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by lantry 2y ago
Don't learn frameworks or languages, learn computer science and software engineering! languages are an implementation detail. What's really important is critical thinking, problem solving, and knowing how computers work.
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by lantry 2y ago
Not exactly a no, more like "No, but they are letting it die" > "unless Oracle turns its attention to the needs modern developers have from a relational database, it will be killing it, if not through action, then through
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by lantry 2y ago
Is increased home value really that good? and does 35% of the country really count as "few"?
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Astronomical Skeleton Clock Completion (2022)(my-time-machines.net)
4 points by lantry 2y ago|0 comments
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by lantry 2y ago
Yes, physician behavior is influenced by pharmaceutical sales/marketing. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-shee...
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by lantry 2y ago
As the sibling comment put it so succinctly, "proliferation". To expand upon that, natural selection basically says that traits which are beneficial to survival or reproduction will become more widespread in a population over time
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by lantry 2y ago
I usually only look deeper if the summary (X created, Y updated, Z deleted) shows some unexpected numbers, especially if the number deleted is not 0. However, if nothing's being deleted, I usually assume it's safe enough.
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by lantry 2y ago
This is literally everyone's job. It's the whole point of society. Everyone is "fundamentally unsafe", and we all rely on each other.
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by lantry 2y ago
I don't see how design docs are the problem in your scenario
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by lantry 2y ago
PSA on npr.org, you can replace 'www' with 'text' to get a simpler page https://text.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248152695/google-doj-monopo...
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Net Neutrality Is Back(text.npr.org)
3 points by lantry 2y ago|0 comments
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by lantry 3y ago
paywalled
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by lantry 3y ago
That's pretty much the plot of The Long Tommorrow (which is a great read) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tomorrow_(novel)
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by lantry 3y ago
I work on an infrastructure team, and I always find it funny how app developers think it's possible to abstract everything away. All abstractions leak! your code will reach a physical machine at some point in the process. We platform p
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by lantry 3y ago
gift link good for 14 days: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/kitch...
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by lantry 3y ago
do you live near a park? maybe lay in the grass and look at the clouds for a bit
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by lantry 3y ago
Yep, JetBrains is the gold standard IMO. If you want something that works well for most cases and you don't want to think about it, just go with JetBrains. Even their free stuff is high quality.
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by lantry 3y ago
I can second cuelang. We started using it at work and it's so nice. Some of the error messages are a little hard to decipher, but that's acceptable because it catches so many errors up front. The few times I have to write yaml dir
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by lantry 3y ago
"fair market rate" without any externalities priced in.
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by lantry 3y ago
here's a gift link that should be good for 14 days: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/bill-ackma... I believe there are also other ways to bypass the paywall
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Bill Ackman is a brilliant fictional character(theatlantic.com)
29 points by lantry 3y ago|9 comments
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by lantry 3y ago
why do we have to "add" anything? isn't it enough to just exist?
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by lantry 3y ago
"the nature of a CFO" makes it sounds like some kind of mystical force. It's not! it's just humans making decisions. They can choose to be greedy or not.
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by lantry 3y ago
> Turbo is a gem we added to speed up our Rails application, but it turned out to be a red herring: it was only introduced after the bug had already been reported, and we learned that the engineer who introduced it had actually been expe
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by lantry 3y ago
Still available in the internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20231020194224/https://www.thegu...
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by lantry 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub
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by lantry 3y ago
This matches my experience. Google workspace + GCP IAM almost makes it a joy to manage permissions
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by lantry 3y ago
There's also a part of NYC with pneumatic garbage collection https://www.npr.org/2017/07/26/539304811/how-new-york-s-roos...
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by lantry 3y ago
It was on company time, my boss wanted me to attend, and I was much younger than I am now :shrug:
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by lantry 3y ago
I once signed up to attend an AWS event way in advance, and provided my email address and phone number when I signed up. Plus, I had chatted with our rep/salesperson about how I was attending this event. Then, on the day of the event,

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