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by revscat 4y ago
You just described my last employer to a T, and all because of ego. They kept solving problems that the framework they used already had solutions for. You were actively discouraged from coming up with any different solutions, because the VP
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by revscat 4y ago
How about you move, jerk? Why the hell should I have to move because of forced auto ownership?
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by revscat 4y ago
Now add the cost of gas/petrol. For the average American that’s $3000/year. > more reliable So what? They are still a cost that is forced upon us. I don’t want a car. Yet I have to have one whether I like it or not.
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by revscat 4y ago
The average American spends $3000 a year on gas. Imagine if you didn’t have to do that.
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by revscat 4y ago
And if you want to choose not to own a car? Too bad! The laws are structured such that cars are forced on you. So now, having been made to buy a car you now must: 1. Spend thousands of dollars a year on gas, whether you want to or not 2. Bu
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by revscat 4y ago
I work with someone like this. And yes, we hate him. Unfortunately he’s the CTO. Of a YC-backed company, even!
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by revscat 4y ago
Well, yes, but that’s going to be true regardless of the network. I meant after the initial download and account set up. I should’ve been more clear. Tesla is the only network I have used where I can just drive up, plug in, and start chargi
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by revscat 4y ago
So while this is interesting, and I applaud you for taking it on, I’m not sure what it adds above and beyond what existing TTYs provide. zsh/bash/fish/etc. already provide autocompletion, and there are even (Rust-based!) term
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by revscat 4y ago
Perhaps “incentivize” would be more accurate.
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by revscat 4y ago
One of Tesla‘s biggest market advantages is the quality and ubiquity of their charging network. There’s no other charging network that you can just drive up to, be 95% certain that it’s going to work, plug in, and start charging without hav
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by revscat 4y ago
To everyone at GitHub: I’m so sorry. I don’t mean this in a clever way, either. Teams is awful and it will make your lives worse to one degree or another.
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by revscat 4y ago
Which seems to imply a static schema, known more-or-less perfectly at the outset, and unchanging thereafter. That is obviously unreasonable. Application data structures change as new requirements arise, and as existing requirements become
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by revscat 4y ago
Same experience here. We had a small-ish application that was originally built in top of MongoDB. Once it made it into production and started to see some success, it became quickly apparent that the schemaless design caused problems that an
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by revscat 4y ago
> our differences would vanish I wish that I could believe this. We have all seen the deleterious effect of Q and Fox News, and the zeal that goes along with them. At this point I believe that there are those who are so far gone into the
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by revscat 4y ago
Let me rephrase it: “Is there evidence of something unexplained going on in our skies?” Answer that question before moving on. If your answer is “no” then no further discussion is warranted. If yes then further investigation is needed.
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by revscat 4y ago
My worst fear is simply an advanced technology that provides a means to remotely trigger action potentials at will. At that point anything is possible.
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by revscat 4y ago
There’s “no evidence” only if you ignore what has been happening on our skies for the past 70+ years. To be sure SETI has found nothing, nor has Hubble, nor JWT, nor Sloan nor Voyager nor Opportunity. Yet something keeps showing up in our s
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by revscat 4y ago
The explainable ones are boring. The unexplainable 1% are the exciting ones.
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by revscat 4y ago
Further, there is something in various sovereign airspaces that refuses to abide by international flight rules.
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by revscat 4y ago
He said “fits the facts”, not “evidence shows.”
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by revscat 4y ago
Same in astronomy and cosmology. Your career will be over if you do not hold a very specific view, or at least hold it publicly.
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by revscat 4y ago
This is untrue.
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by revscat 4y ago
In my experience the only people using the word “alien” are people like you: the dismissers. My belief is that there is something strange going on, but we do not know what. Getting some people to even admit that much is a struggle, even aft
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by revscat 4y ago
Nor do you that there were any embellishments whatsoever.
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by revscat 4y ago
My Model S is approaching 90k miles and I have not needed to replace the pads. It has two pedals.
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by revscat 4y ago
It’s true, though. Code costs money. I looked into this years ago for a former employer and at the time it was broadly estimated that for each line of code that a company owns it costs at least $30 every time a developer has to look at a gi
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by revscat 4y ago
Same. I’ve moved a lot of my personal scripts from zsh/bash to Ruby, and they’re so much easier for me to reason about now — or six months in the future when I’ve forgotten what exactly they do.
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by revscat 4y ago
> PostgreSQL has more than 1.3M lines of code and it gets used by projects of all sizes, would you call it "heavyweight" too? Yes. There’s not a definition of “lightweight” that could be applied to psql, at least without making
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by revscat 4y ago
It’s safer than not having it. I have had it for several years now and it has saved my butt more than once.
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by revscat 4y ago
Thank you, but I’m not so selfish as to want to burden anyone with my bullshit. Some people get to have families. Some don’t. I’m ok with it most days. Today is just harder.

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