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by sesteel 7y ago
Defense contractors set their own payscales but also compete on price. I know software engineers right now earning north of 150K. Also, overtime is paid and billed in defense. Thus, if you do work overtime, your defense contractor wants
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by sesteel 7y ago
This is a description of the Dunning-Kruger effect. While Dunning-Kruger is a popular topic around tech circles, I'm not so sure about the general population. I wish people weren't so ignorant about their own ignorance. Edit: Ad
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by sesteel 7y ago
Few parents are equipped to raise sociopaths and nearly all people respond to self-preservation. I would hope a child would be able to empathize if communicated with in way they could easily understand. 'Love and Logic' is a par
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by sesteel 7y ago
There is a balance to strike. Bringing up kids too far outside the norms that society sets can have all kinds of ramifications. Rather than shelter them, I'd prefer them to have things in common with their friends and teach them to m
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by sesteel 7y ago
This brings up an interesting topic for discussion. I think there are several modes of parenting: hands off, protective, preparatory, etc. I think most parents try to balance these. I've taken the view that for most situations I wan
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by sesteel 7y ago
That's fair; I do care about advertising at a macro level and how it affects my family specifically.
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by sesteel 7y ago
It is only ironic on a macro level. And, I think you extrapolated my thought out too far; I wasn't suggesting to never spend money. My concern is teaching two children how to manage their own consumption and to not spend money frivol
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by sesteel 7y ago
I view advertising as a form of pollution. In many cases, it erodes the human experience. It is abusive to families with children creating strife where there was none. I spend a lot of time managing expectations and sharing philosophical
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by sesteel 7y ago
I mostly agree with you; however, I think it a personality trait that leads to an ideology. Most people in the US are middle of the road. It is somewhat unfortunate that our two party system has increasingly push candidates to either extr
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by sesteel 7y ago
As an U.S. American; I've always viewed our brand of conservatism as an ideology focused on fighting change (good or bad); thus, conserving our established policies or returning to established policies of the past (abortion rights, gay
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by sesteel 7y ago
It is a complicated area, you might find this paper interesting: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~filkov/papers/lang_github.pdf It tries to measure the defect rates between programming languages. To say it doesn'
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by sesteel 7y ago
Not as serious as death; but their argument suggests that the owners are subsidizing Tesla's R&D monetarily when their systems fail. I assume there is some type of legal agreement the owner had to click through to gain access to t
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by sesteel 7y ago
Ethics was a required 2 credit course in my university computer science studies. It isn't some new idea, but I guess it isn't an industry standard yet. I'd agree anywhere the opportunity to do harm exists there should be cl
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by sesteel 7y ago
Electron usage has forced me to spend some of my yearly dev budget on a 32GB machine; this comes to an extra $400 if purchased preinstalled. Now, had I not relied on so many Electron apps I probably wouldn't have required a new laptop
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by sesteel 8y ago
This seems equivalent to "it is just a button, how hard can it be?" People outside of software rarely see the complexity they are suggesting or asking for.
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by sesteel 8y ago
The game is set up such that these quandaries are inevitable. This is a problem with capitalism and competitive markets. People bemoan the process and demonize those that have to balance financial pressure against other forces but the truth
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by sesteel 8y ago
I mean, yeah it is easy to make but it is also easy to fix. How long did this occur prior to correction? 1000's of searches for said data in the logs. I suspect we are only hearing about it because Facebook, all of a sudden, has bee
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by sesteel 8y ago
People have already tried to reproduce results in humans, here is one such study: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijad/2018/6852303/ I am unaware of any successful results.
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by sesteel 8y ago
I might have in the past; all I want now is a smallish phone that can dock as a machine (Librem 5) or slide into a laptop enclosure and "be the guts of it". Maybe, the enclosure is like 80% batteries; idk.
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by sesteel 8y ago
Consolidation, optimization, and related vertical integration in manufacturing leaves people out of the value chain. Many roles will eventually evaporate without competition and/or new advancements. In general, growth follows an S-cu
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by sesteel 8y ago
If it works as advertised, it looks to be a boon. I hope we can commit to a full security audit of the compiler, runtime, and std libs. My trust is lacking lately.
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by sesteel 8y ago
No worries, I was just curious if you read that somewhere.
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by sesteel 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes you think Go is not compiled?
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by sesteel 8y ago
I think people without kids romanticize children as these pristine entities, but the truth is they are ruled by fear and greed just like anybody else. The difference is they are generally ignorant of social norms, expectations of performan
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by sesteel 8y ago
I get your point, but in the US, I don't think military leaders would ever let that happen. Being in the military feels like living in a heavily socialist country within a heavily capitalist one. The experiences could be amazing (goo
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by sesteel 8y ago
I don't even pay attention to them; they are just there as visual noise. I worry a lot about the world we've created and where this is all heading. I like to wrangle some of these problems, maybe create a "no ad" netwo
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by sesteel 8y ago
I feel like advertisements ruin everything. I remember driving onto the my air force base and being thankful that all the visual pollution was gone. It was like stepping into another world. Now the internet has ads everywhere. I find th
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by sesteel 8y ago
I couldn't agree more. I don't know if any of the commenters have built systems where lives or livelihoods are on the line; involving decisions where billions of dollars and many lives are at stake; nobody sets out to build unsaf
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by sesteel 8y ago
These calls always seem easy in the aftermath, when you have the benefit of hindsight. In both of these cases, billions of dollars are on the line, but the truth is, there is always some risk. There is, as we've all heard, a greater
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by sesteel 8y ago
We're not going to solve this problem in a HN forum. Planes have a ton of hours put on them before a passenger ever steps onboard. This is a heavily regulated industry; and a lot of trust is placed in Boeing and the FAA to only build

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