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by rualca 5y ago
> That's not to say salary should be secret (dear god, no), but how cool a company is IS an important metric in and of itself. If only I had $1 for each time I saw a company showing off foosball tables, game consoles in the hallway,
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by rualca 5y ago
> What about the plastic wrapped foods that last for years? I appreciate a good whataboutism as the next guy, but please keep in mind that fruit already has short shelf life, and plastic packaging is not used for longevity or higiene but
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by rualca 5y ago
> They will have another excuse to increase the prices further. This sounds like a very poorly thought out slippery slope argument, specially taking into account that iPhones' manufacturing cost is already a fraction of the huge pri
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by rualca 5y ago
> The fact is Lightning is so widely used in practice that force deprecating it would drive an awful lot of kit into land fills. An awful lot of kit is already going to landfills due to being rendered useless for depending on non-standar
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by rualca 5y ago
> I follow smartphone world quite closely and have never heard/read about USB-C issues. This isn't an effective point as the "smartphone world" is plagued by ephemeral devices which are either susceptible to programme
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by rualca 5y ago
USB-C is about 8.4*3.6 mm² whereas USB micro-A is 6.85*1.8mm². The difference might not be very noticeable, but USB-C is has around 3 times the area of USB micro-A.
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by rualca 5y ago
> The crazy thing here is that it’s not so hard to hit the standard set of “pro” ports — Given that the cheapest USB hub allows you to plug in half a dozen USB-A devices and SD cards, and given that frequently they are not used at all by
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by rualca 5y ago
> I find it hilarious that we spend multiple thousands of dollars on sleek, elegant hardware and then hook up chunky plastic dongles to overcome their bad hardware interfaces. I don't understand how anyone can come up with that conc
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by rualca 5y ago
Why not just walk around in the Forrest? I mean, why do you feel it's desirable to shoehorn doing work into any and all type of human activity? GP has a good point: that sounds terribly dystopian.
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Getting Started with Embedding V8(v8.dev)
1 points by rualca 5y ago|0 comments
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by rualca 5y ago
> That's not the argument though. It's not the argument? It is a statement of fact. There is no way around it. Consuming a placebo to subsequently validate and provide incentives to put yourself and others at risk is the whole
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by rualca 5y ago
> All of this is for the patient and their doctor to decide. > Not the pharmacist. Not the FDA. In case you don't know,the FDA is the US regulatory body whose mission is to " [protect] the public health by ensuring the safet
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by rualca 5y ago
> As much as it is not worthy of being recommended as a treatment, it's unlikely to be harmful and has/had at least a slim chance of working. Keep in mind that Ivermectin is being pushed within antivaxers circles as a prophylac
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by rualca 5y ago
> We have a murderer, we have (...) It sounds you lost track of the discussion. If you browse back through the thread you'll notice that the whole point is that without evidence this sort of accusation lies deep inside conspiracy th
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by rualca 5y ago
> No, it is not and has not been surprising for decades. I still recall the Supermicro backdoor chip story, and how once the Bloomberg news broke it was immediately so obvious and so clear that backdoor spy chips were undoubtedly being
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by rualca 5y ago
> I wonder why is anybody still surprised. This is the kind of claim that's deep in conspiracy theory territory until the smoking gun is uncovered, and once that's out (and only then) it becomes obvious and unsurprising.
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by rualca 5y ago
> I think you are just salty. Communication is really important and seems like that dev was really capable at it I'm not sure you got the point. The whole point is that, exactly like OP stated, some of these self-described 10x devel
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by rualca 5y ago
> It's not that they write code faster. It's that they select a path to the solution that is a lot shorter. I know a developer who likes portraying himself as a kind of 10x. He does not code faster, better, or smarter. His tale
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by rualca 5y ago
> It's hard to tell if it's arrogance or reluctance to admit some people are more valuable than others and just allow them to get to a point they prefer to leave than stay. Stating that a developer is worth 10 times what other
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by rualca 5y ago
> Right now its not really serving anyone except the adtech companies themselves. There's also that pesky detail where dictatorships abuse adtech to subvert democracies, stir unrest, and force authoritarian trojan horses.
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by rualca 5y ago
> Its not imagination, you can quantify these things. Please get back when you find any rational and serious quantification of these externalities, specially one which accounts for a few millennia worth of babysitting residues to validat
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by rualca 5y ago
> Title is click bait, if McKinsey killed it then so did every other org that misuses “agile”. (...) > I leave it to everyone else to make up their own opinion about that. Yeah the article is pretty bad. Indeed it all boils down to
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by rualca 5y ago
> Factor in all the externalities that these other forms of energy bring in and nuclear is probably one of the cheapest. There's a lot of handwaving in that personal assertion. The fact is that nuclear is by far more expensive than
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by rualca 5y ago
> Whenever nuclear fails you can trace it directly to poor policymaking rather than any faults with the underlying technology (...) This line of argument is pointless because policymaking is not something that you can remove from the equ
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by rualca 5y ago
> If the energy is basically free which under certain circumstances (lots of wind) could happen, does it matter how inefficient it is? There are two sides to this cost: energy production, and storage. The part which is argued to be essen
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by rualca 5y ago
> Australia went from an ever-closer relationship with France to ditching them, unannounced. This is a very disingenuous take on the issue, if not outright completely wrong, and it feels like you intentionally decided to feign ignorance
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by rualca 5y ago
> These partners have already shown that they are going to betray France's trust and lie to them. What? Betray France? So France jeopardizes a nation's national defense by failing to deliver critical defense assets, and this is
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by rualca 5y ago
It's not hard to understand why Turkey's case has critical geopolitical implications while Australia's doesn't really have one. I mean, just take a look at the sellers and the military alliances the buyers are in.
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by rualca 5y ago
> I'm curious - why is there no open source solution to replace these apps? If not with full functionality, then at least with 80% of the features? Who would benefit from that? Delivery companies offer a simple and practical way to
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by rualca 5y ago
The article reads like a desperate attempt at forcing the idea that nationalist and even fascist themes are not only relative new to metal but also the result of "infiltration". Well, I'm not a metal historian but I firmly re

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