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rl1987

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About rl1987

Just a traveller.

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    Comment #48396662

    Unless done in collaboration with proper institutions, that would be playing with fire. Consequences from letting who-knows-who from who-knows-where do who-knows-what in your name …

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    Comment #47903928

    He does run some strange "capitalist philanthropy" thing with his wife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Zuckerberg_Initiative

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    Comment #47468529

    Because it's not wrong when "we" (i.e. those naming who counts as APT) are doing it.

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    Comment #47325934

    That sounds more like "peace through superior firepower" rather than "war is peace".

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    Comment #46720425

    It got to the point that now there is a "SSecretary" of War.

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    Comment #46611591

    [flagged]

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    Comment #46053520

    Security is like insurance - it is something you kind-of don't need until something bad happens and when it does, you wish you had it.

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    Comment #45975190

    The strongest few did. The likes of pets.com did not.

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    Comment #45603144

    People being grabbed off the streets and transported to prison in unrelated country is what you voted for?

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    Comment #45458271

    You can do arbitrary REST API calls from n8n, which greatly increases the integrability surface.

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    Comment #45409774

    Decamillionaire?

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    Comment #45334070

    People in suits looking important. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20240927004237/https://www.flick... https://web.archive.org/web/20230220184613/https://www.flick...

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    Comment #44912616

    Libpostal - street address parsing and normalisation library that relies on downloadable NLP model. https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal

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    Comment #44722369

    See: https://old.reddit.com/r/mit/comments/1m2ewe5/what_standing_... TL;DR: He is officially listed on MIT site as research scientist, has research published in association with MI…

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    Comment #44580513

    Exactly the point they are making?

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    Comment #44552156

    The way I see it, works like Tetsuo is Japanese extreme cyberpunk - niche-within-a-niche kind of thing.

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    Comment #44447349

    Twitter layoffs of 2022 might have been the Lehman Brothers moment that marked the end of programming gold rush.

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    Comment #44394234

    Some quick examples: Bosch: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/11/business/bosch-germany-jo... Panasonic: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/panasonic-layoffs-con... SAP: https://…

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    Comment #44394040

    Layoffs certainly do happen outside US and ZIRP was not uniquely American thing.

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    Comment #44353149

    Does this sort of stuff still work for people who can do Python or Javascript just as well as thousands of others? I expect most companies today to simply stop talking to a typical…

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    Comment #44283036

    No-ish, unless you specifically want to work with Perl codebases (e.g. in bioinformatics). By and large, Python has pretty much replaced Perl for generic scripting work.