kiklion

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by kiklion 5y ago
So after reading other parts, I get where I was mistaken but still believe proper coding practices of avoiding magic strings would avoid many of the potential issues. My mistake was thinking the initial Unicode character was changing the co
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by kiklion 5y ago
Sorry, still don’t get it. Isn’t the issue that they are using magic strings? If the strings were something like RoleConstants.Admin then this is avoided? Though I don’t understand the point of the Unicode characters in the comment string s
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by kiklion 5y ago
Elsewhere someone mentioned it’s cheaper to build a new container in China than to ship and empty one over from the US. Even if you are already sending the boat. This sort of implies that it’s incredibly cheap to make the container, and&#x2
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by kiklion 5y ago
Even if there are businesses that you don’t want, it can be solved outside of broad strokes zoning.
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by kiklion 5y ago
> That cookie banner is mostly corporations trying to be sneaky and trying to trick people into giving consent, or just flat-out misunderstanding the regulation. If the cookie banner satisfies the regulations and is the path of least res
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by kiklion 5y ago
Add a reward for whistleblowing on people accepting bribes? Then it’s optimal to offer bribes indiscriminately, just to turn around and report them for accepting.
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by kiklion 5y ago
Sounds like AWS is incredibly simple to use if you have your developers trying to minimize costs instead of actually getting it to work. Which is a lot better than other products out there which may be cheaper but end up not working as adve
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by kiklion 5y ago
> It can be done, it just costs money. Well money and time. You speak as if you think that if only the great billionaires accepted a little less money then we could have safety. How many lives are you willing to lose for a multi year del
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by kiklion 5y ago
> It's possible to exploit this: you can claim somebody else's name, and apparently get away with casting their vote. This is made more likely by voter rolls being public. In NC, you can even see if a given person voted in a gi
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by kiklion 5y ago
Can’t find the source, but the long of it is that the value of commercial property is a function of the rent that you can get. If you are ‘looking’ for a renter at a given rate, then the value isn’t reassessed. If you lower your rate and re
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by kiklion 5y ago
Not to mention that raising wages really only helps localized labor shortages. If you raise wages and get employees from your competitor, then you’ve moved the labor shortage to another company but it still exists. The only way raising wage
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by kiklion 5y ago
> The limit isn't how fast they type. Its how correct the code is And how good your autocomplete tools are, or you repertoire of code based to copy from.
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by kiklion 5y ago
Unless it’s consumed by an AI. Which I don’t fully understand but am comfortable assuming that the AI might be able to ‘teach’ itself to consume an API.
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by kiklion 5y ago
> At the end of the day, if you dig deep enough, the why will be related to human happiness. At one of my jobs, one of my tasks was to take client HR feeds and load them into downstream systems for travel management. On your second day o
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by kiklion 5y ago
One of these videos gives some good information. And all of them are interesting. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjHf9jaFs8XWoGULb2HQRvhzB...
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by kiklion 5y ago
Am I misunderstanding or are you basically saying that the monthly cost of housing is roughly equivalent so more taxes = lower home prices, such that taxes + principal + interest is the same in both places?
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by kiklion 5y ago
But if you are chasing sign up bonuses, that typically doesn’t happen all at once. Assume you have a card for restaurants, one of travel, one for grocery’s, one for gas, one for entertainment and one catch all. That’s 6. What else do you ha
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by kiklion 5y ago
> Computing hasn't changed radically in a long time and certainly not programming. This might depend on what you consider radical. Web forms vs MVC vs react + restful API are fairly different coding paradigms. Trying to create a win
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by kiklion 5y ago
I’m only 33 but I had 0 difficulty in finding employment, even a few months into Covid. However I’m also a ‘senior developer’ already, so there isn’t much room title wise to go in 7 years that isn’t management. But that’s also kind of expec
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by kiklion 5y ago
What is ‘using water’ in this context? Is it boiled off? Contaminated and needs to be cleaned?
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by kiklion 5y ago
> Western medicine has largely ignored environmental effects. I wouldn’t say they ignored it, instead environmental effects aren’t in scope to medicine. If your doctor said ‘you live on Long Island so you have a higher chance of breast c
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by kiklion 5y ago
Sometimes you need to accept you just aren’t the target audience of a product. You may love cars. You might think Tesla’s are amazing. But if you live on a small island without an electrical grid, it might not be the car for you just becaus
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by kiklion 5y ago
If they are holders of debt, don’t get possibly get some vote on debt restructuring?
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by kiklion 5y ago
> Both parents working all day and the kids getting a mediocre upbringing under the care of strangers The only problem here is the ‘mediocre’ upbringing. My daughter is in a daycare where she is learning Spanish words/phrases in add
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by kiklion 5y ago
I financed 250,000 of a mortgage last year, and my mortgage payment is about $1200 a month (including taxes and insurance) Assuming taxes and insurance correspond with a % of home value, a 1 million mortgage would be about $4,800 a month. O
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by kiklion 5y ago
> Ideally, good companies will find a balance with AI and human operators that's also sustainable as a business. This is the crux of it. What do you define as a balance? In this example, Stripe shouldn’t be using ML to actually ban
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by kiklion 5y ago
It kind of depends on the details. My company has offices that you can go to, but if you want to work remotely then it’s up to you to manage your environment. The company already has offices. Why would they pay for more just because you don
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by kiklion 5y ago
I found the same. C# being on GitHub combined with the Microsoft documentation has made working with it a breeze. If I ever have any doubt, I just step into the code itself and figure it out.
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by kiklion 5y ago
Isn’t rent control, as a means of addressing housing affordability, one of the things that nearly every economist agrees doesn’t work? If you want to use rent control as a means to ensure individuals of various levels of wealth intermingle…
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by kiklion 5y ago
I have no crypto investments, but this is basically where the line is for me. If they took the 1 USD backing the coin and invested it in US government bonds so that only a fraction is immediately available (but a large enough fraction to co

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