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by hylaride 2y ago
> So if in 1965 this retired person married someone age 18... Then that person at 18 never remarried. Could they end up in a situation where they receive survivors benefits from the original applicant? "In order to receive this (spo
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by hylaride 2y ago
I went through an Austrian School binge during the financial crisis. The Austrian school had some very prescient and relevant observations on price signalling and why orthodox communism would inevitably fail because of it. Basically when y
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by hylaride 2y ago
I feel everything in this article as somebody who first got online when I was 13 in 1994. In those days you got bullied for being "good at computers" (especially in the rural area I grew up in) and the communities formed on IRC an
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by hylaride 2y ago
It's a problem all languages have, but some are better at sorting it out. The way NPM does it solves one issue, but causes others. The big issue, IMHO, is that when you're dealing with interpreted languages it's very hard to
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by hylaride 2y ago
I didn't say they shouldn't, but aren't.
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Yeah, it was an example for when it was fashionable.
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by hylaride 2y ago
If you're not using any weird extensions, you'll be fine. If your database is large with indexes and you're not doing it via a pg_dump/PG-restore, make sure to run a reindex as PG13 introduced index deduplication. That
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by hylaride 2y ago
For a large enough project, the dependency conflicts can get extremely frustrating, especially when it's time to update them. You may need to upgrade a dependency for security reasons cough cough requests cough cough , but some oth
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by hylaride 2y ago
And if the new tech is beneficial and adds enough value that it makes it worth replacing the old tech, then by all means go for it. However, I can't count many companies I've seen decide to get into "the cloud" only to d
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by hylaride 2y ago
> However the vast majority of the population has not had listening training. This pretty much means they don't need it. And even if they're all trained, there's still very much a good enough for many situations. I don&#
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by hylaride 2y ago
The GNU/BSD conventions are a lot of fun when you have some automation scripts that are used by people who are split between MacOS and Linux (or WSL on Windows).
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The traditional taxi industry was rife with corruption, bad experiences, and poor service in many jurisdictions before uber/lyft. As terrible of a human being that I think Travis Kalanick is, it was only going to take lawbreaking to o
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by hylaride 2y ago
Refactoring depends heavily on circumstances. I've seen terrible attempts over my career for all the reasons other people have and will mention here. But I've also seen huge successes. Usually it boils down to "what are you
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by hylaride 2y ago
This is the best feature of kagi. I still use google as a backup (there are a handful of large websites that only allow crawling from the big guys - reddit in particular), but the fact that I can ban experts-exchange, pinterest, and other
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by hylaride 2y ago
A not insignificant percentage of Soviet-era drilling and pipeline pumping equipment and tech is/was western. There's even many allegations of CIA sabotage before delivery (which is hard to prove).
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by hylaride 2y ago
Nope, but I don't consider myself exceptional either. shrug
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by hylaride 2y ago
Same. I stopped "caring" about math when we started to learn polynomials. Binomials..ok. Trinomials...ok. But then it just became repetitive when the class was just adding more terms to the functions that over the semester I en
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by hylaride 2y ago
Man, you just triggered me. This was also me in school. I even have a huge interest in history, but I remember my first history exam on World War 1. I was ready to answer questions on its causes, the people, how industrial war changed the
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by hylaride 2y ago
Steve Jobs was absolutely exceptional, but there's a good chance we'd have never heard of him if he grew up on a farm in the 1960s/70s midwest and never ran into Woz (who also benefited from proximity to electronics), got ins
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by hylaride 2y ago
Yeah, I know there’s a difference. It’s not the same as Bill Gates, but proximity is a connection all its own.
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by hylaride 2y ago
Steve Jobs was connected: By being raised in Silicon Valley at just the right time. He even had a story (who knows how true it is) of him as a kid looking up Bill Hewlett in the phone book and asking about electronics parts (a frequency co
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by hylaride 2y ago
It can be done manually: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/306661/how-to-instal ... reply
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by hylaride 2y ago
It can be done manually: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/306661/how-to-instal ... reply
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by hylaride 2y ago
It can be done manually: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/306661/how-to-instal...
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by hylaride 2y ago
Patchworks of rules and exceptions can be beneficial. It allows for experimentation and/or competition as well as the fact that regulations can often enough not keep up with change and they can be more entrenched if done at a higher
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by hylaride 2y ago
I don't disagree with you, but will comment. There is a justifiable argument for Israel to occupy the west bank and/or the Gaza strip (whether one agrees or not is another matter that I will not get into). Settling it is another
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by hylaride 2y ago
One adtech company I applied to ~10 years ago (Chango - doesn't exist anymore) also put me through the strangest interview I ever had. It was for an SRE role. There was a fairly standard phone screening interview, but then when I went
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by hylaride 2y ago
This. I'm still benefiting from being in a BSD users group that I went to between 2000-2008 because it was filled with passionate/talented tech people, most of whom have gone onto other things. Find places to get into discussion
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by hylaride 2y ago
Youtube is also killing a lot of history channels because if there's any violence (eg war) they get demonetized, the algorithm avoids them, or they can even have their channels disabled. Most now blur out pictures of the holocaust, wh
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by hylaride 2y ago
This highly depends on workload. We migrated a service that generates terrabytes of content to send to customers each day. We moved the content generation from J2EE to java lambas and our costs went from $6K/month (on savings plans,

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