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by galdosdi 4y ago
What area?
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> I once worked on a Java-based server at Google This is kind of a fair comment, but kind of not, because Java performance and GC internals have really advanced a lot in the last decade. It would really help if you qualified approximatel
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Philadelphia is an interesting choice of example. I've seen charging cords going out windows to cars from time to time, facilitated by the popularity of the rowhouse. (IMHO even in south philly, you can usually snag a spot in front of
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by galdosdi 4y ago
"You're the livestock"
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Sure, at the start. What about once every kind of product has some kind of irrevocable phone home surveillance? Eventually natural turnover would mean even the used market doesn't have much suitable if you want to avoid it.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> It's easy to spend a day with a codebase (that others spent years writing) and call it "bad" Well put! When I was younger I would call codebases bad after a couple days of working with them. Now, it takes more like a cou
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Yeah, the academic subject is called "macroeconomics" so if you look for good textbooks on that subject they should explain these details. At a crass level, in the USA, my understanding is the main mechanism used is: there is some
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Are you okay?
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> There is nothing "by definition" when talking about the legality of sovereignty of countries. No, neither I nor the parent were talking about "legality" just sovereignty. This "legal" sovereignty is a conc
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by galdosdi 4y ago
What's amazing is that at a fundamental, overall level, this is really not significantly better than the chatbots of the turn of the century I played with as a child. I'm specifically thinking of markov chain bots, which were easy
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The same insight you're expressing here can also be applied to search engines. I think most would agree there's currently an opportunity for better search engines, much as there was just before Google was born.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Not if you're using it on a job site. A battery operated drill is a lot lighterweight than having to lug around a gas or diesel generator to plug your electric corded drill into.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Taiwan is a sovereign country by definition. Sovereignty is something you observe, not something you declare. A regime that is successfully able to maintain control of its territory and prevent its territory from being controlled by anyone
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Well, one difference is the US is a lot more beholden to China (PRC) than to Russia. The loss of Russian energy supplies would be far less damaging to the US economy than the loss of Chinese manufacturing, for which there really is not subs
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by galdosdi 4y ago
He didn't think it was important to put in the extra time then. He felt adequate results could be achieved with less time, and that the extra time to make sure quality and completeness was up to some standard was unnecessary. So, try i
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by galdosdi 4y ago
What? No. There's still electric leaf blowers allowed. They exist and work fine (but are a little more expensive)
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by galdosdi 4y ago
A similar idea that a friend of mine implemented is, when he gets called, the caller hears this message "Thanks for calling (name); press one to be connected immediately" This filters out pretty much all spam!
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> a crappy but cost-effective approach with a high margin of error may rise to prominence. What, like antidepressants?
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by galdosdi 4y ago
If you're doing something you think is important ("other totally unpredictable thing (often support related)") at work and your boss says they think it isn't important ("The higher-up was 100% sure it wasn't a
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The problem is the only situations where crypto is more effective than the alternative (a well operated SQL database owned by a bank headquartered in a geopolitically secure jurisdiction with stable courts) is a really shitty one: when you
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by galdosdi 4y ago
If you've ever worked in retail or the like, perhaps in high school or college during the summer, you can just draw on those experiences. If you haven't, I'm sorry you missed out. If you can afford to hire, you will not find
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by galdosdi 4y ago
One easy trick to keep your skills relevant: Just try to predict ahead of time how long-lived a technology will remain prior to learning it. If you do this throughout your career and are moderately successful, you will end up knowing a bunc
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Do you have a point? If so, make it.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> Yes, and people like it So? People like cocaine too. > The algorithm does not shape people's preferences -- quite the opposite! It is an attempt to discover their preferences Which preferences though? There might be a hundred d
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I'm guessing your Tennessee friends live in a city (or not even in TN at all, since you say they're "from" there). In my experience there is much more conformity in rural areas in the mid-south, especially in middle clas
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by galdosdi 4y ago
It's INSANE to me that this is a software service and not just a software product, like Microsoft Windows. It would be malpractice to use this at any company where security really matters. If it were a a product you would only merely b
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Also, if it's in house / on prem you can do a change freeze and actually mean it. With a SaaS that's a joke. You never know what the SaaS engineers might be doing. An in house system's downtime is more likey to be correl
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by galdosdi 4y ago
In my experience the problem isn't really lack of time/resources, but lack of accountability. There's always more to do than there's time and you just have to estimate and prioritize. But even for cleanup efforts that cl
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> Social media is what happens if you give everyone a microphone. Bullshit. Anyone can post, but how much their post actually gets shown to others is dependent on the algorithm. Everyone gets a microphone but the microphone manufacturer
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by galdosdi 4y ago
My pet peeve is cases like this where you mention the context of where you're from, but it's so broad as to be useless. There are places in the USA where it's popular to dye your hair bright colors and get tattoos, but I assu

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