pdabbadabba

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by pdabbadabba 1mo ago
> Cryptographically signed to you. That's a bit of an oversimplification that makes this sound more concerning than it is. Not that it's 100% un-concerning, but I suggest that anyone concerned about this read the linked docs. I
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by pdabbadabba 1mo ago
As an American, I also find this repulsive.
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by pdabbadabba 4mo ago
You seem to be confusing Chile and Argentina. Milei is president of Argentina, not Chile. The new president of Chile is José Kast. I suspect the substance of your comment is unaffected by this, however.
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by pdabbadabba 5mo ago
Agreed. I was disappointed at the overall lack of engineering content in this piece. Lots of general talk about how there were issues and that they were overcome. But what? And how? I feel like most of the content could apply to almost any
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by pdabbadabba 5mo ago
Because it will eat their world either way?
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
It is an important legal concept under the GDPR and other data governance frameworks.
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
The more I read this thread the more it boggles my mind. How is it not completely obvious that part of your job, as an employee, is to not make life more difficult for your manager? (The reverse, of course, is true as well.) Managers cost m
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
I think this is right. Of course, the trade-off has always been there for all to see between "work" and "life," but greater ability to WFH has rightly cause people to reassess the sacrifices they are willing to make for
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
And you as someone I would never hire! Though the truth is probably just that we're not seeing eye-to-eye because we're communicating through an imperfect medium that doesn't encourage a nuanced discussion.
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
The relationship is reciprocal. I lay the tracks so my supervisees can do their job (and, indeed, have a job to do!). They help me produce far more work for clients than I ever could myself.
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
That's not at all what I mean. What I mean is that I am responsible for the output of my team. If someone I am supervising does a bad job, is hard to communicate with, etc. it means that one way or another I have to do more work, whi
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
> we're not here to please you or make your job easier I don't mean to be a jerk but ... if you are one of the people I manage, you literally are employed (at least in part) to make my job easier. That's not the only thi
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
I'm not persuaded that's the only thing going on here, but I'm sure that is part of it. Nonetheless, I think this is why many employers pushed for RTO.
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
It's worse in the sense that a more senior person has to spend more time fixing it. I guess that's an opportunity in the sense that it allows a firm to bill more hours, but there is generally a reason we wanted that more junior pe
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by pdabbadabba 6mo ago
I can't speak to your sector, but from the perspective in my management role (in law) the explanation is quite simple: managing remote workers is more difficult and less pleasant than managing workers in the office. I actually hate it.
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by pdabbadabba 7mo ago
I guess I'm getting the dumb one too. I just got this response: > Walk — it's only 50 meters, which is less than a minute on foot. Driving that distance to a car wash would also be a bit counterproductive, since you'd just
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by pdabbadabba 8mo ago
True. But I did not ask about "pigeon" and "dove." I asked it about "pigeon" and "mourning dove" which are unambiguously different species. Different genuses, even. Zenaida macroura v. Columba livia.
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by pdabbadabba 8mo ago
Similarly, it insisted to me that a pigeon is the same thing as a mourning dove. Not true! But your case is even more egregious.
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by pdabbadabba 8mo ago
Then why do you think virtually all of the most successful tech startups are U.S. companies? (Excluding Asia, for the purposes of this discussion.) Is it just Silicon Valley network effects?
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by pdabbadabba 8mo ago
Here’s one: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/harvard-global-ranking...
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by pdabbadabba 9mo ago
Huh. None of that happened on either of my Lufthansa flights between Frankfurt and Berlin last week. YMMV, I guess.
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by pdabbadabba 9mo ago
> Try flying Lufthansa (or one of their half dozen subsidiaries created almost entirely to give worse service) anywhere inside of europe. Everything is a money grab and the service and boarding are terrible. FWIW, I just took such a flig
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by pdabbadabba 10mo ago
> It very much is. No where else in life are people forced to mixed with the general unfiltered public. I'm baffled by this. Many workplaces? Mass transit? Walking down the sidewalk? At a concert? Buying groceries? True, there don&#
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by pdabbadabba 10mo ago
The executive branch asserts that there is such a zone. But the truth is likely that many, if not all, 4th Amendment rights still apply in many situations within that zone. It's situation dependent, so it's difficult to make a s
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by pdabbadabba 10mo ago
I reread that old thread, and then skimmed the Penn State article (a bit quickly, I admit). I gotta say: I think you're overstating your case here. Certainly, the author of that article is skeptical about the 100-mile zone and makes pl
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by pdabbadabba 10mo ago
Thanks. This is useful (in English translation): > Russian factories are working at full speed, producing new tanks and repairing those that have been dusty for years," writes "Le Figaro". The French daily refers to its so
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by pdabbadabba 10mo ago
I’ve never heard anyone say this. Source?
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by pdabbadabba 10mo ago
We're in peacetime, but the current leadership perceives us to be in a pitched great-power struggle, and perhaps near-term shooting war, with China. Similarly, while we are not literally at war with Russia, we are in a very acute globa
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by pdabbadabba 11mo ago
Got evidence that they supplied weapons? GP’s Wikipedia article does not seem to say that they did (apart from an unclear reference to US military aid, which I don’t think refers to US military aid to Sudan specifically).
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by pdabbadabba 11mo ago
Probably so. I imagine the U.K. has laws that make such artifacts the formal property of the state. Was this true for 19th century Egypt? I think it was true, on some level, at the time the bust of Nefertiti was taken in the 1920s. Suppos

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