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Why Most Software Engineers Quit After 30 [video](youtube.com)
4 points by nomilk 2y ago|5 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
I think the asymmetry in payoffs explains this, since a bad actor who baits and switches their extension could do massive damage to users. So google try to catch this behaviour and inevitably have some false positives (extensions labelled m
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by nomilk 2y ago
Was curious so just searched. Apparently Honey would try to get the best coupon codes on the web, but they started partnering with businesses to give (say) 10% off via a Honey-specific discount code (e.g. HONEY10), but Honey would ignore ot
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by nomilk 2y ago
Is Grammarly anything more than glorified autocorrect? Curious if anyone here uses it, and if so, what value it provides (I've been bombarded with its ads for years, but could never see what value it provides). Even a quick search of i
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by nomilk 2y ago
No more combative than “2+2 isn’t five”. If trenchant dismissal of claims unsupported by evidence is perceived as combative, it’s a canary for that individual - to become better at handling trenchant dismissal of claims unsupported by evide
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by nomilk 2y ago
Kinda weird. We (Australia) have a new major data breach every month. Seems strange to single out Meta, what about Optus, St Vincent’s, Dymocks, the AFP (!), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (hardly surpising, with the
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by nomilk 2y ago
Have only watched 2 minutes, but this looks like actual evidence that a) harmful sites may exist, and b) people may use them and be worse of from their access to them. I'm not sure it will convince me banning access to information is a
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by nomilk 2y ago
How's thinspo different to fat-acceptance communities? (I have nothing against either, I think people ought to be free to pursue information on their body-type)
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by nomilk 2y ago
Thanks for the example. > This website is for support for those with an eating disorder who feel alone and by themself with this issue. Where are people with anorexia and bulimia supposed to get support/information if forums about t
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by nomilk 2y ago
But the article doesn't give a single site or name a single community; it provides zero evidence of its claims. > Camille, a 20-year-old who has struggled with an eating disorder since middle school, described her community as ini
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by nomilk 2y ago
I hadn't seen this site but will check it out. Thank you for providing some evidence! (really dislike the idea of boogymen! - so seeing a real site is refreshing). > Would you want your children or young adults spending time there?
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by nomilk 2y ago
> encourage you to take a more curious .. But: > Is there a single site ... ? is asking for a tiny bit of evidence (this is gentle curiousness; the antithesis of combative). Earnestly, are you able to provide one site that 'pro
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by nomilk 2y ago
> People in the UK will be better protected from illegal harms online What are these 'illegal harms'? I'm online 10+ hours a day for 10 years straight and never seen one. (not assuming they don't exist, but their prev
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by nomilk 2y ago
I'm weirdly happy with Apple taking their time. Seeing AI stuffed into every nook and crevice of various non-Apple apps has made me appreciate apps that use AI tastefully or not at all (counter example: today I tried the LLM built into
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by nomilk 2y ago
Not totally clear what you're asking. Would the slack group be just for job seekers, or would it have hiring staff in there too? Would it be a separate slack server per company , or literally one server for everyone?
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Christopher Hitchens Epigrams That Aged Like Fine Wine(stevestewartwilliams.com)
20 points by nomilk 2y ago|1 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
Nice work. I feel like it deserves the exposure; it's not just highly applicable to Ph D theses, but to programming and regular writing. Fantastic read, thank you for sharing it!
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by nomilk 2y ago
Would it be possible to change the title of that related post to the title of this post. I wouldn't have clicked on the former, but did click on this post. My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash is much more fitting.
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Goblin Mode(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
The interview (quotes at 2m10s; watching from 0m33s captures more emotion/context): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmYAvrJjWsY&t=33s
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by nomilk 2y ago
I was struck by Ding's thoughtfulness, objectivity and humility when asked how he felt after the match (while clearly utterly dejected): > How do you feel? > I think I played my best tournament of the year. I think it was a fair
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by nomilk 2y ago
The bit I could get to in the HTML: > Why conversations are better with four people > Three might be a crowd but four appears to be the magic number when it comes to conversation. And, according to an academic who has spent decades st
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Conversations are better with four people(thetimes.com)
230 points by nomilk 2y ago|149 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
Noticed &pipelineType=Chewbacca in the URL and searched for it, came across the linked reddit thread. Also encountered '_from=cheetah'. Top reddit comment explains it: > it's just the programmers having fun with a keyw
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Why does my Amazon checkout page contain parameter pipelineType = Chewbacca?(old.reddit.com)
2 points by nomilk 2y ago|1 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
Wonder what this means for totalitarian states. Currently China, North Korea and others make it too burdensome/dangerous to access certain sites. If a citizen has access to electricity and compute, they can get crypto, and with crypto
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by nomilk 2y ago
Oh.. ha, gotcha. Thanks for explaining. Incidentally, glad uuid's computed on the fly (as opposed to pre-computed) as I think the site would require a very (impossibly?) large database.
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by nomilk 2y ago
I think this is a joke, but I think it is a problem if someone finds any sensitive uuid here, because the list on this website is a tiny subset of all possible uuids, so it provides a useful rainbow table for anyone attempting brute force
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by nomilk 2y ago
What incentive does a House of Reps Subcommittee have to get it wrong? That is, why can some government inquiries be trusted to be approximately good-faith scientific inquires, whereas others (perhaps this one) cannot? (I ask out of genuine
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by nomilk 2y ago
Lots of baby videos. Wonder if that's because 15 years ago phone storage was at a premium so only relatively important stuff got videoed. I'd image baby videos would be diluted amongst less important stuff in a 2024 sample.

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