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by luckylion 9mo ago
What's your estimation for how much more expensive it would be for DTAG to peer at Decix instead of only doing dedicated private peerings that they get paid for? Because I don't believe it's about any additional cost -- it&#x
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by luckylion 9mo ago
The same is true for regular databases though, isn't it? Network adds latency and while it might be fine to run 500 queries with the database being on the same machine, adding 1-5ms per query makes it feel not okay.
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by luckylion 9mo ago
Protecting the employee instead of the company/shareholders is unchecked greed?
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by luckylion 9mo ago
Yes, absolutely. I'm not talking about people who are not sociable _and_ can't produce, but people who don't care about your feelings, but are very strong in their work. In other comments, it felt like they focused very much
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by luckylion 9mo ago
Maybe you had those average assholes masquerading as brilliant? I don't know that of course, but "ships broken stuff" doesn't sound particularly brilliant to me. I'm thinking of the type that builds things that you
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by luckylion 9mo ago
I generally struggle with the idea of someone actually choosing to be an asshole, I assume there's usually an unseen cause. E.g. I work with someone who seems very normal, is very professional, and I have no reason to believe that they
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by luckylion 9mo ago
To the outside, the difference is hard to tell, isn't it? Between neuro-diversity and genuine unpleasantness -- isn't it mostly that one has a diagnosis (that you know of) and the other does not? You might change your moral judgem
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by luckylion 9mo ago
I have no experience with the military and very little with working in academia, but a lot with commercial work, and I've seen it work many times. Clearly those people wouldn't be the ones talking to customers or leading teams, bu
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by luckylion 9mo ago
People want results. Brilliant assholes produce those, so you tolerate the annoying parts. Would be great if they were also kind, but I'll take a house built by an asshole over a tent erected by a friendly person. It's not a dicho
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by luckylion 9mo ago
I consider "understanding what people want when they well you" part of soft skills, and LLMs are good at that. I've know a few non-developers who use AI to solve the things they need. Nothing huge, it's not anything amaz
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by luckylion 9mo ago
It depends on what you want to achieve as a developer, I think. Having some soft skills makes a lot of things easier, but if you don't have the hard skills to back it up, you'll plateau unless you switch to management before you r
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by luckylion 9mo ago
Possibly, but those are irrelevant sums compared to their total wealth.
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by luckylion 9mo ago
But technically you can also do that with chromium and gecko, but it's a lot of work, so very few do. And those that do don't cut the line, they'll almost all still follow upstream and just apply their changes. So in the end,
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by luckylion 9mo ago
I think that's more "this sounds great" than "our users are developers". Google's services also aren't aimed at developers, the APIs are often very bureaucratic and not very well done (there's no way
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by luckylion 9mo ago
I think it is true, but not because you have nothing more to learn when you're experienced, but that there are fewer and fewer people on SO to answer the questions that you encounter when you get more and more experienced. I've an
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by luckylion 9mo ago
You mean one unelected dictator tried to annex a neighboring country and wanted to remove the elected president of that country. Please don't spread Russian propaganda by taking over their talking points.
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by luckylion 10mo ago
For all its existence it has been 100% state-owned and state-controlled, yet because it's a failure, it's still somehow "not state, but actually privatized", even though not "full actual privatization" (but onl
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by luckylion 10mo ago
Germany's public transport is really not privatized though. The Deutsche Bahn AG is structured as company, but is entirely owned by the federal government. There's very, very little public transportation (e.g. private buses betwee
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by luckylion 10mo ago
> Other professions have done what you have stated (i.e. certification) and seen higher wages than otherwise which also proves my point. I'd generally agree with that if it regards to safety (e.g. industrial control systems), but we
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by luckylion 10mo ago
Monopolizing the work doesn't work unless you have the power to suppress anyone else joining the competition, i.e. "certified developers only". Otherwise people would have realized they can charge 3x as much by being 5x as pr
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by luckylion 10mo ago
> "AI" (and don't get me wrong I use these LLM systems constantly) is off the charts compared to normal data centre use for ads serving. It wasn't only about serving those ads though, traditional machine-learning (jus
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by luckylion 10mo ago
> Everyone seeks career growth, but pushing for it too quickly often just leads to inflated titles without real substance. That's why I'm not a big fan of recommending people to often and quickly change jobs to increase titles
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by luckylion 10mo ago
It might just as well have been something that was supposed to sound young and fun ("I don't want to do that") and ends up leaving too much room for interpretation. If you have the power to do something, saying you might do i
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by luckylion 10mo ago
You can easily test this, of course -- the problem isn't that you, the user, cannot find out, it's that you pay for being able to use an endpoint in those countries and can't, because they don't exist. It's not only
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by luckylion 10mo ago
> I am not sure that I really understand what they did. They checked where the VPN exit nodes are physically located. A lot of them are only setting a country in the whois data for the IP, but do not actually put the exit node in that co
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by luckylion 10mo ago
"shouldn't be profit oriented" is another way to say "costs will quickly grow exponentially", because there's absolutely no incentive not to let them. Is anyone better off if elderly care becomes too expensive
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by luckylion 10mo ago
"yeah, yeah, that's bad, BUT HERE'S SOMETHING ELSE WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT" Whataboutism doesn't give absolution, it's only meant to deflect, as ks2048 did.
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by luckylion 11mo ago
> But Amazon will fight for its life to stop this have you seen Amazon's "Rufus"? It's hilariously useless.
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by luckylion 11mo ago
> Imagine for a second that any time you borrowed money to buy something, like a home or a car, you paid that back not by actually paying the loan plus interest, but by a % garnishment of your lifetime wages. That is what equity capital
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by luckylion 11mo ago
Individually, for you, what's the difference? You use a service provider, if that service provider is down, your site is down. Does it matter to you that others are also down in that instance?

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