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by mfer 6y ago
When I see something like this, I'm always curious of the details on demographics, population density, economics, and the other data to know what's going on. For example, the population density is 14.0/km2 (36.3/sq mi) a
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Better Golang Logging – How We Can Untangle the Mess(codeengineered.com)
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by mfer 6y ago
When it comes to economics there are also downsides for many people. For example, there are many people who work on car parts today that don't have a corollary in electric cars. Electric cars have fewer parts. This is going to negative
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by mfer 6y ago
Here are some reasons... 1. You have a yard for you and your kids to play in. I know a number of people who love this. You can send the kids out to the yard without having to be there with them. When the weather is nice you can do this most
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by mfer 6y ago
I used to work for a company that had a newsletter. In the newsletter they listed deaths. There was a common theme that people would generally either die shortly after retiring or a long time after. Talking with some of the folks near retir
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by mfer 6y ago
Big companies or those with lawyers notice that the AGPLv3 says the software used to make something a service must be licensed under the same license. Much of that software isn't something a company controls. For example, you put the A
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by mfer 6y ago
> As a user, I can use Elasticsearch just fine with the new license. I can read the code, modify it and use in my own projects. This illustrates just one kind of user. And only in some situations. For example, lets say Elastic.co goes un
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by mfer 6y ago
> “fake until you make it” I don't like this idea. I prefer the idea of mentoring and people constantly learning. Faking it is kind of like deceiving until you figure it out. People should be mentoring and teaching each other. This
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by mfer 6y ago
There are numerous schools of thought on programming. For example, I've seen those who are interested in leetcode, algos, and the like. I remember this one time where management wanted to have JS/front-end devs answer questions ab
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by mfer 6y ago
Running a highly available service at this scale is hard. Especially when the service is ripe for dos and attacks. With that out of the way... GH has had a lot of issues in recent months. More than the past. I would hope those things are on
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What interests me the most about this is that the times people use for work and school are set while the way we relate time to the cycle of the sun is the thing we want to change.
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Their goal is engagement and outrage seems to feed engagement. More eyes at all costs has a price. It's not just money.
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> Why ask these questions only as they relate to women and motherhood? Why haven't men being presented a false promise that value and purpose is derived from work? Being a father without a snazzy career is equally (if not more so) f
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by mfer 6y ago
If they aren't going to track us as individuals does this mean they will also not buy data on individuals?
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by mfer 6y ago
Google has a long history of misdirection and slight of hand so this should be looked at through their history. Would Google do something that causes them to make a lot less money? Likely not. I wonder if Google is treating our computers as
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by mfer 6y ago
This feels like some slight of hand targeting the current political and legal efforts looking into Google. For example, if they aren't collecting information on you than how do they have enough information to create cohorts? Is it that
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by mfer 6y ago
You may still be stalked about the Bose QC-35's. It really depends on how they create the "cohorts". The new design doesn't tell us their intent here. People who are interested in Bose QC-35's could be a "cohor
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> As far as political orientation goes, by worldwide standards America actually ranges from center-right (Democrats) to far-right (Republicans), Does anyone have a good global breakdown of political ideology? What we call the west (North
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by mfer 6y ago
> “a CME the size of the 1859 Carrington Event would, if not prepared for, effectively level the power grid of the United States... CME refers to coronal mass ejections[1]. The 1859 Carrington Event is a case where one of these happened[
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by mfer 6y ago
It's easier to talk about things or try to be internet famous (or at least known) than to do the work (which often doesn't get to be well known). So, are folks goals to do interesting work and put in the time or to be seen?
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by mfer 6y ago
A half cup of Dole canned pineapple is 15g of sugar. Eating a half cup of fresh pineapple is 8g of sugar. Pineapple is higher in sugar that many fruits. A cup of raspberries is 3g of Fructose. This is a little mixing of apples and oranges b
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by mfer 6y ago
GMO soy is treated with different pesticides than non-GMO. What we eat still has some of the pesticide in it. It’s worth a considering the impact of the pesticide, too
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by mfer 6y ago
I will have to respectfully disagree with the author. Linux desktop isn’t dead because big companies and VCs are chasing ROI. Linux on the desktop is dead because most current Linux desktop developers don’t want or use software the same way
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by mfer 6y ago
In the book, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"[1], it talks about the MO for the big tech companies. How they push and often subtly change things slowly. The book provides a number of examples of this. I never expected FB to wa
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A lot of this is driven by insurance agencies and data from investigations of events. I don't have insight into that. Insurance companies, these days, tend to be very data driven. It would be great if there was a way to test for compet
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by mfer 6y ago
A few things. First, I'm attempting to describe how the system works rather than give my opinion on how it should be. Second, the headphones situation is meant to illustrate how safety plays in. This isn't a "what if" ex
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by mfer 6y ago
Drugs, in many cases, outside of working hours can have effects during working hours. Many software developers working for companies have agreements that they can't compete with their current employer on what they do while employed the
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by mfer 6y ago
In many places there are safety issues to deal with. You have to be proactive to avoid an incident. Here's a non-drug related one. In many places road construction companies will disallow workers from wearing headphones. This is becaus
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by mfer 6y ago
I’m not sure “hijack” is the right word. They are using money to entice projects to rewrite in memory safe languages.
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by mfer 6y ago
I'm in the process of re-reading the book, How To Win Friends and Influence People. It's an older book but the discussion on human behavior and utilizing that to influence people is still useful. I found the behavior and statement

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