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by ragall 7mo ago
> So those people are using the tool incorrectly They're not. They're using it very correctly, by choosing to ignore a capability that's irrelevant to them. > If everyone was running around using screwdriver handles to
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by ragall 7mo ago
Here's one for "The last of us". The fungi will get us all.
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by ragall 7mo ago
> That doesn't remove the fact that when people are working on the code, their local copy doesn't disappear after they pushed their commits and a local copy is still available. It doesn't remove it but doesn't make it
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by ragall 7mo ago
There's no such thing as gender separate from sex. There's the recognition of one's immutable, inherent, sex, and tacking social expectations on top of it, but never that one could choose, or "feel". Always derived,
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by ragall 7mo ago
Gambling is flourishing not because we're in a low-trust world, as the article says, but because the living conditions of an increasingly large part of the population as such that they cannot hope of ever achieving a comfortable life.
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by ragall 7mo ago
The Zenit-E film wind and shutter click gave me the chills.
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by ragall 7mo ago
Well said.
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by ragall 7mo ago
The original intent of the authors is by now irrelevant. The current "point" of git is that it's the most used version control solution, with good tooling support from third parties. Nothing more. And most people prefer to us
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by ragall 7mo ago
> I mean, git's whole raison d'etre, back when it was introduced, was that you do not need online access to the repo server most of the time. So what ? That's not how most people prefer to use it.
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Comprehension Debt(addyosmani.com)
5 points by ragall 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ragall 7mo ago
I think he was referring to "Begone, slop men", which is the right answer to this.
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by ragall 7mo ago
That makes a lot of sense, and it was long due. I'm more curious about when we'll see people start to use AI-driven drones to take out their competitors. Talebans, Houthi, Mexican narcos have been using attack drones for a while.
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The Talent Pipeline Is Collapsing(newsletter.thelongcommit.com)
17 points by ragall 7mo ago|3 comments
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by ragall 7mo ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the latter book.
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by ragall 7mo ago
The competing Google features are not a distinct product with its own name, but rather many separate features one can enable, like container image scanning. Collectively, it doesn't do all that Wiz offers, but it's still there.
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by ragall 7mo ago
> If you could do the same checks and caching in a few hundred milliseconds it would only improve the usability for the cashier. No it wouldn't. Those interfaces are permanent and only get restarted once a day or if the hardware has
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by ragall 7mo ago
Exactly. It's just West coast passive aggressive managerial behavior.
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by ragall 7mo ago
> I think a primary concern when Apple evolves their new design language nowadays is competitive differentiation. Same as Google's Material Design. Both are bloody stupid, in their own distinct way.
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by ragall 7mo ago
Nah. Here's a counter example: the TUIs that IBM wrote for many old store chains like Home Depot. They're at least an order of magnitude faster to operate for cashiers compared to web UIs but they're somewhat slow to start du
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by ragall 7mo ago
> Fascism, at least as the Nazi's defined and implemented it, is the belief that a socialist economy will work when the people have a similar genetic likeness. Wrong. You can read Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism" to h
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by ragall 7mo ago
> Plus, there's no reason that starting a TUI program should be that slow. There's no reason why it shouldn't. You seem to think that the interface obliges a program into a certain performance pattern. No such obligation e
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by ragall 7mo ago
Why is the US so prone to these fads ? Diapers, diets galore (all bad), the "whole language" débâcle, etc... ?
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by ragall 7mo ago
> but in that regard the principle is the same for both sysadmins and developers and I don't really see the difference? No, it's very different: developers generally want to know about things they control, so they want detailed
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by ragall 7mo ago
> But for end user software (desktop, mobile, embedded) no one wil [sic] read the logs Lots of end user software is used in an enterprise context where the helpdesk staff will have to read those logs. And for B2C (or retail, or amateur,
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by ragall 7mo ago
If you can reasonably estimate your usage and the peak total usage is less than ~5x the minimum, it still makes sense to just rent hardware at Hetzner. You even have the possibility of managed racks, whereby you rent one or more racks, but
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by ragall 7mo ago
> but it's still just easier implemented as a layer on top of source code than the fundamental source of truth Easier but much less valuable.
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by ragall 7mo ago
It will take a few fires like the one in LA, but eventually even the USians will learn it's not a good idea to build cities out of wooden houses.
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by ragall 7mo ago
> What happens when 1.5B come knocking because if they stay they die? We sink the boats.
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by ragall 7mo ago
The trend of opening offices in Europe started one year into Covid. I'm sure that there are companies that haven't opened an office there yet, but fewer than one might imagine.
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by ragall 7mo ago
> What has surprised me about the cloud is that the price has been towards ever increasing prices for cores. That makes a lot of sense. Cloud providers are selling compute, and as cores get faster, the single core gets more expensive.

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