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by indymike 3y ago
My wife's car broke down, and she took my Subaru for the week, so I ended up with a Chevy Bolt. It wasn't a Tesla, but it was an eye opener for me. Cost per mile was about the same as the Subaru, and the Subaru was a bigger car.
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by indymike 3y ago
Hopefully the database file has to be located outside of DocumentRoot so you cannot do that.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Then cassettes got replaced with CDs which (initially) were read only, which again saved the market from piracy CD players hit the market in the mid 80s (I got my first one in 1988). The effect of cassette tapes would have really hit i
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by indymike 3y ago
> Artists need to buy groceries and retire some day--almost none of them successfully pull this off, it's like one in a million--but every day there's a dozen posts on here about how greedy the arts industries are for trying to
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by indymike 3y ago
We sell a solution for that problem and use it in our hiring funnel, so yes people will pay for it, and it has great value.
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by indymike 3y ago
Un-ironically, I make a living from people who pay for my software. I have for 30 years, as both a developer for hire, as an independent developer and even from royalties. It's not hard. Make something useful, make it well, place it wh
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by indymike 3y ago
Third part attestation is a show stopper for openness. I'm not a fan, and this does not solve any problems I face with the software make or that my users have accessing it.
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by indymike 3y ago
django admin > database console. Even though the admin is far from perfect it is a fantastic alternative to having operations people have to contend wit a database control panel.
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by indymike 3y ago
> The only reason Firefox exists is because Google wants something they can point to in court and say "look! we're not a monopoly!" A competitor that survives at the charity of a monopoly is evidence of a monopoly, not evi
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by indymike 3y ago
I've been interviewing for a two dev positions, and from the employer side here is what I'm seeing: 1. 31% of applicants are dev shop / staffing co lead generation / fraudulent applications. This is pretty normal. I&#x27
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by indymike 3y ago
It's accurate that Lampert did engineer a bust, but it happened after Sears had missed the ecommerce boat. I don't think Lampert could have done the deal if Sears hand adopted the internet. The Lampert purchase happened in 2005. S
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by indymike 3y ago
It's easy to say someone else's job is a failure of society. Contact centers do pretty important work, and not all of them are run as soul-sucking, penny-pinching, toilet paper usage measuring, hellscapes. At some point work has
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by indymike 3y ago
This story never gets old. It's a lot like the SR-71 air traffic control, and the battleship arguing with a lighthouse stories.They never get old.
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by indymike 3y ago
> As someone with direct experience with someone that has a mental illness, there needs to be something better than the present system. This is the truth. But the answer is not to go back to the system that the current one replaced (ever
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by indymike 3y ago
> But directly paying to be a speaker? Absolutely not normal. The only time it's normal to pay to speak is when you are sponsoring an event.
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by indymike 3y ago
> I can draw literally any scraggles and they’ll accept it. Are they supposed to compare to the signature I put on my card? This is because we have video recording, PIN input, card not present payments and lots of other ways to prove th
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by indymike 3y ago
> Seeing how you’re first action in each of your new jobs is done in bad faith This behavior is not bad faith, unless it is done with the intent to deceive the employer. It's on the employer to make sure documentation is done correc
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by indymike 3y ago
This is accurate.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Sears broke the contract, and quickly lost the trust. In just a few years, they destroyed one of the most trusted brands which took 100 years to build. The brand was sold off, and now it's just another meaningless string of letter
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by indymike 3y ago
> Both github and gitlab are not only more than sufficient, they are arguably better because the stripped down natures I can show you plenty of repos where people do silly things with Github and Gitlab tickets in a quest to better track
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by indymike 3y ago
> and many software developers and startups actually think that their skills are worth so much. Sigh? Supply < Demand. That is why developers are paid well. When demand softens, or supply increases even more, what developers are paid
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by indymike 3y ago
>> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation If I cannot attack the honor and reputation of a person, and by extension, artifici
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by indymike 3y ago
> Taking a brilliant kid and putting them around underachievers doesn’t do anyone any good. In a meritocracy, those that do not achieve do not advance, so this is not a problem after a time. I was in the US Navy's Nuclear Propulsion
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by indymike 3y ago
> Meritocracy makes sense after you have an education, it doesn't make sense before it. This is really a truth. There really is no meritocracy if you gate who is allowed to have merit before you measure it. Regulating opportunity to
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by indymike 3y ago
For a long time, there were not parental controls on purchases, and some platforms would force you to lie about age, and give access to the family card to allow children to play games (that were clearly not adult content). Some may still ha
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by indymike 3y ago
My (at the time) 9 year old daughter once bought $7,200 worth of dragon in game content on her Kindle Fire (before amazon had parental controls to stop this). The good new is that Amazon INSTANTLY refunded all of it as soon as I explained 9
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by indymike 3y ago
>ave to be in a completely distorted reality field to choose Apple in these circumstances I'm not sure a NUC is a good replacement for a laptop. That said, there are some really nice Intel and AMD based machines out there.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Teams made me realize no one cares about security until it's too late. Crisis driven decision making is one of the most popular management methods in history.
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by indymike 3y ago
> keyword pronouns when writing JavaScript. This, when read using 2023 political correctness caused me to have to wipe coffee off of my laptop screen. I'm picturing HR paying me a visit because my last commit misgendered the Person
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by indymike 3y ago
> What's your solution to stop runaway education costs in this 'voucher first' world? This assumes a lot of facts not in evidence. In general schools that accept vouchers generally operate on much smaller per-student budge

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