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by nrb 4y ago
That “magic backpressure” is solved in the real world with simple sensors, shutting down part of the manufacturing line is a relatively common occurrence (maintenance, safety stop, etc) and doesn’t cause the entire system to collapse.
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by nrb 4y ago
> Especially since it demonstrably has zero impact on infection or likelihood of communication. How about hospitalization and death rates, the outcomes we actually care about?
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by nrb 4y ago
Electricity is analogous to the the road that you traveled on to the way to the party. > Is it out of the realm of possibility that a conscientious electrical supplier might not want to power a racist's computer? Isn’t this the case
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by nrb 4y ago
Who cares that it’s legal though? You’re on their property, committed to abiding by their terms of service even. If you’re hosting a garden party and one of the guests has become disruptive to everyone else, are you not allowed to demand th
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by nrb 4y ago
That would make sense considering their population is more than those combined, and a mind-boggling amount of manufacturing has been moved there. I imagine you’ll find plenty of people who _also_ want pressure on China to improve, but the w
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by nrb 4y ago
Understandably, but good luck explaining why you have a weeklong outage because you ignored disaster recovery process since probability made you confident enough to not test your backups. Until you have a provably working restore, the backu
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by nrb 4y ago
Worthless. The process has a 0% chance of success until proven otherwise.
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by nrb 4y ago
Yeah, made me reread the whole message with my sarcasm checker turned up. I can’t recall another widely used language of the era with as many foot-guns or one that went so long without a decent debugging experience. It really draws into que
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by nrb 4y ago
Bitcoin is cheaper than visa because you have zero consumer protections.
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by nrb 4y ago
For anyone curious, that bro hug is also known as giving dap, or a pound hug. Have lived in several US states and many major cities (NY, Chicago, SF, LA) and dap is universal.
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by nrb 4y ago
I don’t disagree at all :) these sort of scummy clauses deserve more scrutiny.
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by nrb 4y ago
Draconian culture is an environment that spurs tech innovation by new entrants. If anything, it might cause a mass migration of employees from those outfits into great new companies.
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by nrb 4y ago
> I've been asked by CEOs to not remove Company X logo even though there was no relationship beyond a customer account which used a Company X email address. At best, this seems like a pretty easy way to convert them into a former c
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by nrb 4y ago
The enforceability of that is probably extremely weak, most plainly: does the person agreeing to the TOS have the right to grant permission to use the logos or trademarks?
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by nrb 4y ago
> Constant daily work and inspection is required to avoid insect infestations and mold outbreaks (cleaning is critical). Many flowering and fruiting cycles in plants are highly light-period-sensitive so that has to be carefully managed a
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by nrb 4y ago
I have to believe the motivation is much more likely placed with the treasury having the most complete view of everyone’s finances, seeing as basically every dollar earned in the US was done so on the shoulders of tax revenue-directed infra
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by nrb 4y ago
How much of it the hiding of otherwise-legal income? If the figure is closer to the difference between 7 billion figure and the 1.5 billion of sanctioned money then it’s only a matter of time before the treasury justifiably comes after them
168.
by nrb 4y ago
Toddlers have parents to save them when their incessant overconfidence gets them into danger.
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by nrb 4y ago
> To me that sounds like an API with query parameters, do we really need to use GraphQL? Do you care about the API being discoverable and the schema being well described? Being able to see the relationships between the data? The type-saf
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by nrb 4y ago
Perhaps, if you completely write off the breathtaking economic impact of the manufacturing and operation of Boeing products since its inception.
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by nrb 4y ago
There are without a doubt a sea of creative people at Meta, the question is whether the organizational structure disincentivizes creative collaboration with engineering.
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by nrb 4y ago
I don’t think the two are connected. It’s more likely that it’s because feature decisions at these companies are made by thousands of product people who have their own performance objectives, most of which are misaligned with the wishes of
173.
by nrb 4y ago
Are you asking why not have sex with your subordinate? A whole slew of moral and legal reasons, for one.
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by nrb 4y ago
Yes, everything dropped on your corpse on death. The vast majority of gear used by people was crafted by others, but higher level monsters dropped magic items that increased their accuracy, damage, or durability. Or, had a "slayer&quot
175.
by nrb 4y ago
Same here, but with UOX a few years before!
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by nrb 4y ago
It was simpler than that, it just limited the number of gains you could make per 8x8 cell, but moving out of that cell and into another (in any direction) reset your ability to gain skills. Due to how players moved around in the world, that
177.
by nrb 4y ago
When exactly would paying for an IDE extension NOT be paying for convenience?
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by nrb 4y ago
Of course it matters if you’re being billed by the impression! No matter how good your conversions might be, your margin would be unquestionably higher without the fraudulent impressions.
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by nrb 5y ago
GraphQL is such a quality of life upgrade coming from this environment, especially at the scale where your frontend teams are potentially larger and shipping more than the teams closer to the SQL can provide.
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by nrb 5y ago
The <Insert State Here> Code certainly applies penalties for assault and battery, and you can rest assured knowing shin-kicking would happen regularly without it. The car problem presented here is quite a bit more shades of gray and w

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