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shric

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    Comment #49228611

    I give it a 0 chance he’s right.

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    Comment #49226902

    Did Wave have performance issues? I thought it was amazing, they just killed it because it didn’t have enough adoption

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    Comment #49220048

    I’ve never worked anywhere where there isn’t at least 3 times more work to do than there is time and developers to do it.

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    Comment #49055635

    “Only language” eh? I only have a passing familiarity or very distant memory so could be wrong but I’d say these are the same: Perl (needs use strict) Ancient VB/VBA/VB script Orig…

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    Comment #48955009

    > In all sincerity, what do you mean by wholly unpleasant? “Wholly” was too strong a word now that I think about it. But I’ll give two main things I find unpleasant. One: Normally …

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    Comment #48954417

    30 years in the industry for me. It’s been a wild last few years watching this transformation. Like the OP I find it wholly unpleasant and I also can’t deny the productivity boost.…

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    Comment #48886518

    > In a pay per token situation, there is a huge conflict of interest with the harness provider and the token seller being the same party ... efficiency is less profitable. Except t…

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    Comment #48843542

    Yeah, for that I use periodic scrubs and zfs event daemon

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    Comment #48828344

    smartmontools makes this trivial and can email you which might be better than beeping and lights if you’re not always near your server. I use that plus smartctl_exporter so I can d…

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    Comment #48755625

    It may come as a surprise to any rational person but some people actually believe that attempting to regulate safety into these models and arbitrarily enforcing them is a good idea…

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    Comment #48754262

    To literally broadcast to the world that they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.

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    Comment #48576222

    > Do you know of people who don’t think “AI” will have a positive impact on society but still choose to use it? Yes. Per your previous statement, those people who are “forced” to u…

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    Comment #48393912

    Walter, I believe the idea against wealth inequality is not purely that there are wealthier people but that their wealth should be redistributed such that the wealthier people are …

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    Comment #48330087

    You said “Unions are the *only legal way* for workers to improve their situation around compensation and working conditions.” (Emphasis mine) My reply was not to say unions were ba…

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    Comment #48329828

    > Unions are the only legal way for workers to improve their situation around compensation and working conditions. How about going to work somewhere with better compensation and wo…

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    Comment #48306236

    I’m curious how he got caught. Polymarket accounts should be untraceable

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    Comment #48290872

    In what backward place does this happen? It shows up the second I pay here (Australia)

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    Comment #48231453

    The key here is “coworker”. He has an obligation to do reasonable things due to being employed by someone and it affecting others. This is completely different. When it’s a person …

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    Comment #48229344

    Again “zero reason”. For some people it’s fun to have a VPS, that is a reason in and of itself.

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    Comment #48229330

    Per a comment I made to one of your other replies in this thread, VPS doesn’t exclude this. You can put it behind cloudflare for free. And yes you can have preferences to keep thin…

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    Comment #48229290

    > want your site to choke during once-in-lifetime opportunities to go life-changingly viral, and like contributing to the global population malicious botnets. You can put it behind…

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    Comment #48229280

    I don’t do it myself, but “objectively inferior in every meaningful way” is a bold claim. It might be harder, but we (geeks) love to do things ourselves. If someone is willing to u…

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    Comment #48165187

    You can also over use the same initialism: ATM the ATM is connected via ATM

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    Comment #48144900

    Your entire reply seems to refute that they’re useless yet nowhere did it say they were useless. In fact, in many occasions they point out they’re indeed useful.

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    Comment #48144866

    You can buy 128GB M5 MacBook Pros? Configured one just now, delivers in 2 weeks