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by hiram112 5y ago
I wonder if CoPilot uses Github's private repositories to train itself, which would allow malicious users to somehow obtain code or designs that they otherwise would not be able to view.
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by hiram112 5y ago
For any of our friends outside the US, this is not normal. As someone with a similar income (single - not married couple) but 0 children, 0 "special" government deductions, etc, here's a breakdown of my 2020 numbers: - Income
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by hiram112 5y ago
"Rejection sensitivity" is a term that has been around for decades within the psychiatric community. It used to be one of the main symptoms used to distinguish typical depression from "atypical" or neurotic depression, a
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by hiram112 5y ago
MAOIs when all else fails.
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by hiram112 5y ago
What was it that Zuckerberg allegedly said? "If Europe had invented Facebook, they would have invented Facebook".
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by hiram112 5y ago
> I'm a US expat and escaping this culture is one of the things that's made me happiest... Really? Cause I'm an American who has lived, studied, and worked overseas. Let's just say it's not American (or generally
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by hiram112 5y ago
I think the difference between software devs and other "profressionals" is that there is a much more stable career path for other industries, which generally includes pretty regular pay and position bumps each year well into your
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by hiram112 5y ago
> My advice to CS majors is that you need to make enough to retire by 35 as that's when you stand a good chance of being tossed on the trash heap. I agree with this. CS is a GREAT career when you're in your mid 20's, makin
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by hiram112 5y ago
>> ... Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia >> ... American occupation [of Saigon] > but there is also a propaganda narrative. Yes you can see it explicitly from how he describes the two sentences above, one as an "interv
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by hiram112 5y ago
> The median senior engineer pay in Italy is around EUR 38k - up to EUR 78k if you have around a decade of experience I see these salaries in places like Spain, Italy, and even Germany outside of Frankfurt / Berlin, and I'm fla
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by hiram112 5y ago
75K EUR / year is a legit salary in Estonia now? Wow, you guys are really catching up fast. I would have assumed former Soviet bloc countries were still down there at $30K or so (even less in Ukraine, Moldova, etc.). Is this something
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by hiram112 5y ago
I remember the first clue that Reddit was going downhill FAST was when I needed to "sort by controversial" on nearly every thread within every single mainstream sub because the hivemind had become both so ridiculously uniform and
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by hiram112 5y ago
This is always an interesting rebuttal. Here in the DC area, we have the subjectively WORST traffic in the country now (DC, Boston, etc. might argue otherwise). Regardless, they've built almost 0 new capacity in the last decade EXCEPT
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by hiram112 5y ago
> Are you referring to the anti-government cult in CA that couldn't build a train from SF to LA for $100 billion... Not sure if I'm misinterpreting your comment, or you're being satirical or what. I was under the impressio
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by hiram112 6y ago
Well as a fellow techy who respects logical arguments, I understand what you're saying and don't disagree with your main point. OTOH, outside in the real world i.e. Twitter and Reddit (haha), this rationale is not what was being u
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by hiram112 6y ago
> ...fallacy of the slippery slope. Haha, I hear this phrasing more and more, almost always coming from the left, as we continue to slide faster and faster down the slopes you pretend don't exist. I think the top trending Twitter th
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by hiram112 6y ago
I bet you cried when it was proven Trump paid low taxes for his hundreds of millions in income, while also believing, without even a twinge of cognitive dissonance, how every one of his business ventures hemorrage money.
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by hiram112 6y ago
Well let's say there was one extra suicide caused by lockdowns. And we know that something like 2/3 of Covid "deaths" are occurring in nursing homes among very elderly who, statistically, might live a year or so longer h
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by hiram112 6y ago
Give me a break. Free speech means you don't get banned for talking about violations to election laws or a politician's dirty laundry or FBI crime stats or even a well referenced book highlighting differences between races. All of
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by hiram112 6y ago
Probably a difference between actual debate where people disagree and outright trolling. Your comment is the latter.
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by hiram112 6y ago
> And oh look at the column on the left, Apple is going to license Mac OS to expand market share. How open! That would have been nice had it ever happened.
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by hiram112 6y ago
This is depressing. For the last 15 years or so, when housing prices started accelerating rapidly in most of Anglosphere and much of the developed world, Germany was always touted as a country with sane and stable prices (with the exception
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by hiram112 6y ago
Except for the fact that home prices in boring suburbs in Kansas City and Dallas have risen far more than the CPI indicates.
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by hiram112 6y ago
> People who repeatedly spread "hate speech" and "discriminatory content" and "glorify violence" after repeated warnings not to do so are pretty likely to be spreading a wide variety of "misinformation&
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by hiram112 6y ago
> Most finished products weren't taxed but raw materials were. This is kind of a simplistic summary. The tariffs were targeted to ensure certain industries remain solvent in the US so we're not dependent on foreign imports. In
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by hiram112 6y ago
New methods of war and looting brought upon by the horse culture is a great documented case study we have of indigenous tribes in North America. The "cowboys and Indians" stereotype that has been popularized around the world was r
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by hiram112 6y ago
No I don't have a finance background, but my dad was a finance guy. Growing up he gave a small amount of money to us each year in a mutual fund, and so I learned very young how exponential growth works. It's one thing to learn abo
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by hiram112 6y ago
I've tried a few times - mostly just blogging and pay-per-click revenue and developing software and sites for individual clients. It was not worth the trouble. Maybe it was only possible in the last decade (2009-2020) due to the stock
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by hiram112 6y ago
It's almost like you didn't even read the summary of the book this thread is highlighting. > The empire these nomads build is rapacious; more than once, the Lakota are forced to move westward because they have looted the neighb
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by hiram112 6y ago
I'd love to support RHEL financially, both on the server and on the development laptop. But I just don't trust that any of this extra cash flow they may see will go towards anything but 5% IBM dividends, obscene executive and sale

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