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by rufius 4y ago
I think a more interesting question is whether anyone can point to a company that used a SPAC that has been a clear success. Maybe not on the scale of Meta/Facebook, but even moderately successful. That is an honest question - I can’t
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by rufius 4y ago
Ah yes, Douglas McArthur. The biggest of raging idiots who in fact led violence against the Bonus Army[0] because they dared to ask for their pay. No one should take McArthur (or Patton) for having useful or interesting advice. They were ca
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by rufius 4y ago
FWIW I would also support a ban on headers in soccer.
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by rufius 4y ago
I’m just gonna go ahead and go out on a limb and say that getting hit in the head repeatedly isn’t good for you, especially if you’re a developing child. But to each their own.
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by rufius 4y ago
> It’s helping to foster a sense of community and school pride. You forgot part: > It’s helping to foster a sense of community, school pride, *and brain damage*.
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by rufius 4y ago
Preach.
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by rufius 4y ago
Read a lot of code. Write a lot of code. I read a lot of books too but most were not especially enlightening. Probably the most influential thing in how I write software was what I learned in English in high school about structuring essays
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by rufius 4y ago
Because it’s a Ponzi scheme. It’s interesting from a rubbernecking car crash onlooker perspective but we need not dwell on it.
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by rufius 4y ago
This article seems to assume it matters. It does not.
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by rufius 4y ago
The latter. I say that as someone who only works with nix systems for the last 5 years. I still write some powershell for stuff at home. I prefer Hyper-V as a hypervisor and use it there. But the current state makes sense. Everything in Wi
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by rufius 4y ago
I have no thought to add here. Just wanted to say I’m sorry to hear that about your sister.
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by rufius 4y ago
Or just say what you mean within cultural norms. People know when they're being bullshitted with nice sounding boiler plate in my experience. A good rule to follow is to prefer being Kind rather than Nice. Kind is being blunt and hones
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by rufius 4y ago
Oh good. KSR’s The Ministry for the Future[0] is playing out right on time. [0]: https://bookwyrm.social/book/29187
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by rufius 4y ago
Never had a problem with Dell monitors and any of my macs over the years.
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by rufius 4y ago
Miniflux. I pay for the hosted version.
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by rufius 4y ago
This is excellent.
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by rufius 4y ago
Framework. I use mine as a daily driver. Gets about 13 hours of battery life and It’s repairable.
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by rufius 4y ago
I had a job with a lot of ML and Data Science a few years back. I learned that the job really should’ve been called “Data Janitor”. 90-95% if the work was cleaning data sets and making sure that last update in some ML library we used didn’t
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by rufius 5y ago
2000+ engineers. Yes - we use runbooks broadly. Most are in a wiki with a few corner cases using GDocs or Dropbox Paper.
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by rufius 5y ago
My 2s response is “don’t read the news” doesn’t necessarily mean don’t consult the news ever. Just not worth making a habit IMHO.
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by rufius 5y ago
Don’t work weekends. Don’t read the news. Spend time with loved ones. Make art or enjoy art.
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by rufius 5y ago
My aunt, a history buff later turned history professor, was very into the Classics form of education. Granted hers idea was very St. Augustine centric as a devout Catholic. None of her kids took an interest in academics at all. I’m her only
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by rufius 5y ago
Guess I’m cancelling my Strava subscription.
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by rufius 5y ago
Heh this is the abacus I learned to use as a kid. I have one sitting on a bookshelf in my office. Very fast to use and you see them used in smaller shops in places like Bangkok.
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by rufius 5y ago
EdgeRouter-X
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by rufius 5y ago
You basically nailed it specifically on live TV and sports for my use case. I subscribe to Hulu Live for a portion of the year when the European football season is in full swing. Typically I tune in for the second half of the season. But as
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by rufius 5y ago
Well this is cheating, but I stopped working for Microsoft :). I actually still quite like .NET on the whole. But the job I took after Microsoft had me writing Rust and Go. I should note the list is in no particular order. If it were ordere
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by rufius 5y ago
For me? Just Go. Building a service? Go. Need a light UI for the service? Go + Go html templates. Need a command line tool? Go. Building an interpreter or transpiler? Go. That’s just me though. The reason that’s my answer is I’ve been writi
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by rufius 5y ago
Apparently renamed to “The Efficiency Expert”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102969/
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by rufius 5y ago
Google had a shopping app?

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