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by mvc 2y ago
Doing this does not preclude publishing that kind of metadata as part of the build/deploy process.
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by mvc 2y ago
Apparently not a "real proverb" for those as gullible as me who assumed it was :-)
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by mvc 2y ago
There was a tech talk many years ago when one of the github engineers talked about how fast the github CI tests were (this was way before the microsoft aquisition). Literally seconds. I wonder if they're still that fast.
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by mvc 2y ago
> the hedgehog is too proud a bird to fly without a kick Say what you will about Russia but I do love their proverbs.
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by mvc 2y ago
> Alas, a pipe dream. Or "tube" dream as it were.
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by mvc 2y ago
antisemitism "is a passing phase in the history of culture" https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/ency...
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by mvc 2y ago
"like" aka "similar to", aka "shares some features" An advance is "like" a loan because in both cases, the money is expected to be paid back by the person or group of people who receives it. There&#x2
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by mvc 2y ago
I don't understand why we're supposed to have more empathy and compassion for people who happened to be born inside some arbitrary line someone drawn hundreds of years ago. Especially when some of the people born inside our border
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by mvc 2y ago
Rich Hickey's talk about "growth" (as opposed to change) of software systems is a good one for this. Tldr: ok to add things. Not ok to remove things or change things
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by mvc 2y ago
Maybe a public service dating app makes sense. The alignment of incentives are all wrong for private dating apps. They obviously lose when you find someone and pair up so they're incentivised not to find a match.
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by mvc 2y ago
You think it's unethical to work at a company and then later create a copy of what the company does. Fairchild Semiconductors would like a quiet moment with you. Does it still seem unethical if the proposition is inverted? What if a co
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by mvc 2y ago
Probably not. Which is why the rest of the population should fund their (very modest) consumption until they're ready to be productive again rather than force them into some risky low paid job like delivering pizzas on a push bike so t
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by mvc 2y ago
Sshhh. Noone tell the proles that it's perfectly natural to have a bit of slack where many individuals in complex systems are doing nothing and, far from being a leech on society, it is actually essential to keeping the overall system
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by mvc 2y ago
I couldn't care less about whatever hyped up argument involving OpenAI is the current drama. I was just speculating on why some hn members might feel like entrepreneurs even though they have nothing in common with Sam Altman. And how i
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by mvc 2y ago
Call me old an old fashioned economist but I believe that we all succeed better when there are many small companies. Not just a single big one.
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by mvc 2y ago
If the objects in S3 are named according to hive conventions, it will do what you would hope and not read any files with no data to match the query. It will even use range requests in S3 to avoid fetching the entire blob. See here for the d
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by mvc 2y ago
I generate my pl/pgsql using Lisp. Which is another technology that has been dying for decades. The money it generates seems to work just as well as the money I earned writing js.
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by mvc 2y ago
And if those regions are given up today and peace is declared between Ukraine and Russia why would Russia not just apply the same strategy tomorrow to destabilise and then annex a big chunk of Georgia/Estonia/Moldova.
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by mvc 2y ago
> The thesis is that mortgages are not primarily a service a bank provides to a homeowner. An insightful point. And here's a related one. The worst thing the financial industry could endure is for government to run a balanced budget
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by mvc 2y ago
I don't buy that. There's not a single major Western politician in government at the moment who's political path ahead would not be made easier by the wars currently ongoing to somehow stop and thus be able to chalk up a win
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by mvc 2y ago
Unlike some of these executives, we're not animals. We won't make them work for less than the living wage. But there will be fewer perks.
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by mvc 2y ago
You can't drive politics out of everything by making "the market" king and then be surprised when activists then take the fight to the market. What did you think was going to happen?
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by mvc 2y ago
It is attitudes like this that give him more power than he should have. Everyone thought it was a joke in 2016 too.
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by mvc 2y ago
You know there are people who live in Glasgow that frequent these forums that tire of these stereotyped attitudes to their city. I lived in Glasgow for >20 years and I never saw anyone as "strung out" as the people I saw wonder
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by mvc 3y ago
So in the richest country in the world parents can't let their kids play on trampolines because a neighbours kid having an accident on one would bankrupt their insurance company. Meanwhile, toddlers do active shooter drills like they a
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by mvc 3y ago
Nostradamus will be right eventually
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by mvc 3y ago
I was in a permanent state of back pain when my only exercise was cycling/running. Adding a bit of resistance training is what finally cured it.
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by mvc 3y ago
I dunno about that. I'm "getting on a bit" as they say. I was pretty active as a kid and am still a reasonably active 42 yr old now but I've noticed that when I go a few weeks without regular activity and the strengh dim
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by mvc 3y ago
You can't rely on email. That's how I almost lost £100k. I got an email from my lawyer instructing me to pay an amount that I was expecting to have to pay, but to the wrong account. The email "from:" was definitely my la
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by mvc 3y ago
Yep. Previous scam victim here. This step would have halted the scam I fell for. Also, whenever paying new accounts, once you've independently reached the person you think you're talking to, always do a test transaction and make s

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