mrsilencedogood

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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
"intern or college-hire" It's well known that these fresh employees are not going to contribute to velocity of a team for at least a year. They're investments. I've seen levelling docs specifically call this out. &q
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
I think vibe coding will get good enough that things like vercel's "0 to POC" thing are going to stick around. I think AI-powered IDE features will stick around. One notable head-and-shoulders-above-non-AI-competitor featur
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
"If you commit to institutional neutrality, the result is a one-way ratchet" Can you explain why this is the result? And why is it allegedly democrats that the ratchet pushed towards? There are well-known differences in political
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
We literally have collectively (to the value that US democracy approximates collectively) decided to abridge those rights within a certain distance of a border. I want people to understand what they are getting themselves into for the sake
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
People who try to enforce this stuff via license fundamentally misunderstand the nature of copyright law. Do you plan to sue people to enforce your license? Do you think people who are committing war crimes / crimes against humanity ar
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
Yeah, people love to LARP being Snowden but never actually have anything even theoretically worth being sent to border-jail over protecting. And, if you do, and you're really asking hacker news for opsec advice, I would suggest you aba
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
I suspect this is because open-core companies are often just 1 rugpull away from being not open at all. Open-core just means if I have some small bug, I might PR to fix it if it's not too hard for me. I am absolutely not doing free wor
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
No, American big business talking heads are supposed to be direct. American workers are supposed to be demure, grateful to have health insurance, and slot perfectly into the cog slot they've been assigned. Someone who openly criticizes
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
Well of course it's more complicated. But these 2 broad strokes do resonate with me as a meaningful bucketing. There are some people I see DMs from and go "ooh" and some people I see DMs from and go "well there goes my m
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
TBC, I agree with you. I was pointing out how important even small variations in grading can be.
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
"Sr. Director and given an opportunity to prove yourself" from OP: "new team is known to be under-performing" Uhh it sounds to me like the senior staff that the guy displaced OP with was the go-to guy and that OP has bee
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
Difference in grade basically DETERMINES the value. Even small steps down from perfect greatly diminish a card's value. Basically IGN review scale levels of drop-off.
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
Detective Conan, a very long-running anime, has been hilarious to watch this evolution in as well. Phones go from landlines, to cordless, to flip phones, to smartphones And at some point they get to stop re-explaining what a computer is&#x2
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
I really wish Java had been like 5 years ahead on its modernizing push. That 10 year gap between 5 and 8 where the language __barely__ changed, while competitor languages were blasting, were just killer. Some might argue the reason the 8+ r
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
Imo, it's mostly because our brains are still hunter-gatherer brains. While things like language acquisition and culture-instilling do fundamentally change us, our base hardware is still pre-currency pre-agriculture (pre-pretty-much-ev
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
in capitalism, prices are literally how rationing happens. the theory is that it distributes the resources to those who can make them most productive. here, theoretically the water will be used more productively by chipmakers than by farmer
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
I remember so fondly coming home from high school and reading over my friends posts, curating the pins on my pin/cork board, messaging friends who would otherwise not be savvy enough to join MSN or IRC or yahoo messenger... Now I feel
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
Honestly this is probably the most realistic solution. The only reason all the shit ragebait addictive content is so bad is because it drives ad revenue. I do think there's one exception/problem: youtube. While there's a lot
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
I've used rails for years, and have used old versions of django at one company, and used python extensively for non-web purposes. I think my take is that there's no middle-ground between Rails and some of the newer Java-based fram
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
"Nobody wants to take their kids to an “edgy food and entertainment place”," This is 100% wrong though, my 5 year old is in kindergarten and they LOVED FNAF. Like, seriously a lot. I've done my fair share of Chuck E Cheese bi
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
Suppose you're living paycheck to paycheck and your car breaks down. Lose my job - yep Lose the ability to get a new job - no car Burn all my savings and assets - you couldn't pay to fix your car, so you have no savings or liquid
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
I'm also suspect for similar reasons, but this at least seems consistent with lots of other stuff we're finding out about the random things humanity has been imbibing for millennia (coffee, tea, cacao, etc). Anything that's a
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
If they did that anyway, who would stop them? This seems like a great time to make an exception.
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
That's because it's a ccTLD, not because it's not dot-com though. The powers that be could very well decide to just promote it to be a gTLD if they wanted to not destroy stuff for no reason. Actual gTLDs aren't susceptib
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
There are a few options, though. The fact that .io got so popular shows that we are not forever chained to .com. It's just that a lot of the nuTLD options are honestly hilariously bad, most of them are just lame. My personal top picks
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
>Once it escaped Jupiter its trajectory is just a straight line. I honestly don't know that we understand gravity well enough to keep this close of track of this small of an object for so long. Plus all the effects of the "ne
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
Even if you magically had your own DSN, would anyone but NASA even know exactly where they are with enough precision to communicate with them? In a way, that's now your layer 1 authentication key. The coordinates of where to "poin
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
It's always amazed me how much leeway and clemency leadership gets. I worked at a company that was always fairly intentional about their performance review process being a meat grinder, and they also did something that didn't look
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
This is my take too. At one of my old jobs, we were early (very early) to the Hadoop and then Spark games. Maybe too early, because by the time Spark 2 made it all easy, we had already written a lot of mapreduce-streaming and then some RDD-
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by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
I really don't think it's about common sense or user agency or anything like that at all. These companies are just trying to make a trillion dollars. It will be hard to make a trillion dollars if your product is associated with se

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