techopoly

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by techopoly 3y ago
But not immune to missiles. Russia's already threatened to target Starlink satellites. Maybe they're bluffing, or not, but it does offer a reminder that these are just floating computers in the sky.
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by techopoly 3y ago
OBE?
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by techopoly 3y ago
Simple answer: work for a bank.
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by techopoly 5y ago
Can confirm, these are legit. Make sure you're aware of any outlets on the outside of your building though, as these could be plugged into with malicious intent.
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by techopoly 6y ago
One obvious example of that is when Dropbox was presented here as a startup and was shot down in glorious fashion.
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by techopoly 6y ago
Nice. Mine's not so impressive, but when I was green and in college, I was casually job shadowing an older friend for a day at a major tech company, and was asked to take a look at some code that had an issue. I spotted the bug in 30 s
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by techopoly 6y ago
That's an awesome experience. And the sword part may not be true, but it might as well be. "A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth." -- Tim O'Brien, The Things The
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by techopoly 6y ago
Perhaps they got there sooner, but at what cost to their health, relationships, and sanity?
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by techopoly 6y ago
I dislike this philosophy, that a person in one field of expertise can have nothing constructive to say about another, or can't learn it. Reminds me of "don't roll your own cryptography." Well, all the standard cryptogra
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by techopoly 6y ago
Agreed. As much as we talk about how programming is manipulation of ideas...at the end of the day it is a very physical process too. You are manipulating actual physical things in this world. This is a fascinating concept to think about. Pr
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by techopoly 6y ago
That's a really good point. Nothing is perfect, and frameworks are no different, so after awhile the friction points come to the fore. Also, I have a theory that with the more common languages, you obviously find a much broader user ba
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by techopoly 6y ago
I wonder how many developers hate PHP because one is just supposed to hate PHP. I'm sure there are many with well-thought-out reasoning though, like seen in this thread. It's useful to keep an open mind about things though. I&#x27
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by techopoly 6y ago
Ha, that's a good name for it. We can go so far in trying to compensate for biases and fallacies that we introduce whole new ones!
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by techopoly 6y ago
Or a restaurant with a smoking section. Right next to the non-smoking section.
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by techopoly 6y ago
This is probably why rabbits have been getting abnormally bold in my yard lately...
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by techopoly 6y ago
Virtual Desktop already has many customizable features that allow you to work the way you're describing. I've worked in it before, and it was very immersive, though there was of course some fatigue. You can have just one window at
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by techopoly 6y ago
Just because there's possibly some survivorship bias in their viewpoint doesn't mean their statement is automatically false.
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by techopoly 6y ago
My place of work didn't have a soft-phone connection to our computers until this COVID-19 mess started. I imagine we weren't alone.
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by techopoly 6y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good.
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by techopoly 6y ago
Sounds like most companies. Which is even more concerning
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by techopoly 6y ago
Thank you.
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by techopoly 7y ago
Yes, nobody has a crystal ball. It always feels like other people do though. It's good to make decisions with a sober view of risk and reward. I feel so much market advice that filters down to us laypeople is whether we should or shoul
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by techopoly 7y ago
I think most doctors make it a point to instill calm in their patients. And, the nature of their work is that they have likely dealt with emergency situations and dying patients, so they have seen the worst and have to have a way to handle
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by techopoly 7y ago
In my opinion, Stephen King might be the best English language novelist since the mid 1950s or so. I think people mostly look down on him because he's generally identified with horror, which is of course his typical genre -- but his wo
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by techopoly 7y ago
And books are not all the same. No matter who you are, it's going to take you longer to read Ulysses than it will take you to read Hank the Cowdog.
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by techopoly 7y ago
According to my understanding, you will possibly not gain immunity after your first infection.
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by techopoly 7y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted -- I think your comment is a perfectly reasonable statement to make.
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by techopoly 7y ago
I can relate to this, and I wonder if it has to do with the unscheduled nature of staying awake through sleep hours. Our adult lives become so regulated and scheduled, which is arguably a good thing for health, relationships, and business.
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by techopoly 7y ago
Reminds me of this article about a student whose property was seized because he had computer expertise: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-...
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by techopoly 7y ago
That's the problem, isn't it? How can we decode a theoretical alien transmission without transposing our own sense of meaning onto it? It's like the X-Files episodes where they find the aliens are using encodings that were de

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