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by strken 2y ago
It's a big problem because it is devaluing the brand of his companies, which it is doing because investors and consumers aren't psychopathically logical actors and will refuse to buy from companies associated with men who breach t
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by strken 2y ago
Elon's propensity to say dumb shit and take a side in the culture war is not a tiny problem. It is devaluing the brand of every company he publicly contributes to, when the brand is the most valuable thing about many of them.
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by strken 2y ago
Half the problem with Elon is that he does spend some of his time reading stuff like this and shitposting on the website formerly known as Twitter about it, instead of going to work or sitting on a beach reading something more useful. Upo
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by strken 2y ago
Depends on your relationship with your manager. I get a coffee with mine at least once a day if we're in the office together, usually lunch too, and also sit next to him, so if we did 1:1s they'd just be redundant. Grabbing coffee
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by strken 2y ago
Hang on, this isn't taking anything away from drivers at all - the roads aren't suddenly going away or falling into ruin, they're just not getting enlarged. It's not much of a stick and nor is it a punishment, any more t
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by strken 2y ago
I quite like FHIR. My experience with using it has been that everyone seems to implement it slightly differently, but it does a better job at being human-readable. It was much easier for us and our partners to work with than regular HL7. So
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by strken 2y ago
Wow, if only there was a separate corporate entity which could accept donations but which wasn't the Foundation. I wonder what Mozilla would call such a Corporation.
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by strken 2y ago
The alt text thing sounds like someone who thinks disabled access to the internet is an Important Thing. I'm not sure it will end up being better than an extension or doing the image recognition in a screen reader, but it's not ne
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by strken 2y ago
This is a great argument for why the average internet user in 2004 was less technical than in 1994, but it says absolutely nothing about 2014.
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by strken 2y ago
Sorry, what? The original suggestion was that a developer would change things and it would cause performance problems. That same developer can change either a REST system or a GraphQL system and introduce the same performance issues in the
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by strken 2y ago
I'm not pretending anything and I hate XML. I would still rather use it than HL7, because it's a hierarchical tree of data and HL7 is not. OP's point is that almost nobody wants to use XML anymore; my point is that almost nob
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by strken 2y ago
XML was genuinely better than fix-width data formats (COBOL) or character-separated fields (CSV, HL7) for most APIs. Hierarchical deeply nested trees of data were the future. Everyone uses JSON or a more industrial format like protobuf&#x
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by strken 2y ago
I'm not sure this is any more or less of a problem for REST APIs. What if your engineers change $client/$server and the new version makes really expensive queries? Well, ask them not to do that, then when some of them inevitably
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by strken 2y ago
Speaking only for myself, it has been invaluable to have access to the private papers of people like my great grandfather. It provides a real connection to a man, time, and place which I couldn't know in person. Perhaps publishing ever
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by strken 2y ago
The underappreciated problem with immigration is that it allows advanced economies to cover up issues that make raising kids difficult. A shrinking population crashes the housing market. A growing population powered by immigration rather th
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by strken 2y ago
Depends where you're from. I'm from Australia and lived through a period of extreme water shortages called the Millennium Drought[0]. During it, the water catchments for most of my state were alarmingly close to dry. We started co
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by strken 2y ago
The thing about outsourcing is that you need to break tasks into tiny well-specified units for your contractors to do, not because they're idiots but because they have little context on anything and often need to be able to work from a
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by strken 2y ago
Because people on stack overflow don't lie to the person who wrote the question very often. A correct answer to a problem that isn't the same as your problem is a better resource for learning than an incorrect answer to your exact
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by strken 2y ago
When I was a mid-level dev, the overly complicated code I wrote came about because I read an article on e.g. Ruby metaprogramming, got excited, wondered why we didn't use reflection more, and found a place where I could apply it. Perha
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by strken 2y ago
No, I agree that touching grass is associated with being good for you, I just disagree that higher levels of UV exposure are what makes it good for you. Touching grass has been a confounding variable in every association study I've rea
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by strken 2y ago
This is a glib and dismissive response that tells me nothing. It's about as helpful as "do your own research". Mate, I have done my own research, everything I can find is either a vague association study or has a tiny underpo
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by strken 2y ago
What results? "People who go outside live longer"? "People who can afford to leave Sweden to go sunbathing live longer"? I agree with the point about single studies, but even if you have multiple studies they still have
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by strken 2y ago
We (thus far) have not been able to send him to gaol because the civil standard of proof is on the balance of probabilities but the criminal standard is beyond a reasonable doubt. Ben Roberts-Smith has been shown to have committed war crime
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by strken 2y ago
Comics had quite a lot of breadth to them even before the 2000s. Consider Footrot Flats, which no self-respecting city nerd from America would have known of, but which two generations of Australian and New Zealander farmers grew up reading.
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by strken 2y ago
The given examples of utf-8 support and reading headers from CSVs are things that (depending on stack etc.) can be nearly or actually free if you build that way from the start. I read the original post as saying something like "good en
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by strken 2y ago
The name "tech debt" has always been a bit of a misnomer. Financial debt does come with interest, but it's structured, proportionate, and you can just go pay it off with sufficient money. Tech debt is unpredictable, needs a
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by strken 2y ago
It is also a fact that Google had an average tenure of 1.1 years in 2022. Perhaps this extraordinarily low figure might be connected to your facts.
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by strken 2y ago
Go read https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rent-free and learn the origins and predominant usage of the phrase. In addition, it literally says "rent free". There's nothing intellectual or pseudo-intellectual
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by strken 2y ago
I always thought rent was utility, and a piece of knowledge or an opinion that didn't pay rent was one that provided little or no practical benefit to you. The term in its original use described an obsession with a particular group or
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by strken 2y ago
I agree that network features and browser integrations are huge potential holes, but the contributors on the GitHub issue make a very good point when they say that there's minimal testing of the stripped-down build in comparison with t

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