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I feel like git set back mainstream acceptance of copy-and-merge workflows possibly forever. The merge workflow is not inherently complicated or convoluted. It's just that git is. When dvcses came out there were three contendors: darcs
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She reported not being particularly high paid compared to her peers. When she was hired Facebook didn't care at all about her area (government relations). As that became more important her role grew but she was never really promoted. S
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Non disparagement clauses are put in every severance agreement in the US as a matter of course. It's not just for executives. They'll put it in the severance agreement of a sandwich artist in exchange for one more paycheck -- or s
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The book talks about the conditions when she was fired. She was suffering from life threatening medical problems from complications from a pregnancy. Not hard to see these terms as coerced given the medical and financial problems she was fa
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That would be the minimum you'd need to even get the retainer paid to fight the SLAPP you're guaranteed to get from one of the most powerful and vindictive companies on earth
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I once heard someone say "China is the only country in the world who knows on Jan 1st what their GDP for the year is going to be."
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Really interesting how the thesis for short investigation as a investment strategy relied on 1) investors caring that management is lying and being unwilling to invest in known fraud and 2) the United States being a nation of laws. Both see
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I understand that they've massively reduced the compensation creators receive from monetization. This is why the creators all do sponsorships now. But they force creators to monetize to get reach (if the video isn't monetized it w
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That's a good podcast that gets across that most of the Nazis really were just dense thugs. One thing that it doesn't really cover is the rest of German society and how those thugs managed to get power. Weimer Germany was run by t
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I learned Ada back in the day, and like it a lot. Always want a project to get back into it. It's more C++ than C though. Arguably, it's C++ done right, or rather, a worse-is-better situation with C++. One take away is that learni
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Whenever leftists say that "Trump is a symptom of an illness that has been metastasizing for a long time" this is what we mean.
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Yeah bringing in people on a tourists visa would have been unthinkable at any place I've ever worked.
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The inner planets have exchanged a lot of material it's possible they also exchanged life. In fact I believe some theories for how life formed rely on it.
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The best evidence that art was going to crash is when Masterworks ads were everywhere. You know the bubble is stretched to its limit when they start hawking it to retail. "I've got an exciting bag-holding opportunity that you don&
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They are particularly bad in California. I blame prop 13.
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Leading to the concept of the "luck of Kokura" where you avoid a catastrophe without even being aware of it.
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The norden bombsite was a incredibly cool and fascinating piece of technology that did not have the operational performance its designers were promising. Level bombing with dumb bombs was never going to be particularly precise regardless th
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Like most Malcom Gladwell works this is confused and sloppy. The "bomber mafia" (they didn't call themselves this) were prewar strategists who thought you could destroy an enemy's ability to fight by hitting his strategi
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Yeah my company started stepping up outsourcing in 2023. We also started some AI projects. The AI projects haven't made much progress but the outsourcing is at an extremely advanced stage.
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It can be oversupply/outsourcing and also secular: You can have basically chronic oversupply due to a declining/maturing industry. Chronic oversupply because the number of engineers needed goes down every year and the pipeline isn
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Interestingly hills used to be considered a horrible place to build and poor shanty towns were constructed up the hill with the nicer parts of town in the valley. People didn't want to climb up the hill every day, you had problems with
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Yeah I agree that outsourcing and oversupply are the real culprits and AI is a smoke screen. The outcome is the same though.
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This was when programmers were making software to time Amazon worker's bathroom breaks so believing "this could never happen to me" was probably an important psychological crutch.
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For those who are interested, Pacific Research is a libertarian organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Research_Institute
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I suspect part of this is rich people coming up with use cases. If you're rich enough money means nothing but product selection feels like a burden so you have an assistant who does purchasing on your behalf. You want your house stocke
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Probably hats were associated with people who work in the sun like farmers or soldiers.. Togas were also impractical clothing compared to a tunic.
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Israel and Luigi have them spooked. Two incidents where they've completely lost control of the narrative.
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Debtors prison with extra steps?
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Pretty sure this title came from Palentir who got it from the military.
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We use Google meet and it has Gemini transcriptions of our meetings. They are hilariously inaccurate. They confuse who said what. They often invert the meaning "Joe said we should go with approach x" where Joe actually said we sho

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