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by mabbo 4y ago
Hey America, is everything okay down there? Y'all have some truly dystopian stuff going on there. Felony prosecution for showing kids books that the Governor didn't approve of? Yikes.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I enjoy that the JEP process allows for nice little small things like this. This isn't "we should have lambdas" or "Let's rebuild the type system to allow List<int>". But it's still a very common ann
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by mabbo 4y ago
The linked JEP provides a very well written set of reasons.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I came here to bring the exact same joke. Rest in peace, Mitch.
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by mabbo 4y ago
This is one of the places where ChromeOS is an interesting option. If the employee literally can't install software, it's very hard to get owned by malware.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Do MailChimp employees not need a Yubikey or some other secure OTP generator to access customer data? Or does the attack involve the user sending their OTP as well? Either this is a pretty heavy handed attack, or MailChimp aren't follo
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by mabbo 4y ago
I love my little set of transitive dice. I cannot wait until my child is old enough to be fooled by them.
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by mabbo 4y ago
That's how I had to do almost every move. It's really a graph search!
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by mabbo 4y ago
Well that took me 28 minutes. I love it.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Amazon, Shopify, Wayfair, Google, Meta: all of these companies make money because e-commerce exists. The higher the proportion of all sales taking place on e-commerce, the more valuable the companies are. For Google and Meta, it's the
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by mabbo 4y ago
> Every damn body knew that the last 2 years were not representative of the future. I disagree. There's charts showing the proportion of commerce online vs offline and it slowly rises over time over the last 20 years. It's foll
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by mabbo 4y ago
The Quantum Algorithm Zoo website[0] gives some examples of problems where the quantum algorithm is much faster than the classical one. My own view is that for a lot of (but not all[1]) problems for which we have a quantum algorithm improve
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by mabbo 4y ago
And all of those things aren't enough, as demonstrated by every company that's doing them now. Beyond entry level dev jobs, most of Amazon's corporate employees are getting half or more of their comp in stock. Yet here we are
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think Union isn't the right word for what I want. I want a co-op where the employee organization owns the company. Profits are bonuses for all the employees. I don't want protection from company's goal of making the most mo
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by mabbo 4y ago
I'm torn here. On the one hand, part of me thinks "Yeah but this is corporate employees! This is people like me!". And then another part of me steps in and asks "So what, the more than a million logistics employees aren&
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by mabbo 4y ago
Unregretted Rate of Attrition. Within every org of ~100+ people, they stack rank and cut the bottom K%. It used to be 4%. Now it's 7%. They get put onto a PIP, and very few improve enough to stay.
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by mabbo 4y ago
My friend just got notified he's out. He has like 12 years with the company. He was half way through a meeting that he was driving/leading when he got the notification.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Your fridge and freezer are warming your home. They move the heat from inside the fridge to outside. That heats up your home. This reduces your need to heat your home, temporarily. Generally, every device in your home that uses electricity
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by mabbo 4y ago
> Amazon has been subsidizing it in the hope that people would buy stuff on a moment's whim any time of the day. I think the deeper issue is that when Amazon started the product (I heard rumours of it circa 2014 or so?) Amazon was a
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by mabbo 4y ago
But who is paying for all this R&D? I love my echo. Sits in my livingroom and mostly answers my questions about the weather and converting units from oz to ml when I'm cooking. But since I purchased it I have never once paid a penn
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by mabbo 4y ago
I loathe the term "slippery slope", but I think this is one case that we really need to pay attention to for fear of one. There's a lot of little steps one can take to get to a really bad place. Consider: a very outspoken lef
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by mabbo 4y ago
Oh she is well aware of Cities: Skylines.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Let's set aside the part that making a planet where we could live is hard. Just presume we did that, to start. Let's talk Logistics . Presume there are only 1 billion people left on Earth when we decide it's time to go. How
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by mabbo 4y ago
My wife is a water resources engineer, a type of civil engineering focused on flood prevention and erosion. I think I've finally found a PC game she's going to be excited by.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I put my new feature behind a beta flag or experiment flag. If the flag is off for a user, they don't see it. Then I turn it on just for the user I test with in prod. Then I test in prod. When it's time to enable the feature for t
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by mabbo 4y ago
I disagree. Tests should define what the expectations are. If a change does not impact those expectations, then it should be allowed and not break any tests. Locking your code such that all future changes require updating old tests tells
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by mabbo 4y ago
I keep rereading this hoping I'm misunderstanding. That is cargo cult level behaviour. They know that software with lots of tests tend to have few bugs, so let's automatically have lots of tests! I just hope whatever you were buil
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by mabbo 4y ago
> But think: everything in those describe blocks had to be written by hand. It also had to be thought about by the developer. Someone had to say "I want the code to do this under these conditions". If your tests can be autoge
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by mabbo 4y ago
> Using a moving black hole as a gravitational mirror, kinetic energy from the black hole is transferred to the beam of light as a blueshift and upon return the recycled photons not only accelerate, but also add energy to, the spacecraft
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by mabbo 4y ago
Ethan Siegel isn't so certain: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/most-distant-galaxie... The tl;dr is that we're finding quite a few red galaxies and red can mean distant (and therefore old) but you n

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