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>>C++/boost could have a bad actor upload malicious code. The only difference is that people probably wouldn't notice for months, because everyone's running decades old versions of boost anyway. Not because they're
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> Why? It's actually 50/50. Is it, though? I'm sure it's not, and the ratio of women to men is much much lower. I know of a FANG which rejects male candidates with PhDs but goes to the extents of admitting female cand
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> yet the npm attack of today proves otherwise. If you're referring to the colors package in NPM, that is not an attack at all nor did it proved what you think it proved. If anything, the colors package episode just showed that th
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>>I think you’re being far too kind in your interpretation. If one wishes to stop maintaining, all you must do is nothing. This sounds like a gross misrepresentation of what happened. It has been reported that the author of the colors
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> The problem is bloat in the dependency tree. Nobody wants to individually vet a thousand plus library authors and enterprise/government or just anyone who cares a lot about supply chain security is not likely to consider "num
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> The issue of having a thin library is that one then ends like the relationship POSIX has with ISO C. It should be noted that the vast majority of participants on that thread do advocate against bloating Rusty's stdlib, and they po
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> He is saying it went from "we should have more vacation" to "we should send mangers to gulags" I've been following /r/antiwork for a while and I never stumbled upon anything remotely similar to the st
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> Is it really ao hard so believe non skilled jobs have it this hard? What makes this gaslighting attempts so mind-numbingly pathetic is the fact that even some FANGs, which are supposedly references in terms of high-quality, highly-paid
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> I find it funny how so many HNers suddenly jump out of the wood work to respond to allegations that these subreddits are supported by foreign troll farms. +1 I mean, the /r/antiwork subreddit features mostly posts reporting h
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> What a stupid post. If your first reaction to someone questioning a broad social movement in 2022 as a conspiracy theory (...) From where I'm standing, the stupidity that stands out is how some people are desperately trying to gas
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> Frankly, I would not be surprised if millions of Russian bot accounts are behind this sub. Do you honestly believe that it's impossible to find a few thousand persons from the US who have bad experiences with recruiting and/o
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> Is there something like this for jq? It's a filter. You can name-drop math stuff and even mention monads and the like, but it's just predicates, maps, a reductions. Also, I'm not aware of a single person who ever looked
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> Effectively Covid stimulus may have forced the government to step in, releasing the inflation QEs been brewing. Not quite. QE created inflation in assets that are not a part of inflation indicators, at least directly, like stock and re
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> I couldn't disagree more, I think bash is a horrifically bad programming language. Bash is described as a "command language" and not a programming language per se. Bash is what you use to type in commands, and automate s
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> Windows comes with PowerShell (...) It might be just me, but PowerShell feels outright developer-hostile even when compared to Bash. Perhaps it's their approach to rely primarily on .NET stuff which makes things so arcane, but whe
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I absolutely love gron, but I have to confess I feel dirty when I use it. It's unashamedly a brute-force tool in a world with plenty of elegant alternatives, and the main reason to use it is pure laziness to just shamelessly grep stuf
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> For example how would you take key k1 from a list of dicts [{k1: v1, k2: v2}, {k1: v3}]? Do you mean something like: .[].k1 Give it a try. https://jqplay.org/ jq does have a learning curve, but just like any q
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> But it has occurred. People were originally calling it "short term" but its clear that the 6-7% inflation seen at the tail end of 2021 was very real. I'm not sure those are related. I bet that was just one of the uninten
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> I don't really see how that interacts with the quote you picked about companies with improving margins. Companies are being valuated with total disregard about their results. The whole stock market is currently in deep memestock t
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> More interesting to me is how many people build their own 3D printers, but nobody ever builds their own 2D printer. The cheapest commercial 3D printers sell for hundreds of dolars, while you can buy a cheap printer with wifi and blueto
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> Couldn't agree less. Having used Hinge vs Tinder. It's a huge ergonomic difference. Indeed that comment read like an unashamed sour grapes excuse.
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> What if the economy is "broken" but not in a way which produces a "crash"? Prices are higher now, but many companies have improved margins; they're raising prices faster than their costs are increasing. There i
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> That puts it at an energy return on energy invested of around 9, which is pretty damn bad. Is it, though? That sounds pretty awesome, specially as renewables lower/eliminate energy imports thus improve a country's balance of
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> (...) but it was basically to use this instead Base32 is a representation format which provides a textual representation of numbers, not a storage format. I mean, anyone is free to dump Base32, or even base 2, into a string and just ru
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> On the one side they replaced the flat fee which was paid for electricity produced to a complex auction schema (...) Aren't you referring to the initial subsidized program where private companies were enticed to invest their own c
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> Where are consumers able to get paid for using electricity? You mean the kind of service companies like PG&E are already providing their customers? https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/solar-and-vehicles&
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> I’ll take contaminated mushrooms and wild boar to climate change and the large scale disease brought on by fossil fuels. It's a good thing, then, that that's a false dilemma and nuclear and/or fossil fuels are clearly no
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> thanks to nuclear plants shutting down and CO taxes, we are starved of energy. There are countries which already started transitioning to renewable energies which not only endured long periods of energy independence from renewable sour
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> In Germany, the previous government has done a lot to stall further builtup of renewable energies. I find this assertion hard to believe. Merkel has been in charge of Germany's federal government for the past two decades, and thro
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> That's a pretty shocking stat too! Is it, though? It sounds like plain old production costs. I mean, unless you build a coal plant right into a coal mine, a natural gas generator at each gas well, you don't store any surplus

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