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by rossenberg79 7y ago
More common than you think. People who do clever things for stupid reasons, I.E. a developer who prematurely optimizes or uses unnecessary technologies
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
There’s just no reason to. Someone will fuck it up, and it will not have been worth the effort anyway.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
Having to do fares in the bad part of town is the reason my brother carries a loaded gun under his seat while driving for Uber.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
You nailed it. Aside from that anyone who is serious about search is going to run it through an OCR and get the raw text anyway. Why bother doing more work?
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
Does anyone know how this image was produced? Is it a filter of some kind applied over a real world image? Maybe could be done on a video? This would be great for a Lovecraftian horror movie like Birdbox, when you want to give a glimpse of
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
That could be a good compromise.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
If their comments are consistently good then they should stand on their own merit. Else you just get idol worship and groupthink. Names are not as useful as you think.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
If this really is what you want then I propose eliminating usernames entirely. Just enter a password to log in if you want some continuity. People rarely refer to each other by name here. It’s not important. Only content is important. Besid
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
A true non-discriminatory environment is also an environment of no mercy. All opinions are permitted, even ones you will find incredibly vile and threatening. So think carefully when you ask for this kind of environment. I think what so
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
Examples of disasters isn't enough. There must be some technology involved in the article that shows how future disaster is being prevented, otherwise it's just needless clickbait. We already know about climate change, not really
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
The ads are there so you buy stock in Boeing.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
If you want to understand how to make people’s lives better, first you have to go out and actually live . Scrappy college kids making a startup don’t know how to live, they’ve just barely lived. And a lot of professionals in tech have no
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
License plates not being required will lead to abuse of driving privileges, an imbalance.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
So a postmortem basically.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
You blew it. By posting this article and getting to the top of Hackernews you may have alerted their attention and they may rapidly change everything to not seem like copyright infringement. Then you might have weak or no claims.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
Why is Elixir always being paired with Phoenix? Can’t I just have a backend API running on Elixir and a javascript front end to interact with it? I’d prefer a simple React, Postgres, Elixir stack (REP).
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
As westerners I feel this is natural to think, and makes sense to us, but having been in China several times I'm not so sure. The value systems in Asia are far different, and people are much more collective where as we are a more indiv
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
I give a fixed cost so materials cost x 2 is usually a good starting point for a minimum price, then add on if you think it's going to be very labor intensive.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
Aside from the things mentioned: Like software, wood is something that is around us everyday, but very few people really stop to think about how it's assembled. Wood and technology are things we can never seem to escape in human civili
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
I started by watching Youtube videos. My first project was a modern bench built out of 2x4s, I picked a project that didn't require too many tools or advanced cuts of wood, and could be put together with wood glue. I also learned how t
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
There is no power imbalance except for the ones you create for yourself. A company doesn’t have much power over an employee willing to walk away for some other job.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
I woodwork at a local makershop, I started out making random things for my home and when I no longer had ideas for other stuff I wanted I’d make things and give them away for free to friends. Eventually other people wanted to know if I can
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
Without a strong profit motive would companies still have much incentive to pour 100s of millions of dollars into R&D for new drugs and treatments though? How much progress in healthcare is driven by the fact there’s a lot of money to b
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
You are stating that this is the reality as if it’s a certain thing. I don’t have reason to believe my insurance will suddenly drop coverage when I need it. I don’t think that’s a huge risk. Your hypothetical world isn’t all that safe eit
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
So what? I accept the risk, like any other risk in life. Not sure why those risks mean I have to get on board with a complete overhaul to something I don’t believe will work, as if that will be less risky.
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by rossenberg79 7y ago
I don’t believe in universal healthcare, and none of these approaches do much to convince me. I’m in agreement that the current situation is hot garbage, and it’s shitty for a lot of people. However, my insurance now is good enough for me a