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by hylaride 2y ago
I believe in strong tenants rights - IF you pay your rent on time and are not damaging property or otherwise misbehaving. If you stop paying, you should be out within 60 days that your security deposit should cover. There should be mechani
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by hylaride 2y ago
> It's misleading to say they prioritized making it fly like its predecessor over safety. The internal Boeing emails literally say otherwise. > In theory there was absolutely nothing wrong with a system LIKE MCAS. In fact the 737
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by hylaride 2y ago
It wasn't that the 737 MAX isn't (or can't be) a safe aircraft, but that Boeing prioritized making it fly like its predecessor over all else - including safety. The fact that two brand new MAX's crashed killing all aboar
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by hylaride 2y ago
> You're also competing with multinationals that can exploit tax loopholes and attract tax incentives and grants. Not only that, but often with whole government backed companies where the government will gladly support them and even
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by hylaride 2y ago
> The takeover by them and, relatedly, the finance folks has been disastrous for actual productivity and innovation. The fact that so many companies play tricks with CAPEX and OPEX completely misses the point that almost all corporate sp
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by hylaride 2y ago
That makes no sense. The rest of the world also had the existing systems and moved on relatively quickly. The issue is that the US banking system is highly fragmented, making universal change difficult. Most other countries have fewer, la
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by hylaride 2y ago
Kotlin's popularity plummets once you leave out android development, though. Same with Obj-c/Swift for Mac/iOS development. 5-8 years ago Scala had a large boost in data science/big data work as it was either it or Pytho
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by hylaride 2y ago
In theory, SMRs - *if* they're built out at scale (meaning for many other uses). The problem is the first users are going to pay a premium and it likely won't happen until they're already scaled out (and may still have to co
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by hylaride 2y ago
That's a tale as old as time, though. In the 1980s, I got in trouble for using "this sucks" or "this blows" around grade one or two. It's now common slang, but it was still too close to its sexual origins at
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by hylaride 2y ago
Sesame Street is this way. Watch versions from your youth and you'll see references to pop culture everywhere. From the specific 1970s rock bands, Star Wars, Monsterpiece Theater, etc. It's so obvious when I see it now, but a l
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by hylaride 2y ago
They've been very good at marketing, but it was often backed by good products. I still remember the feeling of getting my first MacOS X machine and what a breadth of fresh air it was. No drama or window focus stealing and a stable OS
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by hylaride 2y ago
Yeah, Apple maps is my default, too. No ads and is accurate. Google maps is still better for finding businesses and streetview is still much, much more comprehensive.
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by hylaride 2y ago
Sir, it's a show for toddlers that adults can watch and relate to. Watch the repetitiveness of Daniel Tiger or the brain destroying Cocomelon (which should be banned) then get back to me.
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by hylaride 2y ago
Nah, there are people that run companies here, too. Many of them drink the cool-aide.
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by hylaride 2y ago
Hilariously, in the 2010s you didn't need to become a VP to make that kind of money. You could go the principle or distinguished engineer route and still make bank. In many (more purely tech) companies it is not unusual for senior eng
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by hylaride 2y ago
Sure, but desalination is very power hungry. In Oman they managed to get a desalination plant to be 1/3 directly covered by solar in the desert and they still need alternative power for when that 1/3 is unavailable. Battery cost
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by hylaride 2y ago
We don't know because nobody is mass building any nuclear reactors right now (micro or traditional - it's one of the main reasons there's so many cost overruns with anything being built right now). There's also no mass s
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by hylaride 2y ago
The economics of desalination can be complex, but the TL;DR is that in most cases it's only economical when there's no alternative for potable water and not industrial/agricultural use (though that doesn't stop some plac
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by hylaride 2y ago
It sounds like a niche market, but every company in the world has a finance department that plugs everything from sales forecasts, various inputs (goods, employment, supply chain components, etc), to things we don't even think of that
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by hylaride 2y ago
I don't think people realize how much of the world runs off of excel, especially the financial world. Excel still "supports" buggy issues from versions in the 1990s as to not break financial models. IBM mainframes do the same
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by hylaride 2y ago
(Availability of and access to) Debt is definitely a driving factor. It grants access to a larger group of people and if supply can't keep up (for a variety of reasons), it'd drive it up prices in the short to medium term. In the
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by hylaride 2y ago
I've worked at places where I was the only person on-call (except during vacations - that's horseshit). It was fine, but as an SRE/DevOps person I had the authority to override the developer backlogs to get issues fixed and e
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by hylaride 2y ago
This is pretty much how it should be done. If the business demands more, they should have a properly manned 24x7 NOC. You also need *ownership*. There is nothing worse than having to support somebody else's work and not being allowed
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by hylaride 2y ago
A lot more than 11% of GDP relies on various imports randomly being subject to tariffs (on everything from steel and lumber to electronics). This is effecting everything from manufacturing and construction to retail.
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by hylaride 2y ago
On one hand, you're probably right. On the other, I'm pretty happy Larry Ellison doesn't own Java.
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by hylaride 2y ago
http3 has enhancements that speed up initial handshakes for new connections (QUIC essentially is UDP plus combining TLS and a native reliability layer to replace separate initial SYNs for them separately). So when you go to a page with ton
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by hylaride 2y ago
Yes, but they've likely already optimized any code that's part of their ad networks to support http/3 anyways. They're not necessarily going to lose sleep if other components doesn't support it.
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by hylaride 2y ago
Because the faster response is negligible when you're an indie web host that can serve content over a single connection with reasonable speed. Where HTTP/3 really "shines" is when you connect to a web site that then has
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by hylaride 2y ago
99% of the benefit of HTTP/3 is on distributed web serving where clients are connecting to multiple remote ends on a web page (which lets be honest, is mostly used for serving ads faster). Why would the open source community prioritize
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by hylaride 2y ago
IMO the last decade has mostly been a stagnation in software quality at Apple, both in design and code quality. Apple used to have to focus on users and quality because they were both an underdog and premium priced. Now it feels like they

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