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by strken 2y ago
What exactly does "anything oil-like" mean? What substance are you proposing canola oil is made of?
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by strken 2y ago
What? Engineers should own the code they write, including being on call to maintain it. Out-of-scope dependencies should be irrelevant, and if they're not, get some of those tens or hundreds of thousands of employees to work on better
633.
by strken 2y ago
"Pre-industrial sheep shepherds" had mouths and stomachs just the same as us. They didn't grab ingredients totally at random. There's a reason the dish uses substantial and filling pasta instead of boiled celery or mint
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by strken 2y ago
You don't have an obligation not to suppress my speech. However, when you do choose to suppress my speech, you are, in fact, suppressing my speech. I'm not asking you, or YouTube, to stop suppressing speech. I'm objecting to
635.
by strken 2y ago
The EU and the eurozone aren't the same. If Denmark hasn't adopted the euro, why would Iceland do so? Edited to remove Sweden because it's obliged to eventually adopt the euro.
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by strken 2y ago
Possibly by adding a strict set of rules like https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/wmicentral.com/... that require you to apply for 7 jobs a day and submit to mandatory daily room searches for porn, drugs, and
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by strken 2y ago
Man, that quote is completely out of line with the experiences I've heard about. At one point we had a friend couchsurfing with us, and he wanted a home that he had real control over. He was in a house, but he didn't have a home.
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by strken 2y ago
That's just ridiculous. If everyone in town is allowed to send telegrams except for the one gay couple, is their speech not being suppressed? I don't mean in the legal US sense of the legal right to free speech, I mean the actual
639.
by strken 2y ago
On a factual level, your speech is being suppressed every time someone refuses to broadcast it for non-commercial reasons. YouTube isn't obligated to broadcast it, and in some cases it's debatable whether they're the ones sup
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by strken 2y ago
My brother and I used to take our grandmother to church for Easter mass, and a friend of mine goes once a month with his wife's family, despite all three of us being atheists. I really don't think that 2% is guaranteed to be polli
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by strken 2y ago
Why would BMI need to move up? Because it doesn't represent the average, or because it doesn't represent health? I think the former is uncontroversial but boring, and the later is wrong. I also think that people conflate the two b
642.
by strken 2y ago
[citation needed], unless you're talking about the merely physical aspect of writing
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by strken 2y ago
My grandmother was absolutely unambiguous about it. Even when she was still mobile and living at home, she'd say things like "I hope it's my time soon" and "I want to follow your grandfather." Quite happily, to
644.
by strken 2y ago
This is a bit ridiculous, because part of the reason that providers are overcharging you is that they need huge finance departments to get their cash back from you or your insurer, which wouldn't be necessary if you had a single govern
645.
by strken 2y ago
Having a centrally administered password manager is usually an option, unless there are regulatory reasons not to.
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by strken 2y ago
That sounds interesting, but I'm a layman and don't know anything about it. Can you provide a link? I was able to find https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10914 , but I don't have the context to know whether it&#x
647.
by strken 2y ago
I started programming at age eight, while my brother started in his 20s. Teaching him to write C was an eye-opening experience because it showed how much I rely on vibe and feelings. He struggled with things I take for granted, like indenti
648.
by strken 2y ago
You need actual evidence to make claims like this and be believed. "Possibly not Russian/American" is self-evident due to how easy misdirection is, but "probably not Russian/American" is a matter of probability
649.
by strken 2y ago
At my last job I got time off in lieu for actual hours worked + about $4/hour for being on-call. I really wish we'd gotten paid for hours worked rather than TOIL, not for personal preference but because it would have aligned the c
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by strken 2y ago
Why would ability not be innate just because some people with the ability don't use it? Or more specifically, two of my friends teach special needs children in the 50 to 70 IQ band. Who are we going to blame for them not becoming mathe
651.
by strken 2y ago
Did we read the same article? It literally has a section calling out RFK Jr, as follows: > If experts aren't to be trusted, charlatans and cranks will step into the vacuum. To mangle a line from Archer, "Do you want a world whe
652.
by strken 2y ago
Because expert opinions are sometimes the only data available. "What will computer architecture look like in 20 years?" Clearly there's no factual content to answer that question, but I would argue that it's still an int
653.
by strken 2y ago
The idea that people could manufacture meaning for others was something that I hadn't really thought about until some years ago, when I first read this essay. I think the rest of it is bullshit, but that core piece has stuck with me. I
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by strken 2y ago
"Know the future" is part of a software engineer's job description, at least insofar as "know" means "make informed predictions about". Consider the case of making API calls to a third party. You, today, a
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by strken 2y ago
> Web applications are probably always memory bound IO bound and particularly network bound code is common too. The first fix I'd try with network bound code is to either eliminate the network call (local cache? turn a microservice
656.
by strken 2y ago
The anecdotal claims from you and the author are the sort which I'm hesitant to believe without a study of more people.
657.
by strken 2y ago
Wait, that's not how I read the article, at all. It's talking about involving student bystanders.
658.
by strken 2y ago
I agree with the general sentiment ("one instance of bad code might have been me") but not the specific sentiment ("I could easily decide to catch and ignore errors through every bit of code I worked on without knowing why th
659.
by strken 2y ago
In this specific case, the fucking moron in question was the one who designed the code review process and hired the other engineers, and it took place a significant length of time before my involvement. Which, yes, does raise interesting qu
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by strken 2y ago
I'm not a manager and I don't stack rank people, but I am 100% capable of knowing when one of my co-workers or predecessors is a fucking moron. The trick is to use my massive brain to root cause several significant outages, discov

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