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The number of organizations that continue to use tedious languages like Java 8 and Golang...

Like, they hadn't realized they were turning humans into compilers for abstract concepts, yet now they are telling humans to get tf out of the way of AI

Isn't that scarier, knowing that you're using a state-sanctioned exit node?

The same erra

It probably allowed their engineers to code the design bits in an easier language (imagine, HTML vs C++!), allowing them to iterate and customise the design more quickly.

It's probably in the same vein as how phone apps that need a new feature quickly may decide to simply start a WebView.

Literally, fentanyl is legal and regulated. It's used as an anaesthetic.

there's no market clearing price in the market for concert tickets. the scalpers would exercise perfect price discrimination if they could.

1/ attending a concert is not a civil right 2/ can't emphasize enough, but _get an ID_. While ID posession was used to discriminate against groups of people, the real problem here is "why doesn't everyone have an ID"?

unpopular opinion in this US-centric forum, but just burn the bags when they end up in the trash. Much of Europe does that. Bags are just hydrocarbons and burning them completely releases nothing but CO2 and water.

Then the landfill ceases to be an issue and we can focus on CO2.

Well, CO2 is a problem, but plastic bags are already more CO2 efficient than any alternative bags given the average number of uses in their lifetime.

The book Pathogenesis published this year has a hypothesis -- diseases from the Neanderthals and other hominids who populated the regions outside Africa earlier wiped out the earlier waves of Sapiens.

Until diseases spread back and forth enough that Sapiens had enough immunity to non-Sapien diseases, but not vice versa (due to lower population density or less diverse fauna outside Africa) which wiped out the non-Sapiens populations outside Africa.

So, Americans decided to make their language as difficult to read as Chinese?!? Well done...

/++ are spontaneous. Any time your colleague makes a great presentation, does you a favour, you /++ them.

If there are regular weekly kudos, it'd be a team-specific thing.

/++ were really common before a couple of years ago, but I get the vague feeling it's usage is declining. It used to report the accumulated number of pluses you got... So you could tell who have been the really helpful folks (or really tenured folks) out there, and for great contributions, you'd really want to chime in to a wave of ++s to show your appreciation.

Without the numbers, usage seems to have declined a bit, since there isn't the satisfaction of seeing a colleague's karma go up by, say, 10pts after a great presentation.

Still, it's a great culture tool, and something I'd want to spread at my next employer's if I leave the company.

exactly. Captchas should just ask the user to design... CAPTCHAS

Doesn't matter what minimum wage was used for if we agree that it works for us today.

They are still doing contact tracing, and even doubling down on it