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by silisili 2y ago
Land area, population, and natural resources have next to nothing to do with wealth or GDP. The UK will never be a small inconsequential country in any of our lifetimes.
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by silisili 2y ago
Technically popcorn is just warming up liquids as well. I'd say that's all it's good at, which happens to have a handful of usecases(some frozen meals, popcorn, melting cheese, heating leftovers).
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by silisili 2y ago
As a counterpoint to some other replies, I do this sometimes, not thinking at all about stocks but instead as a standardized abbreviation of sorts. Ms for example can mean tons of things from a title to multiple sclerosis to milliseconds.
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by silisili 2y ago
I consider myself a technical person, perhaps not social media savvy anymore, and Mastodon confused the hell out of me. I don't think it stands a chance with regular Joe.
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by silisili 2y ago
I guess one question I have is did Netflix partner with other CDNs? Despite their already huge presence, Amazon for example has multiple CDNs involved for capacity for live events. Same for Peacock.
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by silisili 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42153953
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by silisili 2y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight, but you typically use your A players for hiring/interviews. It can be both true that Netflix has God tier talent and a bunch of idiots. In fact, that's probably true of most places. I guess
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by silisili 2y ago
AFAIK those three farm out to CDNs with tons of edges who know what they're doing. I have a feeling Netflix said 'how hard could this be?' and is finding out right now.
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by silisili 2y ago
Yep. They told me they(the team) don't know what happened, never saw it, and to apply again. I tried, but the system wouldn't allow it (it was one of those outsourced HR things, I forget the name). It was more an exploratory thin
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by silisili 2y ago
I had a similar situation/question. I knew an old coworker who was eagerly trying to get me on their team at another company. They said I had to apply and then they'd take it to their manager who was already on board with the id
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by silisili 2y ago
The 'reputable' news(collectively) did this to themselves. They figured out at some point you could get more viewers by confirming their biases one way or another. So much so that ask about anyone, and they'll claim the oth
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by silisili 2y ago
Same on Android. I guess it's meant to be played on a desktop.
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by silisili 2y ago
Of all the states I've lived, TN blew me away wrt internet the most, by far. Most have heard about EPB over in Chattanooga. KUB in Knoxville recently did the same thing. But those aside, it seems like every little nook and cranny ha
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by silisili 2y ago
This has a first mover advantage and bound to eventually fail. They're taking advantage of the fact other companies still pay...better, and siphoning off the money. When every company is put out by an 'economy of scale' type
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by silisili 2y ago
There are legal means of hiring seasonal workers. If it needs fixing in law, let's do that... not this weird system we have now of turning our head the other way and waving it off as necessary while ignoring any criticism of said crazy
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by silisili 2y ago
Both. Almost everything today uses some form of it. I think the term stuck with rice cookers because they were advertised that way as an advancement from the binary type cooker described in the article. In that sense, it's a buzzwor
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by silisili 2y ago
Well written. The one thing that immediately pissed me off was you doing something awesome, then having management attack you for reason X, where X attacks everything but the results. The reason never really matters, the real reason is tha
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by silisili 2y ago
Brave and Controld.
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by silisili 2y ago
It was scummy, because naturally it will always cause tension. I feel the right way would have been to approach us. Instead they approach the child who will always click freedom. They also sent us parents an email letting us know she&#x2
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by silisili 2y ago
Gotta agree here. The only apps that aren't blocked are the phone itself, messages, and a few games. Doesn't even have a browser on it much less social media. It's really been fantastic in letting her have a phone for comm
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by silisili 2y ago
Far from it - the F150 has been the best selling vehicle for over 40 years, and they do nearly 200b in revenue. I think they just quit competing on price and volume - they've gutted their entire car lineup except for the Mustang, for e
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by silisili 2y ago
Every house requires cash flow, regardless of mortgage amount. There's something to be said for overspending on a house for sure - but let's not forget mortgage(if any), maintenance, property tax, utilities, insurance, etc. Last
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by silisili 2y ago
This is about the only use case I found it helpful for - saving me time in research, not in coding. I needed to compare compression ratios of a certain text in a language, and it actually came up with something nice and almost workable. It
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by silisili 2y ago
For what definition of 'very successful' are we using here? Mastodon has <900k MAU, Lemmy <45k. It's not nothing, but compared to what they're competing with(Twitter at > 330 million), they aren't even a
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by silisili 2y ago
In a similar vein, I saw this happen to some Italian place near the NC coast. During the summer season, they catered only to the tourist rush and somehow pissed the locals off. I forgot the details, but I believe they quit taking to go or
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by silisili 2y ago
When I lived in Florida it was about like that. I couldn't accept that so just asked for the soonest appointment anywhere, and was assigned a new Haitian lady about an hour away who wasn't booked up yet. Given the circumstances I
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by silisili 2y ago
I guess that depends on your definition of simplicity. I don't think of simplicity as 'easy to do' or 'less lines of code', but in terms of easy to immediately understand what the code in question is doing, both fr
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by silisili 2y ago
Same. I never had it in writing, but spoken contract. I'd wait til after negotiations and 'one more thing' them. Two companies didn't care at all. One did - the worst it ever got was asking me to boot up their supplie
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by silisili 2y ago
I guess I'm part of that cult as I value simplicity greatly. Heck I was even against generics and iterators, though the former has grown on me a bit. One question I ask in earnest, why do people not just use another language rather th
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by silisili 2y ago
I'm not sure what the future is going to look like, but it feels strange already and companies seizing on that don't care about safety. People seem afraid to approach people, so we get Tinder. But hey, there's still a chance

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