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by stadium 5y ago
> So what does he think the lesson is instead? “To watch out for programs being created in situations where where the arrogance is so strong and the power differential is so intense that evidence can be ignored.” Like stack ranked perfor
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by stadium 5y ago
I've found it is cultural and more nuanced. IT can mean a lot of things too, many of which are not related to writing software. And if internally developed software is not adding a competitive advantage, should it really be internall
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by stadium 5y ago
I've been building a useless app in my free time, an hour here or there, for the last 2 months. Then last week at work, I got a chance to contribute to a project that happened to use the same stack. It was random luck. And the usele
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by stadium 5y ago
Android has mostly free apps, ad supported. iOS has more paid apps, for one because people that can afford a high end phone are more willing to pay for $99 for an app. Look at the pricing for the same app on Android vs iOS.
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by stadium 5y ago
This is going to accelerate ev adoption and ic obselecence. Mainstream electric, here we come.
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by stadium 5y ago
I was thinking more about the soft targets and people based parts of the system, but you raise an interesting point. Zero trust systems might be solvable from a tech perspective, but zero trust organizations from a social perspective are a
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by stadium 5y ago
It just takes one agent or informant on the inside to bring the whole house down.
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by stadium 5y ago
Vaccines don't help the dead. "According to data from the Department of Veteran's Affairs, approximately 405,000 Americans died in the Second World War while 36,000 lost their lives in the Korean War. The Vietnam War resulted
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by stadium 5y ago
> The US had the expertise, technological capacity, and economic investment capacity And incompetent leadership that foundered an opportunity to be the heroes of a generation.
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by stadium 5y ago
Is this similar to how flash was used for dynamics content before html/css could do it?
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by stadium 5y ago
I've been experimenting with throwaway ec2 dev boxes. My environment setups are scripted for setting up a new instance but I usually stop and restart the same one. The instance shuts itself off using a cloudwatch alarm after 5 minutes
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by stadium 5y ago
The investment in rearchitecting also happens when it's a big enough problem that team A builds their own solution to team B's service. Then team B either loses a big internal customer and their service slowly dies out as enginee
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by stadium 5y ago
Could recycled smartphones be used as a source for chips?
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by stadium 5y ago
The AWS billing dashboard has a "budgets" feature. I just added a daily account-level budget of $1 to my dev sandbox account, and setup an alert at 50% of the budget or $0.50. It took about a minute to setup. You can choose to i
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by stadium 5y ago
I have a different take on it. I started out doing everything through the console, then learned the cli and boto3, and very recently CDK. CDK is another tool that build on the cli and boto3 concepts, and also manages the orchestration and
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by stadium 5y ago
cdk is promising for things like this, way safer and easier than rolling your own scripts with bash or python.
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by stadium 5y ago
> the fact that vertical works better It works better until it doesn't. A company with high market share and positive cash flow can invest in vertical integration. They gain economies of scale. It gets harder to adapt to the market
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by stadium 5y ago
FOMO is the biggest reason I find not to sell and rent for a while. If I want to buy again in a few years, there is no way to know if the equivalent house would be out of my price range. And I can't think of too many places I would f
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by stadium 5y ago
And the sign out button too!
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by stadium 5y ago
That's a good idea, like a torrent but renting out unused capacity that's agnostic of the content. Maybe like a hyper-distributed S3.
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by stadium 5y ago
This gives me a mental image of trying to fill a sheet of paper with a #2 pencil as fast as possible. By the way, I am selling fully penciled sheets of paper for $USD one million each. They are unique because I am only human and can't
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by stadium 5y ago
> user: grammarnazzzi > created: February 23, 2017 > karma: 17 You really came out of the woodwork to defend this guy and shame the accuser. Zero posts in months then a flurry here. Gross.
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by stadium 5y ago
> For example, when I confronted him in person about the episode in Berlin, he told me that I had lured him. His words left me scared, humiliated, and ashamed. I found myself self-doubting, distressed, and depressed. Ya from an armchair
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by stadium 5y ago
My grandma had a campfire saying that "smoke follows beauty." I realized many years later as an adult that it was part of a subconscious family mythology, handed down for who knows how many generations. If you're pretty, it
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by stadium 5y ago
Educate yourself on narcissistic abuse for more info.
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by stadium 5y ago
The guy was a predator, there was a clear pattern of sexual and emotional abuse.
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by stadium 5y ago
$165 billion seems quite low for nationals improvements. Seattle area is spending $54 billion just on a regional expansion of light rail and the cost had gone up considerably since then because of inflation and real estate pressure. https:
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by stadium 5y ago
> it makes sense that police would be more likely to use force against people who are more frequently involved in said events Hence the systemic racism problem in a nutshell. It only makes sense through the lense of human bias and racism
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by stadium 5y ago
It's not philosophical, it's the law. And GP dismisses the overwhelmingly higher rates of arrests for non whites as not being a systemic racism issue and assumes that white people commit fewer crimes with no data to back it up. &g
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> criminal record of those being policed What if there is bias in the criminal record? This ignores the idea of rehabilitation and assumes that one crime, one bad decision, makes someone a criminal for life.

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