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by torton 11mo ago
"The people in the middle of the bell curve face a dramatically less promising future than the tail end" is also the key message of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_Is_Over , 13 years ago.
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by torton 11mo ago
Dropping in popularity equals dropping in relevance. When more people get their information calories from sources that are not books, what the books say becomes less relevant.
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by torton 11mo ago
This is one of key points of _Team Topologies_ ( https://teamtopologies.com , also a book). Close collaboration between teams saps resources from both and should be either time-limited (a shared project, and then step back) or sco
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by torton 11mo ago
As a personal Wise customer, I have a small issue with a name mismatch. It happens every time, I need to submit extra documentation every time, and when I raise the issue with support I get the same response every time - they got the docume
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by torton 1y ago
Books are rapidly dropping in relevance. It could certainly be that that's exactly how this went down a decade ago, but I'd be willing to bet on Amazon stipulating "no DRM to be on Amazon" (not just Kindle; bundle all th
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by torton 1y ago
US is the outlier. Canadian tech salaries are much higher than European, and when working remotely for a US company the compensation overlaps the US salary bands very substantially. However the ceiling in the US is so much higher that it st
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by torton 1y ago
"In recent months, both broadcasters have announced their intent to buy or sell local TV assets — Nexstar is in the process of effectuating a $6 billion merger with peer broadcaster TEGNA, and Sinclair is executing on a mixture of stat
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by torton 1y ago
They can leave a voicemail.
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by torton 1y ago
Now available on BART and coming to other Bay Area transit agencies. https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/contactless-payments....
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by torton 1y ago
Not worth your time. In most cases, these would be nominally compliant with CAN-SPAM, and if you ask you will be removed from their list. It's simply easier (and helps others) to block and report as spam.
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by torton 1y ago
A simple, open-source spam filtering approach gets rid of 99.99% of spam. My total filtered email volume in a day is in the single to low double digits in the personal account and double digits at work. This is very much in range for LLM fi
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by torton 1y ago
Regular spam isn't really a problem. For work email, various salespeople reaching out to sell things, often things completely unrelated to my job title, are highly annoying. I report all of them to spam to Google and block their emails
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by torton 1y ago
Grand Theft Auto 5 sold over 200 million copies, and military/crime/shooter games have always been incredibly popular. Yet crime has been decreasing over the past few decades in the United States, where both cars and guns are easi
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by torton 1y ago
This is rather likely to get worse. Reading comprehension is declining. Emphasis on individual "impact" and deadline pressure, common at both premiere companies and "non-premiere" companies mindlessly copying the former,
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by torton 1y ago
Several North American older systems go down to 10-11 meters, although perhaps the tightest curves are getting upgraded over time: LRT systems on which the existing minimum curve radius falls below 15 meters include: • Boston—10 m (33 ft) a
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by torton 1y ago
Might have been a retelling of https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-fakers , which is only about two months old. > "The candidate did not speak Serbian, despite graduating from the University of Kraguje
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by torton 1y ago
As we learned from COVID-19, manufacturers really don't like building new factories or even changing the tooling to support a different kind of product (such as commercial vs household toilet paper) for a short-lived surge in demand. A
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by torton 2y ago
1930's Gulags, in other words. The productivity of the unwilling and unskilled workforce, as well as the quality of their output, has been horrendous. The only thing the camps were good at were rapidly reducing the numbers of "und
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by torton 2y ago
"A Jewish man goes into the synagogue and prays. "O Lord, you know the mess I'm in, please let me win the lottery." The next week, he's back again, and this time he's complaining. "O Lord, didn't you
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by torton 2y ago
The best way to tackle "Security Questions" is to generate a passphrase, store in your password manager, and use that for the answer. In the unlikely event you ever need to recover your account with the Security Answer, it's
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by torton 2y ago
Woot has licenses for sale every so often. About $30 for the 2021 version the last time I noticed.
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by torton 2y ago
When I used to run my own email, .top and .xyz received an automatic -10 on spam evaluation. I can't remember a single legitimate website that I actually used and would have had an account on from these TLDs; all I ever saw was spam.
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by torton 2y ago
“We want to use one standard Helm chart for all applications but then we need it to support all possible variations and use cases across the whole company”
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by torton 2y ago
CarMax / Carvana earn money on promising and delivering a better buying experience. They have other issues (such as missing simple maintenance items and overpricing their extended warranties) but the buying process is shockingly straig
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by torton 3y ago
It is in fact very instructive, given that email is an open federated protocol but it doesn’t matter because the industry has centralized. We now have several new social networks based on the ideas of open protocols and federation. They are
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by torton 3y ago
It’s not “the whole world” moderating you, it’s more likely than not specifically Google. In my age and peer group, personal usage of GMail is 98%+, professional usage of GMail is 50%+. Not delivering to GMail is not an option, especially s
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by torton 3y ago
Meh, as in this doesn’t feel like it really matters. Like other commenters, there are exceptionally few situations when I find myself just reading the commit log, so the claimed psychological advantage appears moot in the context of the com
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by torton 3y ago
No comment on best places to raise kids, although I firmly believe a city (even a smaller one) would stimulate their development much more than a car dependent suburb. Ask for no less than 200, preferably 250+ base. Live close to work, tran
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by torton 3y ago
I’m guessing you haven’t served. The front line military brings its own power, exactly portable gas/diesel generators, to run everything. If there is a usable power line with a transformer to a usable voltage and it hasn’t been yet dam
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by torton 3y ago
> and in general this site also has a massive trend of people who are losing a debate leaning in to rules-lawyering as a means of suppressing disagreement etc. Is this specific to or more prevalent on this site though? Seems like common

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