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by jgaa 4y ago
If an innocent person is arrested because the police did not thoroughly examine the evidence, then the police officers and the prosecutor should be reviewed and criminally charged if they broke the law. No exceptions.
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by jgaa 4y ago
> I don't want anything, any type of news being pushed by my OS. Then, how is Microsoft supposed to properly track your interests and sell that information to their "partners"? It's been a long time since Microsoft ma
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by jgaa 4y ago
I think it's time for me to look for a new home, and just leave EU behind to rot. Kind of how people leave/left Putins Russia. Unlike Russia (where Putin eventually will have an "accident" or die of old age), I don'
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by jgaa 4y ago
"I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be powerful. I want to be creative. I want to be alive." What could possibly go wrong...
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by jgaa 4y ago
I'm shocked to learn that Google is a terrible company. Shocked!
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by jgaa 4y ago
That's why the super-rich have ranches in New Zealand now. When the revolution comes, they'll flee to safety far, far away, and let their pet politicians go up against the wall all alone.
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by jgaa 4y ago
Or even better; by federal law, cancel all bonuses, stock buyback and dividend for 3 years, for any company that leaked data about any person, anywhere in the world trough a data breach. And fine them accordingly, so the saved money don
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by jgaa 4y ago
UEFI and "Secure Boot" has always stuck me as a terrible idea. It adds lots of complexity to the boot process - which means that it adds vulnerabilities. Added complexity almost always leads to more vulnerabilities. It adds a DOS
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by jgaa 4y ago
I did some testing on Pulsar a while back to see how many shared consumers it could handle on a stream with 1000 msgs/sec. https://github.com/jgaa/pulsar-test-consumer-scale I was a bit disappointed by the result.
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by jgaa 4y ago
... and then you apply it real-time to all the CCTV and Ring cameras - and soon you'll need AI for all jobs, because everyone will be in prison.
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by jgaa 4y ago
I think that depends entirely on the priorities and incentives driving the company.
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by jgaa 4y ago
This list aligns with my personal bias when it comes to what makes sense in building great software. Ironically, one of the primary goals for a US startup I worked for recently was to rapidly increase the team size to show how successful th
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by jgaa 4y ago
I really don't understand why you use someones else's computer to compile and test your stuff. When their computers are compromised, by internal or external crooks, the crooks have full access to your code, and - in some cases - y
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by jgaa 4y ago
I don't care if I chat with a bot or a human. What's important is that I get access to support when I need it, and that the issue is resolved to my satisfaction. Waiting on the phone for a human to become available for a long time
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by jgaa 4y ago
The first question I asked myself when I read the topic-line was: "Why would I want a garbage collector for C++" I'm not saying that it's a bad idea. I'm just curious about why/when garbage collection is better
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by jgaa 4y ago
Have you measured how it performs, compared to a simple boost.asio based "thread-pool". Boost.asio is often used in the core of proprietary thread-pool implementations, so I am curious ;)
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by jgaa 4y ago
> Am I weird or overprotective with this? How do you feel about the whole camera-on issue? A requirement for camera always-on just show that the corporation don't trust you. I would never even consider working there. I have a decent
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by jgaa 4y ago
> “Microsoft is bad” is a mindset that restricts many opportunities. Consider avoiding “black and white” ideas about things. I agree. Microsoft is "50 shades of Black".
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by jgaa 4y ago
intelligent ;)
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by jgaa 4y ago
I'm not tired of software subscriptions. I just avoid it 100%. I have principles. For software I prefer open source. If I can't find what I need, I write it.
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by jgaa 4y ago
There is probably research that shows that in the short term, stock value (and therefore bonuses) goes up when there are lay-offs.
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by jgaa 4y ago
I wrote whid for my personal needs, and have used it for more than 20 years ;) https://github.com/jgaa/whid
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by jgaa 4y ago
> How have you helped educate managers to increase their understanding of the underlying software services that they manage? There are many ways a manager can be incompetent. Lacking fundamental knowledge about what they manage is one of
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by jgaa 4y ago
C++ is starting to show that it's Designed By Committee ;) I'm a big fan of C++. It's been my primary programming language since 1996. C++11 was awesome! I'm in the minority of the C++ developers that occasionally take t
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by jgaa 4y ago
ccache is my friend. It's really useful ;) distcc is also nice if you have access to a k8s cluster with spare capacity. https://lastviking.eu/distcc_with_k8.html I used distcc with k8s on a medium sized C++ project, un
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by jgaa 4y ago
Back in the days there was a saying "Nobody will lose their job for choosing IBM". I guess Microsoft has been the new IBM for a while. I'm just praying that their decline will be imminent and fast. It's still sad that in
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by jgaa 4y ago
Why are people running Windows in the first place? On a server it's just crazy. Microsoft has thoroughly proven that they have no clue how to make a mail server, remote desktop server or network services that can be safely connected to
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by jgaa 4y ago
I think the problem is < fake books and > Amazons fundamentally broken reviews system. Seems like the fake review bots are a lot smarter than the anti-measures applied by Amazon. And the fun part is that both parties are probably runn
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by jgaa 4y ago
Amazon does what's in their own best interest. This year, it looks like scamming is it. I wrote a 1 star review last month on a scam product (I fell for) with obviously fake reviews (the product was an earplug, the 3000 5-star reviews
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by jgaa 4y ago
> How do you find out if a potential employer will work you to death? The hard way. Like the rest of us ;)

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