devbent

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by devbent 3y ago
> When you hard cap them in any measurable way, they stop. No they don't. Satya has a much lower cap earning money at Microsoft then Bill or Balmer did. Does that make him a worse CEO? Does it mean he is less dedicated? Very few peo
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CEO pay in America was forced to be made transparent by Congressional law. Shortly thereafter CEO pay started to skyrocket. There's no evidence CEOs started doing a 10x better job running companies but their pay sure as heck increased,
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> If they didn't think so, they'd still be choosing to shop at Sears and Kmart Let's be clear: Amazon has been responsible for the shutting down of so many in-person businesses that entire product categories are can only b
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> If all the philosophers, mathematicians and scientists and doctors were put in charge of running all the world's companies, we'd be in big trouble. Totally different skill sets. Eh, worked well enough for Singapore. Also it w
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by devbent 3y ago
> I have faith that an Olympic athlete is a lot better about making diet and exercise decisions than I am. Smart athletes let technocrats (e.g. scientists and doctors) make those decisions for them! In the case or billionaires, we know Z
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by devbent 3y ago
Let's just have a really large number of reasonably well to do actors deciding how to allocate capital. After all, wisdom of the crowds and all that!
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> Then where was the flood of photoshops making headline news? It was news several decades back then everyone just ignored it.
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I had a dog growing up that insisted on watching The Price Is Right every weekday morning and she'd bark at you until you changed the channel. Then she'd push a stool in front of the TV, sit on it, and watch Bob Barker for an hour
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by devbent 3y ago
You can easily prompt gpt to write dark stories. When asked to write in the style of game of thrones gpt 3.5 will happily write about people doing horrible things to each other. > Without jailbreaks ChatGPT will always give narration a p
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Only 300 software engineers were needed to launch HBO Max(meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev)
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People who consider themselves "gym rats" go to the gym because it is what they do. People who are mountain bikers don't ride to keep in shape, they look forward to getting on their bike.
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by devbent 3y ago
> As far as I can tell, NPM does not enforce any limitations on the license of published packages I once saw a package on NPM that had a commercial license. It even had a link to its source on GH. And a note that if you used the package
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by devbent 3y ago
I think poster is trying to stay that too many styling options has made for worse UX. Users can get used to ugly and consistent. On the web and mobile, there is minimal consistency of what a button even looks like, or where site options are
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by devbent 3y ago
Svelte is my go to on the web as well. For smaller apps (dozen input fields or so) the WinForms designer (which has been on life support for well over a decade now!) will get the job done better than anything else out there. If you want GPU
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The US effectively has price controls by way of insurance company mandated charge books.
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The government is the payer, hospitals and doctors can still compete in pricing. Plenty of US states have an effective duopoly of healthcare insurers, which is no different in effect from having a single payer. The main difference is with f
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by devbent 3y ago
A few years back I prototyped a b2b web app using winforms. At this point in time I'd been writing react for 2 years non stop and I hadn't used winforms for at least 5 years. I started up visual studio, and used the GUI builder to
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by devbent 3y ago
> You have to specify a fixed resolution, fixed size, and more often than not calculate the layout yourself, or use very limited auto-layout features. Even Java UIs supported dynamic layouts 20 years ago. C# had a flex box based layout (
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by devbent 3y ago
> So I have no lost love for devs that couldn’t be arsed, How are teams that no longer exist supposed to recompile anything? Plenty of source is laying around where the last person who knew how to compile it left the company years ago an
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by devbent 3y ago
I hated key by default because there wasn't a way to have it not be the default so I had to unselect it every time except when I ordered something expensive.
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by devbent 3y ago
I don't go up to an electrician and say "hey I could totally do this but you do it instead." Instead I hand them a big box of switches.
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by devbent 3y ago
Paying someone to fill out taxes is an example of this, so is using a financial advisor to plan a retirement portfolio. Heck I wanted to replace a dozen light switches awhile back. Could I do it myself? Sure. Did I pay someone else to do it
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by devbent 3y ago
Congratulations, you are smart enough, and literate enough, to learn software engineering. Meanwhile the average American reads at a 5th grade level, and around 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate. I'm guessing you also didn&#
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by devbent 3y ago
> You should always combine it with something only known to the user (i.e. a passphrase). The fact this isn't mandatory blows me away. I remember when my work machine first got TPM full disk encryption, a passphrase was needed. A fe
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by devbent 3y ago
That literally seems like it taps the microphone wire to record raw audio signals. Brilliant, but not a software or hardware issue. (Although actually having the device brick itself if it is opened up would have prevented the bug from being
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by devbent 3y ago
I did say "dysfunctional". But yeah, historically voting rights in many places were tied to land ownership. (And also genital arrangement)
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Boards appoint executives, boards are voted in by shareholders, shareholders are determined by $, the more money you have the more votes you can buy. Companies are, in theory, dysfunctional representative republics.
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> By this I mean headphones where the noise-cancelling electronics can be powered over USB Sennheiser's noise cancelling headphones do this. Bose's noise canceling headphones cannot be turned on when charging.
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> I can't help but think that, when past teams programmed mostly in assembly, a "Function" could be explained as a pattern. Actually it was an entire new paradigm. Procedural programming!
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> And we don't want to think about what server it's on, or what hard drive, or what folder. And we don't want to think about client protocols or query languages. Different types of data are legal in different jurisdictions

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