aahortwwy

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by aahortwwy 4y ago
At the very least we would've had the build tooling and infrastructure to support containers from the get-go, rather than having to migrate from zips to containers. Speculative, but had we used containers from the start we would likely
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
No, I'm not talking about "preference". People don't "prefer" to live paycheck-to-paycheck, with any meager savings they're able to accumulate being consumed by unplanned expenses until they're eventu
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Not all places do this; the place I currently work only rewards leaders for "impact" and people have the option of whether to take on leadership responsibilities. Places that reward non-leaders for impact are doing so intentionall
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> If petrol were 10x the current price, you wouldn't commute that distance. You'd move or get a different job. This doesn't happen in practice. Instead, people get stuck in poverty traps.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
We've been using a serverless stack on AWS for a while (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SQS, RDS) and it's been a good experience overall. I can't recommend Serverless Framework. The abstractions are leaky and it's quite opinio
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Also related: the effect of exposure to pro-ana communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-ana#Effect
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> All the kids that I knew who did this have grown up to be completely normal adults. Some kids did this and didn't grow up, because someone in their online community committed suicide and that prompted them to do the same. This is
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> No one seems to know how to get interviews right. Plenty of people do, but good interview processes are highly context-dependent and not trivially transferable. And most companies just cargo-cult something associated with a name bran
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
It's not capitalism, it's managerialism.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> Comments on Workplace, the company’s internal version of Facebook for employees, came flying in. “This is war-time, we need a war-time CEO,” one wrote. “Beast mode activated,” a second employee posted. > Others couldn’t believe what
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> Social media giant Facebook has seen its daily active users (DAUs) drop for the first time in its 18-year history. > Facebook's owner Meta Platforms says DAUs fell to 1.929bn in the three months to the end of December [2021], c
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
All dependencies should be injected (and possibly wrapped with custom interfaces, if they're libraries). All globals should be configurable (most codebases I've seen have a ton of hidden globals). All side effects should be isolat
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Value selling isn't an option for most employees. Try it in a typical salary negotiation and you'll get funny looks followed by a repeat of their standard offer.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> If I don't think the change is worth it or the vulnerability is relevant, I can go to the Snyk site and mark a vulnerability to be ignored, or even tell it to ignore it for a month or whatever. I am currently fighting with our sec
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Most people read these things because it feels good to read them, not because it provides any lasting benefit. It makes sense that these productivity entertainment books include the simplest, least controversial ideas only. Anything else wo
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Maybe you just downloaded a bunch of files into your cwd and now you're going to run a script to process them.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> "Chemical imbalance" isn't actually taught as the root cause of depression. The article contradicts this.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
If you have a broken arm a cast can be helpful during the healing process, but a cast does not heal a broken arm.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Triple_p...
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
You don't think so? I worry that it will be very effective, that it will be passively accepted by the public, and that we will see widespread injustice as a result.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
That doesn't really matter. The point Turnbull was making is something along these lines: https://xkcd.com/538/ No, they can't change the laws of mathematics to make all encryption have a government backdoor.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
"Well, the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia." - Malcolm Turnbull, Former Australian
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Minecraft, Terraria, Rust, ARK, Arma, Chivalry, Valheim, Factorio, most Valve games.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
You're absolutely right. Most organizations do a completely hopeless job of implementing compliance sensibly. Those responsible for compliance tend to choose a solution that's scalable for them with zero regard for the inefficie
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
They are referring to software structure and decomposition. This is a hard problem that spans architectures; you can have a poorly factored microservice architecture, just as you can have a poorly factored monolith. These two posts from Sho
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Nah, depositors should just use smart contracts to ensure they don't get screwed. /s
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Scleral lenses are just contact lenses that sit on the sclera. They exist and are used for vision correction by people with certain eye conditions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleral_lens Mojo’s lenses do have a s
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
Discrete Mathematics with Applications by Epp. Chapters 5, 7, 10. Fundamentals of Database Systems by Elmasri & Navathe. Part 2.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
The union I was in most recently had dedicated time for discussing and voting on matters important to members, and scheduled negotiations between our chosen representatives and our employer. I preferred that to being distracted at work.
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by aahortwwy 4y ago
> If you don’t want that for yourself, then you can stick to sports and weather. That’s fine too! If I had a private office and didn't have to block out background conversation with noise-cancelling headphones and loud music that wo

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