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They are implicitly comparing media sources to non-"media staples", such as your gut or your dreams. There may be "general information sources" better than those. Seems like Node.j…

So, global-yet-Western corporations outsourced manufacturing to to China, some "unfair" trades that have long-term benefits for China happened, and now Chinese companies can now co…

The commenter you replied to seemed to be comparing 2 situations. That seems normal to me. Comparing things seems to be great way to understand complex issues. What makes the comme…

Nice anecdote, I tried to speak more to the point that I think that most US citizens are right to support the US escalating the conflict against China. Their values align with thei…

My assumptions: 1. Hedonism is "fairly correct". In a well-fed and low-violence society, the pleasure/pain axis explains >40% of what every human cares about, especially chronic pl…

I've never understood why people support the escalating US-China conflict since it's so easy to just keep focusing on win-win collaborations but your comment gave me an insight. Pl…

The author seems to be say in the article that writing readable code, at least for yourself, is still an important goal. I think they are arguing against why a writer shouldn't be …

Except that people are too lazy to use exceptions that are checked at compile time. The main benefit of Go is that the people that defined the library ecosystem actually decided to…

I think the larger problem is that everybody expects that they have to get better, and they have to get better quickly. That's why people injure themselves doing pretty much anythi…

I've heard stuff before about the fact that conglomerates like Tencent make it hard for Chinese startups to get money. Is that true and potentially the larger factor? Given that it…

Is China doing anything so that it's worthwhile for students to learn practical skills rather than focus on getting into a college? It's harder to get society to value college degr…

Do you mean that Chinese education must involve Western values? For example, is logical reasoning a Western value, and the Chinese government cannot exist if their citizens think l…

It's sort of hard to compare these approaches, since it's not like Amazon and Apple only have 1 principle that they follow. I'll try to analyze them in a generic way. Disclaimer th…

This is something I try to mention a lot, but mostly focused on the importance of onboarding. Either, your company makes sure that almost everybody contributes above their salary, …

I feel like this mindset is actually responsible for a lot of modern-day unhappiness. Why are 1st world countries somehow more lonely? Something I've noticed while talking to my ol…

Yeah, what exactly makes the 36k US lives lost more important to focus on during Memorial Day? The best arguments I can think of: 1. This memorial must be acknowledged or practiced…

A recently completed starter task for the project you are working on usually is a good idea. However, you need to make sure that the task is truly a starter task, not just a task t…

I do not understand how you cannot easily "spin" a prototype that the company wants to sell into a good thing. When you write that awesome prototype, your management will be thinki…

If you have a PBs of data that you rarely access, it seems to make sense to compress it first. I've rarely seen any non-giants with PBs of data properly compressed. For example, sm…

The term "batch job" (as opposed to "service") appears frequently in the Google K8s-like scheduler papers: https://research.google/pubs/pub41684/ https://research.google/pubs/pub43…

What happened to the "average programmer" over time? They seem to be building things that make more money now. Isn't that the main reason companies pay for software engineers? I be…

Yeah, like the other reply, I'd mostly say testing DAGs was an issue. Airflow-related configuration is easy to get wrong and it silently fails a lot. Now that I think about it thou…

Nothing is more popular yet, but there are better architected options out there. It's hit 17k GitHub stars and was used by the team I was previously at. I don't think anything will…

But we don't value things solely based on their natural resource composition; we pay far more for "labor" and other intangibles. As a result of the above, the value of a natural re…