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1y ago
> The annoying thing here is that it's simply not true, especially in regards to men. It's still the norm to be told to suck it up, or you're not a real man. It's also the norm to be told that you need to be vulnera
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1y ago
> who has discouraged "sucking it up"? what systemic policies have changed to accommodate this? When I reported being assaulted, I was vigorously encouraged to attend counselling, and it was suggested to me that if I felt fine
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1y ago
Hardware companies are extremely bad at valuing software. The mystery isn't that AMD is bad at it, the mystery is that NVidia is good at it. They also have a probably 30-40 year head start. AMD is trying as much as they can, but changi
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1y ago
Do you think that's better or worse than an entirely shuttered high street? Why?
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1y ago
Yes (at least there used to be), but obviously that has a certain effect on their battery life and cooling requirements.
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1y ago
The other user would get root access in one scenario and not the other (assuming this is a system that only allows root login from the actual console, or doesn't allow root login at all).
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1y ago
> How would that work? What is it about the wheel group that stops the sympathetic wheel from revealing his own login information to other people? The wheel member probably doesn't want to reveal their own login information. They wa
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1y ago
Why would you use UUIDv7 rather than UUIDv4 though?
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1y ago
> The engineers can walk up to the system and do whatever they need to fix them. Including fabricating new RAM?
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1y ago
Citation needed. That LoC is the thing that causes bugs may be a dumb idea, but the best available evidence is that it's true.
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1y ago
> You can't audit open source vendors either. You can audit a lot of Debian's infrastructure - their build systems are a lot more transparent than the overwhelming majority of software vendors (which is not to say there isn
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1y ago
The latter meaning the four freedoms or something equivalent (e.g. complying with the OSD and/or the the DFSG). They don't have to accept patches upstream but they do have to permit sharing your patches with other users one way or
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1y ago
> Unconditionally autoreconfing things would be better, but risk breakage because the backwards compatibility story in Autotools has historically not been good, because they’re not supposed to be used that way. Yes and no. "make -f
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1y ago
It's been consistent though. 15+ year career, many companies, multiple industries, multiple countries.
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1y ago
Following people from cashpoints certainly used to be a common tactic.
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1y ago
The data model is what drives the bottom line. Why is Goldman Sachs so profitable? They have a good data model and have spent 20+ years refining and applying it.
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1y ago
Huh, my experience has been generally the opposite - most FS/BE/FE folks want to understand the business, and while a good PM will enhance that, the median PM is actively detrimental. Frankly if the people you have aren't goo
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1y ago
Huh? I know my bank balance (it's right there on my phone) much more easily than counting up how much cash is in my wallet.
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1y ago
Cash is a pain - easy to run out, makes you a target for mugging. People who have better options available generally choose them.
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1y ago
> $50k USD now is != $50k USD at the time of the scam. And that isn’t even considering time value of money, but just baseline inflation! Sure, and some legal regimes will apply a statutory interest rate to try to make up for that.
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1y ago
> For a while Netscape refused to implement CSS and wanted people to use their own JavaScript Style Sheets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets technology Man, literally every time the web platform
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1y ago
Yes.
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1y ago
> Can we use raw oil 100% without burning/wasting it? Burning it isn't wasting it, we get a lot of value out of that. > How much percent recyclable plastic could we extract out of raw oil? Like real recyclable plastic, where
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1y ago
"build tools" does not normally refer to those things.
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1y ago
> If you prefer, Rust tooling is still quite far behind from languages like Kotlin and Scala I'm not sure that's true, at least when it comes to specifically build tooling. I'd say Cargo is far ahead of Gradle, Ant, or wor
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1y ago
Adding a GC to Rust might honestly be easier than getting the OCaml ecosystem to adopt something that works as well as cargo. It's tragic, but that's the world we live in.
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1y ago
> This sounds more like "this is what I like in rust" than "features any modern language should have" though Good build tooling has been around since 2004, and all of the rest of those features have been around since
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1y ago
Most of those have nothing remotely approaching Rust's level of build tooling.
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> The article is about Dutch, that is European, piracy under the pretense of sovereignty. > My example is about European piracy under the pretense of that foreign ownership supersedes sovereignty. The British and French did something
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1y ago
> After all, if someone stole $1k of gold from someone a decade ago, is giving them (now deflated) $1k USD fair, or is giving them the same physical amount (now worth) $3k in gold fairer? Even if they bought the gold because the scammer
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