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> just because we think we have ways, doesn't mean that they're good ways Evolution does work. Assuming people are free to try everything out, usually the strategies that become the norm are the strategies that work better tha
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> Sure I know that a lot of the DE&I stuff is frustrating for people. It's also inherently unfair, that's why nobody likes it, I have seen it first hand that it just leads to a few token hires, with no real change. People
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I feel that the main issue with Jira is that it is a victim of its own success the same way Windows was, when it was built it fulfilled the needs of the time, however time did not stand still and instead of refining what they had, they kept
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> It generates amazing reports, fantastic predictions, fancy charts, great managerial tooling, makes imposing processes easier, has robust integrations, etc., and that’s why most managers I’ve spoken to really enjoy Jira, while on-the-
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4y ago
A while ago I started using the AWS CDK and never looked back, I can write all the infrastructure code in a real programming language with auto complete and proper IDE support, no more hacky YAML syntax for simple if statements! Issue with
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> the economics of renewables is getting more compelling day by day. It's actually not getting much better, let's assume that we have multiple clean energy sources that can sustain our demands and I'll explain why I don&#
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> The US has long enough told the EU, specifically Germany, to ditch Russian gas That's kind of like telling the US to ditch China for manufacturing. It would make sense, it's just easier said than done. The issue is that it s
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Ukraine has increased its coal mining because it's going to burn it and it will give Poland some as well. In Hungary Mr Orbán came up with the genius idea of burning wood. I would love to live in the world of renewables, but reality is
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> I'm downvoting you for attacking a straw-man. It's not that I care, but you should be downvoting spam, not people who have different takes. I'm also puzzled how is it a strawman if I was quoting it. > 1) the capacity
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> I'll take the US state department over Russia any day, thank you. The value of the Euro disagrees.
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> Europe to become so dependent on a single hostile country for energy. Name peaceful countries that have the capacity for energy export at that scale to Europe.
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Don't believe this to be a gender problem. It's only difficult if you don't know or care about the person enough. If you know someone well, and have meaningful conversations with them, you'll know the what would be the a
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If you are lonely because you aren't going into an office every day, you have issues in your life. > significant drop in weak bonds which significantly shrinks one’s social networks The "social network" is overrated, one g
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This is extremely irresponsible, how are you supposed to make a call if you have an emergency? People are going to die. The EU needs to recognise the situation: this is not working, 15% of Ukraine is now part of Russia despite all the NATO
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Google is a foreign company commanded by US interests, why would a UK citizen trust them? When the police rapidly catch murderers, you really get to appreciate the usefulness of those CCTV cameras. The anti-encryption attitude is mainly a T
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That's not entirely true here. Short term rental apartments can be a lot cheaper than a hotel because if you are doing it right, you can provide the same service with less staff. Hotels can become cheaper by removing some of the servic
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As a host I feel that AirBnB is not doing enough to solve the bad guest problem. AirCover is a joke and guests are still able to leave revenge reviews, even after it was established the guest indeed did bad things. I will be looking at alte
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As a European, I have trouble understanding why people in the USA, do not feel the need to be able to just walk to get a few missing groceries, a drink or a bite. I used to get upset when I lived in a place where the nearest 24/7 was m
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> You could spend less than 18 x AWS cost You can, but I'm sure you are making a tradeoff to achieve that, sure that trade off might be worth it for your use case, but I seriously doubt you could get exactly the same thing you get
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> You need to be triply redundant on 3 availability zones, (3x) both with the RDS db cluster and app containers (2x) . And then have separate dev/staging/prod envs (3x). That's 18x. Don't believe this has anything to
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> cost of an RDS instance If RDS is expensive, you can always spin up your own DB deployment, you can use an EC2 instance, or you can just run it via ECS or EKS. You buy those beefy servers, and where do you put them? you need a data ce
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Feels like a downgrade to add the MagSafe charger, maybe if they would have been practical about it and added it to the opposite side and re-assured everyone that charging through USB-C is just as good. Feels like a cash grab to get people
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The company you work for is not your family, you are just an NPC to them, they will get rid of you in a heartbeat as soon as it suits their interest, because the single purpose of a company is to make money, everything else is bullshit, you
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I believe that the cause is the following: IT has evolved far too quickly for education to pick up and education itself is resistant to change for both good and bad reasons, we cannot change the system every year and expect grades to be com
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> Then why require long time in school and residency for doctors? A boot camp should be enough. Nurses don't go though the same system, what they go through is closer to a bootcamp. > No, you don't need any degree to use Ex
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I have seen plenty of bad code monkeys who had high grades, the idea that the current 'high standards' give us better programmers is unfounded. The issue is that modifying a Wordpress theme is just as much of a job as optimizing a
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I have been pushing Ubuntu on the server, even in places where CentOS was more popular and I was pushing it in the container world as well. When they started forcing snaps, I could no longer use it for containers, therefore I started abando
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We can also trade bugs as NFTs and it wouldn't even be the most ridiculous use of NFTs.
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If I would have my way, I would allow all offensive speech, however if a society wants to be policed, I'd rather it be done by a court of the state and not by private companies because there is a higher chance of things being fair if i
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If you believe that people should be punished for being offensive, like making racist remarks, then I don't understand your issue here. Just imagine if the deceased guy was your grandpa or someone you care about a lot, would you not fe
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