fruitplants

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How come we play war and not peace?(gocomics.com)
1 points by fruitplants 6mo ago|1 comments
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by fruitplants 6mo ago
CnH
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Ask HN: Does GitHub have a traffic reporting bug for Jul-Aug Dec-Jan?
1 points by fruitplants 9mo ago|0 comments
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by fruitplants 9mo ago
I may be wrong but I think it's mostly for things like enterprise support in case something goes wrong. IBM has had a large footprint in enterprises (WebSphere MQ, etc). People don't want disruptions in case your own kafka cluster
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by fruitplants 9mo ago
Does anyone know if Springer has any subscription discounts, access via library, etc? ACM does not include Springer.
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by fruitplants 10mo ago
Calvin's dad was quite a character, wasn't he?
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by fruitplants 10mo ago
Indian Premier League (Cricket) is not a US league. Some reasons mentioned in the post apply to IPL. And IMO some don't (nerdy billionaires). There's even an acquired.fm episode on it. https://www.acquired.fm/episo
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by fruitplants 11mo ago
In a lighter vein, let me suggest reading the Psmith series by Wodehouse. If not the entire series then Leave It To Psmith, at least.
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by fruitplants 11mo ago
IMO at Apple the feedback loops seem to have gotten longer. They took a lot of time to discontinue the butterfly keyboards, bring magsafe back, etc. So it's likely that they'll double down on this OS/ UX than correct their pa
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by fruitplants 11mo ago
> We humans love to make patterns out of everything. Not sure in which vein you meant: 1. Humans exhibit some behavioral patterns. 2. Cognitive bias where the brain thinks that there is a pattern when no such pattern exist. I think you m
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by fruitplants 1y ago
I used colima cli on M1-M2 Mac. A few memory related settings were required as some of old apps were huge. But apart from that it worked great. Nothing bad podman, just preferred colima.
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by fruitplants 1y ago
Yes, but as sibling comment says there's that thing about softball. I think Ballmer was better than how he was perceived. So I did expect some justification, etc in their MS episodes. But these points seemed, to use your word, numerous
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by fruitplants 1y ago
My reading: the comment meant that encouraging diversity became a goal and it led to unintended consequences. edit: lead > led
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by fruitplants 1y ago
Has stack ranking worked well anywhere? Genuine question. edit: Not relevant for stack ranking thing but I will highly recommend the book Lights Out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(book)
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by fruitplants 1y ago
> I think you can actually do a lot with average people, if you have... This is an important perception. Possibly due to general (and HN) bias towards talent and hero worship, this reality is overlooked at times. But at scale in a normal
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by fruitplants 1y ago
"... two minutes into that Ovaltine thing and I just couldn't take it anymore."
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by fruitplants 1y ago
I agree with thinking a few steps ahead. It is particularly useful in case of complex problems or foundational systems. Also maybe simplicity is sometimes achieved AFTER complexity, anyway. I think the article means a solution that works no
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Incorporate a company with Indian resident founders Stripe Atlas(docs.stripe.com)
1 points by fruitplants 1y ago|0 comments
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by fruitplants 1y ago
I am Frank Costanza's lawyer.
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by fruitplants 1y ago
It's pronounced thermometer. :-)
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by fruitplants 1y ago
Gábor Domokos (mentioned in the article) talked about this on one QI episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUHo1BgTak