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by flukus 5y ago
> We wouldn’t make applications. Rather we’d deliver components which could interoperate via a binary contract. Components would be “snapped” together by non-programmers to make an application. This is how .net got it's crappy gener
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by flukus 5y ago
Home economics was the most important class I had, I wish I'd paid more attention and treated it less a blowoff. Cooking, budgeting, nutrition are all skills that pay off nearly every single day of my life, not something I can say for
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by flukus 5y ago
> The only policy solution would be to strongly emphasize dense high-rise development. We don't need more high rises, we need more medium density 3-6 story buildings, that gets you more density far cheaper than high rises. Melbourne
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by flukus 5y ago
We can automate this with bidets. For a less literal interpretation, euthanasia (legal or otherwise) is how I'd like to avoid this stage of life entirely, it's now a legal possibility where I live if there's a terminal condit
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by flukus 5y ago
> I only made it a month of solitude before I terminated my lease and moved back in with my parents (the rest of my siblings joined as well). The problem there is the solitude, but during normal non-covid times this is orthogonal to work
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by flukus 5y ago
> I've never seen any production data for the app I work on. The rest I agree with you, at least in a perfect world, but not allowed to look at production data? In the jobs I've had recently I wouldn't even be able to hypo
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by flukus 5y ago
> retty certain you'd still get people wanting to be (famous) footballers. Yep. Pretty sure every kid dreams of kicking the winning goal in the world cup final or something of that nature. Back when I had those aspirations I barely
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by flukus 5y ago
> Aww I’m feeling bad for the poor engineer who is saying “crap” a thousand times now, or is blissfully unaware that their day is about to get much worse. I hope not. It sounds like the test database was not being anonymized but sometime
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by flukus 5y ago
This sounds perfectly reasonable in isolated examples, but I find maintaining large applications written in this style to be a nightmare. Once you get to non-trivial examples you'll have a lot of variable being passed around (what are
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by flukus 5y ago
> The "one laptop per child" program put some thought into the connectivity problem. OLPC was also ruggedised, had replaceable parts and had things like crank charging for areas with no/little power, it was a well thought
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by flukus 5y ago
Much like the Amish will probably have a community mobile phone rather than a personal one a good middle ground for the rest of us could be public libraries. Government services and banking typically don't need frequent access so you d
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by flukus 5y ago
> people think they can just dump computers (or musical instruments as another example) on students and it will be enough It was for many of us, at least in some ways. In the 80's when we got an Amiga 500 our parents had no idea wha
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by flukus 5y ago
I don't think powershell is even the powershell of windows. You get some of the better sysadmins using it, but working in the c#/windows world I see developers rarely touching powershell, certainly nowhere near as often as you&#x2
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by flukus 5y ago
That was an extremely rare event that has only happened once in the history of our planet when the solar system was young. It's incredibly unlikely to happen in future, it's even less likely to happen by the time we've moved
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by flukus 5y ago
> Eyes on the street used to be provided not only by stay-at-home parents, but by other folks going about their lives: people walking through, shopkeepers, etc Not just eyes but they were empowered to police kids as well, the local shopk
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by flukus 5y ago
> Why isn't there a bigger push to regulate the pernicious injection of ads into every aspect of society? The starting off point for ads was signs in shop windows and billboards or bundled with important information like nespapers,
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by flukus 5y ago
> But what do you do with the site that gets 5 hits per week, but is still important because what it does for each one of those hits is worth on the order of a thousands dollars? Log files and few shell scripts can go an awful long way,
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by flukus 5y ago
At that point you're probably better off investing the money and hoping you don't need it in the first ~10 years. Even if you need to invest more than that 3% to get the same "cover", if you don't end up disabled yo
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by flukus 5y ago
That's not really possible in an environment where you don't have piece work. I'm currently spending an indeterminate amount of time crawling through an enterprise mess trying to identify where an issue is. What's my uni
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by flukus 5y ago
> That would mean a much smaller house, much less technology, a very cheap car or public transit, vanilla food, only a few suits of clothes, and bare bones health care. I'm not too far from this, 30 square meter apartment, no car, m
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by flukus 5y ago
> how much of the current productivity is the result of relationships that were built in the office. IME these relationships are a function of how much time you spend talking with people and not of physical proximity. At my last job the
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by flukus 5y ago
> Today, everyone knows about CTRL+F. Not everyone knows that, I don't even think to try it unless there's a corresponding control or menu item. It's also not universal, outlook is one of the most heavily used GUIs in the
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by flukus 5y ago
Well the criminal organizations can offer a whole range of addictive non-monetary incentives that a computer expert may desire, so I'd guess that's the main path in. There's more unemployed tech people out there than many he
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by flukus 5y ago
Very easily, you can get to the other side of the world before you even become infectious, which can be days after contracting the virus. Even if there were a trail of infectious they were probably chalked up as the flu and is likely to be
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by flukus 5y ago
If it's nothing to do with an engineered virus conspiracy then there's no reason to constrain ourselves to the 1 or 2 labs doing that kind of research. If we don't have that constraint then appearing in Wuhan is much less coi
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by flukus 5y ago
> Why? You've artificially limited the number of possible labs to those doing bioweapon research. If this isn't your claim there is no reason to do so and if there are more labs studying coronavirus it's far less coinciden
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by flukus 5y ago
At that point you've subtly moved from lab leak theory to engineered virus theory which is much higher up the conspiracy theory chain.
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by flukus 5y ago
These labs are in major cities. Epidemics are likely to be detected in Major cities. The chance of an outbreak being near a research lab aren't as long as you seem to think. If an outbreak were to happen in the United states just about
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by flukus 5y ago
Problem is, many of the reasons people prefer in-office require the rest of us to be in the office. Some are manageable, if you like the social aspect there will be others like that and they can be social together. Others like "better
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by flukus 5y ago
> My feeling is that working in an office makes it possible for me to separate work from the rest of my life This is seems to be pretty common, can you explain why it's so hard to separate? Generally I start the work day by turning

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