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by dudul 2mo ago
I've just accepted the fact that every tech company is just a dumpster fire.
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by dudul 3mo ago
That is incorrect. When you start a new job you have a few weeks to enroll. However, you sometimes have to wait for the plan to begin coverage. Something like "after 30 days of employment", or "on the first day of the first
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by dudul 3mo ago
It may just be a me thing, but when discussing a job offer I always ask for details about the health insurance. I want to see the premiums, what is covered, the networks, etc. All the details given to current employees when they go thro
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by dudul 3mo ago
> We can decide to just... you know... do things. OK, this is Twitter-level conversation here, not interested. But hey, stay positive, more power to you.
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by dudul 3mo ago
Oh! Damn! Stupid me! "We have to collectively decide this", when is the meeting to vote on that again? When is the last time we all decided something collectively? WTF does the pandemic have to do with this? "dark time&quo
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by dudul 3mo ago
There is no lack of imagination here, there is realism. You think you display "imagination" by just regurgitating all the tired tropes of old science fiction? Oh wow! Robots to clean the ocean! How novel! Nobody has ever thou
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by dudul 3mo ago
I admire the naivety. I'm sure CS grads are delighted...
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by dudul 3mo ago
Humans just want to be able to work and feed their families. Notice how this is something that is never addressed for example in Asimov's writings where robots do everything. How do people do anything to be able to afford these robot
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by dudul 3mo ago
If anything one wants to make is now possible to make, how is anyone supposed to make a living? Can I make food with LLMs? Can I build a house and make clothes? This is stupid. No real wealth is being created for the general population h
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by dudul 3mo ago
I noticed the same thing. Another thing that seems to have disappear: lunch and learn focusing on the tech stack. And I mean specifically about "how to do this in <programming language", not product/company focused.
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by dudul 3mo ago
SO's downfall started way before AI. A decade or so ago it was always full of interesting questions, people were giving detailed answers, there was sometimes some debate in the answers, etc And then it started being stupid questions.
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by dudul 3mo ago
The logo for the Brazilian Institute of Oriental Studies is a masterpiece :-)
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by dudul 3mo ago
A process is significantly more expensive than a thread on a Linux system. The main cost is memory. Processes own their memory which forces the system to duplicate resources, as opposed to threads that are able to share resources. Where h
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by dudul 3mo ago
There are studies explaining the appeal of the "chore simulators". You should look them up because I may not do them justice, but in a nutshell it's basically that they are very satisfactory because they present clear rules,
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by dudul 3mo ago
"I could enjoy", "How it'd entertain me" - have you even tried a few?
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by dudul 3mo ago
> You don't magically get language skills by living in the country. You still have to put in the time and effort. Did I say otherwise? How do you live 6 years in a country without putting in the effort to learn the language? You&#
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by dudul 3mo ago
How do you live 6 years in a country without reaching B1?
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by dudul 3mo ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I would get call for a quick chat with HR if I walked around the office with Mein Kampf under my arm as well. Schools, prisons, etc are institutions that can decide what is appropriate for their audience and how t
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by dudul 3mo ago
The irony of discussing the "new meaning" of a word on a thread about books/bookstore. Then say "canceled".
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by dudul 3mo ago
And there are always people who think they are clever by saying that a library deciding to not have a book on their shelves means the book is BANNED . OK, it's banned in that library, so what? This is not the government sending you
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by dudul 3mo ago
> In some cases, the author has paid for their words with their life.” Are there examples of these? The few examples mentioned in the article are easy to buy, at least in the US. Is there a full manifest somewhere?
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by dudul 3mo ago
How is it not safer to have access to information and be able to contact people from your remote location? Does it make you absolutely 100% safe? No. Does it suddenly nullify any potential risky scenario? No. But it is pretty idiotic to s
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by dudul 4mo ago
Oh I think I understand the source of the confusion: you think that whoever is in the White House makes the decisions, I don't. I know: "ooh conspiracy theory blaba!" yeah. The thing is I think people who've been in pl
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by dudul 4mo ago
"We wouldn't have attacked Iran" How do you back that up with data? The US have been swamped in that part of the world for decades and decades, it didn't start with Trump. As of today, the EU has not done anything concr
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by dudul 4mo ago
Absolutely false. 25 years ago people were absolutely bullish about what was ahead. I wasn't around in the 70s but data suggests that people were indeed happier than in the recent decades despite inflation and political issues. As
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by dudul 4mo ago
This reads like it was written by someone visiting from a completely different timeline...
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by dudul 4mo ago
If there's one thing we can be sure about it's that people starving in Africa are not starving because an American got themselves a new lawn mower. This type of discourse may have worked 30 years ago, but not anymore.
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by dudul 4mo ago
You're being fooled by the public platforms and the communication stunts. Yes the world stage would be pretty much the same with a different administration. The parties are basically lighting rods at this point. They claim that they&
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by dudul 4mo ago
The title and the description ask two different questions. I do not think people are optimistic about the future. Back in the late 90's/early 2000s yes, people were very optimistic. Everyone was so thrilled to get to the 21st ce
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by dudul 4mo ago
First link was written by an intern, let's be serious. The second seems to have more legitimacy, ok, so we have this one guy, but the article is very weak. He doubts that tactical nuclear weapons would help control escalation. OK.

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