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by qwantim1 6y ago
The scary part of journalism is when it’s about activism vs. the truth. Activists can lie if the truth isn’t important. Lying for ratings, though, is also very bad. Activists lying for both activist causes and ratings is extremely bad.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
And so does growing massive amounts of pot and mining bitcoin. Will these things stop? Probably not.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Not lucky- just deceptive. Deception is what scammers do, and they do it because it’s guaranteed to make money, not because they hope to get lucky. I’m not advocating this. Doing this was wrong, and it’s not some black hat exploit. It was a
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by qwantim1 6y ago
The argument made is seemingly harmless, but historically has been proven incompatible with morality. For example, one could argue those that are poor or uneducated are that way because of nature, their IQ, their race or ethnicity, but we k
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by qwantim1 6y ago
I use junk drawers, which scale to available drawers, after which you buy more storage or a larger house.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
If your boss is in your house using your shitbowl.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Sharding is not really scaling for many, and I think despite your good intentions you may be misleading others. I’m glad you like the setup but people flocking to SQLite scares me.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
It’s a prediction based on its continued meteoric rise and given its net worth.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
It’s a great idea, but your company is going to be a serious target. You not only will have the ability to control authN, but you’ll own authR also if you’re managing users and groups. You’ll also own all the conference rooms, printers, ser
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Easy is not the word I’d use. Lucrative maybe. Not easy.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
> Linux is fragmented It’s actually quite an astute observation. I read recently that there are over 600 Linux distros and only about 500 are actively maintained. > Web developers who use Google Analytics are stupid. The adjective is
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by qwantim1 6y ago
I worked at a company where we interviewed frequently in teams of two. The pairs were chosen mostly at random from the large development team, except that at least one would be more experienced with the company, typically. The first team of
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by qwantim1 6y ago
> Instead of trying to avoid it or wishing for comfort, we can instead relish that we're in uncertain territory and feel those brief twinges of fear and doubt.[1] Generally true, but it also sounds like you’ve not made big mistakes.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Thanks! The PDF didn’t have one.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Is FreeBSD still used to as great of an extent in US Government / Military / Intelligence as it used to be? There seemed to be some talk of Linux I noticed in past years, and I’ve been thinking about trying to out again, but I’d f
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Needs an index.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
I just read the GitHub repo mentioned in the article and it looks like gibberish to me. Pandas to me are still big lazy black and white bears eating bamboo, until someone can point me to something more intelligible.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Did you read the paper? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.14383.pdf
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by qwantim1 6y ago
I made the mistake of continually thinking my problem was those who led, then realizing it was me, then losing most of my self-confidence. I recommend not doing what I did. If it’s a bad fit, get out. It’s damaging.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Is Basecamp really the example to aspire to? Being the developer of Rails and ActiveRecord and fostering and milking that would be the software equivalent of Peter Frampton, and I mean that in the most positive way. I think we know that we’
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by qwantim1 6y ago
In addition to an IM client, it was a character in HGTTG by Douglas Adams.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
He may have lost his bet, but maybe he came close. 2020 was the closest I’ve come to feeling that society was collapsing.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Would you have if it weren’t supported by Microsoft?
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by qwantim1 6y ago
It could be about budget. It could also be perceived incompetence. If students don’t seem to be getting benefit from education by professors who focus solely on mathematics, then that problem needs to be understood. This is the second time
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by qwantim1 6y ago
> virologyst Is this an actual spelling in some dialect of English? It looks interesting. In medicine, when I see “gy” I’m thinking gynolocologist.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
It’s impressive what you say, but I would hire someone that would need to google to develop something if they were to code it quickly enough and to code it well.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Like the US winning the revolutionary war with guerrilla warfare tactics that native americans used against them when trying to defend themselves.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
Teaching it CTEs, subqueries, generic column identifiers (1,2,3), unions, left outer join, like, regexp, JSON, array, array_agg, concat, coelesce, trunc, etc. would be fun. But something else humans can do is look at the data to construct p
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by qwantim1 6y ago
PDFs are fine but their time will come to an end for one big reason: they were invented to reproduce defined-size paper forms.
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by qwantim1 6y ago
This is why I didn’t get really excited about WebRTC when I looked into it before. And the problem isn’t with WebRTC, it’s with the current infrastructure of the net that prevents some clients from just communicating directly without some e

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