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by nosianu 7y ago
I have come to the conclusion that thinking about convincing everybody of everything just does not work. Like, at all. With "everything" I mean all those many, many big and small things, from "facts" to flat earth to thi
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by nosianu 7y ago
A "leak" we found as this: Our code parsed a large HTML-like string read from a file and extracted a small portion. Then we created an array with those extracted strings (many files). The original large HTML-like string was no lon
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by nosianu 7y ago
> The argument goes that a True False value will "mean" different things in a context Well, it is the same with numbers anytime they mean something in the real world. One would have to add "unit types" to numbers an
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by nosianu 7y ago
You assume that given a positive result you can gain certainty, but that is not so. Medicine is a statistics game, even for individuals with test results, and even when adding even more tests on top you don't turn it into certainty. Wh
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by nosianu 7y ago
You can let the purely virtual "company" frame go bust (and the top management - would that really be a problem in such a case, and not the main purpose of such an action?) - and immediately use the assets and people to build new
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by nosianu 7y ago
No it is not and never was. Sales people - going back a very long time and include fully traveling ones - are not employees? How about traveling service technicians, not infrequently located all over the country, far from any company office
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by nosianu 7y ago
Here in Germany we occasionally have similar headline making cases and scandals. We also have similar incentives, since how you make money as a doctor is the same basic principle.
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by nosianu 7y ago
Unless you do what the earth did for millions of years and bury the carbon deep underground anything you do will merely create a pipeline effect: When it starts there is a small reduction, but overall there is none as soon as the pipeline
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by nosianu 7y ago
So anything that is either used up or that loses value - which is pretty much everything there is apart from very few things that keep their value or increase - would fall under the same argument. That would apply to most loans, and even ho
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by nosianu 7y ago
It is all mentioned and explained in the video I linked though. Those Boston developments were not in isolation, what happened there impacted what happened in SV.
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by nosianu 7y ago
"The Secret History of Silicon Valley": https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo TL;DW: Unlimited debt-based government spending during WWII in R&D and electronics development like radar (which actually is a catch-all phr
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by nosianu 7y ago
Anecdote: I - then working as a freelancer programmer for a few years - once had a (German company) customer where the person that I was supposed to work with was so unpopular and known as "difficult to work with" inside the compa
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by nosianu 7y ago
Just an aside regarding stacktraces: In all somewhat recent V8 using engines such as Chrome or node.js you get a "zero-cost" full asynchronous stacktrace these days. That's independent of the async. stacktrace provided throug
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by nosianu 7y ago
> The Germany car industry should have seen the writing on the wall But that does not change anything! The point is less workers will be needed. What difference does it make to "see the writing on the wall"? I don't even
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by nosianu 7y ago
Eh? And now compare with a Honda Civic or a Toyota Camry. Even among just the higher end those three are not nearly as big in market share as they are in Germany - in the US they are just one more model to compete, in Germany they own mos
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by nosianu 7y ago
Also, there are things that "must be done" only if the code is extended but it may be perfectly fine as it is at the current state. So I add a TODO when I see that there will probably be the need for refactoring in the intermediat
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by nosianu 7y ago
> I really want to use FireFox but it is simply too heavy on resources compared to chrome (running on Linux... Similar experience here. I run a VM with Linux for development and for viewing videos (e.g. anime). I only use uBlock Origin
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by nosianu 7y ago
No, it is not the same at all! We now have a lot of restrictions on what can be returned to what store. They have to sell those exact bottles. For the automated plastic return stations you even have to have the label still on the bottle - i
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by nosianu 7y ago
The current German system is nothing compared to the former East German bottle reuse system. Disclaimer: I grew up in East Germany, and during a summer break when I still was at school I worked in a small local brewery in the bottling facil
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by nosianu 7y ago
Because in feudalism and before, or more recently in socialism - where I grew up - nobody ever took shortcuts, for selfish reasons or to please someone or to fulfill some goal (set by some boss or by the "central committee", does
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by nosianu 7y ago
That doesn't sound right to me. I don't think gravity is or should be the most important or even merely a significant factor keeping headsets in place. That, and less weight on the head should feel better to the head-holding muscl
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by nosianu 7y ago
I keep an account and remain logged in for the single purpose of using the "Preferences" setting that I always want the old version. So I can now just use the regular www-URLs and still get the old interface. EDIT: Checking my pre
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by nosianu 7y ago
I started a core company project without types, than soon added Flow, then migrated to TypeScript. I was very active, learned a lot of the intricacies and a lot of advanced typing with Flow, did lots and lots of experimenting to cover edges
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by nosianu 7y ago
Also discussed 4 days ago (I'm not judging, just linking): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771328
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by nosianu 7y ago
It's the messenger's fault. Of course! What arguments do you have that show that lots and lots of articles about about Boeings culture change are all wrong or insignificant (not a contributor to the Max's issues)? I'm al
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by nosianu 7y ago
So we are using extremely carefully selected individual examples now to come up with policies for everyone? Right then. And no, just because something works to "save (or extend) one life" does not mean it should be tried for eve
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by nosianu 7y ago
They write (somewhere in the middle) > Since V8 implements a stop-the-world GC, new tasks will inevitably receive less CPU time, reducing the worker’s throughput But there is this Google blog post vom January 2019: https://v
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by nosianu 7y ago
I honestly think it depends on the entire context including the people and all this generalization is useless and a waste of precious Internet bits.
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by nosianu 7y ago
Well, it very much depends on ones goals and ones context, doesn't it? Which impacts what ones brain pays wants and what it focuses its attention on, and what it filters out no matter how much you attempt to cram it in. What I found a
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by nosianu 7y ago
Or, not exactly unheard of, they aim at finding a buyer for themselves well before a time when it may become clear whether the product would really be viable or not. In those cases the product is the company itself and they don't need

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