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by lrem 3y ago
Bootstrapping an alternative. Growing it from nothingness, being easily welcoming but not overrun by spam and malicious content. Getting to a critical mass before losing the goodwill with users and runway with whoever pays for this. This is
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by lrem 3y ago
It would, but then you're talking about a launch of a thing that wasn't there before. So you need to go through all the reviews needed for that, which might be way too much work for a volunteer trying to salvage something that jus
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by lrem 3y ago
I'll offer a guess educated by almost a decade of working for Google: security treadmill. How can you trust something to stay secure for more than a couple weeks? Borg will outright refuse to run any binary that's been compiled a
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by lrem 3y ago
It's not like the fun of animals nesting in your expensive equipment went away. You are simply paying for someone else to experience that.
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by lrem 3y ago
> It won’t be all that long before you can’t even buy a new DSLR. False! Pentax is sticking to DSLR ;)
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by lrem 3y ago
I suggest listening to Stuff You Should Know on this matter. Apparently dying in your sleep isn’t really a thing.
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by lrem 3y ago
meh In my org in Google we average over one microservice per engineer. I'll be adding two in the next couple weeks. With the right automation setup you don't notice them any more than you do server instances.
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by lrem 3y ago
Are you sure about this? For the couple things I tried, a colleague with Midjourney managed to outperform my attempts with SD by leaps and bounds.
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by lrem 3y ago
I'm a Googler owning a system with a "stop the robot uprising" button that we seem to press every couple years. Needs code in _a lot_ of microservices that looks dead for all intents and purposes. It gets a bit annoying in va
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by lrem 3y ago
That might be possible in some medium-sized companies. In megacorps probably about 5-10% of your time goes into various flavours of performance management. To hide for any significant amount of time, you'd need to have your manager act
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by lrem 3y ago
> Add to that if you wanted to, you can do the minimum and just coast. "Coast" a.k.a. perform only the duties as agreed in your contract, without going above and beyond. A.k.a. "quiet quitting", or the preposterous id
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by lrem 4y ago
Can insect die off be contributing?
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by lrem 4y ago
Eh? I’m just bad at email. If it’s important, my one of my bosses will bring it to my attention.
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by lrem 4y ago
The top search result claimed China has about 20k more inmates. Meaning it has about a quarter of USA’s per capita.
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by lrem 4y ago
It is fourth largest and third most populated. It has the second largest prison population, but is almost tied for the first place here.
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by lrem 4y ago
Quite a few European countries seem to have much less issues with their police forces. But you can’t just copy-paste solutions. “Weapon discharged - automatic suspension until proven innocent” just wouldn’t fit the way the US is.
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by lrem 4y ago
I find it a bit funny you mention "lower-class" here. Of the seven first software engineers with kids I thought of, six have one car and one has none.
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by lrem 4y ago
Huh? I thought Stadia users were treated well, with refunds on everything they bought?
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by lrem 4y ago
Possibly. I'm just comparing the experiences I had.
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by lrem 4y ago
2-3 person offices require actually less space than open plan + meeting rooms. That's because you don't need separate rooms for small meetings. Only the couple big ones.
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by lrem 4y ago
Switzerland, to not search far. There might be worthwhile startups in London and Berlin, but they don't tend to go as large as the ones in the US.
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by lrem 4y ago
I find it surprising that people use the groups webapp as a way to read the email. Isn't your email client more convenient? Disclaimer: I'm a Googler, but never beem responsible for anything close to Groups.
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by lrem 4y ago
Microsoft does the same. My Bose QC35s keep going "surface connected", "surface disconnected" every couple minutes.
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by lrem 4y ago
Hmmm. Isn't quite a lot of these publications taking in a PDF, so their cost of much of this is roughly zero? Except for the eyeballing if the header/footer overlaps anything on the page, in which case you request the author refor
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by lrem 4y ago
Are there any cases where the abseil maps are slower? And: how often does this even matter? I'd guess very rarely.
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by lrem 4y ago
Why are these things riskier than the plain Python code you likely don't read, but go ahead and execute?
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by lrem 4y ago
Firefox and Chrome here. Just easier overall.
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by lrem 4y ago
Anecdotal: even before the great oleophobic coatings we have now, a family member managed to be allergic to touch surfaces. That seemed to include both smartphones and laptop touchpads. Made her skin flake, obviously extremely disturbing wh
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by lrem 4y ago
I agree with Apple being the king of the hill... But it really isn't all that bad on the other side. There are some Windows laptops that will last you a work day on battery, albeit none of them can do considerable compute. I've se
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by lrem 4y ago
Funny that you chose, of all things possible, the contact list as your example. You can safely assume that competent governments on both sides are aware of most forms of electronic communication, including pstn, email and all major chat ser

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