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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I quit a job because of citrix. Exactly like you said, very noticeable latency. It ate into my productivity as a part of my mental energy was going into waiting for feedback to my actions to appear on screen.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I agree with this 100%. The insight into Calculus that we get in high school is pretty fleeting, but you do at least get to see the ingredients that go into things like weather reports. Otherwise it just becomes a magic black box. Maybe it
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
This is how concrete mixes are specified as well, all relative to the mass of cement.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
This is a pretty cool idea. Trains make a surprising amount of money, so there's probably a lot of money to be made if it increases efficiency. The costs of errors here are measured in lives though, not Jira tickets, so I hope he'
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
*looks nervously at time spent on HN*
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I got a Lenovo and it worked with no issues with pop os.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Without the bodice you would be out of balance while holding the dumbbell. If you're making a ring around the world, you must learn to reason circularly.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
My motto for these situation is, if it doesn't fit, cut it. Pushing deadlines back looks sloppy, and I take enough pride in my work that I want to take the time to make a quality product. I can always go back and add features later if
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
What a scummy place to work. They ripped off customers and stole people's pension contributions. The fact that they were prepared to do this suggests that an ugly end was always likely.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I was a civil engineer for a few years and left to do something that interested me more. I was glad I had the broad university treatment rather than a narrow practical one, it meant I had the knowledge to go on and do what I wanted when I f
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I completely agree that there's no rush to get a final count of votes. It's really hard to invisibly corrupt the thousands of people involved in counting. Software might be visible so it can be audited by whomever, but then is it
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Ditto for me.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
You're probably better off filing every year. In countries where you just get told what your taxes are, many people don't really even know how to get deductions made, let alone know what deductions apply to them. Also, I don'
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
We're 20 years past the point where you can expect everyone in tech to trace every instruction down to machine instructions. Higher level languages abstract away the need for it, and for the most part, we can rely on the authors of tho
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I was thinking something very similar the other day when someone came to me extolling stoicism as a route to personal improvement. People need to read a bit of Epicurus or something to level out. Sure grind when it's time to grind, but
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
When I grew up, there were different classes for the smart kids and the less smart kids. There was a bottom class where the students had all sorts of behavioural issues. Some people just won't learn, and I think it's fair to separ
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
High praise coming from Bertrand Russell! I feel like this is probably not where his biggest contribution was though, it's essentially just a version of "this sentence is false".
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
It's hard to keep staff once a project is "done". Even if they wanted to stay, departments have budgets and its hard to justify a salary for someone to maintain free access to lectures. Based in the general lack of uniformity
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Like all projects, I guess someone has to actually maintain them. Remember that these people are almost never in tech at all. They probably spent quite a bit of time figuring how to put up the lecture series the first time. After a few year
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Companies put money into projects when prospects are looking good. They can cut back to just maintenance when things are looking bad.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Just burning off energy is the worst way I can think of providing this service.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Is there research showing this? If we're just talking opinions, I'd have to disagree and say I find justified documents are easier to read.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I was thinking the same. The way you motivate the private sector to hurry up and fix the energy crisis is to tell them there's bumper profits to be made. This money goes to renewables providers too, and in the long run, high fossil fue
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Wow! That's UTC as well, so where I am it'd be like having an exception for exactly 4pm, it wouldn't even occur to me that it was a zero!
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Well, the shareholders provided the money that allows any of it to exist at all. If there's was nothing flowing back, there'd be nothing for institutional investors. IPOs would be worthless which means there'd be no exit for
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
I'm in a 25 year old building and we had to replace all the plastic piping last year. The pipes became fragile and started randomly bursting. In about 50 apartments, we were having about 2 leaks a year, and were finding it hard to find
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Its always real hard o make these decisions. It was between Mint, Ubuntu and Pop. Pop comes with nvidia drivers, and I liked the window tiling and keyboard shortcuts.
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
The best thing about Windows 11 is that it finally pushed me to go to Linux, and I switched to Pop OS. I had played around with Mint 10 or so years ago, so honestly, I was braced for a whole lot of friction and little irritations, missing d
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
My new basic law of charts of personality types: "if you make an xy chart of any human traits, and look at it long enough, you can name enough parts of the chart to write a blog post or maybe even a book."
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by just_boost_it 4y ago
Not quite it seems. I was a kid when Facebook came out. I remember what it was like to find websites that had real, bizarre, and innovative content, but I was too young to pick up on the terminology or appreciate how any of it worked.

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