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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.