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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Negotiating with car dealers is not difficult if you can simply act like an an adult and stand up for yourself just a little bit. Would it really be that hard to just give some advice without being condescending and insulting about it?
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> Canonical HR is the worst. They use a discredited "personality test" company. They also have a really weird focus on your education history when applying, to the point that when I was considering applying there, their applica
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by mdekkers 3y ago
All these papers, articles, blogposts and talking heads on the news shouting about catastrophic AI risks and related nonsense is incredibly relentless. Most of it is vague handwaving with a lot of shouty “think of the politicians” and “thin
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Please don’t give the killer-AI any more ideas
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Unfortunately this is not the first time the Guardian publishes such a hysterical “AI WILL KILL US ALL” piece, they publish several per week, and this is just the most ridiculous example. They appear firmly on-board with the moat-digging th
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Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead ”(theguardian.com)
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amazing headline
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> I meant manufacturing. That’s cherrypicking, and also leads me to believe you are not genuinely interested in having and informed debate. > I am not buying a Hue for that money. > I could not find a good summary on LED manufactur
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Why is it ecologically better? The significant reduction in energy use as well as the long lifespan of the lamps more than makes up for the metals used in the manufacture of the lamps. If this genuinely interests you there is plenty of
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Anecdotally, I mostly purchase Philips Hue, and one has yet to fail. Yeah, they are not cheap, but I’ve some of the lamps for many years and they are still doing fine. They have certainly outlasted incandescent bulbs, and at a fraction of t
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Have a look at Kagi
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Personal opinion: The New Yorker article is of significant higher quality
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> LED lights are meant to save energy. Spoiler alert: They do. They save up to 90% energy, and quality LED lighting can last much longer. Incorrectly installed LED lights cause light pollution, which is not so much an LED problem, as it
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Disappointed they don’t include complexity as part of the definition of tech debt.
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“First order of business” should be to listen. I get parachuted into companies as an interim “technology problem solver” with a variety of different titles, whatever suits the business and task at hand. Spoiler alert: technology is rarely t
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by mdekkers 3y ago
That’s how the big oil industry operates, trying to make all the alternatives even less appealing.
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Obligatory: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge...
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It happens depressingly often on projects: “the team has analyzed new, additional data which has yielded updated insights, so we are adjusting our designs and approaches accordingly” Only to be savaged by project managers (and all kinds of
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> contemplate all your choices in life. You make that sound like it is a good thing
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I don’t doubt there are developers that don’t mind or enjoy doing ops, but the very vast majority of developers I have worked with don’t want to do ops. Perhaps it’s ancedata, and perhaps it’s a selection bias as I tend to be hired to solve
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Developers don’t want to ops.
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Possibly if you are not familiar with how software is configured. It was immediately clear to me.
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> Third observation was unexpectedly high visible support of Wagner by people. Many laughing at situation or agreeing with Prigozhin‘s demands, some bringing food and water to mercenaries in Rostov. During Soviet times, many Russians lea
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by mdekkers 3y ago
CO2 scrubbers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_scrubber
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Clickhouse is a really cool and stupidly fast columnar database
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Every time I see Huffman quoted it strikes me how much his communication patterns mirror those of Trump
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> It's unbelievably stupid. In other words, they now force you to give them your phone number, which is incredibly valuable to them. It’s unbelievably smart on their part.
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> I've been liking to instead model the dependencies explicitly, and make the project plan a dag rather than a gannt charts. Thats called an Event Chain Diagram and it is the bit that comes after doing a CPA, with or without a PER
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> Putting tentative is the biggest asshole move you can do calendar-wise. First of all, thats not a very nice way of putting things. Secondly your answer has little conversational value, you are not adding to the debate. Thirdly - that
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Kagi does, and in any caee Kagi rarely shows Quora results

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