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by jkubicek 2y ago
I think 18F going private is a terrible idea. The US government should directly employ the people that are responsible for building and owning its core infrastructure.
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by jkubicek 2y ago
It also falls apart when the consequences of bad behavior are death. The satisfaction of showing everyone exactly how unsafe Airline X is, is a small consolation if my family is dead.
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by jkubicek 2y ago
One of the many realizations that pushed me away from libertarianism is that I don't want to research every part of my daily life. Today in the US, I can * Buy any brand of meat in any grocery store and be confident it won't m
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by jkubicek 2y ago
> has verifiably silly things about software design and development Even if you're willing to ignore everything else you said, you'd think a group like Hacker News commenters would recognize how obviously out of touch Musk is w
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by jkubicek 2y ago
> Dumping some data from legacy system to a modern one is not a problem. Dumping data from some legacy system to a modern one is a MASSIVE problem. Extremely well paid and experienced software engineers regularly hose their infra migrati
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by jkubicek 2y ago
We only use the Apple TV device, and we don't see most of these issues. Quality is good, playback starts immediately and rarely glitches, search spans (almost, Netflix doesn't participate) every service we have access to. It'
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by jkubicek 2y ago
> Requirements from smart people are the most dangerous, because people are less likely to question them. This is just absolutely silly. What other reasonable ways are there to create requirements?
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by jkubicek 2y ago
A financial institution created by the very person responsible for dismantling our most effective consumer protections against malicious financial institutions sounds like an extremely bad idea. I'm very curious how anyone could thin
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by jkubicek 2y ago
Commenting out blocks of code with command-/ would be super useful as well
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by jkubicek 2y ago
> But these days half of it is outrage bait, ranging from "WOKE LIBTARD GETS DESTROYED" to "TRUMP LOSES HIS MIND", or malicious clickbait like "you won't believe what the cast if $tv_show looks like now&quot
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by jkubicek 2y ago
What can China do to our social networks that is materially different than what American tech companies are already doing today? Maybe I'm being naive because I don't use TikTok, but all the partisan misinformation I see is being
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by jkubicek 2y ago
Actually, what I should have said was, "I've stopped using alias by default for every table reference". I'm not opposed to aliases, it's just no longer something I do by default.
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by jkubicek 2y ago
I've stopped using aliases in the SQL I write and it's dramatically increased the clarify. From this style guide, the aliases section would look like this in my style guide: SELECT first_name FROM staff JOIN students
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by jkubicek 2y ago
They also restarted the print newspaper (I'm a subscriber)
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by jkubicek 2y ago
don't worry, community notes on Twitter will fix this /s
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Why wouldn't you take it seriously? "Could go either way" is a perfectly reasonable prediction based on the polls that we all were seeing.
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Well sure, but the predicting the results of this particular election was very much a coin flip.
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> You can't run on that against a 4 star rear admiral who also went into space. If I've learned anything since 2016 it's that you absolutely can convince ½ of Americans that a 4 star rear admiral who also went into space h
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by jkubicek 2y ago
> Most of you do not understand the type of people that built and fought for democracy. I AM the type of people that built and fought for democracy. My people donate to the ACLU and drive people to the polls. We marched for civil rights
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by jkubicek 2y ago
So much of this election has been utterly perplexing, but probably the most confusing part is how many people have legitimate gripes about how the economy is serving them, yet are voting for someone who has plans to make their situation wor
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by jkubicek 2y ago
Your criticism of Yellen and Powell's messaging is valid, but I have a very hard time believing that had any impact on this election. The US fared better than almost industrialized nation post-pandemic. Our inflation is currently under
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by jkubicek 2y ago
I want to start, pause and stop my game at any point and this isn't compatible with a real-time multiplayer game.
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by jkubicek 2y ago
According to the same link you shared, enough people own second homes that 61% of the population has access to a friend or relatives home. That feels pretty normalized (compared to here in the US, where I live in a high-income area and only
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by jkubicek 2y ago
We homeschool and there are some YouTube channels out there that are high-quality enough that we can use them to outsource / augment some of our subjects, particularly science and history.
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by jkubicek 2y ago
The best TV and movie-watching experience _if you aren't eating or drinking_. I love watching movies on my AVP, but the experience of groping for a popcorn bowl semi-blindly is enough of a turn-off that I end up just using our regular
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by jkubicek 2y ago
Do you know of any blogs or writing on this that I could read? Naively, untyped exceptions in Swift always felt like an obvious type system loophole that we should be closing as soon as possible. I trust that the "typed exceptions are
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by jkubicek 2y ago
> Another weird/fascinating factor for me at least is that less convenient access to a toilet seems to correlate with less symptoms. When I'm hiking in the mountains I never seem to have a high frequency of needing to take a du
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by jkubicek 2y ago
Can’t we just stick with FANG? Sure, the acronym doesn’t mean anything anymore, but at least everyone knows what it means.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
> A properly fitted mask This is exactly why masking isn't as effective as it should be _in aggregate_. N95s aren't foolproof to use even for people who are trying to use them properly, then you have to add in the folks who pul

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