oxryly1

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by oxryly1 11y ago
I imagine that even in Australia high voltage lines are exposed to laypeople via electrical sockets, with naught to protect the novice but being inset in some plastic. In any case the idea of finding (or even sympathizing with) reasons to p
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by oxryly1 11y ago
Next we'll allow people to access the high voltage wires inside their houses... where does it end?
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by oxryly1 11y ago
Careful, you're going to cause a VC to throw a tantrum.
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by oxryly1 11y ago
(Also a software engineer) Yes, we've probably lost the value of good software a bit. The bigger issue is that I no longer judge the value of software based purely on a page (or app store description) advertising it. I need to try it o
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by oxryly1 11y ago
It's this kind of stuff that has me boggled that they charge the same prices for apps in the store vs. apps on media or downloaded directly. Tha app store version is more conventient, maybe, but fundamentally less featured. I'm e
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by oxryly1 11y ago
Isn't it possible, therefore, that Unikernel and Joyent's virtualisation serve different purposes and are definitely not meant to be interchangeable?
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Without reading the article: "because violins sound better with f-holes than without." I'm fun at parties.
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> And I keep pushing my team to learn new stuff and educate them whatever I learn. This is likely a big part of the issue. You can't make them learn. > Just to let you know I constantly keep asking for feedback from my Reportin
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Precog Unit.
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I know... it chafes me to see pre-enlightenment values amongst spaceships and space travel and sci-fi-like environments.
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by oxryly1 11y ago
Also applies to all of Star Wars, which I struggle to reconcile with how much I enjoy (most of) the movies.
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Just paying friends back for dinner and such.
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by oxryly1 11y ago
I'd switch to square, but since I don't have a debit card I can't use it. I can still use paypal (and annoy my friends in the process.) EDIT: To answer your question, paypal still exists for the same reasons banks exist when
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by oxryly1 11y ago
The people engaging in risky behavior aren't complaining. They're selling (or trying to).
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by oxryly1 11y ago
True. I've both received and been screwed out of royalties while programming games on a salary.
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Google exists and has a reputation.
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It's like VC. Most artists cost money, a couple rare ones make some money, one in a million earns like the Beatles. The managers/companies/etc aren't greedy, they're surviving.
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Regulations did not require a safety valve on this well because it wasn't with 150 feet of a house (from the article).
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by oxryly1 11y ago
If you argue that the motivation of the engineers is at all an issue, I invite you to present yourself on the south field at dawn. Bring your second.
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You don't select a Raspberry Pi for it's speed. This is like advertising a bigger Mini.
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by oxryly1 11y ago
Or like in the movie "Wing of Honneamise", a character goes to meet with officials and speaks for awhile in the standard language. One of the officials says, aside, to him "you can switch to vernacular if you like". The
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This site seems pretty awesome. Although on my second click to it it says I already have a notification? I don't even have an account!
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by oxryly1 11y ago
Martin Winterkorn (the VW CEO who resigned) was an engineer. Specifically, he was an powerplant engineer who helped spearhead VW's diesel technology. I wouldn't be surprised to see him go to jail.
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> Organizations are not people. They have a mind of their own, independent of individuals and yet controlled by the autopilot psychology of humans, unless systemically organized otherwise. Exactly. > It's not pervasive organizati
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These details of emissions modes and engine control software configuration could easily explain the defeat. What remains is explaining how engineering managers higher up (all the way to the top) could remain willfully ignorant of the fact t
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by oxryly1 11y ago
Amnesty? Pressuring employees to "snitch"? Are you kidding me? This is just blatant scapegoating. Your cars cheated on emissions test because you willfully ignored a decade of evidence! This is a case of pervasive organizational
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by oxryly1 11y ago
Hence "rule of law" being such an essential challenge/opportunity facing so much of the developing world.
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So, is kidnapping not a crime in India?
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by oxryly1 11y ago
Are you suggesting that any time a dividend is paid on a single share, that share's price drops by exactly the dividend payment amount?
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by oxryly1 11y ago
I agree, to an extent. But I did get burned by this mindset... I owned a non-trivial amount of MSFT back in the 90s, and they had never paid dividends. Instead, their share price seemed to be linked to the tech bubble and their own populari

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