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Google search is becoming one of those dying malls(twitter.com)
3 points by pvorb 4y ago|1 comments
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by pvorb 4y ago
I didn't want to dig into details like these. Turning it off was the lowest possible effort for me.
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by pvorb 4y ago
This tool did me a good service for years without needing any JavaScript. I finally decided to get rid of all access logging on my personal websites when GDPR came around, so now it's also gone.
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by pvorb 4y ago
Perhaps it has to do with being failure-safe?
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by pvorb 4y ago
That's a bit too extreme, isn't it? The situation simply might change in one way or another. A skilled replacement might just appear at some point or the parts of the executive level they're fearing the most might leave. I&#x
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by pvorb 4y ago
> Eventually some of those reports will hate you as well even if you do everything perfectly. Its inevitable from being in charge. You may not find out till running into them years later and they just shrug you off when you try to say hi
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by pvorb 4y ago
Thanks for the insight. I'm wondering what the devs at both companies were thinking about their CTOs. My point wasn't that much about direct reports to the CTO, who might already be used to talking in management terms, but rather
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by pvorb 4y ago
> Should they be able to jump into the code, start grabbing JIRA tickets on a moment's notice, or throw together a new feature when a deadline is looming? Absolutely not. The point was that a CTO should be able to do this in theory
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by pvorb 4y ago
Yeah, but typically the difference is that you can't see IMAP as a backup. Whereas with POP3 (and not having your client set up to automatically delete emails on the server) you can. With IMAP, when an email gets deleted by some client
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by pvorb 4y ago
You can do it in 15 minutes if you've already done it before. If you didn't, you'd be very lucky doing it in such a short time frame.
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by pvorb 4y ago
What makes this even more absurd is that Germany currently has to produce electricity using gas in order to sell it to France, where nuclear power plants needed to be shut down because of low water levels in rivers. Without that, Germany wo
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by pvorb 4y ago
Now I'm imagining a team of archaeologists in 2000 years who are struggling to decipher USB cable packaging in an abandoned electronics warehouse.
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by pvorb 4y ago
Now imagine if that was the process of getting iron in Minecraft. I never understood why some people think that games must be realistic to be fun.
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Ask HN: Is notebook hardware getting worse?
2 points by pvorb 4y ago|4 comments
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by pvorb 4y ago
I think people are overestimating the features of compilers. Today's compilers might struggle with that. 70's compilers even more.
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by pvorb 4y ago
That's also true. It's very easy to build traps, so make sure to know what she wants. But I'd say dependence on the father is the bigger trap. If you haven't worked for a few years, you are fully dependent on your partne
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by pvorb 4y ago
A hint on which kind of device is considered compatible would've been nice. I didn't expect this to be desktop-only.
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by pvorb 4y ago
Is there even a single mother's view in this thread? I bet no. Mothers don't have time and power for the first few years. So my advice is this: Don't be unfair to your wife and think about her career sooner than later. Having
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by pvorb 4y ago
Yes, that was always my theory for why months are 0-based. Back in the days of early Unix, this might have had a tiny performance benefit that was enough for them to choose that implementation.
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by pvorb 4y ago
> Second, C has a tendency to be conservative, changing and growing very slowly. This is a feature, and one that is often undervalued by developers. I really appreciate languages that do change slowly. One of the languages I really like
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by pvorb 4y ago
And the absurd cost to maintain nuclear power plants. Also, they have other bad effects on the environment like heating up rivers. It's a real problem this year in Europe at least. It's really hot this summer and there's no
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by pvorb 4y ago
My household has seen 1800 kWh of electricity consumption in 2021, a year in which I worked a full-time job on a computer and two displays at home. So did my wife. We have two little children. While we might not be close to the average cons
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by pvorb 4y ago
Yep. I almost laughed when I read this sentence: > It is definitely not a punishment to live, work or study here. It might indeed be not a punishment if you're white, but you might be embarrassed about the political beliefs of your
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by pvorb 4y ago
I bought mine in 2010 and it's still working flawlessly to this day. It's my family's only TV and it typically sees about 2 to 4 hours of use per day.
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by pvorb 4y ago
Do you know if this is specific to MySQL or does it also apply to other RDBMS like PostgreSQL?
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by pvorb 4y ago
Unpopular take: users should be free to use bad and insecure passwords for services they don't care about.
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by pvorb 4y ago
This is a nice example of the Peter Principle. This person climbed the career ladder until they were no longer good at what they were doing.
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Cache Stampede(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pvorb 4y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 4y ago
This article is about the standard beer bottles instead of the Normbrunnenflasche. But I'm also seeing more and more water bottles in different shapes, which is a pity. Also, in recent years, single-use as well as reusable plastic bott
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by pvorb 4y ago
Where did you read that? I highly doubt that such a change will get approved.

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