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811.
by elric 2y ago
I'm always a bit confused by profitable companies with (presumably) large reserves laying off lots of people. I get that they want to remain profitable. But sure 500ish people could be put to some use? A new product, a new market,
812.
by elric 2y ago
Step down. Forfeit stock/options/golden parachute.
813.
by elric 2y ago
Sex is one of those things that's best learnt by doing. Half the fun is in the learning, after all. That being said: sex education is an absolute mess. I imagine that this is mostly because when people start getting interested in sex,
814.
by elric 2y ago
Nah. I'm not buying it. What's the rate of kids interacting with pedos instead of other kids? Knee-jerk responses like yours, and "what about the children"-isms in general are likely more detrimental than actual online c
815.
by elric 2y ago
Sure, it's one of the many rules that's bent and broken on a daily basis. Doesn't make it any less stupid. And it falls on the community owner to enforce, which is doubly stupid, as the only way to prove age is to provide ID,
816.
by elric 2y ago
> What did happen is that regulation was passed to allow 13 year olds to participate online much to the detriment of our society. That's a very hot take. Citation needed. I remember when the US forced COP(P?)A into being. I helped r
817.
by elric 2y ago
I imagine that would lead to even more data mining by banks and payment processors. Two entities who already get access to way too much data.
818.
by elric 2y ago
Have you look at BLD? Sits in the same space and has similar criticisms regarding Gradle and Maven. https://rife2.com/bld
819.
by elric 2y ago
What am I missing here? This seems like a problem that's effectively solved by using LDAP.
820.
by elric 2y ago
I really wish we could get a privacy-respecting standard for electronic receipts. But every time a shop experiments with it, it's using a shitty app which they use to track their customers.
821.
by elric 2y ago
Given my name [1], lucid dreams are something that I used to interested in and have experimented a lot with. In the Elric of Melniboné books, most of the empire spend most of their lives in dreams, as a hedonistic escape from reality. Needl
822.
by elric 2y ago
Cerebrospinal fluid is produced in the brain, I would imagine that the contrast would end up in newly produced fluid as well, but maybe that assumption is wrong.
823.
by elric 2y ago
I recommend Bitwarden family plans to non-technical people. It's pretty user friendly, and you can give people emergency access. A couple of recent deaths in my life have made me painfully aware that this is something that many people
824.
by elric 2y ago
It's taken 12 years to get from "this stuff exists in mice" to "we now know it actually exists in humans and is not vestigial". That seems like a long time. People get brain MRIs with contrast all the time, is there
825.
by elric 2y ago
I don't, nor do I particularly want to. My phone contacts exist locally on my phone, my email contacts exist in Thunderbird, etc. There is no benefit for me in centralizing those. They are backed up along with the rest of the rest of t
826.
by elric 2y ago
Obsidian. It can be as simple as a bunch of checkboxes in a markdown file, or as complex as a kanban board.
827.
by elric 2y ago
Hate to burst your bubble, but Belgium (where very nearly everyone is multilingual) has roughly the same dementia rate as the UK (where, you know, people tend to just speak English): ~1.69% of the population vs ~1.56%. Sauce: https:/&
828.
by elric 2y ago
Depends on the homework, of course. In my head I guess I was talking about maths problems. Maths understanding, in my experience, greatly benefits from practice, and homework exercises might be useful there. Memorising the names of rivers .
829.
by elric 2y ago
Was this ever effective? There was a lot of essay copy/pasting when I was in school, and this was when essays had to be hand written (in cursive, of course, using a fountain pen!). Same with homework. If everyone has to solve the same
830.
by elric 2y ago
Agreed. I wouldn't be opposed to a (local) LLM inside my Obsidian vault; but not for writing notes, but rather for discovering connections between notes. That's something that would actually help me. Generating mind maps like this
831.
by elric 2y ago
> Khan Academy used to have [...] but for some reason they removed it I'm quite saddened by all the stuff that's been removed from Khan Academy over the years. Most of the non-maths content has been removed. The knowledge graph
832.
by elric 2y ago
I think it should be fairly obvious that it's not the individual developers who are responsible/liable. In critical systems there is a whole chain of liability. That one guy in Nebraska who thanklessly maintains some open source l
833.
by elric 2y ago
Good, that will distract them for a while and will prevent them from actively making TB even worse with every release. I like keeping my software secure and up to date, but I dread every TB upgrade, wondering what stupid cosmetic change wil
834.
by elric 2y ago
> The entire field of maintenance engineering would like a word. Over longer periods of time it's vastly cheaper to regularly fix things even before they break, and software is no exception. and > Not maintaining your systems is
835.
by elric 2y ago
I think there's a balance to be struck there. On large databases, upgrade time can be very slow. Is it worth upgrading iteratively at great expense if there are no benefits to be gained (e.g. no bugfixes that affect you, no critical se
836.
by elric 2y ago
Sure. Defense in depth is important. But I hope that your application is only able to talk TCP/5432 to psql. No amount of psql upgrading will protect you against SQL injections in shitty application code.
837.
by elric 2y ago
Lots of dogmatism in this discussion, it seems. A couple of things: 1. Most psql deployments are not exposed to the interwebz, they are typically only accessible to the applications that need them by virtue of network setup (firewalls etc).
838.
by elric 2y ago
Agreed. I'm in Belgium. I get really annoyed when applications or websites randomly decide to talk French at me. Or Dutch. Or even bloody German. My browser is set to Accept-Language: en. I wish people would realise that country is not
839.
by elric 2y ago
Yes, and that's so obvious in hindsight, but the monitor I was given at the doctor's office came with a size that was too small for me. It's not something one thinks about until it becomes an issues.
840.
by elric 2y ago
I had a similar issue, which was remedied by getting a larger cuff. In retrospect it makes sense that one size does not fit all, and apparently my biceps are on the larger side.

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