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by x87678r 6y ago
Europe has cap of 0.3%, Australia is 0.5% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union
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by x87678r 6y ago
I was amazed looking on Amazon you can get ring lights for $20 bucks dedicated for phones, webcams etc. Makes a huge difference. For me though its the audio. I hate listening to people on speaker so much. Get a headset or at least a good mi
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by x87678r 6y ago
> Credit card Payment processing amounts to a 3% tax on a majority of transactions Only in America. Most other countries have this under control. > In general, crypto technology is valuable for it's ability to replace capricious
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by x87678r 6y ago
I completely agree but then Tesla came along.
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by x87678r 6y ago
NYT is still a notch above "You wont believe the history..." or "Your jaw will drop when you find out about...", but they need some hook to make you curious.
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by x87678r 6y ago
I bought a new SLR body probably every 5 years for the last 40. My newest smartphones are so good I've given up. Yes if you want crisp incredible detail, or if its your wedding you need an SLR, but no other reason.
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by x87678r 6y ago
Uncle Roger loves MSG https://youtu.be/k9bJXXCmCYM?t=128 . Get some, it makes everything taste great.
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by x87678r 6y ago
Its not just arts. Its a winner take all in most industries globally now. Lots of huge corps dominate everything, not many local or even regional businesses.
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by x87678r 6y ago
I agree it isn't about the language features, but designs have changed a lot. 2nd ed could be great - thanks, I'll try to get a copy when the price settles down a bit.
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by x87678r 6y ago
I wish we had a new Design Patterns book in 2020. GoF book is well obsolete, since then OO has faded, JS & Python are the the most common tools, even Java is unrecognizable with Lambdas and functional features everywhere. Meanwhile vast
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by x87678r 6y ago
30 years ago there were loads of companies making CPUs, most of them have disappeared.
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by x87678r 6y ago
Thanks, I tried airflow before and gave up because it was more complex to set up than I hoped but will try again with 2.0
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by x87678r 6y ago
I'm curious about big outages like this in big internet corps. Does anyone know if SREs in Europe fixed the problem or it relied on people in Mountain View? When an outage this big hits do devs get involved? I've worked as an SRE
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by x87678r 6y ago
I kinda feel if kids had a 20 inch black and white tube tv with no streaming/dvr/games they'd be a lot more active too. Fast food is way too cheap, when I was growing up it was a special treat when you were on vacation, now i
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by x87678r 6y ago
I'm too practical, to me a fancy expensive looking card is just a fraud magnet.
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by x87678r 6y ago
Every corporate job I've worked at had autosys or control-m to schedule linked jobs - not just data stuff. Would be good to replace those systems.
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by x87678r 6y ago
dagster
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by x87678r 6y ago
> "Implemented and executed a revolutionary vertical & dynamic cyber and security strategy at SolarWinds saving the business $xxx" That's pretty much on every dev's resume as well, despite their buggy project get
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by x87678r 6y ago
You're lucky, my best moments were in my 20s, my best paid were 30s, and now its just downhill everywhere. :)
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by x87678r 6y ago
Too long to read the whole thing, but the first section is one of the most amazingly accurate insights I've seen in a long time.
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by x87678r 6y ago
You're not wrong but the article is still a 9th gen laptop i9. A desktop i9 is quicker - https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-9880H-vs... .
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by x87678r 6y ago
Anyone know if M1 is just a small first step and we're going to see big uptick in performance from here - or have we seen the big leap and we're back to 10% improvement a year from now on.
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by x87678r 6y ago
The good thing about gold is if/when people decide its no longer a good store of value, you can still use it, for jewellery or connectors etc. BTC is just goes poof.
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by x87678r 6y ago
> Why would I spend something that will be worth a lot more 5 years from now, while the fiat currency in my pocket loses value every week? Everything is predicated on it going up in value. If it always goes up why would anyone ever sell?
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by x87678r 6y ago
Not sure if people should be worried about possible plastic they might be eating or the loads of junk food they're stuffing themselves with every day.
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by x87678r 6y ago
This is where free & opensource has really changed the world. Its not buy vs build any more its download vs buy vs build and its best to use a free package that is out there. Its incredible what is available now, in the future I wonder
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by x87678r 6y ago
Good point on the consoles. I'm just thinking about my office and seeing thousands of new PCs bought every year. We're now getting more terminals and virtualized PCs running on servers. There isn't much reason to stay x86.
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by x87678r 6y ago
I think MS is in trouble. Nearly everyone's home computer just runs Chrome now. Work PCs are going the same direction. Even developers can probably rely on a SSH and RDP to a server running anything. Android tablets are selling for abo
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by x87678r 6y ago
I like Bing, I'm not avoiding Google to get privacy, just get some competition.
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by x87678r 6y ago
An important reason London is always better than Frankfurt & Amsterdam at least is that its a big city and the city needs literally hundreds of thousands of skilled people. The fascinating thing is that is changing, computerization is r

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