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by sofixa 1y ago
> When a company loses money year after year it goes bankrupt. The company disappears. The workers lose their jobs. If the company operates in such razor thin margins that it can't provide for sick leave for employees, something is
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Censorship is the worst negative thing that can happen to information. We should have all learned that lesson by now. On the contrary, some "information" doesn't deserve the light of day, and we should have learned that
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Twitter did cease to exist the way it did. In its place is a platform mostly free of censorship and with new features added. Try blocking or criticising Musk, or saying "cis" and come back to us on "mostly free of censor
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Also, they require a CLA with copyright assignment so they can reuse your contributions in nonfree software. It’s always shady when companies do this. They sell a version of the software, of course they'd have a CLA. It's not
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by sofixa 1y ago
Buffet was "carrying most people forward" how exactly? Squeezing companies he had shares in to be as efficient as possible, leading to poorer quality and outright dangerous working conditions isn't bettering anyone other than
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by sofixa 1y ago
The idea that profits are more important than basic humanity is preposterous. The unions wanted sick leave, because under the current system, employees were scheduled weeks in advance with zero margin. If the employee was sick, they had to
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by sofixa 1y ago
> The central structural issue is that by and large, both sexes now unquestioningly accept the flawed premise that men and women are the same. It is, after all, a special case of the central liberal delusion that all people are the same:
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by sofixa 1y ago
> NPR is about as far from neutral as media gets Really ? While Fox and OAN exist? Care to provide any examples of that non neutrality?
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The fact that you think mythological figures that enshrined slavery in the same document which describes how people are free could have gotten the constitution "right" is very telling. No, the US constitution is not right. It has
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> The funny thing is, that the GOP is not "conservative," in any way, whatsoever. They are extreme The word that describes them the best is reactionary. As a political ideology it fell out of favour some time in the late 19th,
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> Right now I have some faith the courts in the US will stand up to this and get the US back on track but I worry that dam may not hold forever. He and his administration already ignored a Supreme court ruling, so I wouldn't hold my
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by sofixa 1y ago
On what planet is BTC "real money"? Can you use it for the main uses of money, store value and payment? No, you cannot, because it's very volatile, and very slow and expensive to transact it. It's as much "real mone
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> found this unreasonable and confusing until one day I read a conservative argument that this is actually a good thing, because it stops the government from increasing sales tax too much. It constantly reminds residents of how much extr
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by sofixa 1y ago
> None of that I learned while sitting in class School is about more than the part where you sit in class. The social skills, time and project management navigation etc. is all stuff you learn and do because of school but outside of clas
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by sofixa 1y ago
> What is the point of school? Why do children have to spend 12 years of their lives learning basically nothing and coming out anything but well formed adults. So that every kid has a uniform and common base of knowledge that helps them
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> There was a lot of time spend sitting in a room and "learning", yet I basically learned nothing Do you think that was because their methods were bad, you didn't bother and they couldn't force you, or that their meth
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by sofixa 1y ago
Waymo made a very good point about this, fundamentally that's the problem with a progressive rollout - drivers will stop paying attention when the software is "good enough", and the result will probably be crashes. So for the
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by sofixa 1y ago
Vector started for observability data only, and that's why they got bought by Datadog.
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> seems like a simplified equivalent of https://vector.dev/ No? Vector is for observability, to get your metrics/logs, transform them if needed, and put them in the necessary backends. Transformation is optional, an
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> In 2022, Europe's driest summer in 500 years had serious consequences for power plant cooling systems, as the drought reduced the amount of river water available for cooling. And rules around this have been adjusted to have less o
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> Do we not agree that the reality is that renewables are the only sustainable option for energy production? No, we do not, unless you use a very narrow definition of sustainable. Nuclear will play a big part, especially in Western Eur
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> With the caveat that the standby is likely only going to be required during winter in case of prolonged dark and windless weather Which had already happened a few times across big parts of Europe, with weeks of overcast and low wind we
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by sofixa 1y ago
The top (in the world) 2 airline reservation system Amadeus have ported everything to Kubernetes for years now. In fact they were among the top contributors to the project a few years back. It's all a matter of age and maturity. Nobody
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by sofixa 1y ago
It's a very common cop out by engineers/technical folks when something goes wrong somewhere else, to blame it on management/deadlines/customers/etc. Sometimes people make mistakes, sometimes people are incompetent,
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If you have very good C knowledge, maybe a weekend is enough to have decent C++. Maybe not to teach it, but decent. However, assuming no C knowledge, there's no way in hell you'll be a good teacher of C++ in a weekend, even with L
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by sofixa 1y ago
Taking into account the 500€/month scholarship ("about the average salary", euros), Eastern EU. Add in the Romanian sounding author's name, it's probably Romania.
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It's not a "product that went for AI", the product itself is AI.
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> You want other people to die in the trenches or worse, to die in a nuclear war Other people are dying, and more people will until the aggressor is stop. The aggressor has shown loud and clear he has no intention of stopping. > A
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> War by who By the international community of course. The same one that has heavily sanctioned Russia. > And as another comment said, are you volunteering? You can even wage war against Russia now if you want to, volunteers in Ukrain
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That's exactly what I said - Russia is a hostile actor that has given plenty of reasons for war, regardless if they're involved in this, which neither me nor anyone else knows.

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