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by tarruda 5y ago
> In the meantime, Sebastian has started another competing project, Rome Tools, which was recently VC funded. > The whole thing stinks. Will Rome Tools employees get called out and shamed in public if they don't have enough visib
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by tarruda 5y ago
> 11K per month?! That is absolutely bananas and same reaction I had the last time this came up Even the reduced salary of $6,000 is still quite a lot if all you are going to do create a couple of small PRs per month: https://
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by tarruda 5y ago
If you split by 3 full time devs, that's more 90k/year which allows for a decent living in most places. Probably not enough for San Francisco though.
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by tarruda 5y ago
Thank you for the detailed write up. While I didn't understand everything, it certainly helped me develop a bit of intuition about entropic gravity.
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by tarruda 5y ago
Awesome, thanks for sharing
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by tarruda 5y ago
> For example, consider quantum gravity. Some people say: “Why do we even need to quantize gravity given that we don’t even have experimental evidence for it? (Disclaimer not a physicist or mathematician, just curious about the subject,
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by tarruda 5y ago
Instead of seeing as high returns, you can also look at it as money losing value due to excessive printing of last year.
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by tarruda 5y ago
> Buying into the "we're a family" propaganda makes them rich and makes you dependent on them I agree that one should not overvalue work relationships, but it doesn't seem like there's a "we're a family
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by tarruda 5y ago
I feel like I can do my daily work in 2-3 hours, but I end up spending all day procastinating between tasks.
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by tarruda 6y ago
> So how does Deno fit in and what is the added value? I also had that question in my mind until I tried deno a couple of weeks ago. There are a few great things I've discovered that IMO makes it a great alternative to node.js: - De
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by tarruda 6y ago
That's exactly the same thing I asked myself after skimming through the github README.
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by tarruda 6y ago
When you are working on "mundane web programming", are you employed or just freelancing? If you are employed, do you quit your job to work on these more exciting projects?
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by tarruda 6y ago
> The only scientifically proven way of knowing if someone is a liar is to examine the shape and bumps of their skull. Sarcasm?
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by tarruda 6y ago
> CPython Developer in Residence Can someone explain what this means?
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by tarruda 6y ago
In the past couple of years I started to use a heavier functional style for my code. What I noticed is that any syntactical benefits of async/await has a lesser impact when most of your application logic lives in pure functions, since
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by tarruda 6y ago
I believe the TXT record validation is only an additional measure, eg to prevent a random developer from registering/uploading a package like org.apache.http2. Surely other authentication methods are used in practice. I find it hard to
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by tarruda 6y ago
It seems some of the new package systems such as node/npm fail to learn from years of maturity of existing ecosystem such as Java's
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by tarruda 6y ago
> The worst of all is losing access to my @gmail address of over 15 years. I've read quite a few of these stories over the years, and it is really bad if all your digital life is tied to the Google account. A couple of months ago I
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by tarruda 6y ago
Some questions about living forever: If we can live forever, can we also be productive citizens forever? If not, is it ethical to want this? Assuming "living forever" becomes everyone's right, we would be forever increasing t
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by tarruda 6y ago
This is a gem, thanks!
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by tarruda 6y ago
> Spending your life hacking on Wayland when the world has pretty conclusively assigned capital to headless Linux use cases does speak for itself, yes. He has worked on projects other than wayland. Sourcehut is a notable example: A free
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by tarruda 6y ago
I've used both Btrfs and Zfs as Linux root filesystems and at the time I tested (about 4-5 years ago) Btrfs had much worse performance. I've heard that Btrfs greatly improved performance on recent kernels though. What bothers me a
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by tarruda 6y ago
> In that world, would you really want this data back so badly that you're going to scan it all in from a giant pile of paper? I can't answer what I would do if the world was in that state, but I'd rather have the ability
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by tarruda 6y ago
I still haven't done it yet, but I plan to do so. All this important data (the directory I keep my git repos) is less than 90mb in size. With 500kb/page I could store everything in about 180 pages (90 if I print on both sides) wh
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by tarruda 6y ago
I do have a many GBs of blobs backed up both in external HDs and cloud, but my most important data (which is what I plan to keep redudant copies on paper) is just notes and source code which I keep in small private git repos. BTW I still ha
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by tarruda 6y ago
What does BR-R stands for?
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by tarruda 6y ago
Notes and personal source code (private projects, automation scripts, dotfiles...). Not important to anyone but myself :)
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by tarruda 6y ago
If you don't mind adding an additional layer to your paranoia, I suggest seeing this video on the 2012 solar storm: https://youtu.be/hESunUuFrzk The video will show how your data can be suddenly destroyed if all you ha
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by tarruda 6y ago
Rsync.net also supports borg backups at a cheaper price than ZFS: https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
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by tarruda 6y ago
This mainstream concern with privacy is somewhat ironic, considering most people already put all their personal info on Facebook and Instagram

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