ferrocarraiges

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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
Filter bubbles are easy: We are good, They are bad. Real life is hard: We are imperfect people, They are imperfect people. How are you supposed to feed the anger center of your brain if you occasionally have to see the objects of your hatre
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
They are very annoying when you block JavaScript in your browser.
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
We don't know, but the Market would figure out if it were possible for other app-hosting platforms to compete. Some would try to woo developers by taking less of a cut, and unprofitable ones would go out of business. Eventually, an equ
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
Do you mean unforced error? They didn't need the metaverse, but they did need some sort of new direction; buying out nascent social networks was a stall tactic to prolong the time before they became uncool with the hip youths. I don&#x
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
"They" are whoever holds the monopoly on violence in the region. Sometimes colloquially called a "government" or "state". You probably don't pay them to uphold their power to close roads whenever they want
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
The engine was fine, it was a square peg / round hole situation. They picked an off-the-shelf engine that was designed to simulate tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons in 3D. Maybe they got a good deal on it. The bird's-eye
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
It's a statement about how we are destroying our heritage, our history, and our future. It makes people think about a world without the famous works of art which tether us to our past, to highlight how far adrift we are now.
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
That sounds like the opposite of terrible. We are long overdue for some bloodletting in residential real estate markets.
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
I often wonder why people don't use SI prefixes for money. We could say that they've spent on the order of 10 gigadollars.
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
Oh, just wait until you start to work with cantankerous senior engineers. I once worked with someone who convinced the boss to do a silent yoga retreat as a teambuilding exercise, with a plan to quit before it happened.
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
I am genuinely curious: why did the FTC take this enforcement action? There is no fine, no prosecution, no consequences of any sort. Essentially, they're just asking the executive to "implement an information security program&quot
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
Agreed, it's in the same vein as self-driving cars. Sure, it could put a lot of programmers out of a job in theory. In practice, the emergency brake alert goes off for cars waiting to turn in the oncoming lane, the blind spot warnings
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
If I ever go back to a team that has daily morning stand-ups, I plan to ask that we use the meeting as an opportunity to do some morning calisthenics. It would be good for all kinds of reasons. Helping people to wake up, discouraging long s
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
That view goes back much farther than apocalyptic movies. In 1651, Thomas Hobbes wrote: >the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish the
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
I wonder if the decision-maker could have been wealthy enough that thousands of dollars felt insignificant to them. At some point, you lose sight of how much things cost, because the answer is almost always "not much". Reminds me
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
Stephen King wrote a short story on the subject, Autopsy Room 4 .
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
Unfortunately, in practice they now rely on one number: GPA, quietly weighted based on the high school's reputation.
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
They do, but GitHub is just one website. Most hiring managers will look at what you give them. Some like portfolios, some like name-brand degrees, some look for publications or parents...the important thing is to keep learning. People tout
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
Too ambitious. Platforms like MySpace or GeoCities would be closer to the mark, if we could find a way to incentivize a hand-off approach to data collection. Site builders like SquareSpace, Wix, and WordPress are also close, but they'r
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by ferrocarraiges 4y ago
Wikipedia has the FBI's crime statistics from 2019, broken out into categories including "larceny - theft": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... Their highest rate is Spokane,