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by ufmace 6y ago
This reminds me of a few passages in the SSC post on IRBs[0]. Main point is that IRBs were created in response to some highly unethical and harmful "studies" being carried out by institutions thought of as top-tier. Now they are c
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by ufmace 6y ago
Impossible to say in general. It depends on how they got here, what kind of beings they are, what their intentions are, etc. Could be ignore, cooperate, bend over and kiss your ass goodbye, or any number of other things.
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by ufmace 6y ago
I use them heavily for work. IMO, they're pretty well designed for managing large numbers of servers with sophisticated coordination and management systems. If you just wanna run a single server, it's kind of ridiculously over-com
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by ufmace 6y ago
I thought of this when I first read the article title, and I think it's a decent compromise that mostly addresses the concerns in the other comments. Supporting truly arbitrary SQL seems too high-risk to allow from the front-end. Postg
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by ufmace 6y ago
> My Pet Peeve: Some people will interrupt others conversationally, and it's not nice. Conversation should be back/forth, not interrupting. You can always say "Let me finish my thought first". You can also have defaul
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by ufmace 6y ago
The NATO part seems curious. I was under the impression that NATO does not generally accept membership from nations that don't currently control their claimed territory, and that part of the reason Russia seems to like biting off small
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by ufmace 6y ago
This post is more notable for what it doesn't say than what it says. I see a lot of words that don't amount to much besides PR fluff. I don't see much about how to maintain the viability of the only independent browser engine
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by ufmace 6y ago
This sort of thing seems more like a self-reinforcing loop than something to be assumed innately. They write articles with a clear political slant that comes through strongly on some subjects. Potential readers who don't like that slan
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's rather funny how this article is framed. The unionization side lost the vote, which tends to imply that they are less popular. Despite that, all of the quotes are from people who supported the unionization. They have "a worke
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by ufmace 6y ago
To be clear, there definitely should be unit tests run via a CI system. That's a minimum bar instead of a cure-all though. What checks that there are enough unit tests to cover appropriate cases, but not so many as to be noisy or exces
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm currently at a place with a culture of thorough code reviews. IMO, it entirely depends on the people and the culture. It's on the reviewer to actually thoroughly review the code and ensure it does what it's supposed to do
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by ufmace 6y ago
The marketing side is pretty impressive, but it seems like the logistics side might be even more impressive. I'm not sure how they manage this, but it's the only consumer product that seems to be virtually impossible to purchase i
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by ufmace 6y ago
I see it as a kind of trade-off. Good GUI apps do make it much easier for commands to be discoverable to new users of that application. What they sacrifice is generally smooth and rapid keyboard control and more sophisticated composable com
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by ufmace 6y ago
I use Vim for basically everything too. I do find it a bit irritating that most GUI editors do tabs within splits, instead of splits within tabs as Vim does it. I guess the behavior of tabs within splits is baked into most GUI APIs and fram
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by ufmace 6y ago
Probably the actual cost will require an army of accountants and lawyers at a dozen major logistics corporations arguing with each other for months to even try to compute. I doubt us regular uninvolved people will ever get a "real&quot
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by ufmace 6y ago
I mostly try to avoid places with a lot of that, though it still feels like it seeps through anyways sometimes. /u/fastball's link is a gold mine of that stuff though. Most recent example outside of Reddit subs catering to ne
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by ufmace 6y ago
> An important part of any utopia, presumably, is freedom. While probably no-one’s dying of an overdose (they can treat that!) it’s made fairly clear that a lot of people don’t make optimal choices with that freedom. Well perhaps so. But
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by ufmace 6y ago
There's nothing hypothetical or straw-man about his comment. If you surf around english-language forums where the new breed of feminist hangs out, you'll see dozens of posts pretty much exactly like that, all highly liked/upv
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by ufmace 6y ago
I've read all of the Culture novels and do enjoy them. However, I can recognize it as a single-person utopia, which IMO makes it inherently unrealistic. I mean that it's a utopia which exists entirely in the mind of one man. That
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm fairly skeptical of cryptocurrency hype personally, but if you want to invest 6 figure sums in a startup company, that's a legal agreement, and you're going to be giving a lot more personal information than that to the en
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by ufmace 6y ago
Yeah it may be valid, barring careful consideration of the exact situation. My canonical example is a web server. In the context of handling a web request, never unwrap, because a web server should never die no matter what kind of weird or
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by ufmace 6y ago
Interesting perspective. I had long tended towards the viewpoint of, "Jeez guys, it's just an RSS reader, there's 50 better ones now, why do we have to whine about Reader getting cancelled every 5 minutes?". This is the
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by ufmace 6y ago
> Or rather, how does one avoid getting into this situation. IMO, the problem is technical debt. Most likely, in the majority of these cases, the engineers working on the system knew perfectly well that it was a mess, was very difficult
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by ufmace 6y ago
Ditto. It's crazy that once-trusted names like National Geographic are doing these kinds of things.
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by ufmace 6y ago
I've always believed that most crimes are committed more because of the thrill of it, the desire to feel like you got something extra illicitly because you're more clever and ruthless than everyone else, etc, than because of a rat
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by ufmace 6y ago
Is there like a guide somewhere telling people to bring up some specific incident every time a particular UnPerson's name is brought up? I swear there's a few dozen people for which, as soon as their name is mentioned, a dozen gre
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by ufmace 6y ago
> async are broken by design That's, uh, a rather bold assertion. Perhaps you could elaborate on why you feel it's "broken by design"? I've never heard anyone take that position at all, much less make an implied
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by ufmace 6y ago
I gather the actual site is a static files site, and Pandoc is the tool that translates whatever format you're writing them in to the final HTML. So then your site docker image would just contain a server, Nginx or something, and a dir
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by ufmace 6y ago
I don't really know anything about Kubernetes either. I've been using Ansible myself for my projects, though they're all single servers. I get the idea that Kubernetes uses Docker heavily, and that you don't understand D
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by ufmace 6y ago
> I'm fairly certain virtually every newspaper on this planet will gladly give someone who is subject of criticism a page to respond Are you familiar with the James Bennet / Tom Cotton incident at the New York Times? The self-p

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