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by rvba 3y ago
> Users have no business seeing error codes. Those are for devs. This is an Anti-pattern called mushroom management (keeping users in the dark). Not telling users what went wrong is just plain wrong. Breaking the termomether to hide fev
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by rvba 3y ago
Maybe Intel cut corners wherever possible - so their processors are few percent faster due to each bug, but much less safe. But hey they were faster than AMD!
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by rvba 3y ago
Boeing 737 max comes to my mind. Although it is other way round: the world stopped trusting US certification. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
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by rvba 3y ago
Intelectual theft fuelled by spy agencies is nothing new. Same for people looking at patents from other countries.
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by rvba 3y ago
The list is interesting too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler%27...
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by rvba 3y ago
Most are done this way since they are outsourcrd to the cheapest bidders who "glue" multiple technologies poorly on top of each other. And then add tons of ads / tracker / analytics code. Lots of websites dont care that
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by rvba 3y ago
> Their preferred ecological niche involves poor, salty soil. I looked at Wikipedia, to see what is a honey locust and Wikipedia (that arguably is not a grear source) says that those trees are "mostly found in the moist soil of rive
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by rvba 3y ago
Banning other browsers with extra steps. They could just said that they do it for the safety of children and some would believe it.
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by rvba 3y ago
The waviness around makes it easier to hold them too. Although to some degree it might be marketing as well?
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by rvba 3y ago
Didnt japan litetally mimic the west and rapidly modernize to move from "samurai age" to modern age?
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by rvba 3y ago
> then the sites in question can simply choose not to enable it Google can reduce the page rank of websites that dont enable it (or just not give any page rank at all) and now everyone who wants to be found has to enable it
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by rvba 3y ago
It seems that hydrogen based cars are the way to go. Electric car fires are nasty in garages too.
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by rvba 3y ago
If those engineers that Google wants to keep are so good, then why they cant deliver anything? Or do they just game google and will spend years doing nothing
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by rvba 3y ago
Didnt they intentionally make older versions of the OS slow to make you buy a new phone?
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by rvba 3y ago
What company had 10k developers on a mainframe?
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by rvba 3y ago
Didnt Musk smoke drugs?
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by rvba 3y ago
Statistically shouldnt someone get lucky 2 or 3 times? Say there are million people with 1 million to invest. Then 1/100 chance to get lucky. Do it 3 times (1/100)^3? Maybe the general idea was nor bad and he got lucky in recruitm
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by rvba 3y ago
Looking at the scale of NordVPN they either already have a liason with aurhorities inside, or are hacked by authorities. The (law enforcement) agencies can just go to the few biggest VPN suppliers. Just like they go to FAANG.
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by rvba 3y ago
IT guys are paid a lot not to be lazy. Changing data types in an interface is a boring job (didnt Office Space joke at that?) but doing this via some broken AI will probably introduce even more spaghetti. Reality is that those systems shoul
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by rvba 3y ago
When a cat captures a bird, isnt that a situation where a mammal sinks teeth into a dinosaur?
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by rvba 3y ago
Finance is full of people with MBAs and two left hands that cannot do anything on their own.
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by rvba 3y ago
Excel has recently introduced 4-5 VERY big changes: * javascript (arguably 'nobody' knows how to use it though, looking at the scarce resources) * Lambdas * Sharepoint integration, which is a type of shared notebook - and arguably
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by rvba 3y ago
Funny that you are making the mistake that everyone is offered the same opportunities as in Scandinavia. Public education in many countries is trash. In third world you probably have bad public education and you have to work. In say Poland
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by rvba 3y ago
One thing are presentations, other thing is actuall stuff build by 'juniors sold as seniors'. Read all the horror stories of shitty software or ERP implementations. Often it is the consultant's fault - since they are technica
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by rvba 3y ago
The person who was talking about this optimization should know that they should provide context. Do they work for a high frequency trading firm? Do they make a CRUD app which has few users and (as much as I hate that) "they can wait ev
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by rvba 3y ago
I guess it is more of a millionaire thing. The poster above mentioned that Mitnick had more than 9 million shares of some company sold for ~25 dollars each. That would be ~225 million.
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by rvba 3y ago
That's why I hibernate my computers. Problem is that Microsoft is trying to kill hibernation (so far they did the first step to hide it, then second step to hide it even better). Why do the companies not realize that employees coming t
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by rvba 3y ago
So it is more like a "sweetener for the coffee". Not, "adding caffeine kick to a cola". On a side note, is that even possible, wouldnt all the CO2 fly away, assuming you poured cold coffee? Im considering trying it, susp
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by rvba 3y ago
How was this done? Coffee added to a glass of cola? Cola added to coffee as a type of sweetener? Was the coffee hot?

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