slumdev

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by slumdev 5y ago
Trespassing charges would be thrown out immediately if they were ever presented to a jury. The police exercised apparent authority when they ushered the crowd in, giving them permission and the right to enter. Vandalism would only apply to
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by slumdev 5y ago
And you would use the actions of a few agents provocateurs to smear the rest of the peaceful protestors who were let in by police? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiF4EIReuY4
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by slumdev 5y ago
It's pretty common to imagine the worst faults of oneself as being the motivators of one's opponent.
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by slumdev 5y ago
How can you storm a building when the police are holding the door open for you and ushering you in?
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by slumdev 5y ago
Apart from their obligations under the law, AOL did not police content. In one example, AOL banned explicit discussions of homosexual activity but did not ban anti-homosexual hate speech. They policed the first type of speech because the
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by slumdev 5y ago
Compuserve and a number of other credible alternatives to AOL existed during that time. Usenet and BBSes also existed. Myspace and Facebook (initially) were only for teenagers, college students, and people who never grew out of those phas
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by slumdev 5y ago
The idea of allowing any kind of inbound connection into a secured network (other than to/via its DMZs) is anathema. I don't even disagree with the logic, but the BigCorp Infosec Team heavy-handed approach to working with develope
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by slumdev 5y ago
> because I know better than the netsec team For anyone who's been around the block a few times, there's a good chance this is true. Most organizations' netsec teams are too busy throwing money at vendors to keep up.
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by slumdev 5y ago
The last time I needed an x-ray for a broken bone, I asked the x-ray tech for a lead vest to protect my torso and groin area. He told me that it was pointless because I would be exposed to more background radiation throughout the course of
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by slumdev 5y ago
> The lowest temperature that has lead to bird deaths in a controlled laboratory setting is 280 deg C "Did any birds die?" is an approach to this problem that I would expect from an undeveloped nation a hundred years ago. It i
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by slumdev 5y ago
The idea that PTFE doesn't break down except at very high temperatures is not true. Breakdown begins to occur at either 200 or 260 degrees Celsius (depending on what data you're looking at). These temperatures are well within the
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by slumdev 5y ago
Yeah, I agree that these things probably ought to be legislated out of existence, but I don't hold my breath on it.
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by slumdev 5y ago
My takeaways: 1. Open the windows as often as weather allows. 2. Don't use nonstick pans unless they're cast iron or some kind of fired enamel. 3. Use a water purifier.
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by slumdev 5y ago
Retirement, healthcare, and taxes eat up a significant portion of a US earner's pay. The amount of money that actually gets delivered to a worker's bank account could be a little as 2/3 of their stated salary. And many things
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by slumdev 5y ago
It depends on the type of recruiter. If you're working with an external recruiter (like an agency recruiter), they're not going to do that. They'll just give you the client's expected salary range. I've never had
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by slumdev 5y ago
> But if that turns sour then I'd likely be looking for 2-3 "code janitor" jobs in parallel in order to protect my mental health for a while. Oh, I wouldn't try to juggle multiple code janitor jobs. It only takes one
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by slumdev 5y ago
> 19.5 years of programming, but mostly web programming for the last ~12. I want to move away from that, I am sick of it already. There's always something more to learn and even though I don't mind at all -- it keeps my mind sh
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by slumdev 5y ago
Adding a new hoop is the desired effect, and it does solve at least one problem. If you're at a tech company or some other org that interviews well, you might not have seen it yet. Many devs are not good at their jobs. They mean well
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by slumdev 5y ago
Well, where are you coming from? Getting the first few years of experience is going to be the hardest--hardest relative to the rest of your career; it's not that hard by any absolute measure. Apply broadly, and take whatever comes. I
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by slumdev 5y ago
> I think a lot of this is because our profession does not have an accepted universal bar everyone can jump over to be considered ‘qualified’. Credentialing organizations already exist[1], but none have lobbied the US government to preve
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by slumdev 5y ago
> What's so bad about... mediocrity? Nothing, if company managers would admit it. Instinctively, they know it. The old cult of management-as-a-profession believes that by skillfully directing the activities of replaceable cogs, a c
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by slumdev 5y ago
I've never seen this question posted by anyone who had either a CS degree or any nontrivial amount of experience. It might be hard to get a FAANG job, but it's not hard to find a $100k legacy code janitor job at any old Fortune 10
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by slumdev 5y ago
Truth doesn't evolve. What's true now was true a year ago, even if we didn't know it. This idea of evolving truth is a mealy-mouthed way of saying, "We were wrong."
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by slumdev 5y ago
We all need to update our mental models if they don't match the reality we're presented with. What I reject is someone else's claiming the right to censor my comments or append a wrongthink warning to them.
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by slumdev 5y ago
Negative - if these are going to be treated like keys where the integer value needs to retain the same meaning between builds, then an enum is the wrong abstraction to use.
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by slumdev 5y ago
Complete with spelling errors, semicolons in place of commas, shouting snake case, and unnecessary explicit numbering. Definitely enterprise-grade.
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by slumdev 5y ago
> They're literally changing nothing except the mRNA sequence. This is like comparing my house to the Willis Tower and saying, "they're literally changing nothing except the blueprints." mRNA codes for proteins. Codi
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by slumdev 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochondriasis
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by slumdev 5y ago
I agree 100% in principle. In practice, US foreign policy doesn't recognize international law and never really has. The US could annex Afghanistan, and apart from the CCP doing a lot of complaining about it (primarily because they want
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by slumdev 5y ago
It did until a few days ago.

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