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by nathanlied 4y ago
I do find the Boomer hate to be absolutely incoherent, but not new. Ultimately, the biggest factor is your economic class. If you're a boomer, but you're poor, you will live just as poorly as someone who's a poor Gen Z. If yo
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by nathanlied 4y ago
IP issues aside, the only negative to the game itself is that, since it will likely have an online component that Rockstar is presumably intending to make a very solid profit on, source code availability means it's easier to find vulne
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by nathanlied 4y ago
This is my opinion, through and through. Regardless of your views on regulating companies (breaking up cloudflare because it's too important vs not doing that), I believe we can mostly agree that companies should not be making moral de
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by nathanlied 4y ago
If we take them at their word, it's ideological. They seem to be somewhat libertarian and believe they shouldn't interfere except for the most serious cases. If I recall, they've even stated that the 8chan/Daily Stormer
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by nathanlied 4y ago
For me it has helped to write it as "golang"; usually Google seems to understand what I want and show me relevant results.
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by nathanlied 4y ago
They could; and Google could then close down their offices in Spain and save that money. Maybe it'd be worth it, maybe it wouldn't; I don't know Google's financials to make the decision.
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by nathanlied 4y ago
I'll agree with you here; I've got plenty of anecdata of the "younger" people choosing synchronous methods (calls, meetings, one-on-ones, etc.) vs "older" people (perhaps with families or other time-taking thin
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by nathanlied 4y ago
That's because it is a double standard. However, people in low labour cost countries have usually preferred to get something rather than nothing, and they held virtually no power. People in low labour cost countries would need to colle
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by nathanlied 5y ago
Why couldn't HR see this as just a data-point? Put things this way, if the "junior opinionated guy" is full of it, this kind of feedback won't emerge again, and you can discount it. Or maybe you've got some other da
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by nathanlied 5y ago
I've been finding it very easy to empathise with Russians in this. After what we've seen happening in so-called "enlightened" Western democracies, with all our press freedoms, and yet we still have homeopathy advocates,
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by nathanlied 5y ago
Will have to third this. I have friends and acquaintances I talk to regularly from all walks of life - from construction workers to tradesmen/mechanics, all the way to bankers and the like. Out of all of them, I have the "best&quo
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by nathanlied 5y ago
As someone adjacently interested in the field: care to elaborate on what systems you do like? It's always interesting to get new perspectives.
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by nathanlied 5y ago
It doesn't (strictly) need to have centralized search; you can passively collect info from the DHT swarm and build up an index over time of torrents people are sharing. It's not as convenient as something like napster or the like,
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by nathanlied 5y ago
Can confirm your experience. Although in my circles credit cards are more common due to kickbacks - big discounts at places you'd normally go to anyway, or straight up financial incentives. Everyone prefers debit however, and credit ca
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by nathanlied 5y ago
When "slavery" is mentioned in this context (wrt. black/white), it's reasonable to assume the person means it predates the Atlantic slave trade, which was not the only form of slavery, but it was the largest (and most vi
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by nathanlied 5y ago
I don't want to sound accusatory with this at all, so I apologize in advance if that's what it sounds like. I'm merely speaking from experience. "Remote work lifestyle" is what you make of it. During lockdown, many
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by nathanlied 5y ago
I know of some HSBC teams who have gone full remote. It was meant to be experimental, but management has been really satisfied with the metrics so it's a permanent thing. Some banks are embracing it, even if not fully.
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by nathanlied 5y ago
Ends up being a cat-and-mouse game, but the power dynamics are even more unbalanced towards the red team: not only do they have control of the hardware, they also control your executable. It's also why "anti-cheat drivers" ha
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by nathanlied 6y ago
I think you'll find a lot of this type of thing in threads like these - the better range of experiences go from "okay" to "pretty nice", but the bad can get very horrible, very fast, and people tend to remember the
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by nathanlied 6y ago
Yeah. I worked infra at a few EU Universities, and while firing someone in that environment is pretty difficult, you still get the "old boys club" that will absolutely not let you do anything. The problem was never users/facu
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by nathanlied 6y ago
Agreed; but this isn't just a Google problem. Seems to me like a lot of SF (and SF-inspired) "big tech" wants to be known for their "wokeness"[1], which leads to hires like Timnit and other "politically-outspok
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by nathanlied 6y ago
This is exactly what these workers are doing. They're unhappy with their contracts, so they're trying to negotiate better terms. Normally, you negotiate your contract because your company wants you, and finding someone else that w
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by nathanlied 6y ago
Have direct knowledge or worked with many critical systems in a few different areas (cannot get more specific for several legal reasons). Can confirm. I'm given to understand that legacy systems (think 30ish years ago) were much better
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by nathanlied 6y ago
Yeah, if you pay attention to the world (and I'm not implying grandparent does not - please don't draw that conclusion), you will see a lot of "symptoms" before 2016 happened. I believe the person grandparent is referrin
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by nathanlied 6y ago
Yeah, pretty much. I don't think they're trying to do the embrace-extend-extinguish thing here at all, at least not in a "willful" way. Devs I know of that use macOS do it for the "Linux without the jank" aspec
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by nathanlied 6y ago
Indeed. I don't see why people are mischaracterising this ban; it isn't banning software, it's an extension of the concept of a 'commercial embargo' - except now it applies to a company instead of a country.
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by nathanlied 6y ago
I know how superficially contradictory this may seem, but I disagree at an emotional level, however, I rationally see where you're coming from, and perhaps even agree to an extent. For me, the 'process' of creation of a game,
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by nathanlied 6y ago
You don't even need them to be big, even a low budget car's infotainment touchscreen is enough. Mine has adaptive brightness, so it means that at night in a dark road it'll be at lowest brightness, with black/gray, which
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by nathanlied 6y ago
I'm a native-level (European) Portuguese speaker, and although I can get through the beginning, it is with some effort. I'd describe the style as being akin to stream of consciousness, but with a somewhat jumbled sentence structur
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by nathanlied 6y ago
Are you arguing that unions lead to communism? While Europe has a rich weave of social-democratic governments, that would hardly constitute communism. In fact, I'd daresay actual communist parties in Europe with any real power are a di

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