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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think you're being a bit pedantic. I'm not. I'm pointing out the absurdity of complaining that in Wikipedia you have editors editing. > There are people who rarely make edits on Wikipedia (...) It really doesn'
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Ouch, that sounds lousy. That's the whole concept of a wiki: you edit an article like everyone else, you change everyone else's changes as you please, and it converges to a stable point by a consensus-based process. If you di
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Their work is immediately reverted by an editor. I'm not sure you got the point. The whole point is that in Wikipedia everyone is an editor. Even unregistered users are editors, which mean those who didn't even bothered to lo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> There's regular users and then there's "Extended confirmed users" (...) The accusation isn't directed at users with specific role-oriented permissions. The accusation is directed at editors. Everyone in wikip
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Sure, but do you really think that's the intent of the article, or are we arguing semantics? It's not semantics. Accusing Wikipedia editors of doing something in an attempt at portraying Wikipedia in a negative light has the
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I took this to mean those with special rights (...) I know that wikipedia supports granting special rights to some editors. I have those. That's why I'm stating that an editor does not have special rights, because everyone i
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by rewmie 3y ago
> What was interesting about Optane was that it was kinda an attempt to get rid of disk and ram distinction. That might be the promise, but that premise is fundamentally flawed. I mean, what drives the need to classify memory devices i
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by rewmie 3y ago
> On the other hand, the only toxic comments I experienced on Wikipedia were from an editor. Isn't everyone an editor on Wikipedia? By definition, you need to be an editor in order to leave comments. Who other than editors would l
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by rewmie 3y ago
Not really a generalization. Non-booze British tourists are the exception and not the norm. The country's tourists built a reputation and holiday destinations are reacting accordingly. https://www.theguardian.com/travel
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Eurostar would prefer business travellers. Unless they break a few laws to discriminate against people of w certain social makeup right at the gates, what they prefer or not is really not relevant. What matters is who actually tides th
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Not all international travel is party tourism. Tourism from Great Britain to Amsterdam is party tourism. They are increasing the volume of tourists they can cart in with a transportation mode that's even cheaper at the expense of
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by rewmie 3y ago
Such a weird news story. Amsterdam is running a campaign to literally ask British tourists to stay away from the city. https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/03/29/see-amsterdams-ne... And yet, the Netherl
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Later the founders got diluted, I guess by the influx of employees of said startups, big tech or consultancies, like myself, then anyone from the outskirts. I am one of the new users who contributed to dilute entrepreneurial founder. I
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It is more a question as to why scholarly societies are still organized around paid journals. There are some perverse incentives in place that hinder migrating away from official journals. The publish or perish pressure leads only high
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by rewmie 3y ago
> FizzBuzz is a trivial technical problem (...) No, it is not. The term fizzbuzz doesn't refer explicitly to the loop with the modulus example. Fizzbuzz is an umbrella term for tests that are used to assess proficiency, but in pract
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by rewmie 3y ago
I bought a Royal Kludge RK84 precisely because it is one of the few small form factor mechanical keyboards which packs a USB hub, and I could plug both my headset and yubikey. Kicks ass. For some reason, that's a rare feature among key
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I'm normally aghast at people writing new code in plain C, Why?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I've lived both sides of this. I’ve been subjected to the mysterious whims and casual insults of the job-seeking process. I've grown to learn that it's important to understand that interviewing in particular and job-seek
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by rewmie 3y ago
Isn't React Native a framework that generates GUIs using native frameworks by transpiling whatever React code you have down to the native frameworks you're targeting? I get the point of reusing front-end expertise to develop other
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Unfortunately, the "browser", for lack of a better term... sucks. I have no idea what you are talking about. I've been using Firefox and Firefox Focus for years and if anything it's always been fast and ultra reliab
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Conway’s law is powerful but it’s not the only reason why microservices are harder (...) It's the reason covered in the video you're commenting on, though. Except that "teams who happen to own microservices experience or
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) the hard part is having to coordinate the change with n different teams to get the change out. I feel this is the reason why microservices end up being attacked by clueless developers, because ultimately they are the scapegoat fo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is the power of mathematics really. I don't think your comparison makes sense. The power of the "name it Steve" philosophy is the same rationale behind adopting codename for projects: it helps create a context to d
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by rewmie 3y ago
It's high time that people stop giving any credit to the likes of Elon Musk. He sounds like an edgy prepubescent boy shitposting on 4chan, and placing any of Elon Musk's quotes below the online profile picture of one of those kid
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by rewmie 3y ago
> That is half true. There absolutely is a cost to initiating any change, but that is a one time cost. Some changes can yield dramatic increases in productivity or reductions to costs further down stream. If there exists proper discourse
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Not only is this a technical marvel, but it has potential construction physics implications. I don't think this is true. Gabion walls are already widely used, particularly in geotechnical structures, and masonry structures have
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by rewmie 3y ago
> A counter example is software where an open source project typically requires no funding or approval to initiate, but equivalent initiatives in professional settings are frequently vetoed due to the emotional insecurity of a select few
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by rewmie 3y ago
Here's a link to an old Stack Overflow question where it's stressed that JWT should be stored as cookies. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27067251/where-to-store-... The Stack Overflow question is ne
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Not my experience at all at any of the software companies I've worked for. Congratulations. Enjoy being the exception.
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by rewmie 3y ago
That's really not the point. The whole point is that it's not possible to know with any degree of certainty whether a given position will have more or less tolerance towards mistakes. That can be determined by anyone in your org

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