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by gnz11 3y ago
Is Spotify the "little guy"? I like the concept of Spotify and pay for Spotify but their software seems to be getting more unusable with each passing day. Bugs that never get fixed and dark patterns everywhere. Maybe they should
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The prefrontal cortex isn’t fully developed until around age 25.
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By their very definitions, laws are not "recommendations". There's nothing deeper here. I can make this simpler using your examples: at the time, your school mate was an asshole for flooding the room and your brother was just
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by gnz11 3y ago
It's terrible philosophy — basically the philosophical outlook of assholes. Also rules like traffic laws certainly aren't "recommendations".
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by gnz11 3y ago
I mean sure, technically you can send any status code from your origin application. ETag is generally the standard way to go about it with regards to web servers. Last-Modified is more of a fallback mechanism.
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The author doesn’t mention this but if you want your server to respond with 304 status codes you will need to implement ETags [1]. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/ET...
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by gnz11 3y ago
Do Buddhist teachings not talk about passing judgments? OP provided an anecdote which makes no claims about "running away from life".
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by gnz11 3y ago
In the 00’s there was a lot of hype around “smart” textiles being the next big thing. A lot of sports companies were trying to make something happen with it but aside from some niche projects, seems to have fizzled. In the 90’s, mini discs
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by gnz11 3y ago
Same experience. Eventually I realized the data wasn’t providing me anything useful and it was just zapping the fun of being active. When I go outside the last thing I want to be thinking of are metrics and other such self improvement thing
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> I know how averse to building in house tech teams they can be Depends on the leadership really. Non-technical people, high up the food chain, trying to make technical decisions are easy pickings for commercial, proprietary software sal
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I’m not sure what’s going on here — all I see is unrelated SEO blog spam on the linked site.
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Same questions apply to this site then, no? I would think so.
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This is one of the saddest comments I’ve read of late.
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Assuming you have shell access, why not use mutt or sendmail?
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Since you are making book suggestions (or not), I would suggest then that you open this [1] book up. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything
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They could be over-provisioned. AWS does provide recommendations if you are though.
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by gnz11 3y ago
If you are using GitHub, you can use GitHub Actions or just a basic web hook. If you don’t want any of that and want something Python based, you can use Fabric [1] to run remote shell commands. [1] https://www.fabfile.org/
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by gnz11 3y ago
> Overly confident internet posts had convinced them that most people don’t actually do much work at work and that it was all one big game. If you apply the Pareto Principle, they aren’t wrong. As you go up in the org, it all becomes mos
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by gnz11 3y ago
Email messages go straight to staffers who might read it, but odds are it will go to the trash folder. Write a physical letter instead. Attend any "town hall" events and bring the issue up.
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by gnz11 3y ago
Musk is trying to create a WeChat clone. He’s just using Twitter as a kind of starting point. A WeChat clone seems ripe for antitrust laws though, but what do I know?
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by gnz11 3y ago
Going to go out on a limb here and say that a sales pitch doesn't address parent's comment...but it does seem to be implicitly acknowledge that Wordpress is too cumbersome to maintain and even host yourself.
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The part that doesn’t make sense is using Wordpress as an application framework.
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It can happen in "techy" companies too, especially if they are heavily siloed. I've witnessed plenty of times when a department goes off on their own and brings in a solo contractor/small shop to create some random thing
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by gnz11 3y ago
Yup, it will be a problem for the poor sap(s) that will eventually be tasked with unraveling the layers of plop added by contractor after contractor. I don't fault the contractors necessarily but the companies that provide zero guidanc
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by gnz11 3y ago
Without ad/tracker blocking, I would argue the Internet is more insidious rather than more annoying. For example: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/06/13/suicide-hotlines...
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by gnz11 3y ago
> seem to do nothing more than make you anxious about… Sums up every self-improvement, health and wellness article too. Heck pretty much all of social media.
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> You have millions invested into an app that really is a glorified CRUD service that somehow ends up with a team of 500 engineers, and 3000 more employees. You are just looking at the tip of the iceberg. Being essentially a CRUD app doe
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by gnz11 3y ago
> Journalists who discuss a lawsuit without linking to the actual lawsuit in question... The website seems like a PR dumping ground. Given the incomplete byline I would highly doubt they are an actual journalist —- more likely a freelanc
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I would say Facebook receiving private health data presents a large problem. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-rece...
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by gnz11 3y ago
I understand that feeling. Phone calls aren’t the first order of communication anymore so when it does happen it’s either a telemarketer, scam call or potentially someone with bad news.

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