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by rr808 1y ago
Thanks that is handy, I hadn't heard of them before.
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by rr808 1y ago
I've been trying to read classic books from gutenberg.org, holy ** I haven't managed to finish any of them. Usually give up after 50 pages, start a new one a month or three later.
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by rr808 1y ago
Anyone know the state of IoT buttons? Most seem to have gone out of production. (An outlet seems like a great alternative )
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by rr808 1y ago
I found that if you plug a iphone into a windows PC and copy the photos off it will convert to jpg. However it makes copying very slow, and the quality is worse, so I'd advise to turn off the setting on the phone (I think its compatibi
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by rr808 1y ago
Maybe its a NY thing I was shocked when I heard people in restaurants saying "I want...". Growing up outside the US "want" is a very impolite word. People in US are polite but direct, usually English/Irish people ar
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by rr808 1y ago
The management at my corporate job literally say in our townhalls that they expect AI to increase productivity and reduce costs. Makes logical sense to me, the glory days of high wages are over.
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by rr808 1y ago
The problem is that the most profitable and high paying companies are mostly software companies. If you want to raise tax revenue there aren't many other industries that can pay.
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by rr808 1y ago
I think the problem I'm trying to describe is yes, Spring is popular within the people that do work on Java appications, however the Java/Spring platform is the reason most developers do not want to use Java. Java/Quarkus, Ja
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by rr808 1y ago
Love this article, Spring is a cancer in Java, its one of the reasons the language isn't fashionable.
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by rr808 1y ago
I'd love a dumb phone, but unfortunately kinda need authenticator and uber and some restaurant apps, also a camera. Now I just want a regular smartphone that can never install social media.
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by rr808 1y ago
You're welcome! I hope it was helpful.
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by rr808 1y ago
> JSON is better than XML hard disagree on that one.
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by rr808 1y ago
I kinda like the speech but she was also super lucky to be in the right place at the right time - advice is possibly still relevant but I dont see any bright spot for new grads to go to.
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by rr808 1y ago
> a) You can easily run Spark jobs on a single box. Just set executors = 1. Sure but why would you do this? Just using pandas or duckdb or even bash scripts makes your life is much easier than having to deal with Spark.
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by rr808 1y ago
1) Yes Scala and JVM is fast. If we could just use that to clean up a feed on a single box that would be great. The problem is calling the Spark API creates a lot of complexity for developers and runtime platform which is super slow. 2) Yes
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by rr808 1y ago
Ugh I have joined a big data team. 99% of the feeds are less than a few GB yet we have to use Scala and Spark. Its so slow to develop and slow to run.
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by rr808 1y ago
I'd love to see a coordinated drive to get most off the world onto opensource and off Windows/MacOS/iOS/Android as well as databases etc. American tech companies are making billions off these products that really are sim
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by rr808 1y ago
Java is completely revitalized now and is my favorite platform. The main problem is the legacy code and attitude out there, dependency injection, using Spring or Spring Boot etc SUCKS. VertX is/was good but now with virtual threads you
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by rr808 1y ago
You do have a good angle that it is entirely possible. I dont think we're "blaming" children though, just the reality that a young single person with 10 years experience likely has a lot more spare time and energy than those
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by rr808 1y ago
> I’m about 10 years into my career and I constantly have to learn new technology to stay relevant. Sounds like you dont have kids to help look after or a parent to care for, and you're still in the desirable age to hire from. Wait
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by rr808 1y ago
Hardware tokens are a PITA. Sure everyone has a house key because they only have a house at a time. I have 3 bank accounts, a few brokerage accounts, some pension logins on top of the regular stuff. I'm not going to carry 15 hardware t
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by rr808 1y ago
If there are over a million people in community college in CA so 0.21% is a huge amount of money. https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/620
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by rr808 1y ago
The company I work for has hackathons. Come up with a good idea and spend a lot of time (after hours) on the project. In the old days that was called a job and you got paid.
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by rr808 1y ago
Google search has the fundamental problem that they try to get people to follow links to content so the content writers get some traffic. If chatgpt doesn't show sources why would anyone bother to write content? Imagine having a blog w
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by rr808 1y ago
Interesting, does the proportion by weight, size, value or count? eg a EV battery could be 25% of the weight, 50% of the cost and 0.01% of the number of parts.
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parquet?
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by rr808 1y ago
At my last 3 jobs they've had a public wifi network for staff to use for personal use.
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The most successful people at work I see have a stay at home partner that looks after the kids, or no kids, or kids left for college. Its pretty impossible to have a demanding job and family life and your own life.
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by rr808 1y ago
I still think video games are a net negative on society. How come so few women play - their lives are so much more balanced and successful - are games a symptom or a cause?
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by rr808 2y ago
To me its all turning to s**. I loved newsgroups and have been addicted to forums since but I really spend little time now. Even HN is getting pretty boring.

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