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by rabidrat 6y ago
It's a reference to Westboro Baptist Church, who used it as an inflammatory "slogan" for awhile: https://godhatesfags.com/
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Too often, those updates break already working tools. I don't need my essential app insisting that I wait 10 minutes to upgrade when I'm 1 minute away from giving a presentation using it.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Have you seen brow.sh, for the text-mode browser?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I'm on version 83.0.4103.116 which is 3 major versions behind. I am averse to upgrading because it's working for me and I'm concerned about 3 rounds of incompatible/breaking changes. I have no idea about the relative m
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Apparently some small percentage of couples do experience this. I don't think it's some magical "marriage made in heaven"; my theory is that some small number of people have a superhealthy relationship with their ego, a
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by rabidrat 6y ago
A carbon tax was a reasonable idea 20 years ago. Now it would be too little, too late. If the people in favor of a carbon tax had actually been serious and made it happen, then we could have more nuanced discussions now about how to make
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by rabidrat 6y ago
America has that story, but it doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. America may not have "class" restrictions like other places, but it sure does have "race" restrictions. And even when the wrong people manage to m
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by rabidrat 6y ago
That's fair, I didn't look closely enough at the specific terms to make sure it conformed to my view of "open-source". I specifically disagreed with the parent comment and others, which declare that "it's not
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Hard disagree. The OSI may have "Open Source" in its name, but we decide what "open source" means. And I agree with the 'spirit' of open source, which is based in RMS' inability to replace code on his
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by rabidrat 6y ago
It's easy to say that for one person, but these are some of the largest tech companies around, and you're talking about 10s of thousands of engineers. Where are they all supposed to go? FAANG won't hire most of them, and it
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by rabidrat 6y ago
The article says he put away $2m for his and his wife's retirement. While I agree it's not quite 'broke' in the classic American sense, it is .025% of his former net worth of $8b.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
LinkedIn and Github are not TikTok :)
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Yeah I ordered one 15 months ago and had to start using a flip phone. I can't wait any longer though, I am going to have to get a different smartphone :(
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Erm, in my experience (20 years, good but not a superstar) the numbers are 2x that. My last BigCo offer was $300k total comp and jobs with smaller companies (all remote) were around $120-150k. One startup offered me $190k to work remote (
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Boomers are a special generation, though. They grew up in a great expansionary period but did not have to experience the insecurity and horrors of WW2 firsthand. I personally believe their morals were corrupted by the easy band-aid of uni
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Function signature is only half the battle. The semantics can change without the signature changing. This could be caught by a unit/functional test, but then you'd have to have 100% semantic interface coverage. Which is not quit
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I run several static websites. Thanks to S3, they do not require a sysadmin. Thanks to Google, they do require regularly updated certs. We run certbot from an AWS instance that exists for about 10 minutes/day. Are you telling me th
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by rabidrat 6y ago
In my experience, you have to negotiate part-time after the verbal "great job, we want to hire you" but before the formal written offer.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Every software job I've ever had, has an infinite amount of work that could be done. So somehow I have to justify the amount of work I've gotten done, which is usually less than the amount they 'want' done (which is all
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by rabidrat 6y ago
It is impossible by design. Adding that 'feature' takes away the core principle of decentralized currency. Allowing government to reverse transactions will also allow them to seize assets. Then it is just a regular currency (fo
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Most of IRC is on those 'channels' (#whatever). and most channels (at least back in the day) were public, so you could just go to #books or whatever. For example, I spent my formative years on #uiuc, where there was a healthy co
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Power is by definition per unit time.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I think HN is still small web. It's custom-written by one or a few people, doesn't make money, isn't trying to take over the world.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
"can" I think is true for some large majority of people. It's just that most people get discouraged well before the point at which they've devoted enough of their lives to their endeavor to be truly excellent. So in th
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I do not share your optimism. The main post says that you can do this for code up until ~2005, but not since then, and I would tend to agree. Also, many of the games require access to servers, which are no longer running, and even if you
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Well for starters you can just pipe json or shell commands into it. Try `ps -afx | vd -f fixed`.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Happiness = log(Wealth)
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Maybe you need 3 PhDs for 2 fields: one to go deep in each field, and one 'jack-of-both-trades' to mediate and translate between them.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
It's not $1000 to do "nothing", it's $1000 so they can do whatever they want. If they're building some useless road (and many of the public works projects of the past whose aim was to provide "full employment&
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by rabidrat 6y ago
You can totally use the software for non-commercial use. You'd just have to pay for it! I don't understand why FOSS supporters insist on the software being free-as-in-beer, when that has never been the point (even if many people

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