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by m000 3y ago
Also: The Verge using clickbait titles to get people to read poorly-written non-news. Yes, the pop-up is annoying and Microsoft shouldn't do that. But also popping-up the message over a game seems to be a UI glitch. And I'm not su
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by m000 3y ago
But it is the application's business. You may not be altering the database schema from your application, but you still need to make sure that its code is in-sync with it. This means that you will need extra tooling, and if you're
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by m000 3y ago
And good luck with writing tests for your sql code.
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by m000 3y ago
> it's almost assumed that you weren't able to get a proper job You write this like it isn't true. We're not talking about career officers here. We're talking about grunts. What is the fraction of grunt recruits
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by m000 3y ago
Big differences between the two platforms. People pay for Netflix because they want to watch the specific content, for which the platform has already invested money. It feels natural and fair to pay them. For the same reason, if they had a
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by m000 3y ago
People were quite ok with the ads when they were not as obnoxious as today. Apart from techies, few people would put the effort to block them. But these days, you want to watch a 2' video on YouTube you are subjected to 20-30" of
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by m000 3y ago
I think they need to bypass Google somehow to keep it going. Embracing LLMs could be a way out. I already go to ChatGPT to cut through the SEO-optimized crap that Google offers me in the first couple of result pages. I would bet that a lot
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by m000 3y ago
Nostalgia exploitation at its purest form. Mini-consoles at least had some function.
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by m000 3y ago
> At some point, you need to have the mean to finance these services, so stagnating GDP is not that good. Shouldn't a stagnating GDP translate to a stagnating quantity/quality of services? If things are getting worse while GDP
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by m000 3y ago
I think that insisting on operating boutique shops around the world was a very costly option. They could have made it much cheaper for them (and convenient for customers) by affiliating with existing bicycle shops when they went worldwide
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by m000 3y ago
Awesome then! I don't know if I'm the exception, but my Win9x years were mostly offline or with a 56k modem, so online updates were off the map. I was expecting one would need to tweak the registry or plug some custom DNS entries
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by m000 3y ago
> I don’t think it’s hyperbole to call that situation an economic disaster. The US and EU have too much commercial intermingling to have the EU actually cut off data movement to US data centers. It hasn't been an economic disaster s
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by m000 3y ago
The EU is very much complacent with the current situation. There will be condemnation, but administrations across EU are very happy for having offloaded the dirty work to Greece and Italy. And funny that you mention the Netherlands, because
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by m000 3y ago
How about adding some instructions on how to use it? Just saying...
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by m000 3y ago
Ummmm... It sounds like you booked SEA-CDG and CDG-NAP as separate tickets. Huge mistake. In that case, Air France is not obliged by EU law to make arrangements for you to make it for your CDG-NAP flight. I assume they still gave you one of
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by m000 3y ago
Are you American by any chance? Air passenger rights are enshrined in EU law [1]. Asking a random employee to commit in writting for something that everyone knows that is mandated by law would just sound weird to them. Of course the company
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by m000 3y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/lGyix
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by m000 3y ago
Am I missing anything here? This is just a shell wrapper for running a couple of basic docker commands in sequence. It's not even zsh, so you can have some semi-decent argument parsing with zparseopts. For similar docker automation I j
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by m000 3y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/9g5kS
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by m000 3y ago
I think it all boils down to the (people that know what are doing)/(people who don't know what are doing or don't care) ratio. If the first group is dominant, agile is mostly about time-wasting rituals. Eventually, when the n
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by m000 3y ago
The problem is that the "stakeholder" is (more often than not) Bob, the manager from the neighbouring department. So, "producing value for the stakeholders" is essentially "doing what Bob perceives as useful",
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by m000 3y ago
> We conflate “can’t estimate” with “not willing to do all the work necessary to create an accurate estimate” because we know that it’s easier and more economical to just jump into the code, than it is to do a deep, formal analysis. True
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by m000 3y ago
That reads a bit like a SimCity/Railroad Tycoon in-game newspaper pop-up.
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by m000 3y ago
> All teams are different, and a good rule of thumb is to write code the least skilled or experienced person can understand on its own without guidance. This. Also, if your team develops on framework X and people are hired based on that,
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by m000 3y ago
That's not true. I'm sure he was more sweaty than usual, laughing on his way to the bank. /s
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by m000 3y ago
Some bored teenager finds a skull circa 350BC. 2 millennia later: "Scientists baffled by rare skull comb."
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by m000 3y ago
Am I the only one finding this "piecemeal licencing" of music or other content featured in a film complete BS? Even if contracts exist, these should be declared invalid by law. Protecting the integrity of mixed media productions (
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by m000 3y ago
> Is there a direct connection between falling birth rates and treating animals as if they were beloved children? Yes, definitely. The cats sabotaged the economy to increase financial insecurity, and the dogs infiltrated r/Parenting
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by m000 3y ago
> Nobody else has any rights to what I own Nobody else, except perhaps your local HOA [1]. So much about your "property". /s [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os
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by m000 3y ago
Not exactly the same concept, but Life (2017) [1] comes close. [1] https://letterboxd.com/film/life-2017/

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