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by hertzrat 4y ago
If somebody explains a concept eloquently and uses good logic, you should consider what they have to say, even if they’re a dog or a cat and not a famous programmer. You shouldnt ignore arguments or explanations from people without glorious
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by hertzrat 5y ago
We might be in the market for a car soon. What companies actually sell you cars that you own and control these days?
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by hertzrat 5y ago
Isn’t this just some random Twitter account? There isn’t even a link to a real source
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by hertzrat 5y ago
Not very thoughtful. Do you think fast food workers are aware of a vast number of more interesting, higher paying jobs they are able to get and are simply working at minimum wage over a deep fried for the fun of it?
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by hertzrat 5y ago
Microsoft will let you sign up for an account without a phone number. They will then fake a security response, citing suspicious behaviour (on an unused account with zero activity no less) to force you to provide a phone number. After provi
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by hertzrat 5y ago
If Russia used small nukes, do you think nato should do nothing? That means it’s open season to use nuclear weapons anywhere outside of nato territory. That future is unbelievably horrific
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by hertzrat 5y ago
How exactly? By politely asking North Korea and Russia to disassemble all of theirs? How do you know if they aren’t lying when they say they complied? Should we disassemble ours as a token of goodwill and just wait for everyone to do the sa
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by hertzrat 5y ago
Best of luck getting in contact with somebody who can review this!
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The former head of the aclu (a woman) defends Stallman and his various positions. The post was shared a lot last month and is a good read about the entire stallman situation. https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I take part in a decent number of game jams. A jam with 10-60 people is fun. A jam with 1000 people isn’t any different than just programming on your own, there are too many people to get a nice community vibe going. In small jams you make
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I have a question about tracking scripts: can they read what we type into browser addons? Eg, your master password when unlocking a password manager?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
> I considered using backblaze a couple of times and now I'm very happy that I eventually didn't. Same. I ended up going with spideroak because it was too hard to figure out what other providers were even promising for privacy,
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by hertzrat 6y ago
> Unreal Engine 4 is open source Another small mistake here as well. The source is available to read and modify under license but it’s not open source
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by hertzrat 6y ago
He says the principles are wrong and says instead to just write simple code, but doesn’t offer suggestions for how to keep it simple. As if simple code is easy to write. There’s nothing more simple than a giant list of global variables. SOL
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by hertzrat 6y ago
For 2-3 years or more, the reviews on Amazon for windows 10 have said things like the below, despite the description saying “by Microsoft.” One of these is an “Amazon’s choice” > Did not activate. Microsoft support confirmed the key was
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by hertzrat 6y ago
It turns out you can buy most things from nearby retail stores. Not everything, but I haven’t needed to buy something online that often this year except niche or small publisher items
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by hertzrat 6y ago
> DOOM was not an influence on System Shock. We were trying something more difficult and nuanced, [although] we still had a lot of respect for the simplicity and focus of [the id] games I haven’t played system shock, but the classic doom
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The article also mentions a case of 20+ people waiting for an icu bed to open up, but there being only 4 total at that location
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by hertzrat 6y ago
From the other replies here, it sounds like what kubernetes does for most people is what people used to do with bash scripts in the past: automatic configuration and deployment of sets of Phoenix servers (except in containers instead of vms
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by hertzrat 6y ago
> 56% of Americans agree with the statement that "Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations." Science journalism is pretty bad for this. Every t
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Oversights happen https://thenewstack.io/junior-dev-deleted-production-databas...
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The firewall is still helpful in case they hire a new person who opens a port and forgets to close it one day
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I used to run Linux for everything but I’m having to use Windows these days. What would it take to get rsync.net playing nicely with windows? I’m imagining Windows subsystem for Linux (ubuntu) with duplicity installed to it? Are there any m
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9,999 in 10k Mobile Apps Will Fail(startupgrind.com)
2 points by hertzrat 6y ago|0 comments
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I read a few years ago that only about 0.01% of Android apps make enough money to cover development costs. It isn’t the end of the world if there were slightly less competition driving down peoples revenues
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The article doesn’t really talk about supply chain constraints. It talks more about the threat of losing market access
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Anybody serious about this issue should contact their representatives to let them know it’s a concern.
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I have been working on a game solo for the last while. It can be extremely rewarding and extremely stressful. If you decide to go back to your startup role, it can pay off to take some time completely off (a day? A month? Longer?) and then
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Isn’t half of our current money supply controlled by 1% of people? If the asset holders controlled things, why wouldn’t they just demand everyone else hand over their cash? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richest-1-percent
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The article doesn’t seem to mention how they got their very first community members. I’ll go out on a limb and guess that they got their first 10-100 users through posts like this on social media

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