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by nikanj 2y ago
Coming to a car dealership near you in 2177. Battery breakthroughs have been happening bi-weekly for decades
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by nikanj 2y ago
And then you learn AVX is only available on some cores, lowers the operating frequency of the whole cpu when you use it, and generally seems like an unstable prototype
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by nikanj 2y ago
Children vehemently disagree with expert (since times immemorial)
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by nikanj 2y ago
Wix has over $1.5B annual recurring revenue, so a market cap of $9B makes sense. You and I might not use them, but it is a real business, not just a hype bubble.
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by nikanj 2y ago
Are you saying we used to always expect men to do all of the above, or do you agree with me that we ask more from men than we used to?
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by nikanj 2y ago
Being emotionally available, participating in chores, providing a comfortable lifestyle while not working all the time, being reasonably well-read and good conversationalist, etc. Have you not noticed how much more we expect from men as par
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by nikanj 2y ago
We expect young men to grow up and become "husband material". Due to various changes (standards for husbands rising, economic opportunity diminishing), this goal has become clearly unreachable for many. I would opt out if I was a
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by nikanj 2y ago
People do joke about being dangerous without their morning coffee, but I have yet to see a coffee addict breaking into vehicles to score their morning fix. Also I have never had to worry someone is going to mug my loved ones to get some qui
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by nikanj 2y ago
It’s SAP or a similar ERP wearing a fake moustache
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by nikanj 2y ago
So many programmers saw "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" and thought it means "Caring about performance makes you a heretic". You can't hotspot optimize a Fiat Multipla into an Formula 1 car. When ev
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by nikanj 2y ago
But what that mean in practice? Every Linux distro promises they are the ”works out of the box” one
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by nikanj 2y ago
If you want Teams you can install it. And if Microsoft wants Teams, Microsoft can install it. Perfect logic according to growth-oriented project managers!
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by nikanj 2y ago
It would* *If the criminals would stop using encryption now that it's banned. Alas, criminals sometimes break laws
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by nikanj 2y ago
Outside of javascript, it’s a pretty reasonable assumption that if you have the sources, you can get them to run
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by nikanj 2y ago
This essentially is why senior engineers get much bigger salaries
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by nikanj 2y ago
Many of the proposed syntaxes for this feature were absolutely bonkers, nearly as bad as the ones proposed for raw strings. The JVM is technically impressive, but the syntax is almost C++ levels of terrible
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by nikanj 2y ago
Are you implying Apple should limit Apple-made apps on the iPhone?
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by nikanj 2y ago
Because the CPU is never idle, there’s always some JS jockey’s piece-of-shit Electron app redrawing in a hot loop, some manic search tool re-indexing all the contents of all mounted drives etc
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by nikanj 2y ago
Some people walk because they’re trying to get to the office, some people walk to lose weight, some people walk to enjoy sunday afternoon with their partner Biking is just as diverse.
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by nikanj 2y ago
Why? Because people click & share those articles (”lol see turns out ebikes generate so much waste I’m way more green taking my F250 to work every day”)
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by nikanj 2y ago
I find it fascinating how frequently the best practices change, and how dogmatically people still want to follow best practices. As an industry, we spend absolutely incredible amounts of work refactoring working code into the new paradigm.
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by nikanj 2y ago
That's a problem for the next quarter!
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by nikanj 2y ago
It's a solid strategy: Ask for 5x money from the 25% of customers who can't make the jump. End up making more money you made in the past, lose 75% of the support burden
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by nikanj 2y ago
The first threads (before the post mortem came out) were very much blaming the pension fund and absolving Google. Many comments were along the lines of "some operator at the fund made a mistake, and Google is doing them a favor by offe
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by nikanj 2y ago
We already made it 10* more expensive in all of California, all it took was nimby and low interest rates
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by nikanj 2y ago
For this tech cycle, AI is short for Actually Indians
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by nikanj 2y ago
- It gets closed as wontfix. Google never hires a human to do a job well, if AI/ML can do the same job badly
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by nikanj 2y ago
There are many voices in the industry arguing against soft deletes. Mostly coming from a very Chesterton's Fence perspective. For some examples https://www.metabase.com/learn/analytics/data-model-mistakes...
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by nikanj 2y ago
We don’t want that. Investors want that.
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by nikanj 2y ago
But the known solutions are old, and new is always better

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