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by foofie 3y ago
You're telling them that your convenience is worth more to the company than plugging a security hole. The company can live with your loss of productivity because it is living with the loss of everyone's productivity. The company c
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by foofie 3y ago
> Using C++23 standard library, alongside modules, and cargo/vcpkg binary caches for 3rd party libs is quite fast. I don't think your assertion makes sense. The only thing that conan/vcpkg brings to C++ is precompiled depe
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by foofie 3y ago
> From a compiler's perspective, sure. Not being a compiler, I find that metric not very relevant. I'm afraid you're just showing a bit if survivorship bias. I can assure you that compilation speed is a critical trait of a
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by foofie 3y ago
> I’ve heard it used to be lean and fast. Then new developers came in, new features were implemented, and it bloated over time. That's basically the story of every single software project ever made.
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by foofie 3y ago
> But then you get hired for a trench-digging job, and told that you have to use the car, because reasons. That's not a problem caused by the car. That's a problem caused by someone looking at a worksheet, see "dig a tren
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by foofie 3y ago
> For instance, in a production language, optimisation of generated code is worth a longer compile cycle, but in a teaching language (...) short* compile cycles are everything and quality of generated code is an afterthought. I don'
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by foofie 3y ago
> You're contradicting yourself. Building them to protect local leader's power and influence and national defense are very much the same thing in feudal societies. I said "project", not "protect". Meaning, o
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by foofie 3y ago
> I am finding that more and more people are looking for extremely specific and narrow experience. Like, if you haven't used <x> technology and worked in <y> domain, they don't want to even speak to you. That was my
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by foofie 3y ago
> So, just add heating element when you need it? And now you have twice the systems and twice the failure modes.
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by foofie 3y ago
> The only way that could happen is if they were effective. I think most castles were built mainly as status symbols, and not the result of a regional or national defense strategy. Castles are imposing buildings in places that dominate
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by foofie 3y ago
I don't think your argument holds water. A while back I read some article about how search is handled in companies like Amazon and surprisingly one requirement they have is appeasing key sellers. There were major political battles driv
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) His reply: "Linux? Nah, that's an hobby project, the customer uses professional software". Two years later the PM had been sacked and the customer was starting to migrate everything to Linux. (...) I recall using L
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by foofie 3y ago
> Looks so logical (...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_merge-tree
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by foofie 3y ago
> Really? How does anyone get that. In the US, vehicular homicide comes with a sentence that's typically between 9 and 30 years.
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by foofie 3y ago
> The problem with rail is that most businesses don't want a whole train worth, and removing just a single car from the train is hard. You don't need to remove cars from trains. The transportation world has been moving around s
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by foofie 3y ago
> If anything driverless helps dramatically on this front. If you can run trucks 24/7 without stopping then you can cut their speed say 33% or whatever and still come out on top. I think that this line of reasoning misses the forest
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by foofie 3y ago
> Truck or cars are not strictly required to operate in all conditions in the current system: roads, entire freeways close when the conditions demand. Or demand that vehicles stop and put on chains. There is precedent. I think you'r
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by foofie 3y ago
> We'd demand a way higher standard because these companies don't really have any skin in the game, except for financial penalties which we now understand is not a deterrent for anything. I'll add that one of the penalties
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by foofie 3y ago
> OK I posted that spinning off a portion of your manufacturing is bad, but I think your statement overstates the issue. I was addressing the statement of "(...) selling the factory to a private-equity firm would let Boeing focus on
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by foofie 3y ago
> By now I think we’ve learned that products made in factories owned by PE firms should carry warning labels. They are proactively anti-quality organizations, focused on extracting the maximum cash out in the short term at the cost of lo
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by foofie 3y ago
> Ransomware ? I have no idea. All I know is that a while back I read a report that estimated that the total volume of illicit trade using cryptocurrencies in 2022 was around $20B, and the volume dropped due to sanctions imposed on Russi
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by foofie 3y ago
> Ironic, about Bitcoin not being most effective for laundering criminal proceeds, the opposite of popular opinion. That assertion is made without any form of substantiation, and in context of a comically bad criminal operation that was
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by foofie 3y ago
> I didn't interpret, just said as it is for people who I definitely know how good they are; You explicitly claimed that from your observation "null performers and phonies have outstanding profiles, the good or super programmer
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by foofie 3y ago
> I think the fundamental problem with D is much simpler than that, it's the technical context. D is a better C++, but it's not better enough to escape the gravitational pull of C++. Not quite. The problem with D is that it was
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by foofie 3y ago
> Im bullish on EVs but I feel like rental cars are one of the worst places for the current generation of EVs. I don't agree. It really depends on what usage you're aiming for. For instance, if you rent a car right out of an ai
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by foofie 3y ago
It's vital that a democratic nation fully understands the method they use to elect representatives. People need to understand how their vote maps to a preference, and how their votes are tallied to determine who wins and who doesn&#x27
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by foofie 3y ago
The European Union created their Combined Charging System (CCS) standard and has been enforcing it since around 2014. I think Tesla's charging infrastructure in Europe has been forced to comply with that standard since it's incept
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by foofie 3y ago
> The EU is clearly whining because the Chinese local market imploded, so they are now exporting more of their cars into the EU markets. I think it's disingenuous to downplay EU's response as "whining". The automotive
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by foofie 3y ago
> But why not knock on them? They had a lot of promise and a lot of hype when they were being touted as simpler and cheaper and just overall better. Somehow they ended up being more expensive, (...) I don't think EVs were ever sold
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by foofie 3y ago
AWS Step Functions is hardly a hidden tarpit. Step Functions are AWS' answer to the question "how can we easily execute lambdas from AWS triggers as part of a Saga?" Sagas are hard, and developers already use AWS stuff like S

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