rb808

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by rb808 6y ago
>Americans, on the other hand, tend to pounce on admissions of failure or ignorance, and engage in shaming and humiliation of the person that admits an issue. Shoutout to all the foreigners working in the US that don't say that know
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by rb808 6y ago
No it means when I'm vacation I want to be with people that are also interested in doing interesting things. Not bros on laptops talking about their social media engagement.
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by rb808 6y ago
expensive though?
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by rb808 6y ago
I've given up running my own k8s at home a couple of times. It does seem to be getting easier, but then upgrading and maintaining breaks me again. + the other stuff like running your own container registry. Then with new centos podman
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by rb808 6y ago
I can't get my Australian friends 'dry as a nun's nasty', metaphor out of my head when talking in polite company.
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by rb808 6y ago
What I dont understand about US law school is that you can't start directly as your first degree like every other country.
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by rb808 6y ago
+ a set top box too. The combined amount is probably more than most European countries pay for their whole bill.
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by rb808 6y ago
The fact he did all this while at Amazon surely means the WLB is better than reputation?
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by rb808 6y ago
There is something in-between where many engineers end up linking together a bunch PAAS and maybe a bit of front end to come up with a app or website. In the old days you had to understand pointers and backups and efficient joins in your rd
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by rb808 6y ago
> The result is that we do very few joins in MySQL What is the point of using a RDBMS if you never do queries?
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by rb808 6y ago
Its a good time to recommend Southern Hemisphere for star gazing, the milky way is much more visible its overwhelming.
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by rb808 6y ago
This and the list of other libraries in responses is a great reason to avoid Python. Its nearly as bad as Javascript, how are you supposed to live with this.
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by rb808 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d... Still many countries are >2 but they're falling rapidly too. Its surprising to me to see Bangladesh at 2.1 and India at 2.2. Places like S Korea 1
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by rb808 6y ago
source?
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by rb808 6y ago
A lot of talk here that colleagues aren't friends. What is wrong with you people? If you like your colleagues you can invite them to do stuff after you or they leave. They probably haven't invited you because they never got around
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by rb808 6y ago
what screen do you have? I definitely prefer Thinkpads, but Mac screens are generally better. 4k sounds like it sucks battery too much.
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by rb808 6y ago
Thinking is an important skill, which is why scientific experiments, essay writing and philosophy are so important. Integrating equations, not important.
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by rb808 6y ago
I see a lot of articles that try to make FP look really easy. The majority of programmers have a lot of trouble figuring out how to figure out a typical FP program with its layers of nested functions. It isn't easy, which is why most c
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by rb808 6y ago
The real question should be is why are US textbooks so hard when most people never need HS math after finishing school, and lack so many other skills that are never taught.
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by rb808 6y ago
I had a friend who worked for a union supermarket chain. It went bankrupt as it had trouble competing with non-union chains like Whole Foods who pay their staff half of the old chains but somehow get a reputation for treating employees well
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News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic(nytimes.com)
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by rb808 6y ago
Its amazing how dumb most charging is for smart devices. I plug my phone in every night and it does a quick charge then sits there and does nothing the rest of the night. It even knows my alarm clock time, surely it should be smart enough t
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by rb808 6y ago
Also 15% of pregnant Moms in NYC had the virus. This could already be much more widely spread that people think. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-hospital-finds-hig...
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by rb808 6y ago
I stumbled across Druid (with superset) and it looks great but has a really low profile, even though it is in a hot area. Does anyone actually use it?
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by rb808 6y ago
I should add our juniors are getting screwed. Usually we spend a lot of time training and coaching, now at home they're mostly ignored. I think our intern class is going to get cancelled too.
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by rb808 6y ago
I heard on WFH opinions there are two groups of people, one that think this will usher in a new age of productive freedom working from home never having to commute again, and the group with kids.
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by rb808 7y ago
dotnet does this, caches compiled assemblies then also tunes them. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-is-just-in-time-jit-compi...
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by rb808 7y ago
> We could give money to people/government directly. Why create money as private debt? Effectively it is. Government borrows money from the Fed and pays everyone a $1200 stimulus check.
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by rb808 7y ago
Any tips for the vast majority of SRE groups where people are paid a fraction of google employees and never given any time to fix things?
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by rb808 7y ago
There are a hardcore group of developers that love functional languages. Whenever I look it just looks pointlessly complicated. Maybe its because I'm not smart enough? Given that 99% of software is not written in these languages perhap

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