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> What you are not seeing is the piles of grounds that would be needed and the tangle of logistics to get the grounds from where they are produced to where they can be used. so man…

considering the mass of a home, what’s the efficiency difference between letting the temperature stay in uncontrolled for 8+ hours and then trying to rein it in quickly vs just kee…

going to be a rather unenthusiastic army if it is stocked with folks who thought they were getting cushy office jobs.

fly new hires some place and make them work in person with somebody for a week. i think remote work is great, but some early face to face can fix a bunch of problems imo.

i did some contracting for a place that i think hired one of these guys. in his case i think he more or less knew what he was doing, and showed up on calls, but delegated the work …

> May I just say, that the most ridiculous thing in this news really is selling a 15% stake in a company for $100? no kidding. i wouldn’t sell a 15% stake in a lemonade stand for $…

> > I don't see how you can get away from having a defined serialisation format. > Yep, that's exactly it. Your TLS certificate is not sent as string, and neither are your TCP pack…

i’m sure it seems like “everyone” is on twitter when you’re permanently online, but even the peak MAU figures don’t look anything like “everyone” in the US let alone the rest of th…

> Then make an example and disband the company and all shareholders lose all equity. Have people realize they will lose money if they don't pay attention to details. do you not mak…

> With that, Americans also don't accept the United States as someplace people are from. Nonsense. > Even if you're family has been here for 500 years, people still want to know wh…

This is why jmkb referenced synchronization rights, which (as I recall) were invented when they seemed useful. jmkb is suggesting a new right might be created, not claiming that th…

will you be providing us with a list of acceptably cheap entertainments? > We can probably expand this to things like coffee, but you could argue that it provides value. why should…

why read new books, we have plenty of old ones. those authors could be slaving away for the planet

i can take something like Octave (very GPL) and do commercial things with it all day. the GPL would only be relevant if i start distributing Octave itself. (or, in your suggested w…

i’ve had it come up with new function names, or prepend some prefix to the names of functions. i had to put some cleverness in on my end to run whatever function was close enough.

> anything assembler or C I have ever asked it has turned out to be at least somewhat wrong i've found that its quality is proportional to the amount of questions about the subject…

do you ask all of your interviewers the same set of questions to ensure they’re all suitably impressed by you? if not how do you decide to allocate them?

> The superficial take on FDB is "waah, where are my features? it doesn't do indexing? waaah, just use Postgres!". i love fdb, but, most people _should_ just use postgres. you shou…

this sounds like it was dreamt up by a bunch of lawyers trying to get themselves more work. there's a lot more paperwork and bullshit involved in going into bankruptcy than just be…

some newspaper translator had to figure out how to translate the novel(ish?) phrase 歯生え薬. what do you want? it's not like this is FDA-approved marketing materials for something tha…

> Somehow it was decided to launch on an underdeveloped platform which strew debris and dust unless something comes out in discovery, they didn't know it was going to do that. and …

to the other commenters: there’s a difference between a week old wreck still being investigated and one a hundred years old. same way there is a difference between photos of dead b…

> It is very common among people who organized or were very active in summer 2020 anti-police violence protests > ..., fraud, low level drug stuff... fraud has a specific victim, s…

look up "photorealism".