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by blurker 9mo ago
That sounds amazing. I aspire to get a setup like yours. I am on a Pixel with the stock OS and I can't stand the way Google is pushing AI into everything on my phone. I haven't switched it to Graphene OS yet because I read that th
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by blurker 1y ago
I've seen some pretty good React codebases and I've seen plenty of backend spaghetti code. In all cases it's not the tools, it's the programmers and usually it's layers and layers of people not taking the time to wr
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by blurker 1y ago
I disagree. With classes, everything was stateful (because, y'know, classes). People were doing all sorts of crazy thing with the lifecycle methods and it was always a pain to have to remember the "this scope" and bind your e
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by blurker 1y ago
Tell that to the gatekeeping engineers who think otherwise.
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by blurker 1y ago
> most great engineers will actively work with management to make sure they're not single points of failure! Sure, but that is a load bearing "great" for sure. Not every company is staffed with great, selfless engineers. I
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by blurker 3y ago
This comment really nicely captures how I feel about this. There's something to be said about good faith and knowing what the spirit of the agreement is. There are some comments here saying stuff like "these compliance forms are r
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by blurker 3y ago
Yeah I came away feeling like this was clickbait. Based on the title I expected to read something about the app stores quietly injecting telemetry in your extension or something like that. Something outside of the developer's control o
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by blurker 3y ago
Ahh as someone who has built several scraping applications, I feel their pain. It's a constant battle to keep your scraper working.
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by blurker 3y ago
Bloody shame, OpsWorks was a great service in my experience. I built a few clusters with it before Kubernetes and terraform were a thing. That said, I heard from folks at AWS that it was not well maintained and a bit of a mess behind the sc
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by blurker 3y ago
> Back when I was a junior developer, there was a smoke test in our pipeline that never passed. I recall asking, “Why is this test failing?” The Senior Developer I was pairing with answered, “Ohhh, that one, yeah it hardly ever passes.”
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by blurker 3y ago
Well yes, and many do! Most cities now have vision zero movements in part because of this.
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by blurker 3y ago
> They won't exceed speed limits. Uhh, about that... > Tesla allows self-driving cars to break speed limit, again - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/16/tesla-all...
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by blurker 3y ago
So do you think anything should be legal on the roads by default? I think there is a clear and obvious justification for why we don't let anyone drive anything on the roads: safety. Letting people test whatever they want on our roads i
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by blurker 3y ago
> as evidenced by the literally free taxi service that is just being given out to many people in SF right now. You realize that it's only free while they test and it's not going to be free forever, right? In fact, the protests
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by blurker 3y ago
One of the four commissioners (John Reynolds) of the California Public Utilities Commission who voted to approve the expansion previously worked at Cruise [1]. I'm not sure about the others' backgrounds, but that's already 25
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by blurker 3y ago
Looks like oil industry astroturfing [1] to me. The group that published this (GWPF) is basically an anthropogenic climate change denying lobby group that refuses to reveal its funding sources [2]. Yeah, color me skeptical about their publi
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by blurker 3y ago
It's surprisingly difficult to separate salt from water to the point that it's drinkable. That difficulty translates to it being very costly and that cost is so prohibitive that most places will choose another option. Like even bu
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by blurker 4y ago
You're referring to [this]( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3949367_The_evolved... ) Which was also really cool! > As with Thompson's FPGA exploiting some subtle physical properties of the device, L
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by blurker 4y ago
I agree it's hopeful. Creating more renewable energy is part of the path forward. But this doesn't solve all of our problems. We still have many other resource and pollution problems that this doesn't solve. Our houses, cars
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by blurker 4y ago
> Humans are freaking incredible, miracles that boggles the mind to consider how we even exist. I'm not sure why we pretend otherwise. This cuts both ways. We're super special at both creating and destroying. I don't see O
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by blurker 4y ago
> Why would anyone buy from your competitors when they can get a more durable panel for the same cost from you? Uhh, there are plenty of examples of this not happening already. Monopolies and oligopolies prevent this type of competition.
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by blurker 4y ago
This really resonated with me: > This kind of language is omnipresent in local politics. Where I am, one candidate wants “to restore … decision-making for all residents and businesses, not just the special few.” Another says, “It is esse
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Community Is Important. But “The Community” Is an Illusion(strongtowns.org)
3 points by blurker 4y ago|1 comments
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by blurker 4y ago
It's a bit distressing reading this and thinking of all the sleep debt I've had, especially in my late teens and early 20's when I had school and started a career. Especially my teenage years when I was still developing. I ne
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by blurker 4y ago
I agree. I was unsure if the author meant db cursors which would be keeping transactions alive. That has obvious scaling issues. But reading the comments here has me convinced they are talking about application generated cursors. I think th
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by blurker 4y ago
I definitely read the title as "buff redditor"
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by blurker 4y ago
> the service gives IT administrators ... full insight into all deployments to help identify the source of incidents as quickly as possible. Yeah, and this part gives me the picture that they'd be able to monitor absolutely everythi
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by blurker 4y ago
The title of this article is clickbait. You didn't build a receipt printer, you bought and used one. And I'm particularly disappointed because I've been looking to actually build a thermal printer and your clickbait title got
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by blurker 5y ago
Here: > Unfortunately, unless we're all going back to a society in which people can only produce things that are physically scarce, like food, we need artificial scarcity You said that unless we have artificial scarcity, we are all
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by blurker 5y ago
You're making a huge logical leap assuming that artificial scarcity is the only reason that we produce non-physical goods, and that's easily contradicted by the existence of FOSS. There are plenty of creators who create things for

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