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by stackghost 3mo ago
>I wonder if hiring adjusts to that but I doubt it Tech hiring/interviews have almost nothing to do with assessing the candidates' ability to do the job.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
lol, far more odious things get posted every day on this website.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
The common thread of late really seems to be the node ecosystem
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>If Trump gets replaced by some moderate neocon on wave of “good old times” every one of these lobbied politicians will jump back hail comming of the golden age, buy everything american again and delete all this sovereignity out of the s
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by stackghost 3mo ago
This is interesting and poignant less because of the digital currency aspect and more because of the geopolitics. In a world where technology touches everything, tech itself becomes political. The boulder that is de-Americanization has rol
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by stackghost 3mo ago
I think parent poster was referring to the open secret that the early models were trained on massive collections of pirated novels and textbooks.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Most of the cyberdecks you see, though, are just cosmetic variations on "raspi in a pelican case". Some of those cosmetic variations are definitely impressive, but the guts are mostly the same between builds. The guy who 3D-prin
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by stackghost 3mo ago
I'd be very interested in reading about the kinds of hardware projects you're doing with esp32s and your printer!
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>Not convinced. What, if anything, would convince you?
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Nuclear industry in Canada is federally-regulated, not provincial.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Chernobyl's reactors were fundamentally unsafe designs from an engineering perspective, to say nothing of the perverse incentives at play because of the Soviet political system. We've learned a lot since the RBMK was designed in
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Depends on your terms of service and their expiry date. The google term you're looking for is "voluntary separation". Despite what you see in media, nothing in the military bureaucracy is iron-clad. People can and do leave
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by stackghost 3mo ago
s/in Friday/on Friday/g
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Sometimes they do but often they quit because the work life balance is much better.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
The military is like this. Higher Headquarters decides to contract out maintenance and logistical support for $aircraft_fleet. Uniformed maintainers go home in Friday and show up Monday making a lot more money to do the same job but witho
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>So they can conduct a nuanced debate then? Oh, can I move the goalposts too?
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>At eight they have limited comprehension of the world around them and limited language skills. I have two kids and can confidently say eight year olds generally have good language skills, are capable of expressing themselves just fine,
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>How good are humans at teaching reading anyway? Writing developed thousands of years BCE. So, considering we as a species have been successfully teaching our offspring how to read for hundreds of generations, I'd say we're pr
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by stackghost 3mo ago
I see the value for American-style "espresso-flavored" drinks, or similar bottled/packaged products. But, yuck, who on earth wants to drink actual espresso at room temperature?
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>So why don't you take my word for it and give it a try, instead of arguing that the side (you have never even experienced) is not worth your attention? Because you're being too aggressive and unpleasant >What do you have to
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>You just decided it's hard/time consuming/worthless even though you have "never heard" about it? You must mave misread what I wrote, because you're conflating two different statements. >I have to move be
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>the UX does not follow common patterns like found in Notepad or VSCode. It is its own thing I know. Emacs is my daily driver. >reading the tutorial, Mickey's book, or the official manual is way faster than fumbling around. Hard
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by stackghost 3mo ago
I guess if one's hobby is fiddling with emacs, then I could see why learning edebug and the profiler are valuable first steps. But I view emacs as merely a tool to get vastly more important work done. I just want it to stay out of my
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>Emacs is first and foremost a Lisp interpreter with a built-in text editor and not the other way around. I've been using emacs as my primary editor since about 2002 and I hate this take. Emacs Lisp is by far the worst part of emac
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by stackghost 3mo ago
I bought a copy of Mickey's book, and it's great, but "read about the inner workings of an editor before you use it" is horrible UX. Better to just start using it, and ask your friendly local LLM when you need help. Bac
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by stackghost 3mo ago
The initial appeal of Medium and Svbtle, which was the other one I was thinking of, was that almost any time you saw an article from them it was usually high-quality. With their simplistic dark-on-light themes they looked visually distinct
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by stackghost 3mo ago
Hmm, the top item on the page is Medium, and underneath the description begins with "High-authority publishing platform". That is... not the popular assessment of Medium these days. At one point, Medium and the other minimalist o
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by stackghost 3mo ago
I don't understand what you're trying to imply. If you're making the point that there are multiple confounding factors to just about any non-trivial problem, then I agree.
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by stackghost 3mo ago
>What if our lives get much, much better? Roughly everyone wants more out of life including the top one percent (and I don't mean the top 0.0001%, just your ordinary industrial nation doctors). How could we possibly morally justify

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