manvillej

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by manvillej 3y ago
If it doesn't work with sticky notes, it doesn't work. the rest is just scale.
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by manvillej 3y ago
unless we build the wrong things.
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by manvillej 3y ago
The current business strategy across the tech industry is to kill off the competition rather than compete. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, really any business. Buy the competition or undercut the market so much that they die off. Once you are a
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by manvillej 3y ago
yes but in this case, we have actual research showing that the technology is degrading the quality of work.
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by manvillej 3y ago
didn't they fire a bunch of workers then hired them back? are they firing them again?
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by manvillej 3y ago
so like 6 million KG of lithium. or enough lithium for 750,000 EV cars
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by manvillej 3y ago
I am a big fan of the Knight Dialer. I wrote an article on it and how you can actually use graph theory to reduce it to an incredibly efficient 4x4 matrix. was super fun.
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by manvillej 3y ago
executives forgetting to reinvest into the company and shoving money into the C-suite. Why does that sound so familiar these days.
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by manvillej 3y ago
in addition; Chernobyl, three mile island, and fukushima were all early nuclear design. Construction began in 1972, 1968, and 1967. The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942. We have more than 50 YEARS of technological advancement in nucl
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by manvillej 3y ago
add in increasing energy demand, fossil fuel scarcity, battery storage for off peak solar and wind, The reason they're built it is because its worth it. Nuclear has always been worth it, sensationalism has always been the problem
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by manvillej 3y ago
In the US, which is certainly affecting their growth & optimization. That said, progress is happening and being implemented in other countries. 60 new nuclear facilities are under contruction, 110 are planned. https://world-n
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by manvillej 3y ago
V cool, but I really need a DRM free Epub marketplace. FFS, I just want to pay an author for their book and read it on what I want.
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by manvillej 3y ago
Compared to current costs, yes. Power consumption will be closer to supply production curves instead of demand curves. Peak production is a massively burdensome level of production that requires significant over-engineering. It often requir
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by manvillej 3y ago
there's a reason that the saying "a boat is hole in the water you throw money into" exists
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by manvillej 3y ago
> the developers end up having to cater to the needs of the middle managment of their customers rather than the needs of the actual users this is why all enterprise software sucks
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by manvillej 3y ago
what exactly is wire fraud? it seems like its basically "If you get money from lying electronically, go to jail"
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by manvillej 3y ago
the most realistic one is to prevent other scrapers from building their own tools on top of github code search. by putting login, they can throttle or block it entirely.
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by manvillej 3y ago
I do want code examples with the pretty dark syntax highlighting though
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by manvillej 3y ago
That's already a thing: https://www.livingcarbon.com/post/photosynthesis-enhanced-tr... Basically though, more carbon needs to go into the ground than the air. AA (in this specific instance) is pushing carbon in t
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by manvillej 3y ago
without 404, how will I force my collection of funny 404 images onto the world: https://tenor.com/view/dog-moon-moonlanding-landing-nasa-gif...
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by manvillej 3y ago
I think the problem is that the outcomes of technical work is not equivalent to a product with a more static value. Simply put, software is not the same as a burger. Software development to me is a financial investment strategy. Some risky
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by manvillej 3y ago
since most public companies are owned by multi billion dollar hedgefunds, they're not exactly pillars of democracy. and since privately owned businesses are a thing; its really not that big of a deal
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by manvillej 3y ago
when we don't optimize for cloud and look at it from this angle and squint, it looks like we're saving money!
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by manvillej 3y ago
Post Malone can't be stopped
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by manvillej 3y ago
I wonder if this is why ADHD people struggle with sleep.
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by manvillej 3y ago
this is exactly how I go about re-architecting overgrown workflows. reduce the workflow to a state machine. It takes forever to untangle what they are wanting to do and what they are doing, but the result is always a more robust solution. t
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by manvillej 3y ago
I feel like awaiting some human interaction is one of my most common requests for workflows. await some approval or some manual task that can't be automated, etc. honestly, when working with some new archaic system, the ability to inse
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by manvillej 3y ago
Epic, ServiceNow, Workday, Basically every ERP technology every invented.
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by manvillej 3y ago
> Unreal has licenses which allow you to use one version of their engine FOREVER and they cannot revoke that license. So the author didn't fully research this. It is true that for NEWER version Epic can change this. so did unity, un
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by manvillej 3y ago
because even if I can't or shouldn't fix it, I want to be able to detect what is wrong with it

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