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by thunky 4y ago
> The reason for this dangerous combo? You’re working your dream job. Doesn't that make it a fair trade? Musicians generally don't make a killing either.
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by thunky 4y ago
> One year of lazing around and playing videogames is a good way to lose any self-discipline you would been building up to this point Do you really want people to devote their life to their jobs, even while unemployed? I don't see a
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by thunky 4y ago
My preferred fix: don't develop in Mac.
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by thunky 4y ago
> This game is all about financial exploitation Fortnite is 100% free to play. What's the exploitation?
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by thunky 4y ago
You've listed some nice qualities of Elixir but none of them necessarily make learning it worthwhile given a finite amount of time to invest. Do Elixir's ideas improve your thinking when working on other languages? Are Elixir deve
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by thunky 4y ago
What I don't understand is how Netflix is still able to give access to Hollywood movies (new releases), but only by DVD. 10 years later, why can't Netflix or a competitor work out a deal to do the same thing but streaming instead
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by thunky 4y ago
> For example, imagine if ChatGPT gets so good that it can replace humans in nearly every type of writing -- we'll be drowned in AI writing and most writers will be out of a job. The real problem here isn't the tech. It's
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by thunky 4y ago
> Yes, they should. Who suggested otherwise? Must have been the pointy-haired guy that hijacked your account to defend periodic formal self reviews.
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by thunky 4y ago
> Because some managers and employees want to work on career development that might benefit you Then they should be doing that throughout the year because it's part of their actual job. Not once per year by mandate via a stupid ques
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by thunky 4y ago
On the https://vitejs.dev/guide/why.html page Parcel is mentioned under "The problems" section, suggesting that Vite improves on Parcel. Yet in the https://vitejs.dev/guide/comparisons.ht
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by thunky 4y ago
> Perhaps if you spend most of your time trying to produce slides, designs, etc., freeing up some of that time for more high value activities is not such a bad thing Maybe, but if doing that was my full time job then I would instantly fe
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by thunky 4y ago
> Buy a stock so that you keep holding it for 10 years is good advice Not really. Individual stocks are too risky for casual investors. Buy and hold the entire market instead.
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by thunky 4y ago
> Amazon doesn't accept cash. Is cash not money? Cash is one form of USD, which is money. In case you're wondering, a cash-only business accepts money too.
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by thunky 4y ago
This is the right answer. Scratching my head as to why devs are buying up these new macs knowing up front that they will not work well for the job they were bought for. Why not make it easier for yourself and have your dev machine match up
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by thunky 4y ago
> Seems like plenty of other much higher impact places to try to get leverage on the problems of unsafe software, like encouraging and improving safe systems programming languages or retrofitting / improving safety systems for legac
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by thunky 4y ago
> If you want to be a thinker, you have to write. > Start a blog! Posting to HN counts as writing, too.
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by thunky 4y ago
I personally think the goal of autograph.io is "to take advantage of unsophisticated investors", which is part of the allegation against him wrt FTX. He does this by using his celebrity power, as well as bringing in other big athl
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by thunky 4y ago
You're probably right. But Tom Brady owns his own crypto/nft scam company (autograph.io), so I wouldn't be surprised if he knew it was a money grab. I also won't be surprised if he faces charges for it down the road.
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by thunky 4y ago
Congress members also agree with the cynical take. Quote from elizabethwarren.com: I will break the NRA’s stranglehold on Congress by passing sweeping anti-corruption legislation and eliminating the filibuster so that our nation can no lon
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by thunky 4y ago
> Programming languages should not be overly opinionated in formatting I think gofmt, python black, etc have demonstrated that it's usually better to have a single standard then it is to fight endlessly about these details.
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by thunky 4y ago
That makes sense, so I just picked another commit at random without a -rc tag: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c60c152230828825c06... The fix is to change && to || This seems like the
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by thunky 4y ago
> Do you really need tests for the read(2) syscall when Linux is running on a billion devices, and that syscall is called some 10^12 times per second globally? Maybe not, but isn't it true that any new code that is being added to
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by thunky 4y ago
Yes: NFTs Less than a year ago NFTs had about as many daily transactions. Since then volume is down 97%+ and prices have collapsed, well on their way to the correct value of $0. IMO bitcoin will go the same way. The market is just more entr
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by thunky 4y ago
I agree with you here. But what you are describing still isn't good enough for a lot of people, because even though `--first-parent` hides the noise it's still there and just knowing there's a mess under the rug is enough to
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by thunky 4y ago
> A long lived feature branch is not a problem if you rebase it to master often. Yes but if it's a shared branch then you may have problems with this. The safer way is to merge from master into the branch but nobody wants to do that
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by thunky 4y ago
> I despair about long-lived git feature branches and pull requests This comes up a lot - multiple people on this thread have even said that it's a bad idea to have a long running feature branch. This seems like a case of the tool i
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by thunky 4y ago
This is spot on. In addition to giving feedback, I think it's also important to ask people for their opinions regularly. This gives the employee the sense that they are valued and that what they are doing matters. This is the fuel that
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by thunky 4y ago
A home in a location with a median price of $1,497,000 is not a "typical" home.
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by thunky 4y ago
gold is accessible to everyone too
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by thunky 4y ago
Some quotes about bitcoin from Jack Mallers in the video: - "it's an abritrage on the trend" (multiple times) - "humanity really found it's stride in inventing bitcoin" - "we made and engineered th

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