mdekkers

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by mdekkers 3y ago
> They inherited a booming economy and have been reluctant to change because they never had to. And now they are old and incapable of change, like most old people. Can you share your unique insights about the characteristics of other dem
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> 3k line insanity query *laughs in PTSD*
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by mdekkers 3y ago
What the % of install cost over the projected lifetime of the system?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Now older and wiser, candidly a lot of folks would be well served by default blue links, og html submit buttons and tables for layouts. A fair bit of modern UI is complete trash: it's the product of a designer and a product person
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I don’t have much in the way of “Means”, I just enjoy breathing and set my priorities accordingly. Also, where I live the most expensive CPAP costs like 1800 EUR. Mine costs 900 EUR
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by mdekkers 3y ago
After an initial round of bullshit with the local government insurance agency to get my CPAP including the multiple “two month wait for x”, then a 6 month wait to get the machine, and subsequently struggling to get it serviced, I bought my
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Politicians setting unrealistic goals? Well I never….
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> It is the worst possible way to schedule jobs at scale. The literal evidence proves that this approach is absolutely workable at scale, so “the worst possible way” clearly doesn’t apply. The interesting question here is “how did they m
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Sure, but those are organisational failures, not technical failures. If you need better technology because the org sucks at planning, the tech isn’t the issue and you are just sweeping issues under the carpet.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> In an office it's easy for a new hire to ask a question or get someone's attention. When remote, how does the company communicate culturally? Is there an expectation for response times? If not, what internal tools and resourc
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by mdekkers 3y ago
It’s just one example of the insufferably patronising tone of the article. Just stating that a bank transfer happens is enough. No need to assume anything. Making the assumption that an explanation is required is totally unnecessary.
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The same way you onboard folks that are not remote, sans the awkward shuffle around the place shaking hands with strangers and being told where the toilets and fire exits are. I’d love to hear what kind of pitfalls concern you.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
The DALL-E generated hero image is terrible, and the tone of the article is beyond patronising, I couldn’t get past the “money transfer between banks is magic”.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Every single question of “Why?” in this article can be answered with “Money”
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Life is cheap
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> If there were ever to be any kind of “meat grinding” war Haven't you heard? Ukraine needs 500.000 more units of meat for the grinder. Russia are likewise looking for some huge number.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Who will you change to? Since there is only one alternative, I am going to assume that this is a rethorical question designed to invite a discussion about how the alternative is significantly worse in your point of view. Not an interes
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That site is just a big ad for the book, I was unable to find any actual recipes. Edit: turns out this entire post is just an ad for the book.
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> That's a very U.S. centric perspective. It's somewhat less common in the EU than in the U.S. to involve courts so readily. For people, yes. For businesses, absolutely not.
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> I also think these sort of behaviors are damaging their brand I have a lot of Apple kit, and the Vision Pro is hugely tempting. Unfortunately, Apples’ shenanigans the past few years, starting with “we will scan all pictures you want to
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Even worse, it takes even professionals months to fine-tune a manufacturing process to make a new thing. Months for simple things. Depending on technologies and requirements, the fine-tuning (increase yield and throughput) can take yea
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> we’re not here to lie to anyone A sound foundation for managing my secrets
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I never count options as renumeration. Startups and scaleups may as well promise to pay me with lottery tickets. Cash please, thank you. If you want to talk about using equity to pay me, please come with real shares, and a say in how the bu
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I hesitate to say the slaughter of indigenous would not have happened, frankly the British are simply better at hiding their iniquity. The British indigenous headcount is likely only surpassed by Ghengis Khan, and I am not at all convi
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> It wasn't so much a matter of "not counting cash" though - it was counted frequently, and the problem was that when it was counted, bugs in the accounting system had accumulated to make it look like there was cash missin
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Nice and all to make Fujitsu the (well deserved) fall guy, but it shouldn’t stop there. Everyone involved, from the Government top down to asinine middle management that just blindly followed stupid software accusations without, you know, a
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> At what point will Apple try to build/buy their own foundry? As soon as they are tired of having money. It isn’t just the cost of building Fabs, literally their entire supply chain is based on being Fabless, and changing that is r
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> Internal servers is not production. I’m going to take a wild guess here and say you don’t really run any kind of system. “Internal is not production” is the weirdest statement I have heard in a long time. Of course these systems are pr
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Almost all of my problems can be immediately solved with large amounts of money. Those that cannot will certainly be made more bearable by the simple fact that I have a lot less to worry about, and that I will have more mental and emotional
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Sorry, you are incorrect. I have a house full of Hue devices, for many years now. I also have many houseguests. Not once did I ask any of them (or my wife, for that matter) to use an app to do anything in my home. To turn the light on or of

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