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by seneca 11mo ago
This is really the heart of it: > Don't get me wrong - to an extent, some languages (especially more niche ones) drive hiring and what kind of employee you get In my experience, the community around a given language is going to sign
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by seneca 11mo ago
This pattern is a big part of why Google is a poor company to buy infrastructure from. They are horrible at customer support, and have made it clear over the years that they have no intention of changing that. That's simply unacceptabl
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by seneca 11mo ago
> Or put a slightly different way: libertarians were always lying about their noble anti-government ideas. They just hated the thought of the government helping women, minorities or the poor. And anything that threatened fossil fuel inte
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by seneca 11mo ago
They're historically synonyms. The word libertarian was invented only after the word liberal was highjacked and warped into its modern meaning.
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by seneca 11mo ago
This is incredible to me. I wonder if you have some other mechanism of "knowing" or recalling that I don't that substitutes in. It's entirely possible, given that so many people report not being aware their experience is
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by seneca 11mo ago
I fully believe this to be real, but I struggle to internalize that there are people who genuinely can't picture an apple. That is a very useful simple tool. Thank you for sharing it. Even this feels like only a partial scale. I can pi
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by seneca 11mo ago
The execution speed of the language the CLI is written in doesn't matter. Any difference is dwarfed by the slowness of network calls, specifically their API response times.
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by seneca 11mo ago
I have used the major hyperscalers for years. I agree with you that Google is the worst business partner, but saying they have the worst network and more issues does not align with my experience at all. Azure is miles behind on technical pr
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by seneca 1y ago
You're lucky. In my experience no-call lists don't work. I command a significant budget and even with a lot of effort to not proliferate my phone number, I get at least half a dozen spam or sales calls a day. I can't imagine
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by seneca 1y ago
Yeah, I'm not at all willing to do these sorts of verifications. Any company doing them essentially doesn't exist to me. I don't even use Anthropic because they require a phone number to register.
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by seneca 1y ago
> Comparisons like his don't make sense. There's no dividing line between government-schooled and home-schooled in real life, there's a range of connections and dependencies. There is no friction or animosity between Gover
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by seneca 1y ago
Sure, I don't contest that. Parents can definitely fail to educate their children properly at home. Students in government schools suffer from the same problem though. The point is that the average result appears to be better.
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by seneca 1y ago
> I'd love to see your citations on that. Yeah, sure. Here are the popular studies on the subject: https://nheri.org/academic-achievement-and-demographic-trait... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi&#x2F
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by seneca 1y ago
> the schools aren't funded well enough to ensure a quality education anyway The US spends more per pupil than every other OECD country except for Luxembourg, and exceeds the average by over 50%. If US schools aren't funded wel
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by seneca 1y ago
And yet home-schooled students widely outperform government-schooled students, both during homeschooling and in college GPAs.
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by seneca 1y ago
That's essentially the entire reason illegal immigrantion and the H1b program exist. They are both in precarious positions that allow them to be treated as indentured servants, forcing them to tolerate conditions Americans never would.
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by seneca 1y ago
Interesting trade-offs for a customer. No more expectation to tip or dealing with drivers potentially running scams. On the other side, I assume you now need to go unload the delivery from the car yourself, a much worse experience for apart
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by seneca 1y ago
Very interesting. This definitely contradicts my direct experience. I'll have to give the study a close read. Thank you for sharing it.
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by seneca 1y ago
This doesn't appear to work. It exports a csv with only headers.
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by seneca 1y ago
Right. It's a not-so-well-kept secret that hospice care is actually assisted suicide in disguise. It's done with a wink and a nudge, hiding behind the principle of double effect, but it's a mercy everyone knows is happening.
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by seneca 1y ago
Absolutely true, and well said. Communism and fascism have always been two heads of the same hydra. They always appear together, and vie for the same radicals as potential followers. Benito Mussolini himself was originally a Marxist revolut
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by seneca 1y ago
Great opportunity to point to organizations like allsides.com who do a good job attempting to counter media bias. It's worth taking a pass over their coverage of any major politicized event in order to see the different slants.
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by seneca 1y ago
This link appears to be dead. Do we have a healthy source?
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by seneca 1y ago
Sounds more like they're killing ChromeOS and attempting to implement a Laptop experience for Android. I wonder what this means for all the schools that invested in Chromebooks.
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by seneca 1y ago
Agreed. I think we're a shrinking group though. Many got into this profession for high pay and easy work, which is understandable, but not that the shine has worn off they're regretting the choice. Those of us who enjoy the work w
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by seneca 1y ago
Having foreign workers filling the jobs for American companies working on US soil and sending the money home is no better for Americans than having them working in their own countries. Say what you will about this administration, God knows
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by seneca 1y ago
> In Western culture, we are socialized to believe that the desire to inflict counterviolence upon or retaliate against someone who has hurt us or a loved one is innate and that justice has always been done and will always be done in thi
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by seneca 1y ago
Trump already back-pedaled the H1B changes. They're one-time, instead of annual, now and don't apply to existing visas. Much like this "operation", the change will achieve nothing now. https://www.wsj.com&#x2F
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by seneca 1y ago
Here's the email from MS, supposedly: https://x.com/onestpress/status/1969444099317981563
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by seneca 1y ago
Polymarket puts a cut at 98% likely currently: https://polymarket.com/event/fed-decision-in-september?tid=1...

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