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by ineptech 4y ago
"The only solution to my problem is more candles", says the man with more candles than anyone else on Earth.
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by ineptech 4y ago
sigh Here's why the the two linked cases were dismissed: > "Plaintiffs lack standing. And even if that were not the case, the content of their claims— and the sources those claims cite and depend upon—does not plausibly sugge
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by ineptech 4y ago
That's not a fair summary of what happened in those cases. The article doesn't even argue those judges were wrong! It just says, in essence, "Here's a list of cases where judges said this didn't happen, as opposed
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by ineptech 4y ago
The rest of that quote is, "...[according to judges] still did not suffice to establish that the plaintiffs were censored on social media due to government action." Pretty misleading to cut that out. Edit: TFA goes on to contrast
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by ineptech 4y ago
From a kayaker's guidebook: > The Strid (grade 5-) is a long thin section of river where the Wharfe narrows to 5-6 feet in places. The main problems are beneath surface in form of ledges which if you're swept under - you can fo
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by ineptech 4y ago
They're probably referring to the term of art in psychology[0]. I personally don't think it's an important concept; I don't think measuring "grit" tells you anything deep or important about a person. For examp
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by ineptech 4y ago
I think the usual term for being asked to leave a place due to your behavior is "eighty-sixed".
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by ineptech 4y ago
Being kicked off Twitter isn't the same as being silenced.
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by ineptech 4y ago
"Hey Twitter, please block this crap" is users trying to block what they don't want to see. Blocking unpopular content doesn't become a political act just because one side produces more of it than the other.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Imagine a world in which most middle-class families have a cloud VM where they run server-side stuff (Mom's blog, Junior's minecraft server, etc), and when a software vendor sells you software with a client/server model, it&#
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Zatko told me, “These tactics should be beneath whoever is behind them.” Hahahaha! Probably time to get a padlock for your garbage cans. edit: apparently I should clarify, this was a humorous suggestion that the people who do research
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by ineptech 4y ago
Crazy idea: FB should stop trying to lure people back from Tiktok with weird features and just lean in to its one remaining strength, which is that among social media sites, it's the most generic and boring and ubiquitous. Being the d
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by ineptech 4y ago
They do it to all low-effort political posts, not just the right-leaning ones. It is an explicit goal of the site management to not let this place turn into a forum where people come to argue divisive political topics.
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by ineptech 4y ago
I think "what Microsoft is trying to do" starts and ends with your kids having office.com logins.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Sure thing! We do still do 2-week sprints, it's just that nothing really happens when one ends and the next begins.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Just do away with sprint commitments. Pull a new story off the backlog each time someone needs a task, and count how much you accomplished at the end of the sprint instead of guessing at the beginning.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Sure. I worked on a legacy (monolith, >5 years old, no automated test coverage) thing and managed the teams that turned it in to a modern (microservices, ci/cd, full test coverage) thing. So, kind of a naturally occurring A/B
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by ineptech 4y ago
Obviously not all projects are the same, there are certainly pieces of software that would be disastrous to do that with, I'm just speaking generally. For reference, my (very not-startup) team is ~20 engrs in 3 teams responsible for ~
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by ineptech 4y ago
re: estimates: This is equivalent to saying don't confuse estimates with delivery dates, which I wholeheartedly agree with. But you also have to be willing to say "The estimate was wrong, here's a new one" sometimes. re
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by ineptech 4y ago
I generally agree, couple observations: 1. If the people on the team can't change the process, it ain't agile 2. Sprints aren't a failure of agile, they're a failure of devops. Once you start deploying multiple times a
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by ineptech 4y ago
I know it can be worked around, it's just mystifying that it needs to be. This is #2 on my "what the hell, microsoft" list, right after the way the Teams join meeting? taskbar popup obscures the Teams join meeting button
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by ineptech 4y ago
I believe that's log out, I'm looking for sleep/hibernate.
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by ineptech 4y ago
My computer wakes up randomly in the night, I've always assumed it was due to the mouse moving a pixel from random vibration of my desk. And, side note, would it be too much to ask that after a billion dev-hours effort in to the most p
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by ineptech 4y ago
> what more do you want from the guy? "This has taught me that my platform can be weaponized by any bad actor who can fool or manipulate me. One column from me could get a CISO fired or move a Fortune 500 company's stock price
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by ineptech 4y ago
Fake edit to add: there's a startup devoted to solving this problem with a novel OS intended to be a good platform for server-side apps, and since they appear unlikely to get traction I would be very happy to hear that Amazon is forkin
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Tech giants aren't going to encourage you to own your data and hardware by spending effort on supporting it On the contrary, it would make a lot of sense for Amazon to work on open source self-hosted server apps, because they woul
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by ineptech 4y ago
Fake edit to add: my only source is other comments in this thread, but I believe it's true that the vast majority of rental properties are owned by individuals or relatively small businesses (LLCs and such) via regular old mortgages, w
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by ineptech 4y ago
I believe there is a specific subsidy, but in the "other direction" - that's why you can deduct the mortgage interest on your vacation home despite not being a human and not a business. I'm aware that interest is general
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by ineptech 4y ago
I agree, and I feel like limiting the mortgage interest deduction to owner-occupied homes would get us most of the way there at the stroke of a pen. It's a huge subsidy and I can't think of any good reason to extend it to rentals
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Half of the questions ask about going on vacation, maybe we are seeing that people who have enough time to “go abroad” twice a year live longer, I would believe that. First of all, they explicitly mention controlling for income dispari

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