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by fzingle 2y ago
So is insulin. But at least in the US, it is expensive.
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by fzingle 2y ago
Our economic model encourages this kind of race to the bottom enshitification of everything. Unfortunately there are no high-tech solutions to this problem. The technology we need to improve is our political/economic system. Perhaps wi
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by fzingle 3y ago
> I'm curious: in your many years of being a consultant to these bad teams, where the manager really thought they were top 20%, did you get a chance to talk to the rank-and-file team members, and did they paint a very different pict
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by fzingle 3y ago
> Does it make sense to degrade the performance of good software teams because bad software teams exist? Consider the classic statistic "most drivers think they are above average". I posit that the same is true of software team
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by fzingle 3y ago
> Have never seen a company so quickly and completely just throw away all of their public good will. This behaviour isn't really all that uncommon. An obvious recent example would be Boeing with the 737 Max. To save a few bucks they
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ProMED listserv in danger of being shutdown(wired.com)
1 points by fzingle 3y ago|0 comments
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by fzingle 4y ago
This article about the state of general computer knowledge of university students might shed some light on things: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc... Not only do students come into universi
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by fzingle 4y ago
Maybe they are considering that we shouldn't build and optimize our society solely for the purposes of maximizing revenue. Would it be better to live in a world where Twitter (for example) existed because it is a useful thing and not b
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by fzingle 4y ago
You should reduce your consumption as much as possible. In the case of cars, buy a used one when you need one. Don't give companies that you don't think have earned your money your business.
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by fzingle 4y ago
Does anyone know the technical details of the decompilation? What tools were used, what problems they ran into, etc?
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by fzingle 4y ago
This is the first episode of a documentary series called Funny Business [1]. The fifth episode is also on Youtube [2]. Does anyone have links for the others, I haven't been able to find any... Edit, found the fourth [3] and sixth [4] [
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by fzingle 4y ago
> AGI is inevitable because computation is universal and intelligence is substrate independent. What the article is asking, albeit obliquely is: how do we know that to be true? It is very difficult to prove when definitions for intelli
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Ask HN: Learning FE web dev as a BE engineer
11 points by fzingle 5y ago|4 comments
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by fzingle 5y ago
> My sales team keep asking me to add AI to X product. Doesn't matter if it's not required, or even makes sense they ask because the competition is doing it and they get asked by our clients/prospects in an expecting tone,
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by fzingle 5y ago
We use Microsoft Azure AD B2C to manage users. AD itself is a nice (for enterprise software), is used all over the place and is pretty stable. B2C on the other hand is a different story. Every few months we have to roll out a new tenant in
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by fzingle 5y ago
Thanks -- fixed.
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by fzingle 5y ago
The whole 737 Max debacle made two things clear. First, Boeing doesn't prioritize safety anymore. Profit is the driving factor in their decision making. You can read about the issues they have assembling the 787 in South Carolina. It i
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by fzingle 6y ago
> Simpler code base from not having to worry about concurrency and multi-threading This kind of thing irks me when I read it. I don't understand why people think of microservices as an architecture pattern. To me they seem more like
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by fzingle 6y ago
The anxiety part of this sounds like something meditation could help with. I've found this book ( https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati... ), at least the earlier stages to be quite helpful in rega
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Boundaries: A way to enforce architecture in Swift(github.com)
1 points by fzingle 6y ago|0 comments
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by fzingle 6y ago
Sure one way to read this story is "I don't want to work harder" and criticizing that attitude. Here's another way. As the worker, already working full-time, maybe you have better things to do with your life than working
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by fzingle 6y ago
Sure you can find an edge case in my general statement. > The evidence of people usually choosing to retire The key word in that is "choosing". A huge number of people even in G7 countries comprise the working poor. They cannot
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by fzingle 6y ago
This kind of concern crops up in UBI discussions all the time, but I think it gets things backwards. Instead of asking if some significant number of jobs will go unfilled because people are paid a poverty line level of income by the governm