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by varjag 1y ago
Maybe Putin's 2007 Munich speech and 2008 Russian war with Georgia had something to do with that.
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by varjag 1y ago
It is hard to overstate how influential IRC have been in my life. I met my best friend on IRC in 1999. He found his wife on IRC a few years later. We followed the towers collapse on 9/11 over IRC in a blizzard of all-caps screams and l
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by varjag 1y ago
TTY interfaces initially were teletypes on comms links.
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by varjag 1y ago
Hell, do you even know if SpaceX or Tesla are even using an agile methodology for their system development? What I've been saying is methodology is mostly irrelevant, not that waterfall is specifically better than agile. Talent wins
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by varjag 1y ago
My takeaway from observing different teams over years is the talent by a huge margin is the most important component. Throw a team of A performers together and it really doesn't matter what process you make them jump through. This is h
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by varjag 1y ago
Right, the employee with unlimited spend would want to sit in a used chair.
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by varjag 1y ago
Fraud is also used colloquially and it doesn't seem we're in a court of justice rn.
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by varjag 1y ago
Clearly we're on the way to a la carte immortality.
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by varjag 1y ago
With an employer the size of Meta people would get the clue fairly quick - with inevitable public backlash.
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by varjag 1y ago
Microsoft was tearing apart competitors (many of whom used cubicles for the lack of open landscape trend then) for good first couple decades. Reason they were sidelined by GOOG is being oblivious to the Web. Which is honestly more a leaders
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by varjag 1y ago
With a really good ballpoint there's no difference. Saying this as someone who had to use fountain pens throughout the school. I now been using UB-157 for years and it is entirely effortless.
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by varjag 1y ago
Wish I could upvote this twice. It's like intersectionality for evil.
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by varjag 1y ago
If you let astroturfing happen on Wikipedia grounds it'll become a piece of useless crap just like the much of the rest of Internet. If you read the report you'll learn that the promoters weren't content just with their own e
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by varjag 1y ago
They all existed within the greater (regional, national) social context. There still was freedom of movement even if at much greater cost. There were avenues for delinquents and outcasts to seek fortunes in the cities or even overseas. Ther
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by varjag 1y ago
"Europeans" is kinda broad brush. Norwegians around me had little trouble following the safety instructions. Still not sold though that the cohesion in an small, resource constrained, artificial community can hold over a few gener
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by varjag 1y ago
I mean sure but also very few of Talibs who first faced the US military had lived to see its withdrawal.
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by varjag 1y ago
Unlike Bandit, Daddy Pig didn't have to fight in War on Terror so he doesn't have to compensate.
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by varjag 1y ago
Yep. It's kind of like with gas prices: Americans, with some of the world's lowest prices complain the loudest. Which appears to point out that the maladies discussed here have less of an economic nature but more of social/ps
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by varjag 1y ago
An AI agent would never diss the work of a fellow AI agent!
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by varjag 1y ago
One would rather hope those guarding the nukes have rifles…
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by varjag 1y ago
You have to watch them do it IRL because the video feed can also be generated now.
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by varjag 1y ago
I recently had a non-technical person contest my opinion on a subtle technical issue with ChatGPT screenshots (free tier o4) attached in their email. The LLM wasn't even wrong , just that it had the answer wrapped in customary platitu
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by varjag 1y ago
Fire sensors and alarm centrals are very regulated business. This shit won't pass for one.
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by varjag 1y ago
There are videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iRE2wlZ3pg
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by varjag 1y ago
Does it bring the risk of suicide to general population baseline? And if not would you still want the affected people be responsible for hundreds of lives?
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by varjag 1y ago
See, that's the thing. Fertility rates fall globally and while you can come up with a plausible sounding explanation for each isolated case they don't cover the other nations and territories.
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by varjag 1y ago
This doesn't explain why Afghan fertility rates under Taliban are also declining.
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by varjag 1y ago
Someone had to actually write all that code and it inevitably shows up in the stats. People who work on the code most tend to know it the most. Although people in non-coding roles sometimes prefer to deny it. Sure there had so be some frequ
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by varjag 1y ago
Reportedly a portion of them were thinking so hard they did not commit anything at all.
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by varjag 1y ago
Twitter had thousands of coders, each certainly with varying cadence and style of committing. But variation goes only so much and taken in aggregate yes, the amount of commits/diff size is correlated to contributor prominence. It'

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