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At the very least we would've had the build tooling and infrastructure to support containers from the get-go, rather than having to migrate from zips to containers. Speculative, bu…

No, I'm not talking about "preference". People don't "prefer" to live paycheck-to-paycheck, with any meager savings they're able to accumulate being consumed by unplanned expenses …

Not all places do this; the place I currently work only rewards leaders for "impact" and people have the option of whether to take on leadership responsibilities. Places that rewar…

> If petrol were 10x the current price, you wouldn't commute that distance. You'd move or get a different job. This doesn't happen in practice. Instead, people get stuck in poverty…

We've been using a serverless stack on AWS for a while (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SQS, RDS) and it's been a good experience overall. I can't recommend Serverless Framework. The abst…

Also related: the effect of exposure to pro-ana communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-ana#Effect

> All the kids that I knew who did this have grown up to be completely normal adults. Some kids did this and didn't grow up, because someone in their online community committed sui…

> No one seems to know how to get interviews right. Plenty of people do, but good interview processes are highly context-dependent and not trivially transferable. And most companie…

It's not capitalism, it's managerialism.

> Comments on Workplace, the company’s internal version of Facebook for employees, came flying in. “This is war-time, we need a war-time CEO,” one wrote. “Beast mode activated,” a …

> Social media giant Facebook has seen its daily active users (DAUs) drop for the first time in its 18-year history. > Facebook's owner Meta Platforms says DAUs fell to 1.929bn in …

All dependencies should be injected (and possibly wrapped with custom interfaces, if they're libraries). All globals should be configurable (most codebases I've seen have a ton of …

Value selling isn't an option for most employees. Try it in a typical salary negotiation and you'll get funny looks followed by a repeat of their standard offer.

> If I don't think the change is worth it or the vulnerability is relevant, I can go to the Snyk site and mark a vulnerability to be ignored, or even tell it to ignore it for a mon…

Most people read these things because it feels good to read them, not because it provides any lasting benefit. It makes sense that these productivity entertainment books include th…

Maybe you just downloaded a bunch of files into your cwd and now you're going to run a script to process them.

> "Chemical imbalance" isn't actually taught as the root cause of depression. The article contradicts this.

If you have a broken arm a cast can be helpful during the healing process, but a cast does not heal a broken arm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Triple_p...

You don't think so? I worry that it will be very effective, that it will be passively accepted by the public, and that we will see widespread injustice as a result.

That doesn't really matter. The point Turnbull was making is something along these lines: https://xkcd.com/538/ No, they can't change the laws of mathematics to make all encryption…

"Well, the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of …

Minecraft, Terraria, Rust, ARK, Arma, Chivalry, Valheim, Factorio, most Valve games.

You're absolutely right. Most organizations do a completely hopeless job of implementing compliance sensibly. Those responsible for compliance tend to choose a solution that's scal…

They are referring to software structure and decomposition. This is a hard problem that spans architectures; you can have a poorly factored microservice architecture, just as you c…