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by ragall 2mo ago
> Has it not occurred to you that the job of manager has changed in this time? Maybe, but that still doesn't answer the question. In my many years working for a FAANG in Europe, almost all good managers were non-US, even in the sist
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by ragall 2mo ago
> How big of a deterrent is a millionth of a cent per page going to be? A non-existent one. In practice, this would seem to be false, according to the admins of said sites.
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by ragall 2mo ago
Rather, you're the one stuck thinking this is about yourself. If you read more attentively, you'd see I carefully phrased my reply to avoid mentioning you. You say you aren't good at it, but have you ever tried ? I suppose no
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by ragall 3mo ago
In an organisation made of mature people, some of the highly skilled people would recognise the need for them to become people managers (not Architects), and so the organisation would benefit from managers who were actually competent, hav
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by ragall 3mo ago
And furthermore, in the last decades engineers have become infantilized to such a degree that most don't want to learn to be a good manager and prefer to stay Peter Pans for ever. I believe it's an outcome of the 80's and 90&
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by ragall 3mo ago
Upstream developers declaring a release as "stable" isn't sufficient to make it so. Distros and users are the ones who decide what is stable and what isn't.
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by ragall 3mo ago
Your words betray your prejudice, nothing more.
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by ragall 3mo ago
That can be helpful only if surveillance cannot film the screen directly, and surveillance relies on the position of the fingers. Given modern 4k cameras it's unlikely the latter can be done but not the former.
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Monumental solar observatory in New Mexico(nytimes.com)
2 points by ragall 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ragall 3mo ago
It took Charles Ross 50 years to build it.
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by ragall 3mo ago
> Put differently: are you making decisions based on principles that are crafted with the goal of CHANGING the world? Or are you making decisions based on principles that are crafted to NAVIGATE a dynamic, fuzzy, ever-changing world? Why
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by ragall 3mo ago
> The last Codeberg story that popped up here just this week was something about them banning Bitcoin. At that pace you should worry whether you're next. No. LLMs and blockchain are the same kind of shit.
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by ragall 3mo ago
> The FSF defines four freedoms, and they are all pretty clearly being violated by the no LLM policy. No they're not. The four freedoms apply only to software licences.
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by ragall 3mo ago
There's a problem with that too: it would often force the owner of the phone to input the code when outside a secure environment, so a simple video surveillance could obtain the code.
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by ragall 3mo ago
> but it takes effort and dedication to accomplish that as a customer Yes, that's true and IMO the main reason why even people with the money end up buying the same bad products: they often don't have the time to learn and form
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by ragall 3mo ago
* Iron Heart (UK): https://ironheart.co.uk * Naked and Famous (Canada): https://nakedandfamousdenim.com . They also have a cheaper brand that uses the same Japanese denim but the garments are made in China ( https:&#x
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by ragall 3mo ago
> But then why Nike/Adidas/Quicksilver/etc cannot bring back clothes from the 90s? They can, but people wouldn't want to pay the price. When adjusting for inflation, clothes today are much cheaper than 30 years ago, a
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AI Coding Will Prevent Expertise(larsfaye.com)
5 points by ragall 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ragall 3mo ago
There's no irony. A given name does not constitute a mandate to use it any particular way.
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by ragall 3mo ago
Your prejudice knows no bounds.
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by ragall 3mo ago
That's not how things work in most countries in Europe: the land registry is the authoritative source, and there are no bearer titles any more.
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by ragall 3mo ago
After the tsunami that hit Thailand and wiped out many fishing villages on the Pacific coast, the people were evacuated but as soon as they returned, they found the local mafia occupying the land, and as they had no need and there was no la
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by ragall 3mo ago
Quite likely the opposite: a few weeks ago a ransomware attack halted ~100 hospitals' management systems in Romania, and the cybercrime defense unit just disconnected all hospitals and had the local admins rebuild from backups and pape
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by ragall 3mo ago
The dementia risk is from disrupting the circadian rhythm and suppressing the REM phases.
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by ragall 3mo ago
My family doctor in Italy strongly recommended taking 0.3-0.5mg of melatonin maximum saying that more won't have a good effect and risks having bad effects such as drowsiness the whole day after waking up. And yes, in Italy most melato
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Digital Bandung(theideasletter.org)
3 points by ragall 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ragall 4mo ago
> They are not open at all So what ? It's not possible to be reliable, open and have many features.
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by ragall 4mo ago
So once you accept the EULA, it's fully local. What's your problem with that ?
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by ragall 4mo ago
The main source of the need of maintenance in NA is the choice of construction materials and house design.
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by ragall 4mo ago
It never ceases to surprise me how North American homes are just a source of time wasting for the owners. I grew up in Italy and we never had to do any of that (except repainting the rooms once every 20 years with my father).

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