wegs

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by wegs 5y ago
I won't argue whether it's accurate, but I think you missed the point. You can swap words around, and get the same for any demographic. The friend's perception of the poster would be "HEY IT'S ME your facebook frien
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by wegs 5y ago
I think what this needs is a proper scan and vectorization. Author has a nice repo with other doodles: https://github.com/girliemac/a-picture-is-worth-a-1000-words I really wish there were some way to find and navigate
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by wegs 5y ago
No. This is not true, and I think I provided a good reference to that effect (it's really quite a good documentary too). A US surgeon engaging in child abuse is a statistical anomaly in the world of child sexual abuse. The best way to
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by wegs 5y ago
I think one of the problems here is a reality and perception don't align: - Apple has over a billion devices out there. - Child abuse is a rare problem, but with over a billion devices, there will be enough of it for a lot of newsworth
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by wegs 5y ago
I think we'll see more globalization, but I think people overstate the level of the transition: 1) Done well, remote work is at least as effective as office-based. However, my experience is that most companies aren't doing remote
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by wegs 5y ago
For the Olympics, this impression is incorrect. It's at least as much a show as an athletics competition. Billions of dollars are on the line in the Olympics, and that's what it's about, from countries competing with billion-
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by wegs 5y ago
If the athletes don't show up, there are plenty of others who will. Expecting athlete pushback to solve this is a doomed strategy.
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by wegs 5y ago
Sex sells. The Olympics is fundamentally about eyeballs. Is it okay to have strip clubs? Is it okay to hire scantily-clad women for ads? In movies? Where are the lines? I'm not sure where we want the lines, but: * I don't like the
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by wegs 6y ago
Perhaps not. 1) "Potential readers" is limited to people who can afford newspapers. NY Times runs around $520 per year in paper, at 2020 printing and delivery costs, and around $100 digitally. Printing and delivery costs, as porti
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by wegs 6y ago
I'd compare to other industries. My experience is perceptions of abuse and abuse are very different. What passes for abuse in software engineering would be a dream job in e.g. retail, education, construction, or many other segments of
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by wegs 6y ago
GOP isn't a person. It's a loose confederacy of people. For small government freedom-loving Republicans, go to e.g. parts of Texas. Utah is a religious conservative. That's an entirely different sort of person. It's a de
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by wegs 6y ago
I cringed on every third sentence in the Google post. E.g. "People shouldn’t have to accept being tracked across the web in order to get the benefits of relevant advertising." This sounded a lot like: "Chickens shouldn't
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by wegs 6y ago
> Yes, but I guess I wouldn’t label them as scientific processes, which I would assume be in line with the scientific method. It's that exact assumption which is common, incorrect, and which I'd like to see addressed in K-12 ed
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by wegs 6y ago
This was not what I expected. I expected the standard line about how the general public should trust scientists, and a fight for a greater role of scientists in decision-making. It was a good read. I think the pieces I would add are a clear
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by wegs 6y ago
If they release 3D CAD models, connector part numbers, and circuit schematics, I'm buying one as my next laptop (when my current one fails or goes obsolete; not as soon as it's released). I expect, if history is any indicator, tha
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by wegs 6y ago
> I still, frankly, trust Google's Security more than Amazon's, but I don't encourage folks to use GCP the way that I used to. I trust virtually anyone's security over Google's. I've never had issues with AW
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by wegs 6y ago
Maybe I went at the wrong time.... I went once, and decided to never come back again. Perhaps things improved.
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by wegs 6y ago
No, I don't, and I advise other people not to. The baseline dozen-or-so services are awesome (EC2, RDS, S3, etc.). The massive number of newer services are propriety, often buggy, and poorly documented. I don't use any AWS service
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by wegs 6y ago
I haven't found AWS to be predatory. Or Azure for that matter. GCE also isn't so much predatory as incompetent and apathetic. If a Google failure wipes out your startup, you're a statistic and it's okay.
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by wegs 6y ago
Yeah. AWS is probably "losing" tens of dollars per month hosting my personal account. They've made a few million dollars in sales as a result. I've personally started several projects on top of AWS which spend that much
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by wegs 6y ago
I think a lot of this discussion hinges on two roles of HR: 1) Risk management and mitigation, in which it acts like a police department. There are few checks or balances on HR power, and having police often outweighs the benefits of that p
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by wegs 6y ago
Same-day shopping, returns, being able to look at things, and talk to people count for something too. I can't count the number of times when I bought a motherboard, and didn't realize my old AT power supply no longer worked with a
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by wegs 6y ago
> Usually it's a win win, unless you value keeping control (which can be quite valuable) My experience is that it's usually overvalued. An external, focused company will usually do a better job than an internal project. It&#x27
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by wegs 6y ago
You don't read Frozen. You watch Frozen. You watch it in first grade through maybe through eighth grade, but probably at that point, you're too embarrassed to go to a little children's movie. As much as I understand t
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by wegs 6y ago
Frozen teaches kids all the wrong lessons. Shirk your responsibilities. Ignore your community. Focus on yourself. "Let it Go" is like an ode to everything I dislike about American culture. It's so very American. Best animated
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by wegs 6y ago
I wouldn't pay $36/year. I kinda feel like the price point for these things is set wrong, though. What you want is a higher price point which gets you /everything/. I pay $1200 per year for bandwidth. If I needed to pay
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by wegs 6y ago
It ebbs and flows. There was a low point in the late nineties and early 2000's: * Windows 95 removed all thought of the user as a programmer, killing things like QBasic. * Apple was doing likewise, even killing Hypercard. * The web was
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by wegs 6y ago
My philosophy isn't to wait for /better/ hardware, so much as to wait for /tested/ hardware. I've been burned often enough buying first-gen technologies. Second generation usually has the bugs worked out. Apple
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by wegs 6y ago
That's kinda the point. AWS can't count their Office 365 subscriptions, because it doesn't have any. It's a question of where on draws lines. Neither is an apples-to-apples comparison. Microsoft's moat play is to in
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by wegs 6y ago
I make my own abstractions. I might have a file called 'kvs' which implements a key-value-store abstraction, or one called 'friendnet' which implements a graph of social relations. * Those files have all the SQL. I never

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