notaspecialist

8 ms·

1.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
This article has it backwards. > is why intellectual progress is stalling. It's stalling specifically because of the "progress" we have made over the past 100 years. Welfare didn't exist back then. Government mandated
2.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
>But there can also be comradeship and a sense of being part of something historical if you choose the harder path. Meh, I've tried and all I got was hate for many years and very few staunch friends. Sheeple don't want truth, j
3.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
These examples all say the same thing. You have outgrown that company. I bet you've been there for more than 2 years, hm? 2 years is the average period at a company these days unless you're aiming for management. My advice: leave
4.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
money making idea: make a SO clone with ads, where you ask your question and the AI gives you the code. Profit.
5.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
People around me have started really forgetting things, to the point where I've had to remind a co-worker twice in the space of 5 minutes what they were supposed to be doing, or repeating conversations I had with friends a few weeks ag
6.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
> I'm pretty close to going to Linux on this system Well, I'm one step ahead of you. As of last weekend, I purchased and returned 3 games due to unplayability on Windows 10 (yes, patched, all drivers updated, msconfig nothing r
7.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
In all my years of coding, I only knew one developer who did TDD properly. He taught me, as I was struggling trying to track down an intermittent bug and nothing was working. Not going to lie -learning to do TDD properly is difficult. Since
8.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
You don't need to have cookies on your website unless you need to reconnect the browser to a session where you're keeping their authorization etc. Unfortunately most people just want to run a website to do something and the easie
9.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
Getting your hands on equipment to make identity documents is physically difficult, requires lots of deals, is costly, and is limited to a few people. Replacing this with an electronic system, where access is guaranteed via leased lines to
10.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
Companies have had women employees since the first businesses crawled out of the swamp. Why is this a company issue? Or TikTok specifically? This faux outrage is childish. This really is the fault of the staffer not the company.
11.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
I waited until the initial rush of comments were complete before throwing my 5c in. The first thing that sticks out is you being a good little slave, and your shitty job. I've had shitty jobs before - and I automated the shit and spen
12.
by notaspecialist 4y ago
When a user comes over and says "this isn't happening" I write a test and sure enough, the test fails. I fix the case, re-run all the tests, push to UAT, and ask the user to verify it works in the UAT system. It's pushed
13.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
Go away, or I'll replace you with a script
14.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
This assumes that trucks and cars will continue to use "nozzles" and "hoses" rather than the evolution of swapping cannisters of hydrogen. If Tesla can build a mostly-robotic factory, we can make robotic hydrogen bottle
15.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
This sounds familiar - but I will say, at least you're making an effort to discuss the issue and gather feedback before taking any actions, which is a good thing, most companies would distance them, get them to quit. If you want to hel
16.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
The title isn't quite correct, their last death was July 24 according to the stats at worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden
17.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
Yeahh...I'm gonna have to ask you to come in on the weekend.
18.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
I remember reading some of a book about the psychology of pushing people into the far-(right|left) camps. It went something along the lines of "if you reject them, it crystalizes their opinions as being right". It offered advice o
19.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
quote from The Independent: The company, which is based in Houston, Texas, says that XRP is the least damaging, using 0.0079 of a Kilowatt hour (KWh) per transaction. Dogecoin, which is a favourite of Mr Musk and which he plugged during his
20.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
Because he wants you to buy Dog Money!
21.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
>wears mask >catches covid via eyes sigh
22.
by notaspecialist 5y ago
They have a lot of money, and can easily store the radioactive waste, but - out of sight - out of mind for the Japanese. I lived in Japan for many years, and the feeling I left with was that the Japanese do not care about the environment. E
23.
by notaspecialist 6y ago
Everyone would start marrying and having families again.
24.
by notaspecialist 6y ago
Since this hit the newswaves, I've read both sides, and investigated the claims from both sides. Interesting.
25.
by notaspecialist 6y ago
The per-country banned-booklist (if you can find it) is quite long.
26.
by notaspecialist 6y ago
26 pages of comments and all of you don't get it. You don't get the point of it now, the why and only two of you actually see a part of the coming storm.
27.
by notaspecialist 6y ago
I loved seeing his pictures when I was younger. So inspirational.
28.
by notaspecialist 6y ago
A typical adult that has gone into IT, and specifically programming. Do you know what their life expectancy is in that field? 5 years. 80% of them move on after 5 years. Stop teaching kids how to program! You are decreasing the pool of unen
29.
by notaspecialist 6y ago
We should hoard that like the gem it is. Higher atomic-complex material that is not common like hydrogen can be useful for the future when we learn how to artificially increase the neutron count in a stable method.
30.
by notaspecialist 7y ago
Australian trees have extremely hard seed pods and require fire to open, it's the evolution of many species in the ecosystem (animals that live in-land are fast moving, slower moving animals live closer to the coast or dig into the gro

More ›