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by emerongi 5y ago
Theranos also had massive capital, large corporation partners, years of work and many scientists working on it. The dot-com bubble was similar. The onus is on the cryptobros to prove its usefulness, not the other way around.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Do you not get to negotiate different terms after X revenue and Y years of customership? The fact that they can end the contract on their side with only a 48h notification period is honestly baffling. I'd expect better terms.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Same in Eastern Europe. Park in neutral with handbrake on. I leave the gear in when parking on an incline. Older generation always parks with the gear in though.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Does everything in life need to be calculated in terms of monetary value?
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by emerongi 5y ago
If we categorized the reviews and the category of "no smell" increased in relation to the other categories, wouldn't that give a better view at the issue than looking at absolute values? Isn't this is what dividing by al
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by emerongi 5y ago
In Europe I got approved for up to a 180k mortgage at 1.9% with no history (as is common here). Same goes for auto loans and leases. Nobody asks you to build and pay debt on a credit card.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Somehow we still have medicine (they do a lot of testing before they release anything!) and doctors (they have insurance!). It would increase the barrier to releasing software massively (possibly killing the startup scene altogether), but i
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by emerongi 5y ago
Using the internet is a showstopper?
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by emerongi 5y ago
I've been using my SE for 5 years now without a case nor a screen protector. The screen is fine, although the corners are a bit dinged from having been dropped and the back is quite scratched. Works fine, hoping to go another couple of
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by emerongi 5y ago
> taking super long to make moves in a game that's obviously been lost I'm a novice still (~1500), but at this level you can easily come back from a lost game. Opponents sometimes think that I'm stalling, but in reality I&
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by emerongi 5y ago
No, as far as I know. I haven't used Debian-based distros in years, so I'm unsure of the situation there, to be fair. There are other approaches, e.g. Guix and NixOS as mentioned by others, but you also can get most of Silverblue&
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by emerongi 5y ago
I have a Thinkpad.
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by emerongi 5y ago
Silverblue has its own restrictions and might not be ideal for your specific workflow, but it works for me as a sort of base OS. There's a lot more that could be done to advance the security aspect of Linux. Flatpak is an improvement a
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by emerongi 5y ago
My main OS is Fedora Silverblue, which is "an immutable desktop operating system". I install GUI software through Flatpak. For development, I run a VM (Fedora Server) and connect to it through SSH (VSCode works really nicely here)
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by emerongi 5y ago
It depends on whether the actual goal is to catch criminals or to monitor the average Joe. This law won't do anything against criminals ("you can't outlaw math"), but will work very effectively against the average Joe (a
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by emerongi 5y ago
I will add my own: cryptocurrencies are useless without a legal framework, which requires a central entity with power ensuring that there is fairness, i.e. the government. Change my mind. P.S. Banking will also still be needed. In any case,
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by emerongi 5y ago
Ironic. You learned nothing from the article.
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by emerongi 5y ago
> If you worked for me and randomly changed code that you did not like, I would fire you. From one extreme to the other? People make mistakes, educate them instead of brutally punishing them. Talk it through - isn't this exactly the
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by emerongi 5y ago
The other developer usually has reasons why they designed it that way. If you just rewrite other people's code, it makes it seem like you think there is One True Way to writing code and that you're smarter than them. I'd ask
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by emerongi 5y ago
It is because of the cookie banner. It makes the rest of the page grayer to highlight the banner. Once you close it, it is black on light-gray, which is actually the most palatable combination for me (reasonable contrast between text and ba
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by emerongi 5y ago
Notably, a large percentage of the users of squarespace were probably never going to hire a web developer for a website in the first place, as it has always been too expensive. Squarespace is its own market, with a very small impact on full
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by emerongi 5y ago
Surely this could be verified in a VM? I have Copilot enabled in a single workspace and tried some unique keywords from other projects (where Copilot is not enabled) and it could not generate anything similar.
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by emerongi 5y ago
If this is a case from real life that you have seen, you should definitely elaborate more on it. Otherwise, you are creating an extreme example that has no significance in the discussion, as I could create similarly ridiculous examples for
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by emerongi 5y ago
To a degree, this is true though. An engineer's salary is a huge expense for a startup, it's straight up cheaper to spend more on cloud and have the engineer work on the product itself. Once you're bigger, you can optimize, o
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by emerongi 5y ago
You do you. Software development is a large enough field, our paths don't have to cross.
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by emerongi 5y ago
I like function chaining more. E.g. Elixir's `Map.set(map, field, value)` function combined with the `|>` operator, which feeds the value from the previous operation in to the function as the first argument: person_map |&g
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by emerongi 5y ago
On my 5 year old iPhone SE, I've had the battery replaced twice and the power button replaced by a third party. The Apple-partnered shop actually said they are unable to replace the power button and referred me to the third party, who
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by emerongi 5y ago
Show a warning to the user then? Would be a much better way to handle this.
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by emerongi 5y ago
I think what would change people's minds is crypto surviving an economic downturn. I'd expect crypto as a whole to survive, but all the useless hype-/shitcoins to get wiped out. Same as with the dotcom bubble and housing bubb
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by emerongi 5y ago
The older I get, the more I realize this. The simple things in life are what bring me happiness.

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