graymatters

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by graymatters 3y ago
There are no labor shortages. It’s a way for large tech companies to control salaries of the skilled workers. It allows to lobby the notions of need for workers’ visas to bring in cheap labor. This cheap labor is then much more easily contr
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by graymatters 3y ago
Now, this is a very naive conclusion, stemming from utter lack of experience of how real world, or even real large systems work. The true value of these “old” legacy systems is in years of development, debugging, validation of how t
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by graymatters 3y ago
Heads will roll on Lubyanka square… Unless they seize power first.
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by graymatters 3y ago
There is no turning back the wheel of time. They understand it.
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by graymatters 3y ago
The FSB really dropped the ball on this one. Very unprofessional on their part. Heads will roll on Lubyanka street… Unless they hurry up and seize the power.
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by graymatters 3y ago
All it takes is a narcissistic CEO that has half brain.
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by graymatters 3y ago
US healthcare is absolutely horrible. Both outrageously expensive and utterly lacking in availability. This is why average longevity in US is declining while it is growing in other developed countries. It’s not health-care, it’s health-don’
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by graymatters 3y ago
Outrageous, runaway medical costs are the cause. Not poverty.
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by graymatters 3y ago
Of course! The amount of energy wasted by viewers of TikTok is causing global warming. Comparable to cows shitting.
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by graymatters 3y ago
I have a really awesome thinkpad from 2000 I’ll sell for exuberant amounts of money.
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by graymatters 4y ago
Why the tech visa holders are any better than any others, with the same or similar visa? Time to return some sanity to the hiring processes of the US tech world.
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by graymatters 4y ago
You expose your home IP every time you visit a website from a device inside your home.
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by graymatters 4y ago
No
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by graymatters 4y ago
Ah, that’s kind of like refugees fleeing all kinds of failing states to better places, that have rule or law, democracy, human rights, prosperity and then actively trying to install the norms of the old country in the new place they fled to
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by graymatters 4y ago
Tells more about you than about Prolog.
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by graymatters 4y ago
So Google back stabbed yet another company… Time for a crackdown on the monopoly. Where’s the US government? Where’re the EU governments?
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by graymatters 4y ago
It is time for class action law suits against social platforms to stop enabling the abuse of youth.
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by graymatters 4y ago
There are several reasons for that: - lack of knowledge how to maintain own servers on premises - MASSIVE PR by a handful of top tier cloud providers to instill the notion that cloud is the only solution, the best one and most advanced tec
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by graymatters 4y ago
Keep the pressure on Google! Otherwise it’ll escape once again and remain a monopoly. And we all will pay.
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by graymatters 4y ago
Same goes for many guild protected professions. Does the medical profession need all the Latin based terminology?
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by graymatters 4y ago
No, that’s not what Haxe does.
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by graymatters 4y ago
Surely you mean pi radians and not pi degrees.
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by graymatters 4y ago
That’s a common misconception, especially among people who have only shallow acquaintances with really complex computer systems, amplified by deeper exposure to biological systems. Any sufficiently complex system, be it biological or man m
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by graymatters 4y ago
Real Meritocracy or be shoved to the back of competitive stage is the harsh reality of the competitive world. If it isn’t happening to your company - you’re in a monopoly/oligopoly.
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by graymatters 4y ago
Ability to learn new languages (as an adult) follows normal distribution. Moreover, the further the new language is from one’s mother tongue the more difficult it is. Furthermore, people who excel in mother tongue (with enhanced writing and
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by graymatters 4y ago
The value “generated” actually belongs to the consumers who are forced to pay (doesn’t matter whether directly or indirectly) exuberant prices to a monopoly. Which is precisely what Google is.
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by graymatters 4y ago
They could just cross the border illegally and be all peachy. Literally Millions do so every year under Biden administration.
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by graymatters 4y ago
The answer is RAM. Full screen editor required a lot of RAM for the machines of that time, leaving far less for the intended application.
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by graymatters 4y ago
But the number of H1B visas is NOT decreasing and the big tech companies that own the advertising platforms continue to whine about talent shortage. It’s a farce to reduce their costs by flooding the market with cheap labor.
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by graymatters 4y ago
Yup. Concur almost entirely. It’s superb abilities in complexity management. Which is what real software engineering is all about. Like management or raising kids, everyone think they can do it. Very few can do it really well.

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