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I once pulled off a scratch rewrite. The original author had spent months writing their own custom ORM framework. The big problem was that this framework didn’t support nested transactions, or validators. This meant that when users uploaded
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A couple of billion per drug.
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Exactly.
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There are two more things to consider. 1) The whole satellite doesn’t burn up. Most of it crashes into the ocean. 2) much of the burning up happens in the thicker lower atmosphere where we’re already putting lots of material from jet engine
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We’re talking about the risks of satellites burning up in the upper atmosphere. The satellites deposit lots of material when they burn up. People are worried that this might be bad. Lots of people incorrectly think that the upper atmosphere
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I help big companies reduce their cloud costs. Frequently I recommend moving Postgres and Kubernetes to on-prem. When you’re spending over $1 million per year on either of those then you’ll save a lot of money by moving to on-prem. The idea
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5200 tonnes of micrometeorites hit the earth each year. Star link isn’t going to make a difference. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antarctic-study-s...
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When you say apolitical what do you mean?
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He doesn't really dig into what he means by apolitical, and what bitcoiners mean by apolitical. One of the big risks with fiat currency is that your government might do "something stupid" or "something corrupt" with
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Yea. Some kind of nuclear scramjet would be the way to get off a big planet with a dense atmosphere. To explain for all of the non engineers: On earth scramjets work because airflow enters the front of the engine and the shape of the inlet
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It’s the whole coupling vs DRY trade off. Coupling is worse than code duplication.
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I’ve had contracting gigs bringing down the costs of SQL DBs that cost a million per year. You can usually get costs below 200k fairly easily. - Performance tuning - Migrate old data out of the DB - Delete unused indexes - Improve queries
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Right now the consulting market is at zero. 18 months ago i was talking to 4 recruiters in parallel, turning down jobs and making companies outbid each other. Today the only recruiters who will return my calls are the ones who have gotten m
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Do you agree that the UK has banned some silent prayer? Do you think it is right that silent prayer was banned in this case? This whole discussion started because people from other countries didn’t believe that the UK would ban silent praye
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Is silent prayer illegal outside some abortion clinics in the UK? Has the UK banned some prayer and arrested at least one person for thought crime? The answer to both of those questions is yes. It’s not about whether she would have been con
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By specifically calling out prayer the order does ban prayer... In that case the woman was arrested for silently praying by herself. Her prayer was to stop the abortion clinic, but it was silent and in her own head. I understand that the in
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This is a common misunderstanding. Harassing people near abortion clinics is a separate offense. The lady in question has harassed people in the past, but she was specifically arrested and charged for prayer in this case. This offense of pr
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I think we’ll have colonized space by then, maybe even starting to build a Dyson sphere.
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I’m not in Germany but as it’s in the EU I would contact a German employment lawyer. Write a short summary of the events, detailing what they should have paid you, when they should pay it, what they did pay you, when they paid it, and how m
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I’d love to know how you did this.
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Actually no. Pre war Russian propaganda was 100% sowing doubt, even internally. However now that they need to motivate ppl to fight it has started to move back to Soviet style propaganda which promotes a consistent false narrative. Basicall
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The goal of Russian propaganda is to spread doubt and distrust. The aim is to get people to believe that objective truth doesn’t exist, and that ALL elites are corrupt.
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I checked and surprisingly this is true.
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It might not be a bad thing. Most of the justification for police shootings is self defense (of the officers). A robot doesn’t have a right to self defense. It’s well established that you can’t use lethal force to protect property, and robo
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If you’ve got a release deadline, and a list of features that need to be ready by the deadline then you’ll end up doing waterfall. If you have flexibility about when features can be released then you can do agile. I wish the agile and scrum
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Fill a bath and get in it. The groundwater is usually much colder than the air. However there is a limit to how long you can live in the bath.
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This should be the top rated comment. It’s not a purely statistical problem as some other comments say. The problem is that the follow up tests carry health risks to the patient.
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I’ve worked on code bases like this. It is a parody, but it’s not too far from reality. Reading my original post i probably shouldn’t have said it’s how you should do it. I mean that lots of engineers created loads of pointless complexity w
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There’s a difference between complexity that’s inherent to the problem, and complexity that’s added by developers who have drunk architectural cool aid. This is an example where all of the complexity is caused by rigid adherence to the most
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I think that the take home assignment really helped. It showed you what they value in code, and how that’s not aligned with what you value

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