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by oxplot 4y ago
> It's a typical pattern that I've seen in FOSS You'd think that people working on FOSS are aware of this pattern and watch out for it. But seemingly not!
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by oxplot 4y ago
> as I don't think the submitted article is hostile at all Tone is lost in text and I don't have much background. If I was thinking of contributing to Clojure, this post is reason enough to stay away from it. Based on your expl
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by oxplot 4y ago
I'll join the minimalists here. For the past decade, I've only had about 6 shirts, two pair of denim pants, one pair of boots, 4 pairs of socks, a rain coat and a jacket. I go through one pants every 2 years (as it gets riddled wi
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by oxplot 4y ago
How does it get to this stage where someone has to write up a hostile post to get across this point? Have the maintainers been too nice/polite and/or accommodating and now resent it in face of requests they can't fulfill (and
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The Magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem(posthog.com)
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by oxplot 4y ago
> So when I say they make that for profit To say someone's doing something for money, is to imply money making is their main motivation and end goal. I'm arguing that money is the means to an end. > You seem to consider that
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by oxplot 4y ago
The awesome go-cli package makes it trivial to generate man pages [1] based on the commands/flags. This can be easily added to CI to avoid having to maintain a separate man page. [1]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/
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by oxplot 4y ago
> Oh right, the US built GPS, one of the few GNSS systems out there! When US opened up GPS for civilian use, there was NO other GNSS. Other GNSSes exist BECAUSE of GPS. > You mean by sending a few chosen people in space? This is how e
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by oxplot 4y ago
> One country unilaterally decides that it is fine to pollute the sky for everyone else in the name of profit. One country allows the entire world to use its global navigation system "for free", build businesses on that technol
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by oxplot 4y ago
> That's overselling putting some satellites in orbit. GP is talking about the future. The future is what people are working towards and planning for at SpaceX. This of course goes right over most people's heads as most people
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by oxplot 4y ago
Elon recently in an interview with Tim Dodd, said: "At SpaceX, we make the impossible late". In hindsight, nothing is impossible but before SpaceX did any of the routine things they do now, everyone said it was impossible: private
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by oxplot 4y ago
The problem is that none of these tests are regulatory tests. There is no approval process for monitor performance nor is there a penalty for not adhering to a standard (short of a class action suit). Heck, even when there was such a regula
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by oxplot 4y ago
> It seems very much to me as if Musk doesn't know what he is doing. Teslas are ever more in demand, with wait times extending to a year. They are the highest selling EVs in the world by a large margin and they make the highest marg
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by oxplot 4y ago
> can you offer worse terms than other employers you're competing with for talent, while also being kind of a dick about it, without hurting the success of your company? Yes! When you have leverage, you can. What's the leverage
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by oxplot 4y ago
> he's incapable of accurately assessing progress He has admitted time and time again, on twitter and in interviews, that FSD has been a series of "local maximas" which each time given him and his team a false sense of rea
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by oxplot 4y ago
Class action warfare for making a comment? Ye, definitely an environment one wants to live in. Sounds a lot like China than America.
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by oxplot 4y ago
> my union blue collar friends have a retirement, the non-union ones not so much Tesla employees own shares. They'll retire as millionaires, not just with a retirement. > It’s like electrical code, you may not like it, but adhere
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by oxplot 4y ago
> If that were true we'd have had fully autonomous FSD 5 years ago Genuine doesn’t mean what you think it means. FSD is late because Elon underestimated it while working on it as fast as Tesla can, not because he’s a liar who’s walk
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by oxplot 4y ago
There's nothing to debate, when all you wrote was a list of everything you personally didn't care about. We can talk about facts, effect of things on larger population, etc. I'm not gonna start a debate on you as an individua
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by oxplot 4y ago
Someone put it nicely when they said Kubernetes is like an operating system for containers. If you take linux as an analogy, it's clearly a non-trivial investment to learn linux and learn enough to be effective and efficient in it. Fur
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by oxplot 4y ago
> How do you know such things? Elsewhere here, you said you've watched his interviews and yet you missed him mention, more than the dozen times over the past few years, how he split his times between his companies? > Please do in
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by oxplot 4y ago
I give people the benefit of doubt until I see a contradiction. So far, he's been genuine over the 8 years that I've been following him and his ventures.
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by oxplot 4y ago
> Your comment reads as: “be grateful to work for Elon” which is ridiculous. Your grand kids will understand. > An automotive manufacturer who is anti union in 2022? Wtf Perhaps you should do some research into the current state of &q
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by oxplot 4y ago
I lost count of the number of "I", "me", "my" in your comment. > My life would be exactly the same without any of his products. And what about the lives of people who'll come after you, generations afte
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by oxplot 4y ago
> It's that I've drawn a different conclusion You've drawn the wrong conclusions, evident by you leading your argument with "pedo guy". > The fact that he works as many hours as he claims isn't a good th
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by oxplot 4y ago
For one, it’s super cheap and if you use other CF services, it’s convenient.
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by oxplot 4y ago
I’ve replied to your comment elsewhere and I get the impression that you are very disconnected with what Elon is like and is doing. Your comments echos mainstream media headlines which are misinformed and/or malicious wholesale. I real
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by oxplot 4y ago
You should care if you already don’t. He runs some of the most successful businesses and people are in long lines waiting to get hired by his companies despite the high workload and below competition (e.g. facebook, google) pay.
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by oxplot 4y ago
> by a leader that spends time on flamethrowers and cave rescue submarines You are grossly misinformed by how Elon spends his time and seem to have read a few headlines years ago and assume that’s all he does. I suggest you listen to som
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by oxplot 4y ago
From what I can tell, bunch of different things going on here. The highest priority IMHO is: > to never fully complete them and see it all the way through Others who do have the persistence to see something all the way through, are simpl

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