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by hylaride 10mo ago
> The e-scooters that clutter up pavements may seem like a new thing, but a hundred years ago, there were already people zooming around London on powered scooters. The problem is that we've given so much space to automobiles that th
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by hylaride 10mo ago
Some (more niche) industries/products/etc require larger margins to be able to exist. Without scale, they need to sometimes charge more. It's the classic single gas station in the middle of nowhere argument. Without volume,
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Hubs still exist(ed), but nobody implemented half-duplex or CSMA from gigabit ethernet on up (I can't remember if it was technically part of the gig-e spec or not)
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If you worked in an industrial setting, legacy tech abounds due to the capital costs of replacing the equipment it supports (includes manufacturing, older hospitals, power plants, and etc). Many of these even still use token ring, coax, et
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by hylaride 10mo ago
> my tmobile 5g modem has ipv4 but changes ip every single page load, it's wild They're probably using CG-NAT, though IP changes that often is a bit aggressive.
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There have been many attempts to ban it, but a backlash usually results in its reinstatement. IIRC there are often cases where questionable verses are blotted out or it's only the new testament (which is in general less "graphic&
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by hylaride 10mo ago
Separation of church and state, especially when schools don’t allow alternative books (eg in some Bible Belt areas). Also, the bible does have violence, sex (including rape and incest), etc.
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by hylaride 10mo ago
Nominally I agree with you, but your example is classic survivorship bias. The chances of getting kidnapped are and always were far, far, far less than automobile related injuries and deaths, yet we just see that as a normal risk of modern
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> A planned economy is certainly a lot more viable now than it was in 1950, let alone 1920. The Soviet Union was in many ways just a century too early. If the economy were otherwise stagnant, maybe. But top-down planning just cannot tak
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Considering how much government spending goes to the elderly, either directly via programs like OAS and tax benefits or indirectly via healthcare, and it was only a matter of time before young people question their position in it all (highe
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by hylaride 10mo ago
IMO, the US business industry has become over-financialised to the point of self-sabotage. R&D and capital expenditure are seen as "bad" things to have on accounting statements. Combine this with Jack Welsh type CEOs who do
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by hylaride 10mo ago
Funny enough iTunes Genius was amazing at discovering new music as it created a tree of "users who bought this, also bought these songs" and I spent a fortune on the iTunes Store on single songs. It's now all but dead, prob
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by hylaride 10mo ago
I know of one largish bank moving away from Oracle middleware and RDMS. It's happening in pieces starting with low hanging fruit and for awhile the two will run in parallel (with the new data stores starting off as a comparison check
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by hylaride 10mo ago
> Is there some code of conduct for public companies but not private ones? It's more about Private Equity firms than private companies. The oversimplified TL;DR strategy for most PE firms is acquire, strip, pump, then dump (combine
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by hylaride 10mo ago
That's kind of what I'm asking. I did have a former co-worker write a micro service in Kotlin around 2018. He said that as nice as the language is, the ecosystem was (at the time, not sure how it is today) so utterly dominated b
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by hylaride 10mo ago
> Does everything has to have taking over the world as a goal? Perl still exists, I guess it's updated, why isn't that enough? I never got the impression that perl's goal was to take over the world, but it was good at dea
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by hylaride 10mo ago
Outside of Android work, has Kotlin really taken over? My understanding is that Java added a lot of functional programming and that took a lot of wind out of Scala's sails (though Scala's poor tooling certainly never helped anyth
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by hylaride 10mo ago
> Why did it have to take over the world anyway? Because it was there, mostly. In a UNIX world where text was everything, it was well suited to quick and dirty solutions (that then morphed into long-term technical debt). Most alternati
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by hylaride 10mo ago
The quote, if originally from Morphy, is from the 1800s, though. So it's the context of the quote that matters. Either way, it's not meant to be taken so literally!
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I get what he's trying to say, but the danger is people (especially management) getting the wrong impression. The risk of "move fast is good" is that it becomes hustle culture where people rush under deadlines and eventually
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> Digging a trench would probably pay for itself in a year or two. I know some people running independent community fiber ISPs. Digging trenches can be a nightmare depending on the neighbourhood. You can have property ownership issues,
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You can't even measure it cleanly. It was so isolated and its currency wasn't even convertible, but by most measures Japan and West Germany had larger economies with far, far, far better living standards. Go to per-capita level
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by hylaride 10mo ago
> The Russian empire was politically stable throughout the industrial revolution era, and yet lagged behind other great powers substantially. The Russian empire was (finally) developing industrially at the outbreak of WW1. It's ind
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The USSR was never economically or scientifically on par with the US. They managed to be relatively competitive in some endeavours by concentrated massive percentages of their national people and resources on certain endeavours (industrial
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The company was founded by an ideas guy (not technical) and the first hire was the (technical) CTO. The CTO set the initial excellent engineering culture. The way I saw it, the founder had no choice but to defer to the engineering team in
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> (My current understanding, if you find your culture has been corrupted with a clique/wolfpack of mercenary ex-FAANG people, or a bunch of performative sprint theatre seatwarmers, is that you either have to excise/amputate eve
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by hylaride 11mo ago
> I think this is a distraction that is usually rolled out to derail conversations about living wages. Not saying that you're doing that here, but it's often the case when the "teenager flipping burgers" argument is b
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I don't disagree that there has been a huge issue with stagnant wages, but not everybody who works minimum wage needs to make a living wage. Some are teenagers, people just looking for part time work, etc. Pushing up minimum wage too
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A few years ago a vulnerable compression library almost got pushed out that major Linux distros linked their OpenSSH implementations to. That was caught by blind luck. I'm confident there's a lot more shit out there that we don&
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Loscil - First Narrows album is great and was used in the game Osmos. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing by Album, particularly the songs "passing by" and "knuddelmous" Kromattic "song "porcelain" P

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