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by hkt 2y ago
This is a dramatically unpleasant way to live, though. Op is asking out of a desire to have a fulfilling life and clearly isn't finding fulfilment in SWE.
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by hkt 2y ago
The EU at the cutting edge of competition law, which is to say it is looking actively at the competitive landscape and saying "what are the problems?" then moving doctrine along to solve them. There's a lot to be said for the
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by hkt 2y ago
I'm immediately put in mind of the double empathy paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687599.2012.71... Specifically: do some combinations of biotypes struggle to relate to one another i
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by hkt 2y ago
The DMA is about competition law, and EU doctrine is about consumer benefits and market fairness. Apple can't be exempt from that.
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by hkt 2y ago
I wonder if he needs a field hand. I'd trade in the fanciest, shiniest laptop on earth for a shovel and a pile of dung right now.
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by hkt 2y ago
Given a biased corpus, de-biasing is the process of ensuring a less biased outcome. We can measure bias fairly well, so it seems absurd to conflate the two by suggesting that unbiased behaviour is simply another form of biased behaviour. Fo
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by hkt 2y ago
Really not true. If you take China to be a totalitarian society, we could name Ciu Lixin. If you took the Soviet union to be a totalitarian society, we could name Mikhail Bulgakov, Stanislaw Lem, etc. These are just examples I know without
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by hkt 2y ago
I am a little baffled by the idea that job satisfaction is comparative. Three days a week to do what one wants and needs to do is life enhancing for me, even if everyone else has it and retention is a function of happiness.
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by hkt 2y ago
Ah, finally, Rupert Murodch's secret!
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by hkt 2y ago
I see your contemporary hardware choices and raise you my P900 ThinkStation with 256GB of RAM and 48 Xeon cores. Eventually it might even acquire modern graphics hardware.
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by hkt 2y ago
Dependency management is just.. hard. It is one of the things where everything relies upon it but nobody thinks "hey, this is my responsibility to improve" so it is left to people who have the most motivation, academic posts, or g
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by hkt 2y ago
This seems to be the absolute worst of all worlds: the burden of software engineering with the tools of an English Language undergrad.
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by hkt 2y ago
This is why people also talk about retention. Personally I'd think of the extra day as rent paid on not having to hire and onboard someone new.
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by hkt 2y ago
Re: homeworld, it was one of the greatest games of the 1990s and I remain delighted that it received sequels and a refresh. I have nothing but fond memories of the series and still play it regularly
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by hkt 2y ago
I always assumed this too, alongside an unfortunate handedness bias
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by hkt 2y ago
What bothers me is that in various european countries - the UK, in my case - right wingers who created the mortgage market in the 1980s successfully pinned the global financial crisis on politicians .
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by hkt 2y ago
Generational wealth theft does seem like a fair thing to complain about. Mortgages became a lever: most countries have regulations saying what lending ratios people can have, who is and is not eligible, etc. Want to control inflation over t
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by hkt 2y ago
That's not correct: cash that is not in circulation is not part of "broad money" in the same way, so it is still right to say that money is created when a mortgage is issued if that mortgage is backed by large investors. At l
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by hkt 2y ago
A thought I've had regularly is that any financial product so widely required ought to be provided at cost (base rate of interest) through central banks. Why bother with middlemen? As the author says, it is because the mortgage is hard
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by hkt 2y ago
Hang on.. they're not the same thing?!
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by hkt 2y ago
Scotland has indeed always had mosquitoes, and it is a thing that they're unbearable in summer: https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2016/07/dreaded-scottish-midge... This also shows that population testing has been
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by hkt 2y ago
Tell that to John Perry Barlow: > Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
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by hkt 2y ago
Always lovely to see projects like this. I used it years ago after thinking "surely there must be some kind of tor-like thing for bittorrent" and lo and behold, there was tribler. At that point hidden seeding and downloading were
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by hkt 2y ago
I've never felt as seen as when I read that title
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by hkt 3y ago
A lover of the old school. I'll never forget how much winamp kicks the llamas ass.
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by hkt 3y ago
Cozy (audio books for Linux) youtube-tui (allows local management of YouTube saves and playlists, written in the frankly lovely ratatui framework) Iotas (nextcloud enabled notes software)
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by hkt 3y ago
Offtopic, but this has reminded me that allegedly some of the more obscure star trek novels actually did do some kind of borg-meets-dominion crossover. (and on the seventh day, the devops nerd didst look upon his backups, said "this is
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by hkt 3y ago
Really, world backup day should've been on Good Friday so that world restore day could be on Easter Monday. Jesus Saves! (and takes daily snapshots which he uploads to a secure offsite location)
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by hkt 3y ago
> maybe not the best idea, but now I want to try this .. I'm going to steal this for my epitaph, thanks
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VC is very often a cult of personality, let's face it. So is most of capitalism when you think about it - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, etc. They're where they are because of vast quantities of unattributed work by other peop

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