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901.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Or spillover happens because the map isn't the terrain and no plan survives contact with the first brittle edge condition in the existing codebase.
902.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> If you don’t finish the work you had planned to during a sprint then you fail the sprint that 'failure' bit right there is some bullshit that should get cut out.
903.
by lamontcg 3y ago
I literally can't even imagine that utopia, because I still reflexively included a carve out for sales tax.
904.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Fees should just be illegal for any service, across the board. Cost of internet should just be what it is, plus any actual sales tax. Price should just be the advertised price. Anyone that tacks on fees should just get immediately sued f
905.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Looks like it is about the same size as 25143 Itokawa that the Hayabusa probe visited. That has a mass of 35 billion kg. The Burj Khalifa is 0.45 billion kg so that is about 80 Burj Khalifa's.
906.
by lamontcg 3y ago
I love how there's all these arguments here that start with "surely they've carefully studied the productivity angle and wouldn't be calling back everyone to the office if it wasn't demonstrably better in the actual
907.
by lamontcg 3y ago
There was a whole lot of community window dressing going on. I still wonder if they weren't trying to ship maintenance of the open source code off onto the community thinking that if all that worked appeared (or thinking that it was a
908.
by lamontcg 3y ago
I recently wrote an ODE IVP integrator in C#. In the process I read the code in Numerical Recipes, Scipy and DifferentialEquations.jl. That combined with my own house style and some gyrations for allocation-free code resulted in the final
909.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Smells like the end of Chef. Management doesn't understand how much it takes to maintain the open source project and is just pouring resources into sales and marketing and products that they can charge for, and don't see how that
910.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> Or did you mean failing to resolve some internal service's hostname? Yeah, something more like that where the internal service is somehow 'sharded' due to some overly complicated distributed database nonsense, and there&
911.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> We'd need the Linux Foundation or some other large neutral standards body to fork Chromium Why is the answer always more chromium? And for a userbase nominally so positively biased towards open source it is weird to see how google
912.
by lamontcg 3y ago
domains load balanced across different servers in some overly complicated distributed topology with only one of them busted? although seems unlikely it just happens to be the NYT.
913.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Any DNS resolver libraries have a 4.5 second timeout? Maybe their infrastructure is just rotting.
914.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> a couple of breaths of pure oxygen will relieve pain and induce euphoria. Nah. I've breathed pure oxygen under water for 10 minutes at a time at a ppO2 of 1.6 and it doesn't really do much.
915.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Definitely needs dopes for it to work.
916.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> Firefox's shrinking marketshare is an existential threat to Mozilla yeah, so the best thing to do is to try to reverse that. the article just takes it as given that mozilla/firefox will probably fail. and if it does fail, th
917.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> They're burning $50M loss last quarter which is mind blowing considering they had a monopoly originally. Their finances are pretty insane. In 2023 on sales of $475M their operating loss was $297M. And everything is going the wro
918.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> permanent WFH basement gremlins Office life and commutes have so completely destroyed our ability to have outside social lives that the solution to not being able to socialize is to go back to the office. Brilliant.
919.
by lamontcg 3y ago
The big fortune 100 tech companies are also commercial real estate owners and landlords. Look at all the buildings that Amazon owns and subleases in Seattle. Those executives absolutely have an incentive to be pushing RTO because of their
920.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah podman is now crippled by the association with RedHat/IBM.
921.
by lamontcg 3y ago
I said "people are free to have red flags that cause them to cut ties with other people" and you continue to twist what was a statement about free association into statements (that you want to argue about) regarding active discrim
922.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Wonder what the overlap is between the lab leak people and the people that were shitting on expert opinion that the LK99 authors looked kinda like amateurs.
923.
by lamontcg 3y ago
you can actually be racist in public as well. get out of a swimming pool if a black person shows up and nobody can or will force you back into it.
924.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> I find it funny that when people were required to be home, employers talked about what great productivity they were getting with people at home. Then when it isn't required anymore, they want everyone back in the office for...prod
925.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Or he's just a narcissist and because everyone has told him he's the smartest person in the world, he has no appreciation of the limits of his knowledge and at this point he simply can't see it.
926.
by lamontcg 3y ago
you're actually free to be racist in your personal life. nobody will imprison you.
927.
by lamontcg 3y ago
the fact that some people treat 'being black' as a red flag, doesn't negate the utility of treating 'probably a narcissist' as a red flag.
928.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> innocent until proven guilty should apply to every interaction we have with any human being. that is ludicrous. people are free to have red flags that cause them to cut ties with other people without clearing any evidentiary bar. that
929.
by lamontcg 3y ago
That is obscene and should be illegal for car manufacturers to build and sell that in the US (or World).
930.
by lamontcg 3y ago
Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110

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