dfrey

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by dfrey 2y ago
They have given us fuck all for raises during a period of rampant inflation and now they want to take away the one good thing that covid-19 did for workers.
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by dfrey 7y ago
I don't think you understand what a meritocracy is.
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by dfrey 7y ago
> Seems like a nice sign-in option for iPhone owners but it's a portability disaster. So basically it's like everything that Apple makes
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by dfrey 7y ago
It probably doesn't matter too much, but this is a lossy conversion. For example "Fred McIntosh" -> "MCINTOSH Fred". So the capitalization of the "I" is lost.
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by dfrey 7y ago
16 -> 32 GB of ram is a $400 option... ouch
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by dfrey 8y ago
Apple is so in love with walled gardens. I can't imagine them ever making truly open hardware. Perhaps they are uniquely qualified to make something open because of the amount of effort they have put into making things that are close
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by dfrey 9y ago
A $10K lottery is a horrible idea. Most people know that on average you will lose money by buying lottery tickets. What makes it worth playing (for some people) is the (very small) chance of winning fuck you money. If I win $10k, I would
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by dfrey 9y ago
It still looks volatile even on a log chart!
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by dfrey 9y ago
1. Use a freezer to make a tray of ice cubes 2. Use a kettle to boil water 3. Pour the boiling water over the ice and enjoy lukewarm water that required an excess of power to create.
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by dfrey 9y ago
Or maybe just that people are confident that they will find a bigger sucker to sell to.
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by dfrey 9y ago
The content owner could still request your information from the VPN provider and the VPN provider might provide it (even if they say they won't). I think the main benefit is that there are so many individuals torrenting copyrighted ma
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by dfrey 9y ago
Queue up the Ryan Reynolds "But Why?" gif for this one I think.
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by dfrey 9y ago
I don't know how GNAA would feel about that...
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by dfrey 9y ago
They don't sell the $6 bread in the grocery store that the maid shops at and they don't sell $12000 couches where she buys her furniture. She lives in a different world, so it's very likely that she has no idea how much a cou
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by dfrey 9y ago
Cool visualization, but kind of a useless statistic. The question that matters is: How many years will it take me to pay off my mortgage after my expenses (food, transportation, housing maintenance, utilities, taxes) are taken into account
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by dfrey 9y ago
It's kind of a poorly stated problem. It would be better if they said: 1000 people were asked the question "Is this car blue?" and 900 answered yes, what is the probability that the car is blue. or 1000 people were asked the
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by dfrey 9y ago
It's an interesting problem because there are so many factors and even the goal isn't constant from day to day. Goals - get from A to B as quickly as possible - get from A to B as safely as possible - get from A to B as enjoyably
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by dfrey 9y ago
This reminded me of a chunk from an [interview with Linus Torvalds]( http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-qa-w... ) Stephen Cass: You’re a much more experienced programmer now versus 25 years ago.
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by dfrey 9y ago
Yes, but a lot of the big tech companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft want people to work at their head office location rather than opening up satellite offices across the world. I understand how it simplifies logisti
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by dfrey 9y ago
An Apple move would be building a car without windows and telling me that it's progress.
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by dfrey 9y ago
snapchat baffles me. It's just another instant messaging platform except that they came up with the idea of messages that delete themselves after a time period. The problem is that this killer feature is easily subverted by taking a
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by dfrey 9y ago
Why should rental be more expensive by definition? A fleet of autonomous vehicles can operate 24/7. Your own personal car gets a trip to work and a trip back home every day and maybe another round trip to an activity or chore.
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by dfrey 9y ago
your data allotment is ~128 MB?
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by dfrey 9y ago
Developer productivity is not easily quantifiable though...
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by dfrey 9y ago
I don't care if a VPS as 1 core or 1024 cores. What I care about is how much work it can get done.
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by dfrey 9y ago
And DLink will continue to try to save money by releasing products without following proper security procedures because you will keep buying them because they are cheap. It's tough for security to affect purchasing decisions because it
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by dfrey 9y ago
When people use the term "C/C++", I assume that they don't know either language well.
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by dfrey 9y ago
It was going to be a circle, but there were 5 rounds of cuts.
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by dfrey 9y ago
What is the significance of Wed, 25 May 1977 18:00:00 GMT? I don't get how that's an easter egg?
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by dfrey 10y ago
This is false. There are lots of small, old crappy houses in Vancouver. It's just that they cost a ridiculously large amount of money. Here's a pretty typical example: https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Sing

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