BaronVonSteuben

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by BaronVonSteuben 2y ago
I don't agree. "Diversity" has a commonly accepted meaning which in the US at least, means everything except white men. Female or non-white are "diversity." A great example are the statements and articles from 202
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by BaronVonSteuben 2y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting idea. We have developers in the US, Europe, and South America. I have no idea what the median incomes are (or how the salary bands were calculated) but I'll check and see if there are enough consist
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Ask HN: Should you include salary range on an international job post?
3 points by BaronVonSteuben 2y ago|4 comments
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by BaronVonSteuben 2y ago
For those of us pain patients who had their opioid-based medication taken "because of the opioid epidemic" (even though we did nothing wrong and had been stable for many years or even decades) and were just told to "use canna
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by BaronVonSteuben 3y ago
Wow, I'm really disappointed by that in Next.js. I love the product, and I'm sure they're being ethical about what they collect and how they track it, but I deploy this on my production servers. The idea of them doing stuff
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The Rubyist's Survival Guide to Elixir and Phoenix(youtube.com)
8 points by BaronVonSteuben 3y ago|0 comments
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
What's the scene like for music piracy nowadays? It seems like it was mostly gone. I've looked in a few different places and finding music released in the last 10 years is somewhat difficult. Do you just have to know where to l
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
I've made this argument to many progressive friends, and nearly all of them replied with a variant of "you're 'bothsides'ing this" which apparently is supposed to mean your argument is invalid. That then leads
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Won't somebody please think of the children??
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
> I'd say it's more of an act of civil disobedience meant to draw attention to the casually corrupt practices of the NYPD. Didn't the driver call the police though?
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
In this particular case I agree with you. But how would you write this into a law that citizens and police can reference to determine whether a particular action is ok or not?
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
I'm a social ignoramus so wondering: is the cyclist in this case being a "Karen"? I have little sympathy for the driver, but it does seem like the cyclist should have reported the driver to the police rather than taking the
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. If you haven't tried it, Alprazolam (Xanax) has been a miracle for panic attacks, although these days it's pretty difficult to get from doctors. Modern American society seems to have decided that
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
If you are willing to take anti-depressants, definitely go. low testosterone though, is something many men (including me) have, but practically no doctor is willing to treat. They have one enormous range of "normal" that is calcu
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
It sounds stupid, but seriously dairy causes a lot of issues for people. I hit rock bottom several years ago and did an elimination diet and found a few things I need to avoid, but the biggest one is dairy. If I accidentally eat some dairy
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Rabbit is definitely interesting. How is the maintenance/management on RabittMQ? Is it comparable to say a Postgres instance, or is it more or less?
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Oh interesting, no I don't have a source for that. Just something I've read a bunch of times. Probably falls into the "if you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes true" (although I don't know that there was nefar
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
What do people use as an alternative to SQS? I've had Kafka mentioned a few times but that's way heavier/more complicated than I need. Just a simple queue is perfect, and SQS' API is gloriously simple.
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Interesting, I don't think I've noticed the same criticism for Brave. But many times when it has come up in discussions at work, people will say they don't want to use it and don't trust it because Brendan Eich is behin
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Oh absolutely. The reason the Boston Tea Party is celebrated is because their side won the war. Had the British won, it would have been one of the many wicked/evil "rebellions" against the King that got crushed. But I'
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
I don't think it's cynical at all, I think it's just accepting reality. Our advanced consciousness is just a very thin layer of abstraction on top of the same brain/mind that powers many other animals. Some of the best
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
> If you have the power to do something and you don't, that's taking a side. You either oppose something or you enable it. At least own that. If you're saying you're neutral, you either agree with the unpopular side
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Perhaps I'm overthinking this, but open source malware is absolutely not new. It's been around basically as long as the internet has (and I mean pre-www). You could even argue that it pre-exists the internet since phone phreaker
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Yes but pointing out that the emperor has no clothes is mean, so we need to pretend not to notice. Despite our modern day knowledge that most human behavior is almost entirely incentive-based (the hard part is identifying the incentive), w
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
The Svelte banner looks ok on desktop, but yeah seriously problematic on mobile. I think this is an outgrowth of the "use whatever power you have to push for change" culture. It has been highly effective in the past, particularly
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Thanks for the perspective and the laugh. It's very easy to see a trend that isn't there in an aberration.
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
I think the main problem is that we are increasingly operating with different definitions of "dick move." To many people, the idea that a small business owner would have their store burned to the ground because someone else in the
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Either you or I misread GP, because I don't see any disagreement. GP points out that FLOSS movement was and is inclusive by design, while this modern development is exclusive by design against people who disagree with the person'
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Once your hard drive is wiped, you're supposed to automatically realize it must be a legitimate open source developer protesting the war, rather than some other type of malware. Then, rather than the natural human instinct to blame th
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by BaronVonSteuben 4y ago
Indeed, by this logic, the Unabomber was a pretty effective "protester."

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