irishcule

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by irishcule 1mo ago
> the US military absolutely could control Hormuz. I'm confident it's quite capable of it. It's that the US public wouldn't support the immense cost in lives and treasure it would take to do it, and maintain that cont
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by irishcule 3mo ago
The newest AI Agents are much more advanced that "FAQ bots", they kind of have hybrid deterministic and non-deterministic flows in how they handle customer requests, depending on the request. Some companies set them up exactly as
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by irishcule 6mo ago
Is this really "additional"? do you not do design docs/adrs/rfcs etc and talk about them with your team? do you take any notes or write out your design/plan in some way even for yourself? Why can't you just pas
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by irishcule 6mo ago
Where did they say you can't be "investigated without your knowledge" ?
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by irishcule 11mo ago
Calling European countries "freeloaders" is such a one dimensional way of looking at this. Europe "outsourced" most of its defense to the US because the US wanted it that way, for soft power, influence, access to militar
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by irishcule 11mo ago
Are State elections also badly affected by gerrymandering? I have only ever seen examples of it at the Federal Election level, so wondering if your first point is actually completely accurate. (I believe the States themselves control the &q
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by irishcule 11mo ago
But the claim specifically, was that the statistics are flawed NOW with an implication that they were not flawed before. Not sure you can do much with that in a discussion/argument when there is no proof of that provided other than a p
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by irishcule 1y ago
Most likely they are actually, every country will have a certain "% of GDP" threshold where once they go above that number, it makes more sense for them to spend the money in their own home grown defense industry vs buying US made
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by irishcule 2y ago
People struggle to wrap their head around logic like yours because it is essentially just being pedantic. - Before the war the Taliban controlled Afghanistan. - The US (+ Allies) invaded and conquered the country. - 20 years later the US
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by irishcule 2y ago
> Sure, Russia gained some territory, resources, potential conscripts. You just "hand wave away" gaining territory the size of the 2nd biggest country in Europe after Russia, Trillions in resources and 40 million people (a 30%
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by irishcule 4y ago
I worked at a company with a process like that when I was an "Engineer" looking for a promotion to "Senior Engineer", at least for me it felt insulting that I had 3 years of performances reviews "exceeding expectati
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by irishcule 5y ago
It's likely because that's where "Wordle" used to be hosted before it moved to NYT
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by irishcule 5y ago
"most people’s leisure time consists of trite activities, steered by indulgent appetites" Isn't this you "judging"?
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by irishcule 5y ago
"Do they really though? That's really the owners getting paid that, not all the workers. And a lot of that is really valued on the potential rather than what was actually produced to that point." I believe the OP is talking a
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by irishcule 5y ago
What if it was rotated among "everyone"? I think people would be happy to do grunt work for a week (probably even a month or two) if it meant that they get all the rest of their time back to do what they want.
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by irishcule 6y ago
Ah ok, I misunderstood your comment. Glad to hear Go has had such a big impact for you.
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by irishcule 6y ago
>Go is a phenomenal language and I'm not really sure where I'd be without it, my company basically wouldn't exist, I wouldn't be solving the problems I am. I don't want this to come across as negative but I reall
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by irishcule 8y ago
How did you find the learning curve with notion? I found it on here a few days ago and thought it looked amazing, gave it a few days trial but now I feel like I am just wasting time with it trying to do the things that I want. Simple things
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by irishcule 8y ago
> Spoiler alert: the best setup is to hole up in a nice town in Canada working remotely for a client in the US. Do you have experience with this? :)
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by irishcule 8y ago
You should avoid any flights with the new 737 MAX then. I flew on it recently and I have never been so uncomfortable on a flight and I am not tall (5'9)
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by irishcule 10y ago
Yes. You can see it here: http://imgur.com/a/1soW3 If you just make the browser window small it will happen.
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by irishcule 10y ago
Hah "Siobhan".....are ye Irish? Just some things I noticed quickly. Some kind of progress or status bar could be added when doing an import. I've imported a CSV I exported from Jira and it just seems to be continuously import
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by irishcule 10y ago
When are people expecting this IPO to happen? Early 2017?
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by irishcule 10y ago
I thought the point of basic income was that EVERYONE gets it? How can that be exploited? Some will get a basic income and choose not to work and continue to live, others will choose to work (while also receiving the basis income) and will
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by irishcule 11y ago
It's strange, nothing in the hosts file, any ping says it can't find the host http://techblog.netflix.com/ , or even anyone of those check ip sites says the same. Asked some work colleagues here and in Ireland and
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by irishcule 11y ago
Sorry if this is slightly off topic but can anyone tell me why I would not be able to access the netflix tech blog? Every time I try to go to it I get a "Web page unavailable" despite sites like downforeveryoneorjustme.com telling