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by ryandvm 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. While it's true that Netflix does have some unique engineering problems to solve, this smells like "Paycheck Driven Development". When you employ 10,000 software engineers, if you don't have eno
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Can vouch for this diet. It won't make you live longer, but it will feel like it.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Vitamin D deficiency is probably playing a not insignificant part in what you're seeing.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Indeed. Consciousness itself is quite real (mine is anyway). It's the experience and awareness of my place in this simulation of the world that my meat-based computer is running. Turn off my simulation (sleep, anestesia, death) and con
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Measuring developer productivity is like observing quantum state, the act of measuring it generally fucks it all up. Rather than task the developers with all manner of bureaucratic Agile bullshit like tracking hours, arguing about story poi
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I've tried most of the things in your list. By and large they don't really help with concentration. The most effective thing I've found is 20mg of Adderall. Not thrilled about that, but it is what it is.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Excellent work, Colin Robinson. However, I think I'd disagree. The reality is we all knew what OP meant because the colloquial (non-CS) definition of unique is just "very unusual". It isn't often in meatspace that humans
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Odd to see them arguing for credit over the worst ad of the Superbowl. That ad seemed like something my son would have turned in after forgetting the homework was due today.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
That is correct and they apparently have the audits to prove it. That said, it's not bulletproof. The chink in the armor is the browser extensions they all use. All it would take is somebody to slip some trojan code into one of the bro
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by ryandvm 5y ago
That's an insightful take, but to be fair, it's still a massive improvement as far as the end users are concerned. It's kind of like suggesting that "reducing the number of people peeing in the pool to ONE" isn&#x27
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Sure, you hate your boring, safe, lucrative job in software development until you become a plumber and find yourself on your hands and knees beside a disassembled toilet for the 87th time. Splattered in fetid wastewater, pulling stuck condo
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by ryandvm 5y ago
The problem with that line of thinking is that when you silence people for their speech it doesn't really solve the fake news problem, it just reinforces amongst the conspiratorial that there's something that you don't want t
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Fascinating. Looking forward to when Zuck hits his mid 40s and ends up self-immolating Meta in the most glorious mid-life crisis the world has ever seen. [Source: I'm in my 40s and could easily imagine cratering a trillion dollar compa
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> Just to be clear though, this stuff won't get you high like weed You are absolutely incorrect. From a psychoactive perspective, delta-8 is pretty much indistinguishable from pure THC (a.k.a. delta-9). In my experience the differen
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I'm having trouble understanding your point. You're more scared of rich boys in lambos than of a Tesla that "disengages in many normal-to-a-human situations with no ability to resume"?
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I don't know. The last few years of US politics has really opened my eyes to just how blatantly someone can lie and get away with it pretty much indefinitely. What it comes down to is: do people want to believe your lie? If they do,
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> I've never had any alcohol before, but in my opinion, it is one of the worst things to have happened to humans. I almost thought this statement was satire. Imagine someone saying, "I've never been to another country, but
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Man, I hate these puritanical takes. Alcohol, like everything, can be damaging or even dangerous to one's health. I'm not a fan of drinking to excess either, but humans have a long history with mind altering chemicals, and believe
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by ryandvm 5y ago
That might be the reason that IQ is fairly strongly correlated with depression (and drug use). The less likely you are to believe in fairy tales and bullshit, the more you're forced to conclude that the universe is indeed cold and brut
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by ryandvm 5y ago
How do you support yourself?
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Then it went on to become a punchline. It turns out that the desire to be fed a Matrix-style, nutrient rich slurry like you're on some sort of human foie gras production line is not as mainstream as one would imagine...
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by ryandvm 5y ago
If leetcode is intended to avoid discrimination, in my opinion it fails miserably. As the parent poster mentioned, it certainly rules out people that don't have the resources to study, but it also rules out another class of people pron
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by ryandvm 5y ago
12 Monkeys much?
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I hate to break it to you ecc, but you can spend your entire life in perfect stoic harmony with nature. Wearing twigs and leaves, living off grubs, and ultimately dying from an infected tooth while curled up under some boulder in the canyon
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I don't think it's dramatic. There are a couple points to consider: First, yes, what they've been offering us has value, however, regular Google accounts are free. So asking us to pay $72 per year per user over the standard $
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Same boat except I have about a dozen family members. My annual bill is going to go from $0 to $6 12 12. That seems like a pretty big jump considering that if we all just had regular non-commercial Google accounts, the total cost would be $
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by ryandvm 5y ago
This might be true, but with the caveat that your subconscious mind is likely not so worried about the ethical implications of its decision making. So your "I've got a bad feeling about this" intuition might be because your s
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by ryandvm 5y ago
And it's only free if your time is worthless...
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by ryandvm 5y ago
80,000 fucking software engineers and they can't handle an extra SKU on their multi-tier product line?
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Agreed. I'm fucking livid. I don't know what their freeloader costs are on the grandfathered Google domain accounts, but I'm having a hard time believing it's going to be worth the amount of goodwill they're going t

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