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by madrox 3y ago
A very interesting point
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by madrox 3y ago
Point taken, though from my understanding hunter gatherer groups didn't have a ton of time for leisure...especially anything involving carrying a heavy object with them as they roamed that didn't have utility.
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by madrox 3y ago
https://archive.ph/HSgei This doesn't seem as mysterious to me as the article suggests. We were still primarily roaming hunters 1.4m years ago. It's not difficult to imagine the uses a more aerodynamic rock would
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by madrox 3y ago
I've been predicting this trend for years, and it's validating to see someone else say it. It isn't even just messaging apps. Discord and Twitch are also killing social media usage. It's any walled community where people
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by madrox 3y ago
I understand where you're coming from; I've never thought to ask permission before. However, I think it's a good idea to honor the intent of this section and "read the room" before doing something that will affect s
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by madrox 3y ago
I don't think anything you said alters my point, but I wish you luck. That's an awful environment.
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by madrox 3y ago
Are you saying the reason why sites went offline pre-cloud was because engineers were simply bad at design?
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by madrox 3y ago
Important to remember that, before you could burst your infrastructure in the cloud, sites simply went offline in events like this. You took actively lost revenue in those cases.
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by madrox 3y ago
If this isn't a government or a bank then run like hell because that company is ripe for being disrupted.
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by madrox 3y ago
I made this transition in my late 20s after ~10 years of generalist engineering. I don't believe I could have done it without going back to school. After a decade writing code, I found stochastic thinking to be non-intuitive, and schoo
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by madrox 3y ago
The industry has evolved toward blacklisting over whitelisting on devices. It reduces IT burden significantly should problems arise, and you should index toward trusting people to do the right thing. Overall, this approach is better. When I
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by madrox 3y ago
"If you ain't first, you're last." - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby I'm not surprised to find out Steve Jobs had Ricky Bobby energy
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by madrox 3y ago
Depends on the grade they got in that 3000 course, though I tend to agree with you
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by madrox 3y ago
I'm not convinced past popularity necessarily equates to nostalgia, but as this case demonstrates I may be wrong.
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by madrox 3y ago
The turn of the century tech was an awkward phase I didn't ever think we'd look back on with nostalgia, but between this and the low-poly video games that have come back around like BattleBits I guess you can long for any time pas
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by madrox 3y ago
This brings back memories. Every LAN group had that one friend like you. I'm sure you made up for it if, like my BSD friend, you were handy with network troubleshooting and always brought spare CAT-5.
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by madrox 3y ago
This is true, and this has been happening for all of time. Computerization eliminated hosts of jobs, lest we forget "computer" used to be a job title a century ago. Elevator operator also used to be a thing people did to support a
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by madrox 3y ago
There's also a lot fewer blacksmiths than there used to be. As a middle manager, I'm not a protected class. My job didn't exist a century ago and I'd be naive to think it deserves to be around a minute longer than is req
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by madrox 3y ago
It's been interesting to me how advancement changes outmoded disciplines. The automobile didn't get rid of people riding horses, but it changed why people rode horses. Photography changed why people painted. I'm sure many peo
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by madrox 3y ago
I've used this extension for years. Thank you for your service. I agree open source users are the worst.
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by madrox 3y ago
That's fair. I had two competing thoughts in my head and neither were communicated clearly. My thesis is that I think recruiting pipelines are either optimized for something that is anti-candidate or not optimized at all and simply cop
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by madrox 3y ago
When I became an engineering leader, it was my turn to design a hiring process. Most other companies similar to mine copied what Google did. That led me to this essay [1] and I realized copying what other big tech companies do probably wasn
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by madrox 3y ago
There's a lot of low density population in our country, and it really adds up to a lot of people given just how much land we have. One person in five lives in rural America. For a lot of people living among poor infrastructure, these k
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by madrox 3y ago
The paperclip maximizer is a thought experiment described by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003. It illustrates the existential risk that an artificial general intelligence may pose to human beings when it is programmed to pursue eve
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by madrox 3y ago
The same idea was in Down & Out. The Bitchun Society was basically immortal as well, and they didn't need to convince any other civilization factions...merely wait them out. I, too, thought about this quite a bit when observing the
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by madrox 3y ago
When I was an intern at Yahoo working on OAuth back in 2008 (2007? It was long ago and I'm old) I had the pleasure of implementing an internal tool for generating OAuth 1.0 URLs, which meant encoding a lot of things in query parameters
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by madrox 3y ago
This is a case study in how to destroy a company. Elon is doing it so effectively I have to wonder if it's on purpose.
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by madrox 3y ago
I'm paraphrasing a quote somewhat, but "we didn't have to change their minds; they just died" haunts me 20 years after reading it.
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by madrox 3y ago
When I read this post, I imagined the author talking about hard science like physics, chemistry, and other fields that require pretty significant investment in proper tools and a strong understanding of deeply complex topics that have been
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This post was written by a social psychology post-doc. In his field, I'm ready to believe most professional science is BS.

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