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Not necessarily. I recently earned 9-figure comp as an individual contributor by using my old-school skills for writing performance and correctness-critical software (and it's rath…

Thank you, I guess. I've been a practicing software engineer for over 40 years now, and watching the decline of my profession over the decades is quite painful.

Nope. Dijkstra was and still is right. The newfangled ways of teaching how to code managed to produce a generation of really poor-quality software "engineers" producing atrocious s…

This study fails to add to the cost the huge amount of taxpayer money spent on supporting impoverished people and failing businesses. It also fails to take into account deaths caus…

Yep, it's a death cult. Murdered around 200 million people in the 20th century.

Good thing I'm a tech diver certified for use of 100% oxygen as decompression "mix". Sitting at 10m for 90min every day for a month is too much, though...

The most important structural thing which happened in 70s was going off the gold standard. This resulted in financialization of economy and thus skyrocketing inequality (asset hold…

Volume 2: The Americans, 2020.

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I have another take on it... Haskell is fundamentally misguided and not a real-world production language. What engineers need is not something which makes stuff elegant, but what m…

Anarchists (as opposed to thugs and hooligans who riot in the streets) are simply people who think that violence (or threats of violence) towards people who did nothing wrong to an…

Now, even villages in Khyber Pass can produce modern-ish full-auto weapons. Every machine shop in the West (including a large portion of hobbyist garage ones) is capable of making …

Not really. Beta radiation is effectively stopped by pretty thin shielding.

That word sounds very strange to a native Russian speaker (like myself). drovokol, drovosek, lesorub are all actual Russian words. "drovorub" is Ukrainian.

Greenland is called greenland for a reason. And ice isn't that reason. (Do your own historical research, ok?)

CA is about to get educated on what capital flight does to local economy.

Here's how it gets done under a totalitarian regime. Full disclosure: I was a co-founder of Demos. http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/articles/relcom.htm

You can't call the COVID masquerade "science", for a simple reason: it isn't. The science on the subject of masks is actually pretty much settled: they have exactly zero effect on …

I don't think you understand the purpose of documentation. It's not to say HOW things are done. Code and config files are all overly detailed and often quite convoluted HOWs. It's …

Yeah, let's regularly delete the only store of institutional knowledge. What can go wrong?

The N95 masks are very good at collecting and retaining dust - both organic and inorganic. Organic debris in warm humid environment created by breathing is an ideal breeding ground…

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The important part about ascent from depth is ratio of pressure at initial depth to decompression stop depth. So 10m to surface is 2x, 20m to 10m is 1.5x, and with depth the ratio …

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