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by eropple 3y ago
> edit: It didn't even occur to me to compare the time-cost of "just pay for the article", but: last I read, it's half an hour of work to cancel a New York Times subscription [0]. So, that option's not even on t
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My understanding (I am not an expert) is that tools for dealing with deflation are much less effectively deployable and have ripple effects that can significantly damage the real economy.
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It might be! Or it might be the seventh recession predicted out of the last three. Nobody's going to know until later, so is this kind of veiled, content-free foreboding actually like...useful?
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That looks pretty interesting - I have a setup that works comfortably for me right now, but it's nice to see maybe-a-future there.
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Of course there's "more". I frequently write code that's going nowhere near a web server. My Github projects from my Ruby days is zero percent Rails, even--and it's a bunch of not-web stuff for which performance als
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They sure could, except Reddit has self-interested, decentralized moderation that contributes to preventing containment breaks. Twitch is bad at moderation and giving them more ways to screw up is bad for my enjoyment of the site.
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I care, because I don't want to see it when I'm looking to watch a video game stream--there are places for porn. And "well we'll just have opt-in categories" sounds great, except that these categories are thin and (
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> They never really had proper access as far as I know Yeah we did. So long as you had AOL connected, normal socket-y stuff worked fine. It's how I learned.
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GitLab is fine-I-guess, we use it at work--but at home I use GitHub and self-hosted runners because GitHub Actions is great and GitLab CI isn't nearly as comfortable to use. And I don't want to host GitLab and another CI, which
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I've been working remotely for most of my career and I intend to keep doing so, but if a "decent" virtual whiteboard can do that, I've yet to see it. FigJam, Miro, etc. all seem to be technically fine but unable to come
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This is interesting - how long does it take to write? Is it reusable? I'd be really interested in a blog post about this.
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The vast majority of web code is waiting on a database, written in something eye-poppingly optimized, to push a string back to the client that asked for it. It's "pick things up and put them down" plumbing and the delta betwe
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Right - like, you'd think it's obvious that of course you'd just do the right thing. But developers are expensive and market research, talking to customers, planning for the future, etc. becomes rivalrous to building things.
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> if you are solving it, you get to choose how to do it, in what order and with what priority In times of plenty, this works, and I think it can have high velocity. Especially with very small teams that all have high levels of direct i
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Surprisingly no, not for this project. It was an acquisition, and the developers had come with - so had their data center. I was hired to try to help move it out of their on-prem location. They'd hired me specifically saying it was g
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If you want to solve a problem, you have to describe it accurately first. "The economy is very strong" and "the bottom X% of society are having a bad time of it" are both statements that can be true at the same time. F
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I was at IBM for about five months, a few years ago. It took from ~2 weeks after my start date until ~1 week before my last day to get a vSphere cluster provisioned for my development work. PKI? Sounds hard, by comparison.
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"Nobody is going to waste time indulging in my sealioning, so they're liars." I'm also not going to waste my time indulging in it, but it's worth pointing out for passers-by that that's exactly what this is.
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Point taken, edited.
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Sure, and during COVID we kept the liquor stores open--so alcoholics in withdrawal weren't a problem when we had bigger fish to fry. Do you think that's a good thing?
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Is the Internet going to pave roads? How?
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The author did not say can't . In the entire piece, the only person the author used the word can't in reference to was herself , when she was poor. Choice implies a don't and a won't . But, y'know? When those
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When you consider the actual context of the essay and that the person to whom the author is speaking directly is the sister of an MP and herself a MEP, this kind of well-actually does ring hollow.
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This is the most compelling argument I've seen for it, so for real, kudos for that. That said, I think in practice this opens the door to decontextualizing any work done for a shitty corporation, not just legal representation. Obviousl
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That's not a sufficient test, because when put under the gun there's no reason not to believe that a company playing those kinds of games won't take that pull request, temporarily improving the situation, and then simply make
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Zealous representation is a critical part of the justice system for criminal law as pertains to individuals. Actual people. People who aren't fictional . I've yet to see a good, ethically sound argument that corporations inherent
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I think your point on #2 makes quite a lot of sense, but #1 rings hollow. Plenty of erstwhile liberals hoist the black flag when there's inconvenience in their own neighborhoods; no reason to think it isn't similarly situational
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Yup - mostly Quake, some QuakeWorld, some Quake II.
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And what quality content are you creating to contribute to this?
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> I don’t think most Americans think it’s ok for google or banks to act that way Will Americans support laws to encode that Google or banks can't do that? I don't think so. You'd think it could be a bipartisan slam dun

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