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by mpyne 4y ago
Seems like it was only a few days ago that there was a comment from a former Dropbox engineer here pointing out that a lot of disk drives they bought when they stood up their own datacenter had been found to all have a common flaw involving
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by mpyne 4y ago
"Picking the winner" would imply the state forcing market participants to buy the state's insulin. As long as they're not forcing people to buy their insulin then what they're doing is more akin to setting a price f
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by mpyne 4y ago
They do make wind and solar plants though. And either way, even with coal feeding a thermal plant as the energy source, it is still more efficient to generate the energy and distribute it to the wheel than it is to refine, transport and bur
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by mpyne 4y ago
Off topic but I can't tell you how reassuring this is. This approach was essentially what we had come up with as a proposal for a Navy HR migration away from mainframes, though we never even got close to being able to actually attempt
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by mpyne 4y ago
That example has nothing to do with modules. It doesn't even use templates (where concepts would help at least) or the "noexcept(noexcept(...))" thing. Modern C++ does help with most type specification, looping over contai
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by mpyne 4y ago
This is the experience for many in the Navy trying to navigate broken personnel pay processes. Due to cost cuts and failed IT efforts, a lot of the staff at personnel offices that have to process things like pay transactions and travel rei
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by mpyne 4y ago
Is there any reason that you think being aware of the pattern is enough to solve it, or feel no consequences from it? I think people are aware of the pattern (it's not hard to notice) but that doesn't solve the issues it creates.
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by mpyne 4y ago
> not a property of open source, which has nothing to say on how projects are run If open source does not require that a project accept external contributions, then Hickey is right to say that you are not entitled to contribute just by
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by mpyne 4y ago
> Edit: Notably it seems some commenters here confuse the idea that FLOSS will allow for forking but open source does not necessarily do so. This is not a confusion on their part, but on yours. "open source" is defined as it i
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by mpyne 4y ago
Yeah, unless they mean some other Amazon than the one that believes in "2 > 0" in product portfolio management and that "communication between teams is terrible!" (a quote attributed to Jeff Bezos).
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by mpyne 4y ago
This was a great read indeed. I was sort of surprised at the direct attack on 'agile', especially when the author's recommendations at the end could practically have come straight out of agilemanifesto.org. Seems like the Agi
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by mpyne 4y ago
If immigrants are coming into fill high-paying jobs, then by definition there is already an ability for the existing population to get better pay: fill those high-paying jobs! That is already accounted for in programs like H1B. If the job
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by mpyne 4y ago
This two-tier system is literally how the U.S. federal government works as well in a great deal of functions.
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by mpyne 4y ago
> Isn't the solution unions, akin to the heavily unionized movie / TV business? So that might help, but some of NOA's current problem seems to be some mental baggage from their management about growing headcount after the
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by mpyne 4y ago
And yet, the Nintendo Switch is basically a combination of the 3DS and Wii U and it's been doing gangbusters. Sometimes Nintendo products don't strike a chord. It happens to any company with history in video gaming, including Sony
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by mpyne 4y ago
> That they are still so popular is a credit to how divorced from reality multi national corporate mega giants can be and still succeed. Well, that and the size of the market itself. > Their games and online offerings, for the most pa
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by mpyne 4y ago
We certainly had that phrase on my boat.
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by mpyne 5y ago
I do something similar, except it's the CSS from whatever of the 'Better Fucking Website' hits come up for me on search each time. I do wish I didn't have to do that though.
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by mpyne 5y ago
> I don't have firsthand knowledge but I would guess there are ~0 high paying jobs for APL programmers. Apparently some APL-influenced languages are used in finance/quant applications and can pay very well. Though even there Py
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by mpyne 5y ago
> She used her personal email for official communication quite a bit. This is illegal from a public records point of view Yes, this is not permitted, even if in practice it's not a grave crime (because if it is a grave crime you&#x2
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by mpyne 5y ago
It's library dependent. iostreams (part of C++ std lib) doesn't throw exceptions by default but I believe it can be configured to throw if you want.
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by mpyne 5y ago
Were any U.S. soldiers tried at the Nuremberg trials? A comparable incident would be the My Lai massacre, after which 20+ soldiers and officers were tried of various charges, only 1 was convicted, and even that 1 soldier was promptly parole
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by mpyne 5y ago
> I think DoD needs access to paid, professional developers who can provide those services for FOSS. That could be someone like Red Hat, it could be outside consultants, it could be internal developers, they could hire members of the FOS
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by mpyne 5y ago
That's why it's the job of soldiers to follow "lawful orders", not orders generically. On the other hand there is basically zero jurisprudence of a soldier ever getting in trouble for following an order they thought was
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by mpyne 5y ago
> A buddy was out on some punishment detail for a uniform violation — wearing a military issue fleece as a jacket, which is apparently controversial in some quarters. Oh God I hope this isn't a problem, I've been using my fleec
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by mpyne 5y ago
A time-honored tradition in Navy nuclear submarining is that when a watch officer in the engine room starts getting too full of himself, the enlisted watch standers start following their orders literally (though not to the point of risk t
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by mpyne 5y ago
Login.gov permits me if the IRS could do identity proofing. The IRS can't do identity proofing (hence the need for ID.me, which is implementing "remote or in-person identity proofing"), and login.gov doesn't do it for th
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by mpyne 5y ago
> You continue to make some good points, but at the end of the day, this is a government function and responsibility, not that of a private company. Private companies have been part of the government discharging its responsibilities sinc
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by mpyne 5y ago
This is a great post but I should note it crashed Chrome for me and made Firefox very sluggish. Just from the raw amount of content alone. Definitely keep reading until you get to the "Worms" part of "The Analysis", whi
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by mpyne 5y ago
> All the profits to them, all the risk to us. I'm sure Pharma companies are loving that arrangement. That's how it works everywhere in public policy, which is the only area where you can't directly sue Pharma companies (i

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