odonnellryan

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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Inflation will kill Americans. It may kill more Americans than Ukrainians due to the war. That's hard to say but inflation has a strong correlation with increased mortality rates.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
They are probably referring to core inflation... also fuel contributed massively to inflation in March, which was expected, but not expected to stay high forever.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
No it isn't, because these are all anecdotes, and I never made a claim anyway, I asked you to name one.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
"I am black?"
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Because it would probably lead to the database doing stuff that you don't want it to do, with no way for you to tell it to do something else.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
I don't think this happened to very many people.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Paul Graham, post on the front page.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Yes absolutely. My point is it doesn't matter if we create a system unless we really think society is going to use it.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
He's insanely detached from reality. Dude should not be making social commentary lol
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
No. It isn't insane at all.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
What topics are acceptable for teachers to hold views on?
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
You don't need to. Society will always define this for you.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Name one?
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
None of these would get you fired?
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Response to Heresy(medium.com)
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Yes great point. What we do is trade off "wrong-being" for "wrong-thought" or "wrong-talk."
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
I know this is going to sound insane, but what is the obsession with truth? Things can be true and harmful. People should be judged for saying harmful things.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Sometimes nothing beats grep, but using a Windows environment I usually just go to Python to create a quick script to handle this stuff. Lots of times it is really nice to have all your "debugging scripts" in a repo anyway. Once y
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
I love hearing about services like this that managed to scale with not-so-cool tech. Where are the stories about services that have scaled with the latest fad? Maybe they will be posted in a few years - or maybe those teams are too busy to
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
That is nice! What happened with remarkable is I never got it and they refunded me. Which was also nice. Good guys, just a weird policy!
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Lots of sites do not have a good undo for orders. I ordered from remarkable and their solution was to deny the package...
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
I think the problem with cloud environments is you do not "need" sysadmins - it is not obvious you need them, so what you end up with is a bunch of systems glued together without much thought, and then crazy things like HTTP logs
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Gotta have some bad versions of windows so when we get an ok version we think it is good! It isn't like you're going to use Linux ;)
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
How many developers even pair program regularly? 0.1%? Maybe?
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
I was searching about something to do with fiberglass today. Every article was garbage that seemed like bot spam. Was nuts. Direct quotes stolen from forums etc..
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
You probably don't really want that. But not in the way that people didn't want WoW classic.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
It took me 1-2 years before WFH didn't make me depressed. I enjoy it now but I understand.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Yeah from someone who supports users sometimes they have no idea how to use their iPhones.
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Are programmers makers?
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by odonnellryan 5y ago
Yeah. I have a diesel made in the 70s and it amazingly still runs, and starts in the winter without glowplugs. They are amazing things.

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