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Why new furniture doesn’t last long(washingtonpost.com)
80 points by williamsmj 3y ago|186 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
Prior discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36759801 Mozilla Foundation's post on the announcement: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/slack-takes-an-import...
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Slack to allow users to hide messages from specific people(slack.com)
4 points by williamsmj 3y ago|2 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
I think you're describing a symptom (popularity in data contexts) rather than a cause. If you're looking for causes, https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2017/09/15/python-is-the-fastest-... makes a good
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by williamsmj 3y ago
This article makes a good case that its takeover of the data and ML ecosystem is a symptom, but the root cause is PEP 3118: https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2017/09/15/python-is-the-fastest-... .
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Wall Street Is Fighting New York’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements(bloomberg.com)
5 points by williamsmj 3y ago|1 comments
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How Paris is preparing for the return of a hundred-year flood(thedial.world)
1 points by williamsmj 3y ago|1 comments
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Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States(fred.stlouisfed.org)
3 points by williamsmj 3y ago|2 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
> Why not? – Because coworkers need to talk to each other. There are 850,000 people on my work Slack. I do not need to talk to all of them, much less read what all of them have to say. > What's next, jumping off the daily standu
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by williamsmj 3y ago
HR's job is to protect the company, not the employee, so I would not expect them to help except in cases of literal harassment (rather than, for example, people who reduce the S/N of a large channel). And even then, self-service t
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by williamsmj 3y ago
> For Slack's primary use-case of intra-organization communications, this is completely useless and wouldn't work anyway (if you block and hide messages from a team member, how are you going to collaborate?). If there is abuse,
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by williamsmj 3y ago
Re: 1), my employer's slack has just under one million members. I do not know all of them. But in any case, why would knowing someone you interact with make you less likely to block them?
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by williamsmj 3y ago
Why do you need to be able to force people to listen to you for the internet to be "free and open"?
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Turning driverless cars into unicorns with the group ‘coning’ Cruise and Waymo(missionlocal.org)
2 points by williamsmj 3y ago|1 comments
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Gizmodo’s Io9 Published an Error-Filled AI-Generated Star Wars Article(variety.com)
3 points by williamsmj 3y ago|2 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
This is content-free gibberish, but a particular highlight for me is the promise that "we will provide an update when the work is complete" that is immediately followed by "this work will never be done".
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by williamsmj 3y ago
A CTO is responsible for failures in the technology org. A CTO who describes himself as responsible for "sysops" is specifically responsible for failures in SRE/ops. Leaders are responsible for work they didn't persona
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by williamsmj 3y ago
> why is he being attacked for a bad deployment? Because it's quite literally one of the things he's responsible for at Twitter, by his own choice and description of his role ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s
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by williamsmj 3y ago
> This is like a case study in what happens when you fire everyone except the sycophants and yes-men. The initial and biggest waves of layoffs last year were of people who hadn’t yet had a chance to demonstrate whether they were or were
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by williamsmj 3y ago
Correct, no more recent (or less public) info than that. Like I say, losing GCP could cause problems users notice, but sounds like that’s not going to happen.
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by williamsmj 3y ago
I worked there. Services running on GCP are a significant part of the internal service infra (ml platform, etc.) and it's not impossible that the abrupt loss of GCP would cause user-facing problems. The GCP spend was many, many times t
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by williamsmj 3y ago
I regained access and got rate-limited again (presumably under these new limits) within about 5-6 minutes.
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by williamsmj 3y ago
Not if they're trying to get a green card.
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by williamsmj 3y ago
Twitter.com and the associated user-facing services do not run on AWS.
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NHTSA tells auto makers to ignore Massachusetts “right to repair” law(reuters.com)
29 points by williamsmj 3y ago|6 comments
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Hyundai and Kia thefts keep rising despite security fix(apnews.com)
2 points by williamsmj 3y ago|0 comments
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The Raygun Conspiracy (1990) [video](youtube.com)
24 points by williamsmj 3y ago|3 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30343086
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Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School(propublica.org)
27 points by williamsmj 3y ago|0 comments
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Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the California desert(smh.com.au)
247 points by williamsmj 3y ago|246 comments

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