mkl95

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by mkl95 10d ago
Mark Zuckerberg is the PT Barnum of tech and Meta is his predatory circus. Meta doesn't make much sense without him.
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Dark Fiber–An Archaeology of the Dot-Com Bubble (2025)(technostatecraft.com)
2 points by mkl95 15d ago|0 comments
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Rules of Knowledge Formulation(supermemo.guru)
2 points by mkl95 16d ago|0 comments
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge History – Bridge – Lessons from Failure(wsdot.wa.gov)
2 points by mkl95 17d ago|0 comments
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China rejected a container of Argentine beef. Here's what the US did next(tallow.app)
8 points by mkl95 19d ago|2 comments
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Gray Goo(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mkl95 23d ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 23d ago
EU states do an excellent job at tolerating each other, with the odd hiccup. They are also gerontocracies fronted by middle aged leaders focused on pleasing older wealthy people, who last cared about entrepreneurship in the 70s. When you co
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SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI(ft.com)
11 points by mkl95 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mkl95 3mo ago
I had a hard time with probability and stats, although it was way more mind expanding than calculus.
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The Null Is Always False (Except When It Is True) (2014)(daniellakens.blogspot.com)
11 points by mkl95 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 3mo ago
> you're not gonna gain any understanding from a self-reported survey of ~2500 people A sample size of ~2500 is statistically huge - the margin of error is very small. You should sign up to a stats course.
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by mkl95 3mo ago
From an EU perspective it can look complicated. But when you look at the data, the American electorate is relatively simple-minded. For example: https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-the-...
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by mkl95 3mo ago
> probability, calculus, linear algebra All of these are mandatory in EU universities' CS programmes and are taught with relative rigor, particularly linear algebra. Calculus is called "Analysis" and usually covers all of
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by mkl95 3mo ago
> belongs to a party that is pretty much advertising on wanting to be a smaller government that gets involved less. It's the other way around. Americans voted for Trump hoping he'd improve the country's economy and address
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by mkl95 6mo ago
I've worked with SOC2-certified companies where employees would email each other plaintext credentials, publish them in Notion pages, etc. You cannot cure stupidity by "complying".
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by mkl95 6mo ago
That was only Q1! So much winning left!
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Compound interest confoundedly profound (2017)(starkcoffee.medium.com)
2 points by mkl95 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 6mo ago
It's very unique to LinkedIn. OP's prose is difficult to process even if you've abused your brain for years with LinkedIn content, though. In a more merciful timeline, only people like James Ellroy or Cormac McCarthy would ev
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Half of all XL Bully dogs in Britain descend from 'Killer Kimbo' (2023)(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by mkl95 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 7mo ago
The CEO role at Mozilla is unstable. Even if Mozilla didn't require a LinkedIn page, chances are their CEOs would have an up to date account. Also, Mozilla's ARR is mostly their Google partnership.
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by mkl95 7mo ago
In the zero-interest rate economy, it was easy for early to mid-career engineers with average skill to switch to a company that paid them 20%+ more money. I did it myself multiple times. The current economy and AI have turned the tables. Ev
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Obey the Testing Goat(obeythetestinggoat.com)
1 points by mkl95 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mkl95 7mo ago
Django must be more popular than Rails in the EU these days. Most Django devs have never used Go or Node and have never heard about Bun. Django is in the category of battle-tested frameworks that are very boring and easy to get things done
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by mkl95 8mo ago
This is an uncomfortable truth on this site, because many of us work for a FAANG company or FAANG partner. If the cloud hadn't grown that much in the last decade or so, the software industry would be relatively unpretentious.
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by mkl95 8mo ago
OP defines herself as a mediocre engineer. She's trying to sell you Slop Town, not engineering principles.
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by mkl95 8mo ago
The US won't stop bullying the rest of the world until it has drastic consequences for its economy. Make of that what you will.
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by mkl95 8mo ago
C is like a classic car. It's cool and you might have fun with it, but if something goes wrong out there, there's a significant chance you'll end up in a very bad shape.
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by mkl95 8mo ago
It looks like the company's owners didn't give a simple heads up to their providers before dissolving it. In my eyes, that's way worse than what this particular provider has done. If the sums aren't large, they might los
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by mkl95 8mo ago
Could a company other than Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company manufacture the chips that Nvidia products are made of, and could that happen in America? The answer is yes to both. But if Nvidia attempted it today, it would be doomed.
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by mkl95 9mo ago
Ruby is an insular language by design. It's intended to be easy to use and "make programmers happy". Whereas popular languages are usually adopted for falsifiable reasons such as performance, type safety, memory safety, etc.

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