respondo2134

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by respondo2134 3y ago
irfanview for images, vlc for videos, foobar for audio - so much better than anything bundled with windows since forever
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by respondo2134 3y ago
we already are, on a planet-wide basis
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by respondo2134 3y ago
>> So-called zombie fires are burning under thick layers of snow at an unprecedented rate. ...also called overwintering fires. They are flameless smoulders that burn slowly below the surface I guess we know what drives clicks.
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by respondo2134 3y ago
Except that 1. the vast majority of forest fires in Canada are started by lightning strikes. 2. Canada did not have strict lock-down rules like much of the world; going off in the woods was one of the things you could definitey do
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by respondo2134 3y ago
this ispretty coomon in Alberta for all services. Right now electricity is epensive but natural gas was costing as much or more to get to your house as the actual gas itself. There are a lot of governments and government owned/associat
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by respondo2134 3y ago
the provincial government has halted new wind and solar projects for at least a period of time, while the federal government continues to clamp down on any attempts at new fossil fuel plants, hydro takes decades and nuclear is a non-starter
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by respondo2134 3y ago
The implied assumption here is that everything needs to adopt new tech. Lots of things are essentially "as perfect as we're going to get them" and everything new is a very marginal improvement or a big step backwards.
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by respondo2134 3y ago
First, I agree that ALL cops spend a large portion of their job dealing with the worst aspects of our society. This inevitably colours their perspective and puts them in a very tough situation, prone for very bad mistakes. I disagree with y
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by respondo2134 3y ago
He sets up the scenario like you need to build a full-feature, production-ready application for every student project, which is obviously not true if you've ever done one. And maybe the hypothetical guy didn't learn much networkin
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by respondo2134 3y ago
Your description of feedback for software development that "it runs" is like playing something on the piano and saying it sounds like the midi version so I'm good. There are a lot more accessible examples for piano than softw
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by respondo2134 3y ago
This is a problem in a countries like Canada, where the old "we need to attract the BEST talent for [government|not-for-profit|etc]" argument makes politics the best way to get an incredibly lucrative job when you don't have
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by respondo2134 3y ago
Even if they're buying a lot of a relatively narrow index fund the ability to directly benefit from a specific company would be greatly reduced.
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by respondo2134 3y ago
This sounds good in principal but is not always true. You have limited resources, including time, public goodwill and attention. If you waste it all on inefficient action you've got nothing left for working on actual solutions. >&g
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by respondo2134 3y ago
the question is not if the grant was legal, but if the board issuing options to themselves in this quantity is in the fiducary interest of the shareholders.
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by respondo2134 3y ago
"Director", the job title is used in EM, but there are directors in all areas of the company. It's the position between Senior Manager and a VP role
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by respondo2134 3y ago
>>How many public sector workers for instance who have pensions or retirees who have dividend paying stocks like J and J All of them.
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by respondo2134 3y ago
I don't think you really understand what "Limited liability" means, nor who these supposed capitalists are. All those public pension plans & unionized retirement funds probably appreciate that they're not on the hook
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by respondo2134 3y ago
They haven't settled yet. You don't pay out while the case is being worked out, and paid to the claimant's what?
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by respondo2134 3y ago
pessimistic and realistic are not mutually exclusive (unfortunately). You can understand reality without accepting it.
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by respondo2134 3y ago
If you want to sell something like clothes where purchase without trial results in very high returns, you need to build this into your model. The way Old Navy does returns means you can buy multiples and send 80%+ of them back very easily.
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by respondo2134 3y ago
>> Meta has found early success in VR gaming and fitness... Really? Is this true at any scale, let alone FB scale? I think there's plenty of room in this space for both Meta and Apple to fail in their own ways.
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by respondo2134 3y ago
Companies do this, but it is really hard to support. I prefer teams that own an entire vertical slice. Then they know their API and more importantly, The WHY? their API does what/how it does. A BE team can never know the entire context
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by respondo2134 3y ago
They need scaled agile, where every 5 or 6 sprints you group them into an program increment, with extra overhead and even more ridiculous symbolic rituals. Your team is held to an arbitrary commitment months out, then executives shift the g
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by respondo2134 3y ago
This is a pretty popular approach, and I use it sometimes, but "agree on an API spec for the project" does gloss over how challenging and time consuming this can be. How many people here have ever gotten their API wrong? (raises h
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by respondo2134 4y ago
It's utterly incomprehensible to me that networks are allowed to advertise and then insert gambling content into their broadcasts... you think we would have learned our lesson with cigarette ads. And the saddest part, when I see Wayne
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by respondo2134 4y ago
In many markets the prices are very close, once you factor in Airbnb's fees, cleaning services and local taxes/levies. Airbnb is most useful for non-traditional stays, like a cabin at the lake.
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by respondo2134 4y ago
Well the "Air" part is for air mattress, which is no longer true, if it ever was. The name was supposed to connotate a very spartan take on a traditional bed-and-breakfast. I've never heard of anyone booking all-inclusive tra
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by respondo2134 4y ago
documented stand-ups is a real red flag for me. You're forcing everyone on the team to participate in your in=person, synchronous, verbal task tracking system. It also sounds like you're making important career decisions based on
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by respondo2134 4y ago
>> I'd rather deal with a monolithic rails app any day. if your app gets "bigger" this can work OK, but I've found they typically get "wider" and then any work on the monolith gets really painful and slow
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by respondo2134 4y ago
This is the purest end goal though, if you've got a large monolith or you directly consume a shared backend with a large number of teams, how do you get there? BFF is just one attempt to decouple with another layer of abstraction. Even

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