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great_wubwub
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Comment #49245788
"It appears you've misunderstood. We meant less work _per person for the number of people we have right now_."
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Comment #49204112
If employers don't t want to pay to keep employees healthy they shouldn't tie employees to employer-provided healthcare like indentured servants.
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Comment #49184264
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle never said this. It's Will Durant. https://medium.com/the-mission/my-favourite-quote-of-all-…
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Comment #48913208
IDK, this seems like the next step towards uploading yourself to the cloud.
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Comment #48832860
Oh that was very much sarcasm. I have no idea why I'd pay for five hours of recorded videos from two guys from Samsung when I can get top-tier academic and industry content for fre…
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Comment #48825227
Yes but you get a digital badge with it, so that's nice.
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Comment #48592868
Makes me a little nervous that a web page about resilience is failing to connect.
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Comment #48302835
This reminds me of Ted Chiang's point that fear of technology is really fear of capitalism. https://kottke.org/21/04/ted-chiang-fears-of-technology-are-... "Most of the things that…
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Comment #48228498
Are you arguing that trying to write more clearly is a 'special use case'?
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Comment #48221403
I have a coworker whose first language isn't English. She uses AI to polish up her writing, particularly long documents. She puts a ton of effort into making sure that it still rea…
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Comment #48110914
So is New Relic, which also featured the same CEO and CTO. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
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Comment #47937242
This is the scariest part.
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Comment #47400321
Calling these Magna not Manga is a miss.
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Comment #46557604
> this means a court order can't block a single cloudflare site without blocking every cloudflare site Not true. Cloudflare can't block only a single web site _by IP address_ but t…
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Comment #46533365
No, what I meant was "haven't we been basically ignoring science on nutrition since the 80s?" I think we have. For those who don't believe me - go find some old family photos of yo…
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Comment #46532551
The man is stark raving bonkers mad in that head-in-the-sand, if-I-ignore-science-then-it-can't-hurt-me way but (and OMG I think I'm going to throw up a little in my mouth even com…
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Comment #46260486
Me too, but > This document describes an implementation of J in C. The reader is assumed to be familiar with J and C.
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Comment #46176990
I have not applied to this program but I've gone through a part-time MBA. I doubt that an online program for working professionals is as rigorous about references as, say, undergra…
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Comment #46148447
I once worked for a guy who'd obviously seen the term Servant Leadership on a bumper sticker somewhere and figured that meant he was the leader and we were the servants. Worst boss…
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Comment #45986044
/r/whoosh
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Comment #45980174
I think there was a single web page that summarized all of that. IIRC it was extremely well written and gave me warm happy fuzzy schadenfreude vibes.
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Comment #45974821
This reminds me of the Blue Jeans Cable / Monster Cable shakedown nonsense. https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm I wish I could find the original writeup from Blue Je…
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Comment #45901201
> 5. Top secret information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers
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Comment #45900733
> Trust, security, and privacy guide every product and decision we make except ones that involve money . -- openai, probably.
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Comment #45899081
PTP is more precise so it's much harder to synchronize over long distances. Even in data centers it benefits from hop-by-hop participation from the routers involved.