imwithstoopid

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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
95% of yearly US medical exams: doctor tells patient to lose weight. patient does not comply, and is even heavier next year
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
no I'm talking about the part where poor Americans who join the armed forces go to foreign countries, are asked to kill people and sometimes die themselves
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
> I was just buying a laptop for my family and the prices of MacBooks here in Europe are utterly crazy. they'll sell just fine in the US and parts of Asia the EU is becoming poor, and its being reflected in the costs of imported goo
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
not one mention of Zumwalt or LCS in this article you cannot talk about (re)building the military without discussing the decades and billions wasted pursuing pipe dreams and failed ideas right now we are building an LCS that will be scrappe
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
I've run mattermost for a moderate sized team while doing my dev duties, it was never a bother...what specific problems did you have? I maybe spent fifteen minutes a month on upgrades
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
why jump at the sign of a first leak? you can usually get another full year of slacking off at full pay while the parent company dithers around unless you see truly greener pastures elsewhere, getting acquired is one of the best gigs in IT
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
well Stewart always had the choice of going it alone and building out Slack as its own brand, but he took the $$$ he had the same experience with Yahoo buying Flickr so its not like any of this should have surprised him...he still consented
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
its free-as-in-beer which is all 99% of orgs want it also provides 99% of the functionality most orgs actually care about
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
> Cars are getting so big that people can’t drive them and likewise, people are getting so big they can't drive their cars... in Texas, police officers in some municipalities have requested that their vehicles be modified to elevate
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
its not like people are just healthy and then when they hit 70, poof! obese people will have health issues from early adulthood onward healthcare isn't the answer - the doctor says "lose weight", and people ignore it or mak
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
Hiding magic in macros
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
virtue signaling by legislation too bad for whoever is Governor in 2035 and has to reality check Californians
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
> This will also be an opportunity for other car manufacturers to differentiate themselves: “We still support CarPlay” but I doubt CarPlay will even end up as the lowest-common-denominator...one of GM or Mercedes or whoever will try to g
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
who told you the Fed is going to cut rates? even the CNBC talking heads go only so far as to talk about a pause in rate hikes
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
problem is (from GM's perspective), with CarPlay, Apple takes over the UX of the car...the Apple logo is the first and last thing people see when driving GM doesn't want Apple or Google taking over the UX of the car, because then
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
I have to ask why fly.io staff spend so much time blogging and catering to HN...
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
I predict Google will be going through major changes in the next twelve months...they've been caught off-guard by OpenAI/Bing...Google isn't used to playing defense and having to fight for search marketshare by some measures,
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
> Microsoft should have just made F# the C# successor. their target audience does not want this
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
it was well publicized that Google was turning the screws on its GCP sales staff...maybe this is a put-up-or-shut-up moment for GCP to bring in more money...assuming the sales drives didn't yield
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
Janet users are not encumbered with the historical cruft of scheme like hiding libraries behind unmenorable srfi numbers, or the ancient an un-portable oop implementations etc etc
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
the next wave of innovation will be things like battery tech, deep AI in other words, nothing a React dev is going to put together in their kitchen realistically, the unemployed will end up competing with the ten of thousands of new devs co
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
having worked at Google doesn't make you a good saver or dictate a sustainable lifestyle
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
I'm calling BS on the "startups" number...I think this is a lot of people hacking around on side projects on their own dime No mention also of how many will permanently leave tech...this may come down to who has the most savi
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
Most people just shrug, mutter "companies can be stupid" and move on
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
Ha! That's nothing...I had a senior technologist at Nvidia ask me to reschedule our interview so I could go research his accomplishments and provide a written report outlining his profound impacts...
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
> For being unmaintained for months which describes probably 90% of web apis out there imho, unless a company is dogfooding its own api, I assume it is broken/bitrotted/owner-left-the-company etc twitter is by no means alone
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
unless you are applying to one of the elite tech companies that truly elevate devops to true engineering...do not enter this field if you actually have a compsci degree when I started in this industry in the 90s, good ops people were softwa
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
author is being polite, its even worse javascript jobs will probably pay less than go jobs javascript jobs will more likely tend to be viewed as "junior" relative to go jobs I tell people to not become js devs if they don't w
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
this is a big cut, hard to see how Lucid can get out of its rut with its workforce reduced by this extent their cars are just too expensive they've been well-reviewed but that hasn't mattered Tesla and Rivian have more realistic p
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by imwithstoopid 3y ago
...only when Federal law overrides State law (this should be obvious) so in my example, there is no Federal carry reciprocity law, so states can clobber each other at will likewise, there is no Federal Drivers License, so you get some state

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