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by rantwasp 5y ago
if you liked Ubik, give VALIS and The Three Stigmata a try. Ubik is a good “introduction” into the PKD universe. But it’s almost like there are two PKDs: one trying his hand at SF and another one that has transcended space and time. You wan
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by rantwasp 5y ago
you need to figure that out yourself. Does Amazon look at your files in S3? Do they inspect your API traffic? Look at the files on your EC2 instances? Did I mention that Amazon has datacenters in places with stronger privacy laws (Germany c
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by rantwasp 5y ago
gonna replace and evil with another one, but you can use amazon workmail (they have the spf, dkim, dmarc stuff figured out) with your own domain. it takes 10 minutes to setup. it does not have a flashy web ui - but if you do imap it doesn’t
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by rantwasp 5y ago
why was implementing captcha a thing you considered and do you understand the deep implications it has on your users?
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by rantwasp 5y ago
i would not laugh. think it’s impressive and must eat a lot of time
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by rantwasp 5y ago
the ip, any fingerprinting that the captcha code does. so in effect google can tie you to this visit later if you interact with anything that has a captcha. now these two thinks are liked in the borg’s memory. so if you use google (anything
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by rantwasp 5y ago
this is what triggered my response: > When I transitioned to management I made a point to try to balance workload and availability across teams. It often makes more sense to let go of superstar engineers who are only available 4 out of 5
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by rantwasp 5y ago
nope. someone being able and willing to do “insane” things for a bigger piece of the pie should not make this the norm. should people that are one paycheck away from being homeless be okay with the 80hours? gonna ask again: at this point
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by rantwasp 5y ago
lol. are you serious? most people give the choice between no/little work and a lot if work will go with no work.
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by rantwasp 5y ago
yes. productive work done AND deployed to production.
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by rantwasp 5y ago
some bad news for you: Darwin does not apply in this case. given a problem and enough time, mother nature will solve it. given a problem people can probably solve it in less time by actually you know designing the solution. one could argue
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by rantwasp 5y ago
you are wrong. a lot of bs generated by the people that are “important” and “constantly in meetings” drags productivity down for everyone. take this and also apply it vertically on the reporting chain. Yeah 20hours/week is totally doab
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by rantwasp 5y ago
how dare you! it you don’t work more than 60hours/week you don’t have any work ethic and you should probably not be able to afford basic stuff like living indoors and eating. /s
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by rantwasp 5y ago
this sounds amazing. where do i sign up and get assigned my serial number?
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by rantwasp 5y ago
can i ask you why you did it? did you ever look at reducing the amount of work / switching jobs? To me this sounds a little bit insane (but in a non-judgmental way). I hope you enjoy your retirement.
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by rantwasp 5y ago
i have some bad news for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs jobs and what you are payed are in no way related to the value you produce. if anything, you should be payed more. a 10 hour work week is doab
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by rantwasp 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
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by rantwasp 5y ago
hah. classic management thinking. do you understand that the time spent working on something is only very weakly correlated with the quality of the deliverable? do you understand that some people can save you months or years of work and ope
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by rantwasp 5y ago
yes, of course. valuable lessons were learned and humanity’s knowledge has been greatly augmented. /s it still amazes me how much press google gets for basically vaporware. one could make the point that all google does, except ads, is
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by rantwasp 5y ago
so an android phone without the store? intriguing. at that point you might as well switch to a dumbphone. are dumb phones still a thing?
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by rantwasp 5y ago
what bothers me is the normalization of collecting this data in the first place. some people are outraged, but hey if google does it, are you really surprised when someone else does it? I have worked pretty hard to kick google out of my dig
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by rantwasp 5y ago
what about an rust developer with an MBA? /s when you see a strawman point it out. people may not like it, you may get downvoted but... something about being the change you want to see. for example: I routinely get down-voted every tim
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by rantwasp 5y ago
nope. I disagree. I make a living from writing software and I will not defend the harm software does to society. I will go even a step further and say that I will not work in any place where it's clear that net result of the software p
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by rantwasp 5y ago
i think we may be moving the goalposts a little here. we were talking about joy, humor, whimsical and we shifted to a straight-up utopia where everyone is kind to everyone and no bad comment is ever made. Philosophically, I would say HM is
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by rantwasp 5y ago
counterpoint: 1) the difference is on hn, shitposting, trolling and straight up being offensive is strongly discouraged. 2) I have experienced joy, whimsicality and humor in here. We are people not machines. 3) i have learned about mo
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by rantwasp 5y ago
here is an idea: age weighted voting. starting at voting age, give every X years interval Y% votes. if there is a lot of old people their vote matters less. if there is a whole lot more younger people their vote matters less. i’m sure this
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by rantwasp 5y ago
this person gets it. who wants to live to 150 is you’re in constant pain, take 150 medications/day and you cannot move? now, let’s say that at 90s you could do what a 40yo can do. GAME CHANGING!
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by rantwasp 5y ago
yes
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by rantwasp 5y ago
yeah. don’t be. you’re thinking about the best case scenario probably. in reality if we keep doing the things we do we’re headed towards a world where it would be really hard to survive. space and space colonization? really hard with the cu
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by rantwasp 5y ago
lol. let me ask you this: if your life quality was the same as 90 as it was at 50 would you still look forward to death? it’s not living 120 or 150 or 200 that matters. it’s the quality of your life. i think working to improve that vs some

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