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by shock 6y ago
I don't know who flagged this comment and why, because this comment is correct.
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by shock 6y ago
> I think you leave the decision up to Boeing with the caveat being that if the plane crashes again due to a design flaw, it will never fly again which would be devastating to Boeing. What is the downside for Boeing to just say "let
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by shock 6y ago
> The ease with which engineers can go between front end and backend is an incredible boon that shouldn't be underestimated. In my experience, the engineers that can do that and still produce solid code are very, very rare.
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by shock 6y ago
Consumer protection laws do not apply to businesses.
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by shock 6y ago
Yes, please.
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EBBra – One bra, two masks(ebbra.com)
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by shock 6y ago
Tp-link and Microtik.
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by shock 6y ago
> Maybe you looked into the datasheet of the old v2? And then got delivered the new v3? We did not. We specifically chose the v3 version for its lower latency in switching packets and other features unrelated to cloud management.
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by shock 6y ago
I recently bought a couple of Netgear Managed Switches (for Business)⁰ and in their datasheet they list "Local-only management" as a feature. Only after they arrived we discovered that you only get limited functionality in the Loc
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by shock 6y ago
Nice pun. But I think Java will have a bright future with Project Loom coming.
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by shock 6y ago
Maybe you would find PaperWM useful. You can move workspaces among different monitors seamlessly.
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by shock 6y ago
My Dell Latitude's fingerprint sensor worked under Ubuntu in 2014.
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by shock 6y ago
> [...] but the requirements to get commercial license is a deal breaker for many. I don't understand why this has become the norm. Would your company not use smile to, presumably, make money?
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by shock 6y ago
> That seems very taxing on the company. I'd rather screen the candidate before committing to anything via interview/coding challenge So having a probationary period is too expensive for the company, but a several hours coding
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by shock 6y ago
I think one can be creative about it. Applying the principle "nobody wants to buy a 2 inch drill bit; what they want is a 2 inch round hole", the people in the company do not want to give you a coding test, they want to hire a com
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by shock 6y ago
Yes, but as a programmer if you had the source code and the inclination you could still make modifications to suit your needs.
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by shock 6y ago
GNOME Disks can also write an image to a disk.
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by shock 6y ago
> only programmers care if they have access to the source code, and most people aren’t programmers. and i am a programmer, and i don’t give a shit. What a horribly short sighted view... What happens when the company stops developing the
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by shock 6y ago
> For example, if someone asks me for help on something because I'm more familiar with it, my spending five minutes to answer their question might save them an hour of troubleshooting. Here, the Napoleon technique would save me time
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by shock 6y ago
I understand that when enough people do not have children the human race will disappear. Civilization might disappear before then. I'm not talking about that. I'm also not talking about people having children or not. I'm argu
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by shock 6y ago
I'm arguing against declining responsibility for one's choices, and against self entitlement. We live in society because at the individual level each of us gets some benefits from doing so. When that stops being the case society w
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by shock 6y ago
> I personally decided that I did feel a duty to do my part to continue the human race I also feel a duty to do my part to continue the human race, but I don't pretend that I didn't make a choice, that somehow there was no othe
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by shock 6y ago
> Have you ever built a house? I have, and it's a lot of work. Is work bad, somehow? Should one get a house without work, simply because one wants a house?
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by shock 6y ago
> You need 2.1 kids per person for society to continue existing. I don't understand this statement. Is it 2.1 kids per person or per family/couple? Has society collapsed in countries where the average is below the 2.1 figure yo
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by shock 6y ago
The human race is not an endangered species. We are not in danger of going extinct due to lack of people.
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by shock 6y ago
> What's next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don't I? Having kids is a personal choice. Getting cancer isn't. What are you on about?!
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by shock 6y ago
> Tell me what percent of the population can buy a house without a loan? Maybe we should not all buy houses. After all, at the moment of out birth nobody decreed "This person is a house buyer". Maybe some of us should build our
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by shock 6y ago
> It's not fair to blame people for "choosing" to have children because, in the aggregate, the majority of people need to have children in order for society to survive. I don't think the quotes around 'choosing&#
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by shock 6y ago
What is terrible about it?
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by shock 6y ago
> Repetition is the enemy of curiosity I haven't found a source for that, but I don't believe it to be true and I'm curious why you do. I haven't seen the previous comments of the OP so for me this comment was useful.

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