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by nexuist 5y ago
Jump Trading Group isn't some rando crypto org, it's a legit hedge fund established in 1999. Supposedly it has at minimum $150M AUM[1] but because it's a private company nobody actually knows the real amount. We can predict t
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by nexuist 5y ago
How is this any worse than smartphone tracking today? What does it matter if I buy technology that tracks me because I feel like it'd be useful to me?
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by nexuist 5y ago
> It is very weird to me that they can lack the self awareness of being in a cult while calling other things cults. It isn't weird at all. It's probably one of the hallmark symptoms of being in a cult. Everyone in your outgroup
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by nexuist 5y ago
Tesla is supposed to mimic human driving so its cars are predictable to other human drivers. What's the point of driving safely if it gets you in an accident? > Speeders that endanger lives of everyone not currently inside a car, no
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by nexuist 5y ago
Ask my dad or the variety of people in your life that have had it happen to them. I guarantee you know people this has happened to. Have you never heard of getting rear ended?
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by nexuist 5y ago
Learn bash scripting and you will hate yourself every day for having to wade through terrible language decisions made >30yrs ago while having to do everything by yourself because nobody else at your company knows Bash while also having n
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by nexuist 5y ago
This is because you hired developers on payroll and it would be a dumb strategic move to fire everyone once the product is "finished." You have to keep building things in order to justify having people on payroll (otherwise you&#x
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by nexuist 5y ago
Yes, it seems like it: "We support two types of variables, one is Custom Variables which is defined by user and can be further divided into Environment Variables, File Variables and Request Variables, the other is System Variables whic
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by nexuist 5y ago
Seriously, Tesla's autopilot rolls through stop signs because everyone does. How many people are going to get rear ended because every Tesla stops at a stop sign now? It feels like enforcing this behavior is more dangerous than letting
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by nexuist 5y ago
Iron Man's distant cousin, Business Intelligence Man
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by nexuist 5y ago
For the record, the Model 3 does have physical volume/playback controls on the steering wheel, but I do agree with the OP's greater point about not hiding important functionality behind context menus.
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by nexuist 5y ago
This is probably harsh to say, but if a $500/mo expense is what breaks the bank, you can't seriously claim to be operating commercially successful software. Even small businesses spend $XX,000 a month on labor and transaction fees
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by nexuist 5y ago
What do you expect, it was $30...
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by nexuist 5y ago
It is up to them, but it's the CIO's job to advocate for his employees and convince them to do it. You hire a CIO to be able to advise you on decisions such as this. The CIO isn't expected to be down in the trenches resetting
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by nexuist 5y ago
This would still be an awesome solution today. I hope we do this eventually. But I don't believe Windows is the problem, it's the way the DoD is trying to manage it.
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by nexuist 5y ago
What's the point of all the roadmapped projects if all of them will have 1hr+ startup times? Is the enemy going to wait for squadron commanders to log into Outlook before firing artillery? All of the strategic projects should get chopp
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by nexuist 5y ago
The defense budget is over $700 billion. They should just buy or build two million Chromebooks and be done with it. Any native apps can be converted to SaaSs that run on nationally managed DoD infrastructure and everyone can do their jobs w
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by nexuist 5y ago
Yes, let's put the incompetent buffoons who thought installing McAfee on every government computer was a good idea in charge of their rolling own Linux distro. That sure would solve all of these problems.
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by nexuist 5y ago
> There are working examples of such For whom do they work for? The author and maybe a small group of Internet hobbyists? When you have to support 3 billion daily active users like iOS or Windows does, that lightweight codebase isn'
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by nexuist 5y ago
I have been developing iOS apps since 2014, and was active in the jailbreaking scene before then. I don't believe any one person understands the entirety of what is going on when they launch an app. Remember, iOS is based on macOS, whi
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by nexuist 5y ago
Management are going to be the first users to complain!!
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by nexuist 5y ago
Apparently some Automator scripts and a preinstalled command line utility named "xattr": https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/362783/364414 EDIT: According to one of the commenters xattr is now a binary ins
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by nexuist 5y ago
...right up until users complain that they can't access critical work information on their phone or tablet in the field, unless they use a shitty RDP app to move a cursor around their desktop at 3 frames per second.
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by nexuist 5y ago
I am leading a transition at work from Selenium to Cypress precisely because of our frustration with the WebDriver model. I don't consider myself an expert enough to know which approach is right, but could you elaborate on why Selenium
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by nexuist 5y ago
> don't believe right-to-left languages or focus order inevitably leads to hundreds of thousands of lines of code or 50+ MB binaries It does. It literally does. Try writing your own operating system, or font parser, or graphics eng
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by nexuist 5y ago
It seems like some militaries are toying around with the concept: https://www.businessinsider.com/video-royal-marines-board-sh...
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by nexuist 5y ago
The real question is does this apply to the warehouse workers as well?
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by nexuist 5y ago
The only reason Ukraine still has a government right now is because of NATO forces on the border. I think it would be foolish to believe Putin would have stopped at Crimea had it not been for that. I pray that we do not go to war with Russi
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by nexuist 5y ago
It's not that the Shuttle wasn't an absolutely astonishing display of engineering proficiency - it was - it's that if that money had gone into a Falcon-9 style rocket instead, we would all be much better off now in 2022.
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by nexuist 5y ago
> I highly doubt OP wants to move to Belarus, but yeah go ahead and pick the absolute poorest and least likely countries anyone would immigrate to If we are comparing sub-territories then, why on earth would OP want to move to Mississip

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