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by q845712 3y ago
> > beauty in the eye of the beholder > Concrete's aesthetic really depends on it being clean and crack-free. ... unless you're into the aesthetic of crumbling urban decay? I mean I should know better than to pick point
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by q845712 3y ago
I would like to join other commenters in questioning whether or not civilians are already routinely and indiscriminately killed.
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by q845712 3y ago
Triaging, fixing, and backporting patches to CVEs that we were never _really_ vulnerable to but that are going to show up if a customer runs a scanner (and customers love to have zero tolerance policies for CVEs above a certain severity sco
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by q845712 3y ago
I read the article and thought he did a fine job of not spilling too many secrets - I'm curious what you thought he said that crossed the line? I'm not personally aware of signing something that says "I'll keep all inter
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by q845712 3y ago
> Kids from these families can also foresee their career path more clearly This is very true. However I still think among people I knew, wealth counts for more. For example when I was in grad school one of the professors in our departmen
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by q845712 4y ago
i don't know if they fixed _all_ the errors -- there's still apparently a bunch of containers running in somebody's car...
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by q845712 4y ago
I'm writing go in my dayjob right now, and my reaction was "hey under a megabyte for a runtime with GC is pretty good!" So I checked just now, and my hello world for go was 1.9M. And you're well within your rights to ju
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by q845712 4y ago
I think the original Nobel prize was some guy realizing he hadn't done enough good in his life and trying to rectify it. I think the economics prize was a group of people with ties to money and power trying to add weight and credence t
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by q845712 4y ago
^ all of this is true. I just meant that there's much less likely to be the RESTful equivalent of "method missing" or accessing somebody's __private_field__, hijacking their vtable pointer to redefine the method, etc.
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by q845712 4y ago
agree and that's what I was highlighting - the article was very founder-focused, as though the majority of people in most companies aren't also carrying the majority of the weight.
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by q845712 4y ago
this is funny - you're saying you've never done it, and asking why everyone else doesn't do the same thing as you, but you've been a founder, right? So you probably hired people? Did you pay them market comp, or do you h
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by q845712 4y ago
it does, but one of the recurring themes on HN is that most employees at a startup would've done better financially by getting a job at a BigCo (not even necessarily a fang) so it's also disingeneous to claim that _they're_
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by q845712 4y ago
hey - thanks for this; it takes some bravery to say this stuff in public. I'll share that I've been slowly turning into a buddhist, which is not the religion I was born into. I think there's a few things in common, including
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by q845712 4y ago
I've written in python, C++, Ruby, and Go. I hear you on the compilers, and I do miss them at least a little whenever I don't have them. But my goodness, there's really something fun in Ruby. I think it shines in smaller cod
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by q845712 4y ago
the CA FTB is the only tax agency thus far to ever send me a letter disagreeing with what I had filed. The gist of it was that I had made a multi-decimal-place error on one paycheck when requesting extra withholding, and then left it still
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by q845712 4y ago
the lottery itself is reasonable but $9 to participate in a digital drawing only feels ok if i think that around 90% of that is going to the national park. - It seems like what this article is saying is that you're paying $9 (edit: $5
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by q845712 4y ago
same... :)
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by q845712 4y ago
sure in the tech industry we all know the best practices and more or less try to follow them, but in general I've found that I often have hardware that keeps working long past the desire of the corporate overlords to support it: - a wi
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by q845712 4y ago
it reminds me of the Titanic - because one of your compartments can get a puncture but it definitely totally won't affect any of the other ones at all.
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by q845712 4y ago
someone else hints at this but one of the easiest Messiaen pieces to understand is his "Quartet for the end of time", written while he was a prisoner of the germans during WW2. The wikipedia article for the piece is actually pret
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by q845712 4y ago
There was some noise about spotify choosing to recommend "fake" in-house artists who they had to pay less royalties to, but according to this article those concerns were overblown: https://www.theverge.com/2017&#x2
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by q845712 4y ago
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/fitness-tra...
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by q845712 4y ago
thanks -- I hadn't previously thought of all the "SBOM signed with cosign" stuff as the digital/automated version of "I trust this letter reaches you in good health and that we're able to meet again on your ve
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by q845712 4y ago
I clicked on the 'z's and noticed the same for "WHIZZ" I guess the article does say: > Note that these words only represent the list Wordle uses for possible solutions; there are many more guessable 5-letter words.
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by q845712 4y ago
I agree there's many courses in a college where you can learn almost as much on your own or through some other mechanism, but I'm not sure that qualifies as a "waste." there's been other threads on this site where
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by q845712 4y ago
it's one of our greatest tragedies in the U.S. that the region most suited for walking/cycling/"active transit" is also the region completely obsessed with appearances and specifically with appearing like you just s
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by q845712 4y ago
> and raise it for another 2 months at least most of us get raised for about two decades, right? I mean acknowledging that 240 months is at least 2 months in the most literal sense but even if we think that it's reasonable for the
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by q845712 4y ago
Linux Foundation (LFX) runs mentorships at other times of the year. For example their "spring quarter" is March - May.
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by q845712 4y ago
yes, you would be eligible.
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by q845712 4y ago
The first time somebody showed me an article in Vice it was ~2010 and the article was about the style and fashion of how bricks of heroine were being branded. so ... yeah.

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