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by praptak 3y ago
My build machine sometimes needs to send logs to attach to bugs or have other humans inspect them. This obviously doesn't have to be Gmail but it comes pretty handy.
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by praptak 3y ago
No, the water inside the meat is still not pressurised, so it limits the temperature to 100 degrees Celsius. There's even a recipe for a chicken made in lava (actual volcano) and it doesn't go faster than a normal oven.
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by praptak 3y ago
This has the "more magic" anecdote feel to it. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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by praptak 3y ago
Let the system go long enough and everything becomes accidentally load bearing. See also "implementation becomes the specification" - people will come to rely on every single undocumented implementation detail regardless of what t
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by praptak 3y ago
I wonder if it's possible to look at this closer. By closer I mean something like the technology that was used to get that black hole pic at recognizable resolution.
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by praptak 3y ago
This makes their achievements even more amazing.
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by praptak 3y ago
She has a video with a spectral analyser, YT search something like "overtone singing spectral analysis".
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by praptak 3y ago
From the company point of view this too means reduced cooperation, just maybe a different flavor.
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by praptak 3y ago
Yeah the classic management by spreadsheet. Intentional "X percent voluntary attrition" might look good in a spreadsheet ("Y million saved in severance!"). Somehow it never takes into account that it's the best peop
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by praptak 3y ago
If coworkers are competition then it doesn't make sense to help them too much. And if you have to do anything with hiring it makes sense to steer the process towards hiring people less capable than you.
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by praptak 3y ago
The only good source is a network of people you know in person. If you don't have one, working on open source projects is a good way to bootstrap one.
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by praptak 3y ago
Review writers should start using code just like German employers do in the (mandated by law) employee reviews. Like "Put in great effort" = absolute shit
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by praptak 3y ago
The society as a whole would benefit from more information transparency (in the job market and several other areas) but the economic incentives just don't align to make this happen. Which is kinda funny because the free market itself i
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by praptak 3y ago
Maybe they cannot appreciate them but I kinda appreciate the society won't just let me die if I become disabled or old. This is true even though I am 100% intent of getting euthanasia one day.
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by praptak 3y ago
Why would I care?
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by praptak 3y ago
First thought is that it's the most profitable users who would choose adless. The ads industry would not like their reach to be limited to those not paying for premium search.
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by praptak 3y ago
That's unrelated to the point GP is making. The point is that they are not incentivized to put poison into burgers to get money from the poison industry.
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by praptak 3y ago
That's not even the problem. The Stack Overflow guy wrote a very informative response to people claiming they could clone SO in a weekend (I can't find it now) The core of the problem is not even the quality of the code but rather
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by praptak 3y ago
This must be the inspiration for Salvatore Ganacci "Horse" clip, the vibes are eerily similar.
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by praptak 3y ago
Yeah I agree it might be tough psychologically. But from the deepest human point of view it is only fair. Why should you be the only person who bears the burden of the 100% result of someone else's actions?
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by praptak 3y ago
The bullies might have gotten away with this criminal-wise but what about civil damages? It looks like they severely damaged your ability to sustain yourself financially.
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by praptak 3y ago
People get mocked when they change small beliefs to keep heavy beliefs intact. Say changing their belief about a policy when they find out it's based on politics they oppose.
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by praptak 3y ago
Dunno about other jurisdictions but the written Polish law actually has some quite prominent references to unwritten, socially defined rules, both in the civil and the criminal law.
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by praptak 3y ago
Trademark protection should only apply where it prevents customer confusion. A consumer electronics company has no business in preventing anyone from using a similar logo for selling fruit .
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by praptak 3y ago
The risk-reward balance is totally reverted. Profiteering from privacy breaches - big reward, fixed risk (the fines are basically capped). Using risky code - small reward (some worker time), big risk (suddenly everyone and their dog can sue
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by praptak 3y ago
I agree that monorepo does not make a fundamental difference. Still it makes it easier for some undesirable things to happen. The tainted code can become a critical dependency. It can get copy-pasted elsewhere. An engineer could look at the
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by praptak 3y ago
This makes the main point stronger, not weaker. The main point was that no rational person would ever found his business.
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by praptak 3y ago
Why would they tell this? Just set incentives. Wink wink, we don't care how you do it but here's the bonus for the speed of delivery.
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by praptak 3y ago
Marxism is materialist, how is it predicated on occult or gnostic premises?
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by praptak 3y ago
Two exact same strings of bits may have different statuses because of how they were produced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506986 Once you take that into account the copyrighted Ship of Theseus becomes less of a pa

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