drunkpotato

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by drunkpotato 3y ago
Thanksgiving comes a day closer every day, my turkey friend.
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by drunkpotato 3y ago
I honestly can't tell whether this is sarcastic or not. Poe's law strikes again.
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
Luckily if you’re a developer on MacOS, you can have that too! In addition to ~/.config and a million .dotfiles and .dotdirectories from decades of unixy tools! Truly a cornucopia.
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
I don’t think many engineers claim all software companies should bet long on the metaverse, whatever that is.
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
In a thread about dysfunctional and mismanaged projects, you describe a very dysfunctional and mismanaged project in a way that brings out the hilarity, frustrations, contradictions, and impossibilities of the situation. Good job! And then
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
100% of strict parents would say they have a good relationship with their kids (or within a rounding error). If you asked adult children of strict parents if that was true, you would get fewer than 100% positive responses. People aren’t alw
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
I have junior engineers try solving their problem on their own for an hour. If they make no progress, ask for help. If they make some progress, repeat. I think it's a good learning experience while also providing a safety net, and I&#x
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
For the core field operatives, it seemed many had unrealistic expectations of their chance of success, and were pumped on a success-or-death mentality. In retrospect it’s easy to see why that would lead to lax operational security. Now that
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
I have a 2012 iMac that is no longer supported, so I installed the latest Ubuntu on it and it works very well. So if you run into that situation again, Linux is a very viable option.
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
It seems to be the case that all social networks decline eventually. This one is rather remarkable for the speed and intensity of its fall.
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
Hey, why have facts when you can guess? More seriously, Twitter has been a toxic cesspool long before Elon made it worse, and I’m happy I deleted my account and have never missed it. Actually it’s been a boon when I visit a Twitter link a
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
Yes, in US fintech there are mandatory courses in anti-money laundering and know your customer laws that programmers are required to take along with everyone else. I don’t know what exists in the crypto world operating in the Bahamas, but I
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
I have to strongly disagree with you. In my opinion a policy like this would err on valuing form over content, when content matters a great deal. Downvotes (and upvotes) can be a signal for content as well as form. For example, an articulat
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
I found the writer’s story engaging, moving, and with a satisfying conclusion. I appreciated his articulation of his struggles with how he feels about art and money. I definitely did not take away the same feelings from it that you apparent
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
I will say this, I love python, and I hate python the way only someone who loves it can. I think everything you said is accurate. I love writing Python code. I love its standard library and many third party libraries. But I loathe Python’s
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
It would be helpful to explain what DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin, terrible name!) and CLA (contributor license agreement) stand for. I managed to get the idea from context and google though it would have been nice to be explicit in
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
I dunno, the things you say about Plex I would also say about jellyfin: requires a bit of fiddling, works very well, not always perfect. Jellyfin has bugs, but it's free and works for my use cases, and improves quickly. I like that I c
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
So is xml. Json is relatively unstructured compared to other formats. I think json has several advantages though. It’s a relatively lightweight and widely known serialization standard, rich enough for most cases and extensible in others, an
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About Tech Worker Unions Pt 2 – I Would Never Know [audio](podcasts.apple.com)
14 points by drunkpotato 4y ago|63 comments
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
It’s not “execs dumb and bad,” it’s that execs have different priorities than you think they do, which I think is partially dandare’s point. Executives at a large company are divorced from your reality at your level of the job. Incidentally
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About Tech Worker Unions Pt 1 – I Would Never Know [audio](podcasts.apple.com)
2 points by drunkpotato 4y ago|0 comments
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
The two explanations or interpretations I’ve come across that recover determinism are many worlds interpretation and superdeterminism. I don’t think either are testable with current technology so it’s not a very satisfying or experimentally
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
My opinion, as in I think this is true but I can't claim it's an immutable law of nature: You don't get a billion dollars by leaving pennies on the table. You need a ruthless focus on money über alles. And that focus never tu
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
He doesn't even pay people to complain for him, they're so deluded they do it for free.
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
A combination of building back-end services and retool admin apps to interact with them has been super successful for us. Congrats on the great product!
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
I did this because my relationship to social media was unhealthy, and now it feels much better. Hacker news, because duh. Instagram is for softcore porn. Facebook I deleted years ago, no regrets. (I'm aware they own Instagram, and I do
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
Also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6953042...
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About Work Life Balance (podcast episode on Spotify)(open.spotify.com)
1 points by drunkpotato 4y ago|1 comments
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
Definitely a situation that calls for an </s> tag.
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by drunkpotato 4y ago
Pornography and sex work generally is an issue that doesn’t align neatly on the left and right political axis. It’s an area where the libertarian left and libertarian right largely agree, and the authoritarian left and authoritarian right l

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