r_hoods_ghost

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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
In case you hadn't noticed, this law hasn't been passed. It is currently out for consultation through a relatively transparent process. Certainly more transparent than the, let's all meet at the club and thrash it out between
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
So you do want the government to control jeans manufacturing then?
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
It's not a fundamentally bad idea from a practical point of view (like I said, I'll leave the ethics out of it), but I think it is not as good an idea as a lot of people think as it narrows the field so much. Also the signal that
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Let's be honest, the alternative to having an open hiring process, i.e. resumes, is nepotism and hiring your chums and the chums of your contacts. Which does describe the hiring process in a lot of startups. Ethical issues aside, the p
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
By your definition of intelligence. By my definition of intelligence it is, but then I consider any system that displays goal oriented behaviour and an ability to react to changes in its' environment to be at least minimally intelligen
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
My experience is that a lot of devs cannot or do not want to actually talk to users and learn how they use the software and what the need from it, and suggesting that they do this is considered an outrageous waste of precious dev time (I&#x
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
I'm philosophically comfortable with the notion that some things are unknowable and that eventually one just has to take certain cornerstone propositions about the nature of reality on trust and / or faith. Ultimately though the
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Very interesting question! I would argue that concepts like "size", "colour", "texture" are grounded in a more base level of reality than concepts such as "buy price", "sell price", "di
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Whenever I read something like, "Software development is not carpentry. Almost everything a developer writes is unique, they have never built that particular thing before. We are not cabinet makers repeating a variation of something we
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Yes this is not particularly great aesthetically. But visually it is much better than what a lot of "full stack" (i.e. backend) developers can knock up, no matter how long you give them, as a lot of developers have no interest in
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
I hear this a lot. The counter argument is virtually no one is going from implementing chat gpt as project 1 to implementing google maps as project 2. In fact they are going from implementing v1 of google Maps to v1.1. When I worked as a ki
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
I live with an actor. Every year or so she gets a set of professional headshots done which costs somewhere between £300 and £1000 depending on the photographer. While the quality of a professional set is undoubtedly better than these (curr
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
A central authority doesn't control the size of the money supply in our current economy either, as the vast majority of money is created by private banks and other institutions issuing loans.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
2008 was extremely similar to today, although the webdev ecosystem wasn't quite as degenerate. I'd say you'd have to go back to the pre internet era to find a work environment that was fundamentally different.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Umm, you do realize that the purveyors of decentralized Ponzi schemes co-opted the word "crypto" from us serious minded folks concerned with cryptography?
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
This very much depends on where you are. For example in the UK a lay off technically means being told to stay at home because there isn't enough work [1], although it's often used these days to mean "fired without cause"
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Net doesn't matter to the individual firm. And who should carry it? Everyone else who had the gumption to spend, what, a few man hours, to guarantee that they won't end up not being g able to make pay roll?
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
But they were by, for smaller but over 250k depositors, not spreading their deposits between multiple banks. Which can be done manually or through a sweeping account very very easily. Or, for larger depositors, having other safety mechanism
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Really?!! There's a reason the government insures deposits, but up only to a certain amount. Because banks go bust pretty frequently. Of course this is the sort of think that should be on your risk register, whether you're an indi
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
No rational reason, however during bank runs rationality tends to go out the window and even banks that are perfectly safe on paper can find themselves in trouble.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Would a potential CRO really get full access to a public company's accounts and risk register as part of the interview process? Would a CTO really get full access to a company's code base as part of the interview process? Genuine
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
"Can you drive a car for free (for 5 - 8 hours) until you decide that's the car you want to buy?" Yes. It's called a test drive. I think the longest I've seen is a free 48 hour test drive with an online e dealership
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
I have worked in academia and I am aware of the restrictions on purchasing. But as an individual you can purchase software for yourself. You can encourage your students to purchase software. You can even make it a requirement of a course, i
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
"Canonical is unlikely to be that interested in the views of people who have little or no chance of giving them money, people like us." A university in one of the richest countries in the world, the academics employed by it, and t
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Every time I read something like this I feel like I am living in a parallel world. It really, really doesn't. Now if you were to say "the nature of web development and hn adjacent company hiring practices where people move every
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
As I said they took up about 50% of the second line support capacity for the entire organisation. So yes they were properly supported, unless you want a dedicated tech to hold the hand of every exec, dev and bioinformatician.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Because as someone who has done support for a 28000 person organisation, 27500 of which are using mostly Microsoft products on windows for 90% of the time and 500 of which are using Mac or Linux and doing other stuff I can tell you that at
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
SSO and SAML are not enterprise features. They are table stakes security wise, and intentionally crippling your security model is a good way of driving off customers that take security seriously, no matter their size.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
This is utter nonsense and just shows you've never worked in a unionized workplace. You're basically repeating talking points from 1950s propaganda.
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by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
Yes, but what is the focus of google's privacy organisation? Is it protective user privacy or is it designing and implementing ways to circumvent user privacy controls and regulations? From the evidence I'd say the latter.

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