sime2009

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by sime2009 3y ago
This idea that your top priority as an employee is to make your boss feel good at all times, is a thing in the US, but it is not universal to every where in the world.
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by sime2009 3y ago
It's a photon. Photons always have speed = 1C.
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by sime2009 3y ago
* reduces the distance from keyboard home row to mouse * less desk real estate needed * many of us aren't doing much number entry at all
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by sime2009 3y ago
I'm just surprised that this low level of engagement with keyboards is considered on the "unhealthy" side of the fence. I mean, this is only about 5 keyboards and not even owned at the same time.
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by sime2009 3y ago
Start reading here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/index/ It is not too hard these days to buy a complete and immediately usable keyboard on line. But it does help to know what you are
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by sime2009 3y ago
Having a monopoly isn't illegal. Using a monopoly as power in another market is. Microsoft got hit because they used their monopoly in desktop operating systems to freeze out competition in the browser market and jam IE down people&#x2
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by sime2009 3y ago
Hobbyists develop and put out custom ROMs for phones and they have little to no financial backing or even expected future profits. I'm sure it will be profitable for US companies to modify their (base) products to comply with the EU ma
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by sime2009 3y ago
As long as there is money to be made in the EU market, US tech firms will continue to serve it. Plenty of US and western companies operate to make a buck in far more restrictive markets around the world.
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by sime2009 3y ago
(I'm not the previous poster.) Hell yeah, the government should have a say in how publicly funded schools run their admissions. Why should a school running on public funds get to favour students differently based on who they are rela
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by sime2009 3y ago
How many other options are available to people in between the suburbs and NYC style high density cities?
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by sime2009 3y ago
ha ha. You clearly don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about.
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by sime2009 3y ago
> but this and the USB-C issue strike me as misguided, policies from people who aren't qualified to to make the decisions they are making, and aren't listening to experts. You do realise that the EU gave the industry (i.e. the
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by sime2009 3y ago
As a European myself, I share that weird feeling when watching Americans discuss these topics. To me it looks like the discussion in the US has been poisoned such that there are only two options: Stalinism vs the-poor-can-starve-in-the-stre
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by sime2009 3y ago
In defense of the author, the second line of that article was: "As I said before, the insights are not particularly original, I’m just raising awareness of issues." If you are familiar in the subject matter, then that may have bee
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by sime2009 3y ago
The words "port" and "left" have 4 letters each. That is how I remember it.
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by sime2009 4y ago
I'm in the same boat as you and laund here. I don't follow the "inside sports" aspects of C++ or Rust, but I am interested in different languages and how they develop. So the name on the blog means nothing to me. This po
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by sime2009 4y ago
> Because a lot of companies have moved on to NoSQL databases and key value stores. The value of learning database systems is learning how to model and represent data. All entirely relevant to NoSQL and key value stores. > Because man
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by sime2009 4y ago
The original complaint is that student aren't even getting the 4 month introduction to topics like databases and concurrency. Later on in their career they wander into them and don't even realise there exists large body of importa
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by sime2009 4y ago
Tech workers: "Management treats us like faceless cogs in a machine! They only care about grinding productivity out of us." Also tech workers: "How dare management require us to go to the office! I can do my work perfectly fi
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by sime2009 4y ago
If you have LED lights and they are not at 100% brightness, then yes, most likely.
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by sime2009 4y ago
"Mate, you worry too much. Bazza said he done the bolt real good this time. She'll be right."
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by sime2009 4y ago
Between the high level architecture diagrams which don't change much and the code itself, it feels like we are missing a strategy or tool for visualising mid-level code structure which is in between these two ends of the spectrum. At w
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by sime2009 4y ago
Traditional investments have ways of generating and returning money without selling the asset itself. For example, stocks in companies can pay dividends, real estate can return money by renting out properties. They are positive sum games an
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by sime2009 4y ago
What other actions do you have in mind? "copy path" and "open in default app" are the most obvious ones.
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by sime2009 4y ago
`open .` will work on most Linux systems too.
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by sime2009 4y ago
Even if the whole country was turned into one big urban area, 507 people per square km is no where near the population densities of many large cities in the world.
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by sime2009 4y ago
Docusign is a centralised trusted 3rd party which performs ID verification and holds hashes of signed documents. This doesn't require blockchain. They were performing this service before they offered anything related to blockchain.
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by sime2009 4y ago
> In my experience, at some point relational data will be required in most projects I've noticed this too. My leading hypothesis is that projects start with simple data storage requirements which don't require much more than &q
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by sime2009 4y ago
To get these "drawing" type glyphs to look good and avoid unwanted gaps etc, terminal emulators generally just ignore the font and use their own custom rendering instead. Conclusion: Demand more from your terminal emulator, includ
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by sime2009 4y ago
> So it was a double pitch - personal power, personal mastery. Maybe that is how you experienced it as a computer nerd like myself, but that was not the pitch. For business it was computers for all just like the big boys. For families it

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