oldpersonintx

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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
he's right there's no essential universal moral truth about IP law, these laws are just an economic enabler you won't go to hell for IP breaches, no kittens will be smothered let the lawyers figure it out, but be prepared to
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
yup, and gun ownership rates are at an all-time high maybe they really are inversely correlated
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
the Fed thinking it can "fix" the economy is exactly how we ended up here they'll try again with rapid and deep rate cuts, and we'll be back to raging inflation and asset bubbles without the necessary wage growth at what
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
do you honestly believe France is going to engage in direct military action against Russia? even for HN-distortion-field hallucinations, this is ridiculous
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
tough break for all the people who optimized the cheat codes for boarding first the wheelchair hack was demoted to amateur hour, the pros moved on to a simple arm sling they could fold up and put in their pocket good riddance to a dumb poli
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
"While this study wasn’t able to explore specific causes of death, a large body of prior research, much of it published by Khan, has found cardiovascular disease (hypertensive disorders, heart failure and stroke) is a major contributo
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
low permission systems allow nothing and then gradually allow some activities that are deemed safe do not allow software to be installed from arbitrary locations app sandboxing and third-party vendors cannot break their sandbox basically, i
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
tech companies are in a long-term process of moving most roles (not all) to lower-comp that often means relocating the job or just low-balling people here there will always be an elite who are very well paid, but we are now seeing the long-
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
"expects to rehire"....in India, for one fifth the cost, I assume when you can't grow the top line, push down the bottom line
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
as inane as asking people their biggest weakness "me? my biggest weakness is that I work TOO HARD!"
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
sure! 1. you like perl and enjoy coding with it 2. you are good with perl so internet criticisms don't impact your decision 3. you don't care about contributions from other people
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
except they jettisoned the Servo project...
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
There is no alternative to modernizing C and C++ Indeed I wish they were even more aggressive about breaking changes Rust is nifty but there is simply too much existing C/C++ out there and "rewrite it in Rust" is not a seriou
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Apply to Cisco. Not a joke. But be forewarned they layoff a lot of people (but never for individual performance reasons). But so do most of the boring companies these days.
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
part of the reason Ladybird split from SerenityOS was to break the "no dependencies" requirement...Ladybird will now be integrating with best-of-breed third party libraries. These will be primarily C/C++ authored I assume, so
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
such a data center would have been under a lot of pressure to perform
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Kuiper doesn't exist
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
zig is just a temporary resting place for HN language hipsters in four months you will be moving on to Swift6 then either Gleam or Roc, that should take us to 2025 oh look, Mojo hit 1.0, time to make the jump! at that point you will throw y
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
maybe 50% of US business users have an admin of any kind who oversees their IT ops everyone else just gets a laptop, unboxes it, turns it on, uses it, does whatever they want to it see: any retail location in a strip mall, any mom/pop
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Apple is in terrible shape on software, AI is driving this home the only tier-one, network-effects app they control is iMessage search? someone else maps? someone else video? someone else audio? someone else and now they will go to someone
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
thirty six candidates were murdered during the latest elections that's crazy
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
you're forgetting about the thousands of dollars go read about the percentage of the population that have less than $500 emergency savings and then you won't wonder why they aren't going to Greece for a week HN SV types don&#
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
why do you believe HN is a good example? HN promotes the worldview of the Orange Checkmarks and minimizes or flags most dissent or contrary views Most people who think HN is quality discussion just see others who mostly conform to their own
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
ROAC is a pipe dream (I used to believe in it also) most large cloud/distributed systems cannot be realistically reproduced in your compose/k3s/whatever environment a large cloud/distributed system must be tested on some
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
the Los Gatos PD would periodically set up shop near stop signs and nab cyclists when enough pedestrians complained about being nearly mowed down by cyclists who flew right through intersections it was amusing to watch the cyclists pretend
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
(the) 1% of America wants inflation (the) 99% of America NEEDS deflation its crazy that food costs are still so high and The Fed is contemplating rate cuts the Supreme Court may have been captured by Republicans, but The Fed was captured by
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
sometimes the mask slips and pg is revealed as just another internet libtard
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
not hard at all if you want to work at chipotle the govt bean counters do not care about job quality...to them, a job is a job and if you took it you must be happy with it
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
anyone at FAANG who is high TC but just doing rote development has a target on them people in Mexico can write React too, for 66% off your salary
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Sounds like a win for the US...get competing economies to block the technology for trivial reasons, then by time the bugs are worked out they will be so far behind that their only choice will be to choose US-based solutions

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