nevdka

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by nevdka 1mo ago
Americans use their social security numbers like id numbers in all sorts of systems. This problem has nothing to do with id numbers.
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by nevdka 1mo ago
A big problem with online discourse about programming if that so many people are in bubbles that they think are normal and think that anything outside of their experience is niche and rare. ‘Enterprise’ software includes SaaS, internal LoB
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by nevdka 3mo ago
Redundancy is easy to misclassify as waste, particularly for someone who has incentives to find more ‘waste’ they can cut and claim credit for.
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by nevdka 4mo ago
There are a lot of group chats I'm not in because I'm not on messenger.
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by nevdka 5mo ago
I work with Australian tax - lots of regulatory complexity, add the documentation often assumes the reader is a CPA. I've got decent results by telling the chat bot to ask questions instead of making assumptions, and then grilling it t
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by nevdka 6mo ago
Then there’s perl, which doesn’t free at all.
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by nevdka 6mo ago
None of which were made by accountants. They were instead made by engineers who have experience and training in dealing with complex software systems.
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by nevdka 6mo ago
Native apps are where power users and other non-developers can do programming. The type of things that an engineer who lives in the terminal might make a CLI or TUI for, an accountant or project manager might want to do with a GUI. This is
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by nevdka 8mo ago
People will often write about something that worked for them, and from that pull out abstractions they believe are generalised and universal. They rarely are. Organisational patterns that work for startups rapidly iterating to find product
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by nevdka 11mo ago
I think the observed feminisation isn't a causal factor, but instead shares a causal factor - that every space must now accept everyone. This causes a few problems. 0. One of the ideas that has tagged along with inclusion has been chan
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by nevdka 1y ago
You mentioned restrictions around sending money, but not restrictions on receiving money. If you put obligations on the banks receiving payments to refund scam victims, those banks will have incentive to stop people using their services to
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by nevdka 2y ago
It wasn't just storage. In the 90s, most servers were single core. Databases already had network interfaces so they could be shared by non-web applications running on desktops, and so were the natural place to split a website over mult
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by nevdka 2y ago
They perform elaborate cleansing rituals on any item brought into the crystal-writing room. When they enter, they wear special clothing, lest the impurities of the outside world taint the crystals.
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by nevdka 2y ago
We use invisible light to draw patterns on crystals to control the power of lightning. Definitely magic.
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by nevdka 2y ago
This is also the reason perl was used before python began to dominate. It was installed everywhere before python was installed everywhere.
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by nevdka 2y ago
Pre-covid, the real estate conspiracy was that management was pushing for smaller and more crowded open offices so that they would spend less.
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by nevdka 2y ago
Maybe the books that they're trying to market aren't books that kids want to read. There are a couple of quotes that point to that: > Connor was more blunt: “Maybe you think a book about a school shooting is really important,”
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by nevdka 2y ago
You need a way to assign technical debt to a process or practice, then you can evaluate the cost of that process over time. Could be something like... Our team spent 500 hours fixing bugs introduced during overtime, and we spent 250 hours o
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by nevdka 3y ago
You don't need a monopoly, you need competition. Renewables sell into the same energy market as fossil fuels, and get paid the same price. So you end up with low cost renewables making higher profits than high cost fossil fuels, and so
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by nevdka 3y ago
Being capable of spending millions on lawyers doesn't mean a rich company wants to spend millions on lawyers. In many (if not most) cases, loosing at a fair arbitration would be cheaper for the company than winning in court by outspend
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by nevdka 4y ago
A corporation is an organisation. It has internal processes, both documented/formal, and undocumented/informal - 'the way we do things here'. There are teams and departments, and relationships between them. There are con
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by nevdka 4y ago
IMO, it should be the bank that receives the money that should have to pay. Banks (even small ones) need to know their own customers, and they take on the risk of not knowing them well enough. They can impose verification rules to stop typi
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by nevdka 4y ago
The third value on that list is efficiency. Is staying at the Ritz-Carlton an efficient use of company resources?
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by nevdka 4y ago
There's the 'arrested' part and the 'taxes' part. There are limitations on the power we give the government to arrest people and to collect taxes. But the limitations are only there because of the freedom we loose i
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by nevdka 4y ago
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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by nevdka 4y ago
You can go further than that. Monitor every plant's lifecycle and yield, and save the best for seed. How many generations before you get superwheat? You could even have multiple strains for the varying soil conditions across a single f
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by nevdka 6y ago
One way I've found fiction books that I wouldn't have otherwise read is to find High School curricula and go through the required/authorised/recommended books. Neighbouring school districts, other states, and even other
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by nevdka 6y ago
Treat it like any other utility - it continues to run, just without servicing its debts. Most of the expense is paying for capital. Stop that (because bankruptcy) and the ISP can be profitable, and sold to whoever pays the most.
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by nevdka 6y ago
The infrastructure those companies have built already exists, and the subsidies are mostly going to pay debt. If the subsidies stopped, the companies would go bankrupt. Their assets would be sold to another company, likely at a price less t
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by nevdka 6y ago
Victoria in Australia has recently passed laws making wage theft a criminal offence: https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/wage-theft-legislation-passes...

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