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by stuff4ben 2y ago
Samsung as a whole is a shit company to work with. The mobile startup I worked at a decade ago partnered with them and they were a nightmare. Literally working all hours of the day and night on projects that made little financial sense but
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
As someone who does a ton interviews and is usually the one who gives the technical thumbs up on hiring decisions in my group, I've summed it up as Joel Spolsky famously did a long time ago... "smart and gets things done" I j
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
Make it truly open source and maybe I'll look into it. I've lost all trust in Google products and services. One reason I'll never switch to Google Fiber over AT&T Fiber.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
How long before that becomes a mandatory test to get health insurance? Or somehow the data is bought by insurers who then use it to jack up the rates for those who will eventually get cancer. God I hate the US healthcare system!
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
Yes
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
All the more reason to have a union.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
The K-index for this is an 8 which is one less than an extreme G5 geomagnetic storm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-index ). I haven't been able to find it, so I'm curious what the Carrington event K-index wa
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
So we know Hertz is a total shitshow. What other company is good to rent from? I don't really trust Turo yet.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
Just because you lack the skills to fix it, doesn't mean it's not repairable. People desolder components all the time to fix phones and ipads and laptops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNKNjy3CoZ4
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
But how often do you wash your jackets? For my oldest fleece jacket, I may have washed it once maybe twice over the 20 years I've owned it.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
TFA states that they're moving towards touchscreens instead of physical switches. To me that doesn't sound like a good idea. But maybe I just hate that it's happened in so many vehicles these days.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
I remember when this stuff was happening. It was like the world shifted over to HTTPS instantly. Wish we could do the same for IPv6.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
I don't blame the big corps like IBM (disclaimer: I work there, I don't speak for them) and Microsoft and Google. I really blame investors who are looking to get their money back. When they force an IPO but there's no busines
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
Maybe. Or they could just completely opensource the projects.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
As I said elsewhere, it's not. It's an open source project, under the Linux Foundation umbrella, with all of the good licensing that goes along with that. It has some contributors who are also IBM employees, but to say they'r
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
It's not, it's a Linux Foundation initiative with some IBM developers involved. IBM cannot kill it.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
Why would IBM buy Canonical when they have RedHat already???
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
I fail to see how 2013 has anything to do with what the OP said. RH was acquired in 2019. Stock is up $50 since then.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
To me that really just screams lazy and incompetent management. Being overstaffed is just a coincidence. A good mgmt structure would have prioritized that roadmap and gotten the cats herded to work towards a singular goal/chat app. I s
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
Actually things have changed for IBM. Speaking as an IBM employee, but not on behalf of IBM, my team (and I suspect all others) had to identify any work done by Russian IBM employees and then subsequently divested ourselves of those employe
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
The original article was about lower-income "countries". I pointing out it's also in the US. So yeah, pretty much everywhere. Unless you have data to prove otherwise, you're wrong.
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
It is in the US. Ever hear of food deserts?
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
what's wrong with FooFighters??? :)
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
I feel this is a refreshingly accurate take on NPR. I appreciate that a senior editor and reporter at NPR published this self-reflective portrait of his employer. It's good to consider all things/viewpoints as a journalist. Otherw
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by stuff4ben 2y ago
I found this as a refreshingly accurate take on NPR. The fact that a senior editor and reporter at NPR published this self-reflective portrait of his employer is also newsworthy. It's good to consider all things/viewpoints as a jo
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by stuff4ben 3y ago
Thanks for this information! I'm always amazed at the types of people who browse HN.
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by stuff4ben 3y ago
For me, it's being prepared essentially. Having a supply of masks, toilet paper, meds, emergency supplies, etc.
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by stuff4ben 3y ago
> "It takes about three generations for people to forget. Those that experience the disaster themselves pass it to their children and their grandchildren, but then the memory fades," Some similarities to lessons from the 1918 f
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by stuff4ben 3y ago
Yeah, I've gotten sucked into those stories before too and some are just too fanciful to believe. The AI being trained on Reddit data is going to do more than hallucinate...
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by stuff4ben 3y ago
Nice cherry-picking. You can do the same for Airbus. Feel free to search https://drs.faa.gov/search

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