alltheworlds

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by alltheworlds 4y ago
I worked as a barman, a shelf stacker, a fruit picker, a stock picker (I mean the guy at the back of the warehouse stacking trolleys with orders) before I transitioned to software. I was on minimum wage. I wasn't exploited, it was a me
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
> This leads to everyone getting poorer, as there are no more immigrants to exploit. I'm an immigrant to the UK. No-one exploited me. I had a choice of lots of countries to go to (EU passport) and chose the UK voluntarily.
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
> For those not in the know, this is the favorite living/gathering place of London's Champagne socialists. Are you a real socialist as opposed to champagne socialist? Could you explain the different?
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
A configuration management system. Actually I didn't build it, but have used different implementations at every job. Why can't this just be a commodity? It's not exactly doing anything very different in each case.
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
I believe I remember reading about that in the book "The Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose back in the late 90s. It was something that has stuck with me ever since, even though I didn't follow up on the AI route.
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
> I feel the covid fearmongering by governments, medical companies, medical authorities, and the media has made public discourse in general (let alone specifically medical) even more prohibitive. The fact that you still call it "fea
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
sigh Do you really think this or are you just projecting elitism?
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
This is our company. Frankly, I don't agree with this approach. We're a hedge fund that uses Java for low latency trading systems. Someone pushed for Rust to be used for a new project, because they wanted to use it, and now we hav
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
I write low latency Java for a living (usual finance type stuff). Our fund has started to use some Rust but I've not yet delved. I'm still trying to resolve whether it will be worth my time to do so. I'm one of those unusual
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
As someone who hasn't looked at Rust, reading all this makes me never want to. Am I missing something? Is it actually easier to reason about the language than it feels like from reading this text?
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
> In a law firm, the partners call the shots and the rest of the staff is there to support them. In tech companies, the structure is inverted. The engineers are at the bottom of the power hierarchy, even though it's the engineers th
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
Pay them more and you won't struggle.
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
Please could you link that aritcle?
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
> Here in Israel with proportional representation, every small party has outsized power since every one of them has enough power to vote down the current government by joining hands with the opposition. As a result, decisions that are un
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
> Those hospitals are understaffed because of extraordinary levels of foreign immigration (globalism) Rubbish. The rest of your post is just as bad.
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by alltheworlds 4y ago
Good luck with that. We are now mostly a remote company but we still pay top rates for the best employees, some of whom like to come in to the office every day, some work from home 50% of the time, some come in one day a week and some work