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by foxyv 2y ago
My least favorite form of Effort-Dumping is rubber duck effort dumping. Where someone pulls me into a call just to talk to me like I'm a rubber duck. Then proceeding to dump the entire problem on my shoulders and leaving.
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by foxyv 2y ago
I think this was the biggest mistake that Java made. Breaking reverse compatibility after Java 8 means that thousands of organizations will never leave that version. There is an entire industry based around maintaining Java 8. Eventually th
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He's draining the swamp, right into the White House.
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"And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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by foxyv 2y ago
They already did, back in the 1980s. Also, there is a reason that research into Fusion has been ongoing since the end of weapon testing.
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by foxyv 2y ago
I believe in peace as well. I will happily recommend that Russia should end their war of aggression against Ukraine and return all territories that they have captured. Question is, who will bell the cat?
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Typically this would require something to be gained from engaging in nuclear war. If you bring out the nukes then you are pretty much asking to be utterly destroyed. Sure you may get some of your enemies in the meantime, but you won't
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by foxyv 2y ago
I have always thought that car horns should be as loud in the cabin as the front of the car.
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Total Recall and Spaceballs are almost cartoonish. The Expanse was more of a punch in the gut.
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by foxyv 2y ago
I think the most depressing thing I've ever seen is The Expanse. It really highlighted what space colonization would be like with our current economic and social system. I can only imagine the kind of hell that would be created by a Tr
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by foxyv 2y ago
Often it is significantly cheaper to pay for a longer term supported release of an older Java version than it is to upgrade your application to use a later release. So yeah, kinda?
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by foxyv 2y ago
In my experience, the best stand ups happen when management doesn't attend for some reason. If management is there, it's just a progress report. When management isn't there, you get a ton of discussion and knowledge transfer.
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by foxyv 2y ago
I always schedule documentation for when the code becomes stable. It is a very rare occasion that management lets us spend even a single sprint on it. There is almost always another fire to put out.
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by foxyv 2y ago
We at least need an abandonment clause to copyright law for software. If you no longer produce copies of a thing for sale, then you lose the copyright after a certain reduced period.
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Yup, they are called Human Challenge Studies. Compensation is typically modest. Most participants are students at universities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_challenge_study
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I like pickle juice. The vinegar helps the salt go down better.
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I am so excited for this car. I hope with all my heart that they make it.
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This could almost be an Onion article. Doctor concerned about woman who was hospitalized after bad photograph without makeup.
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by foxyv 2y ago
I find that, while exercise reduces my own appetite temporarily, it ramps it up later.
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It varies widely. When I went to school, the library was closed after the last class let out and you weren't allowed to go there during lunch. It was essentially off limits to students. The books there weren't anything to write ho
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by foxyv 2y ago
Because poor people have very little recourse against bad actors. If you accidentally dusted Glendale with possibly harmful pesticides you would have hundreds of lawsuits against you. You do the same to some poor bedroom community with a bu
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by foxyv 2y ago
The AFCS on these jets is amazing. They will not allow you to crash them unless you turn it off, at which point you are flying a wild animal that will happily fly backwards. They have terrain avoidance and will pull you out of a dive automa
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by foxyv 2y ago
I think it was probably drawn on a piece of paper by someone way to high up to argue with. Then the people responsible for implementing the idea just had to go with it.
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I bought uninsured motorist coverage recently. 1 in 5 drivers are uninsured. You can bet they are uninsured because of things like a suspended license or way too many accidents. I would estimate that roughly half of the accidents in the sta
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by foxyv 2y ago
I was walking home from school at the age of 7. It was about a mile. The best part was the duck and goose farm. I would bring snacks to feed the geese through the fence. Abandoning your kids on the side of the road to walk home 1/2 a m
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by foxyv 2y ago
When I was a kid, there was a black market for trading cards, candy, cigarettes, and blunts in school. Schools are a lot like prisons, where the poorer kids needed a hustle to eat. Some kids were making tons of money selling to other kids i
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by foxyv 2y ago
I non-disposable ones to keep cold and acidic drinks from washing over my sensitive teeth.
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by foxyv 2y ago
If you are giving other forms of aid, you can incentivize the use of netting. However, netting is just the beginning of such an effort. For instance, you don't see people in Louisiana sleeping with mosquito nets. This is because there
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by foxyv 2y ago
It's such a neat method because it is so inexpensive too. You take a bunch of mosquitos, irradiate them with just the right dose at the right time and then release them en-masse. https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/mosq
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by foxyv 2y ago
I agree, once you detect that malaria is present, you can interrupt the cycle by treating wetlands in the area to kill mosquitos. These efforts are crazy expensive, but then again, so are the health care costs related to treating the diseas

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