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by zerbinxx 1y ago
the realistic best you can do for a quality outsourced engineer is $80k. Good ones go for $100k, and you can easily, easily get junior devs for that price. You can even get decent U.S. engineers for $125k outside of HCOL places.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Well sure, but in Russia’s case, the average income is incredibly low and their wealth disparity is even more extreme than in the USA. I don’t know how any of that relates to the war point
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
OOP and Dry are compatible! I’ve actually done the thing that the above commenter suggests - create a base object with created on/by so that I never have to think about it. Whether or not you actually care about that, if you implement
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
The online-ification of conversation is so gross. Whenever I hear someone bring up a weird niche online thing (mostly incel/femcel/rightoid/tankie shit) I get so embarrassed for both of us: mostly on me for knowing what a “pi
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I think the beauty of the mid-internet era was the aggressive personalization of it: the connections I made galvanized careers and friendships, celebrities seemed closer and more human, ideas seemed worthy of debate in your small corner of
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
We’re pretty close. I’m not sure that 51% of the people I work with understand what DNS is, what a call stack is, what the difference between inheritance and polymorphism is, or what a mutex is
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I’d like to believe the common line that chat GPT is “just a tool” and that it can actually be used to learn/comply just as much as a university degree can be obtained by mere compliance or demonstration of learning (or merely giving t
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Sure, but if you need that thing to run every hour for a few seconds, then seconds aren’t really the limiting factor. I don’t doubt that the resource management side of k8s would make it dicey at a certain volume of these things running, th
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
This is my take as well, just because you can get away with something doesn’t necessarily make it desirable to maintain or extend, and I honestly cannot imagine the effort in terms of labor hours that you’d have to go through to develop som
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Doesn’t it have some weird and Very Apple design flaw where it’s hard to charge and use at the same time?
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
My understanding is that in Oregon, new construction property taxes are higher than on older units
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
The woman was presumably upset because she thought she was scammed and had caught the scammer red-handed, and probably didn’t fully understand how credit disputes happen, or had some extenuating circumstances (poor credit, no credit) that s
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I can explain if you’re genuinely interested
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
No, not at all, just that (post) modern techno-capitalism has grown out of the need to justify itself via appeals to humanism. Another way of looking at this is by considering the difference between life/death drive in psychology as th
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
The thing with the microservice + do separation problem is that by the time you’re forced to do it, the cost to migrate and split data out of a single source into many (potentially all at once) is extremely great. Last at work week a trio
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I think a possible explanation would be that the increasing desire for more government regulation, or at least functional government, runs counter to the world, which is increasingly ruled by inhuman, (even anti-human) forces. This breeds a
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Same background as you, still work a lot in Python to this day to a lesser degree. A couple of caveats: first, for strictly web-based integration tests, I agree that frequently they will give you what you need faster than units. Many popula
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Like a lot of non-mainstream forums, HN lives in a weird world, especially after the ban on political posting (here) and the rise of greater web content moderation (here and abroad) post 2015-2016. With tech being a space that attracts ever
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I agree on the DFW point. It’s rare for a commencement speech to hit the nail on the head, it almost always lapses into this “do what you love” shtick that isn’t really relatable for kids who studied business to pay off their incredibly lar
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Imo the only time you should do this is when you need features/upgrades that the current paradigm doesn’t support, the existing project is well tested, and the “rewrite” can be done in successive smaller changesets which don’t break ev
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Yeah I get what you mean. I’m not like, a luddite, or anything, I just don’t agree with the authors notion that advertising is particularly all-encompassing, especially when you’re not actively using a computer.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
This is true, but I have to buy in to open myself up to it. Until they start giving away whatever VR headset it is, and until hell freezes over and I actually put it on, I’m safe. But the thought of it does make me sick/sad.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I mostly ride on back roads and side-streets, my city banned billboards and is very small and close enough to the woods to not feel like one. But I get what you mean.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
The solution, at least for me, is finding things/places, both on and off the computer, where you can avoid having your attention stolen and just focus on something you like. I think the ad-saturated parts of the world are one of those
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
For what it’s worth, I fully agree with the author that the trends we see in housing availability and affordability are driven largely by perverse economic factors, and that the result is destructive. However, “creating new wealth” is kind
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I fully agree with this, fwiw. There are a lot of causes and reasons to be anxious that we could try to fix on a broader level, but we do not. Then again, passing off your problems on a “broken world” doesn’t really bring you solace unless
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Well, then you’d become a Buddhist and hopefully that’d help. To be less oblique, the act of abstracting your own personal suffering from “the way things are” can be a good step in isolating exactly what has got you down. I personally know
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Cannabis that people are using for anxiety is probably making it worse(wsj.com)
83 points by zerbinxx 3y ago|118 comments
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Oh so you say “I had a burger” and it estimates what kind of calories that would entail?
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
What was the full app?

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