draklor40

Fooled by Randomness. i picked it up from my friend's dad's bookshelf in 2010/2011 by pure chance. Best decision ever.

Work in a startup only if it is yours or you have a significant stake in it, or if you have no other options.

The payoff for "working" at a startup with respect to the risk is IMHO simply not worth it.

the thinkpad?

Went to jnd.org on my 14" thinkpad.

Thin, small grey fonts on white background, makes me want to tear out my own eyeballs.

Eat your dogfood, perhaps ?

Hastala Vista to exit the program!

RDS is expensive, but for a small team of 5 devs (my current setup) it is an amazing solution.

Scaling up and down the database is as simple clicking a button on the UI, which we used quite effectively when our services saw a sudden spike in the load. We were able to scale down the same way after the spike dropped.

We still had to tune our queries and indices so that we weren't paying the cost over the long term, but the peace of mind that comes with not having to figure out why your database went down when there is no one in the office is a huge win-win.

We currently also manage an OLD version of Cassandra and Elasticsearch and we are also looking to migrate to the new managed version of Cassandra. At the end of the day, the extra cost for RDS even for small teams, is much lower than the cost in terms of developer-hours * cost per hour for developer.

Lol. PC police FTW!

Is one cigarette a day, dosage low enough for the body to benefit from it, or atleast not be damaged by it?

Is a pack of cigarettes high enough to kill you if you smoke it all at once ? I know quite a few friends who get through a pack a day.

I didn't say 365 cigarettes at once. Everyone knows its too high a dosage that might actually kill a person, just like a high enough dose of caffeine or alcohol.

I don't think a cigarette a day is low dosage. While you might not die of a heart attack or get lung cancer directly from smoking, it might still increase the risk of serious diseases given other environmental conditions, your fitness level, diet, etc. The 2 drinks a day has to be seen in a similar light.

Dosage and frequency are 2 different things. Smoking a pack of cigarettes every year wont kill you, but smoking one cigaratte a day for a year might.

sounds kinda weird. IC engine planes get more efficient with lower fuel (lower weight)whereas with Electric ones, you still have to carry the weight around with lower power.

You made your points well and I thank you for it. But my questions are behind the motivations of these alarmists mentally damaging our kids.

How are movements like the Extinction Rebellion, Great Thunberg, being funded ? How is she getting all the money to do her travel ? How did she go from doing strikes by herself at the school to the UN in less than a year ? I have heard of fairytales, but please don't tell me that she got there because of organic, viral support from people. There is BIG MONEY behind this. And how did she get so many celebrities to endorse her and have so many meeting arragned ?

I just don't see the people behind these protests and that makes me super skeptical of how "organic" these movements are.

Before someone accuses me of conspiracy theories. James Cameron produced a movie on How Vegan athletes are rewriting nutrition science (haven't watched it). Applying my "follow the money" universal rule, I came across an article that points out tothe fact that James Cameron has invested a lot of money in Vegan food corps

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-03/-avatar-d...

This is the kind of propaganda hiding real intentions that irks me to no end.

There is no question that the climate is changing. But what is the crisis here ? Are the apocalyptic warnings anywhere close to reality? And lets look at the proposed solutions: - Going meatless. There is more and more evidence that the methane/CO2 emissions of meat industry is not very significant, atleast when you compare it to construction, cement and other industrial pollutants. The more important question is, what is the alternative ? Insects protein ? GMO crop fueled veganism? Jurassic park is all about how unintended consequences can arise out of stupid interventions ? Meatless burgers etc are full of junk nutrition and full of stuff like sunflower and vegetable oils, oils a century ago were considered industrial oils and used as paint thinners. - Green energy. Germany reversed their decision on Nuclear reactors to go green and the energy costs are 2x that of France. How do you expect to be competitive with other industries then ? It was the freeing up of stored chemical energy by James Watt that powered the greatest poverty lifting experiment in the history of Manking. There is no way Germany would get to 100% green energy by 2050 unless fusion, or everyone lives like they did in th 18th century or you kill off half the population. - People consume less ? Pray why is that virtue-signaling dipshits like Lenardo Di Fraudio, Attenborough fly around in private jets whereas we plebs have to give up on our tiny cars and electronics ? A single virtue signaling Hollywood nincompoop consumes 100x more than any average person would in an entire lifetime. - More taxes so people consume less ? Aren't we taxed enough ? - Tax the rich ? Gates and Bezos dont have a 100 billion sitting around in cash. Most of it is locked up as assets in Stock or another form. Besides, whatever millions they have paid so far is more than what 100,000 people would pay in a lifetime.

Hurting people is precisely the point of all of this alarmism. The goal is not to solve the "climate crisis", but to subvert the guilt of the people for self-serving needs of the few that stand to gain for society taking up measures deemed by them to "solve" the crisis.

Moral of the day: Grumpiest programmers win !

Interesting to note that they are cracking down heavily on service and consulting companies as they are the reasons why most people find it hard to get a H1-B. FANG salaries are quite good and the increase in rejection % for FANG-ish companies is a little discouraging though.

Mozilla makes a big chunk of money (or did) by making Big G the default search engine. They have employees to pay and servers to maimtain.

Publishers online and offline have almost never made money without ads. The only diff. is tracking readers is easy online. And that is not probably going to change anytime soon. I don't trust publishers. I trust Mozilla.

I'd be willing to pay monthly for Firefox to make for the lost advertising revenue.

Implementing an operating system for Risc-v in Rust Bad: 0.0542 - Good: 0.9655

Carmack was able to choose his timings because it was HIS company. People worked for him, not vice versa. To be the master of your time, you have to work for yourself, not under someone else. When reality and idealism clashes, reality wins.

> A MAGA hat can serve as a useful heuristic for "likely to cause trouble".

Wow. And here I am, thinking that we no longer discriminate people based on their political leanings and everyone has the right to freedom of political opinion.

Move over racial profiling. Here comes political profiling.

Hasn't anyone ever watched Gattaca before shipping their DNA sample to a Silicon Valley company ?

Hasnt anybody ever watched Gattaca ?