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by ptero 2y ago
In US companies and universities that I have been at throughout my 30-year career: a group of men harassing a woman with strip poker jokes would be dealt with very swiftly and decisively. My 2c.
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by ptero 2y ago
Thank you for the info! I recall looking at the available tools and thought that neither scratched my itch of flexible interactive filtering filtering and flexible interactive visualization. Great tools for either one, but not for both. But
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by ptero 2y ago
To nitpick a bit. I see the fiscal dominance not as "even then" but as a "because of" the unsustainable debt levels. With the US budget deficit over 35% there are fewer and fewer external parties willing to lend to the U
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by ptero 2y ago
Hyperspy is great and the ability to "move around" n-dimensiobal datasets is a very powerful tool for the data visualization! When I used it I missed two things compared to a similar superpower tool I used when I was working with
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by ptero 2y ago
"Broken Money" by Lyn Alden is a good engineering background. Then, for example, read one of many macro articles on fiscal dominance. You do not have to read Lyn first, but without reading it on modern financial systems I personal
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by ptero 2y ago
That is all well and good and a setup I totally understand. Now that I am in the US I like that my home is 15 steps away from a good-sized network of forest trails. Nature is good. But it is good because of technology: unlimited potable wat
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by ptero 2y ago
Who is going to do this "severe restriction of technology"? The people themselves, as you write, do not want to do it. And anytime a self-appointed elite start doing "what is best for the people" against their will, poli
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by ptero 2y ago
On (1), I grew up behind the iron curtain in a pre-internet age next to a village (no TV, no organized entertainment). The typical non-working activity there was not to enjoy the beauty of nature (as farmers they were fed up with it) but to
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by ptero 2y ago
Last I checked (things could have changed) they do not need approvals for hobbyist use. Official government use and even sponsored research absolutely required approvals. And this is very likely not a hobbyist.
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by ptero 2y ago
There are special use airspace regions, but those are widely published so joyriders do not stumble there by accident. I am virtually certain those UAVs fly outside of it, otherwise there would not be much public attention to that. Agree tha
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by ptero 2y ago
Neither FBI nor Pentagon have ability to fly drones in the US airspace at will. On the contrary, they, like everyone else, have to get FAA approvals and those always leak. And usually in fact published by the FAA who needs to warn pilots of
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by ptero 2y ago
> start your interviews with them by asking if they are comfortable reporting and working with someone with less experience than them I think the recommendation to hire seniors and learn from them is great, but I would not muddy up water
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by ptero 2y ago
You are almost certainly downvoted primarly for the tone, not content. "For all the tech people" is very likely to bring downvotes. If you wrote it as a personal data point it would be fine. Also, advocating for a general availab
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by ptero 2y ago
This seems to be a huge PR blunder. As a single data point, I have to say that my first reaction is illogical. I have two hetzner shared instances and I am royally pissed by the 20x reduction in traffic allowance. It is also irrelevant to m
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by ptero 2y ago
TLDR: According to the article, people eat more calories when they eat ultra-processed foods. The reason is unknown, one possibility is more calories per bite as manufacturers remove water and some other ingredients during processing. Overa
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by ptero 2y ago
Just as a personal data point, most managers I had in my now 25-year career in tech were good. They set clear goals and expectations, provided honest feedback, both positive and negative, and quickly jumped to help re-plan when things did n
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by ptero 2y ago
It is also broader than just Russian and bigger than just pirate. Flibusta has been my go-to source for books for many years.
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by ptero 2y ago
I suspect it just happened to be at the right place at the right time, worked well for a set of users in the robotics community and built up strong network effects there. This is a pretty common story. Python became very successful in a sim
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by ptero 2y ago
I doubt it. The companies that require whole disk encryption should have the keys. They generally implement multi-key setups or keep the key at the IT and block the user from changing it. If they didn't and you forgot your key -- ah we
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by ptero 2y ago
Author works fully remotely and lives in a van to save on rent. This is not an easy life and it took a while to get used to it (took 3 years to feel comfortable). He also bought a parcel of land to build own house. My naive question is why
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by ptero 2y ago
While the situation may be grave it was usually much worse for the vast majority of the population. People are aggravated and enraged by famine deaths precisely because they affect much smaller percentage of people than they used to, where
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by ptero 2y ago
Can you expand on the Nostr problems? Honest question. I mostly see it trying to offer another (architecturally better and robust to censorship) mechanism for group communication. I think (hope, TBH) that Nostr can fill the niche of the Use
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by ptero 2y ago
I am pretty sure the poster you reply to talks about time not money . Most tech companies compensate for costs. My current employer doesn't blink paying ~$60 per day for my parking and lunch on days I come to the office, but that st
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by ptero 2y ago
Very cool! This is, IMO, perfectly in the spirit of all tinkerers and hackers, building their own solutions when they need from what they have. There is nothing Rube Goldbergian about this. My 2c.
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by ptero 2y ago
Google certainly contributed to it. But whether the issue for consumers was caused by hardware makers or by OS makers it is not a self-imposed wound for the consumers -- they had nothing to do with it.
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by ptero 2y ago
The manufacturers do not have the problem. They created a problem for many users as a side effect of forced obsolescence making consumers in richer countries buy new hardware every few years. So it is not really "self created" i
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by ptero 2y ago
It's closer to "damned if you knowingly make grossly incorrect statements even if you put a small footnote saying OK, I know it is not correct". And damned right that you are damned in this case :) I would much prefer a refer
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by ptero 2y ago
I didn't understand this point, can you elaborate?
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by ptero 2y ago
This a very reasonable viewpoint. As a different personal opinion, I am glad that I live on my side of the pond. I am in my early 50s, and having worked in tech for the last 24 (with sane hours and never at the FAANG salaries) I own my cond
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by ptero 2y ago
Not disagreeing, but IME much more often I have to run something that locks specific versions of their python dependencies because ... well ... why not -- kool kids run everything in a virtual environment anyway. Version locking is a powerf

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