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by npsimons 6y ago
As an old school sysadmin for a long time, the feeling I've always gotten from DevOps is that it is like anything else in the big ball of mud we call "computer science": a new generation re-inventing the wheel. To be sure, th
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> Just triggered a thought - what's so special about "what's going on in the world", especially when the majority of what people focus on with social media will never affect them and at best is the equivalent of local
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> The same type of guidelines and trade-off discussions could be taught in e.g. high school. I'm pretty sure just getting people to reflect on this stuff would bring huge improvements. On this I agree. And even just putting out a si
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> I spent some time a decade ago learning better emacs skills (macros on the fly). This. I spent a week in 2000 focusing on learning Emacs. To this day, I'll use downtime to browse through packages, forums and documentation looking
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by npsimons 6y ago
> Examples: live online trainings, katacoda, notebooks, sandboxes and certifications. To some of us, we don't learn very well from those things. Books tend to have a higher knowledge value and other advantages. For a discount, I&#x2
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Books, but then I've always learned best from books - you set your own pace, they are easily cross-referenced and indexable, and to top it all off books are more often than not structured and well-organized. Re-reading is also an optio
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There's a lot of soft-ish or meta skills that don't get taught, mainly because most orgs don't place much value on them (as you have noticed), but also because it's not a well-studied field. I'm different enough fro
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> Why do we leave office workers to figure out on their own how to get things done? Maybe I'm dense, or oversimplifying, but the answer seems obvious to me: because there's no one size fits all solution. Sure, people can be los
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> In addition I think that if you are destined for the elites then it is more important that you understand (really understand) the life of the others, than if are apprenticing to be an electrician. Two things here: 1. What exactly m
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> Cajoling myself to reign in on my portion size seems more likely to continue working than adopting a victim mentality, but you do you I guess. This is the first step, and I commend you! Yes, there are some things outside one's con
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I use the five minutes trick: "just five minutes on the treadmill", "just five minutes bench pressing, you can do it laying down!" Usually I end up going for longer than five minutes and enjoying every one.
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Oh yeah, I used to run Emacs+org-mode on an N900. Nowadays I run it in Termux. Fits my needs.
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> Seems like all these people who claim there's no _meaningful_ correlation here are just setting goalposts in a way where they don't feel compelled to change their diets. Bingo. People would rather find anything to blame but
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So, it's still the disease of gluttons, you just don't have to be an aristocrat anymore. Progress!
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by npsimons 6y ago
(Replying again as I can't seem to edit my original). > It is a little bit less likely that you dislike heartland America This is a strawman. Relatively few people "dislike" heartland America in and of itself. The objectio
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My apologies; I was being sarcastic, but my writing ability does not match my intent, which in any case was not in good faith. My point is that many on the right claim there is no attempt at empathy from the left, meanwhile there are many o
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> It is a little bit less likely that you dislike heartland America when you spent a year working with Fred the Farmboy before you headed to Princeton. I find it interesting you choose this as an example, and not rather say that "Fr
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> They're a husband and wife pair that fund hyper partisan causes, it's not exactly jumping to conclusions. Well then, I am grateful you cited sources. GP proffered the claim with nothing to back it up. I'm definitely the
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> Or if its actually some shady privately funded project by billionaires seeking to influence elections. Let's not jump to conclusions, otherwise we are as guilty of the credulity we are casting on them (Soros bucks, anyone?). Until
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> I was banned from r/conservative in a discussion about trump handling the coronavirus seriously. I posted a timeline of quotes from him "only 15 cases soon to be none etc" indicating he had not taken it seriously early.
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How do we get back from where we are now ? I have to admit, my social skills are lacking, my patience is low; and the problem just seems so vastly overwhelming that I can't imagine where to even begin.
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> Nobody mistakes the tabloids in the checkout aisle for a legitimate newspaper. This is the first good argument I've heard for the alt-right abandoning platforms with some standards of veracity, and it's an excellent idea. Sor
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> Really, we should be working towards a community where people can respect differing opinions I agree, but there is a difference between an opinion and disinformation. FFS, masks have been made political, and only one group is doing t
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I'll stop using Dunning-Kruger when it becomes irrelevant. And no, I don't consider myself any less prone to it than other people, that's when I've found it most useful. And Dunning-Kruger is not "attributing stupid
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> Just to be clear, I was alluding to software here, not real food and real restaurants. Fair. I guess I'm being dense today. It's a very good point that despite the feeling of the software industry being old, it's still y
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> It appreciates those who can haphazardly slap together a subpar something out of ready-made libraries to meet "business goals". And this is depressing af. OTOH, those who can do this while still maintaining some integrity get
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by npsimons 6y ago
"Code ghetto" is actually a term I've heard bandied about before, usually used to denigrate an ecosystem someone doesn't like, but in this case I think it's wholly appropriate terminology[0], and I don't think
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"Code ghetto" is actually a term I've heard bandied about before, usually used to denigrate an ecosystem someone doesn't like, but in this case I think it's wholly appropriate terminology[0], and I don't think
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> But you could do SOOO much more, if programs would actually output structured data streams. Like even treating code and data the same, and minimizing the syntax required so you're left with clean, parseable code and data. Maybe in
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by npsimons 6y ago
Seriously, though, GP is correct. Small companies that can adapt and snag these contracts won't push for change because they have a "competitive" advantage, and the businesses they sell to won't change because it's

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