can't help thinking if this is DIY "bed," what is homemade "soup?"
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Singling this out of that collection of unbacked assertions . . . > Corporations are required by law to maximize shareholder value No. And saying it more often does not make it any more true.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
So now the reason is "the algorithm" and not ubiquitous Friends reruns? No mention of the contrast between the status quo and the rise of cottage industry tech was supposed to promise.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> For either the far left or right, it's important to reject evidence that doesn't conform to ideology, Isn't that what everyone does, regardless of distance or direction? > They don't want to be subject to authori
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Because "cdrgoogle culting" is just culting . . .
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> To make sure the applicant acts/responds similar to how the company expects/wants. That's what "culture fit" is about, not behavioral questions.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> companies won't hire people to do $THING unless they've done $THING before For arbitrary magic variable $THING, this is a tautology!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I don't think that's fair Fair or not, it's a prevalent enough notion to have it's own term: React fatigue.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> they are a "clever trick" to work around the fact that the language/runtime does not have the necessary features to support the developer experience that they would ideally have I'd call that a pretty good definitio
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Wait, wait, wait! There's stereo cream? Do I apply it to the speakers or the walls or the listeners or what?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Scarcity doesn't mean "limited," it means "not enough." Enough but still limited is not longer scarce.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I remember being punished as a child and having to erase the things, then "clean" the erasers by pounding them together . . . surely a recipe for silicosis! ;-) The point is that cleaning the blackboard and the erasers wasn't
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Mid-journey indeed!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Go sleep it off, sock puppet of the original "droll"-sayer account. That's not what droll means. That's not what irony means. But you have pedantic nailed. As well as un-funny "sarcasm", the word you were proba
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Wind turbines are not very friendly at all to oil-and-gas drilling!
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by drewcoo 3y ago
It means HN is full of sea lions.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> why we need unions Ok. > it's important that the right people are chosen [for layoffs], for the right reasons Um . . . unions? > requires collective bargaining by representatives who are able to assess and change the criteri
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by drewcoo 3y ago
(for on-site workers) You are losing out on promotions based on: - personality - the soap you use - looks - your accent - other non-protected statuses
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by drewcoo 3y ago
In ancient times, HP used to be one of the dream jobs. It was incredibly unusual in ways that I think are best expressed by "The HP Way." https://www.hpalumni.org/hp_way.htm It was a dream job because other tech j
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by drewcoo 3y ago
That's (very charitably) because those are weed-out questions for early-stage engineers. Lots of companies feel they need weed-out questions because they're swamped with applicants. How does applicant approach a problem? Does appl
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> This exact complaint was common in 2001 I, for one, had the same complaint then. The dotcom boom pulled in lots of people not interested in tech, just in paychecks. > Maybe the nerds from 2 generations ago could have built all this
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I tend to agree. The industry hired more people than the small percent of the population before that were attracted to tech. The jobs needed to change to accommodate all the new, less-tech-interested people. They became more standardized an
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> What can reasonably be done to combat it? It was enabled by deregulation, so regulation seems important. That was enabled by more overt bribery of politicians (PACs, super PACs, etc.). So stop the bribes. That happened simultaneously w
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> a post from a non-native speaker In my experience as an American, US-born and -educated English speakers have much worse grammar than non-native speakers. If nothing else, the non-native speakers are conscious of the need for editing.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> free people from drudgery in the hope that it will encourage the biggest HUMAN artwork renaissance ever in history Just like the industrial revolution or just like desktop computers?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Clearly here what's meant by mall is "shopping center," modeled on the first one in the 1950s in the twin cities, not places like the National Mall in D.C.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Well . . . AI telling meat robots how to do glue code doesn't seem that far off the mark. Then again, "telling meat robots how to do glue code" is the manager's job, isn't it?

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