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The rallying cry of the Linux desktop enthusiast: “well, it works for me!”

If you know you know. If you don’t, it’s lobsters

It’s easier to run your own binaries on an Xbox than it is an iPhone.

That’s a false dichotomy. There is a third possibly: He is an extremely talented and skilled chess player, who will resort to cheating to beat people at his level, using it sparingly.

So what?

It’s still a billion dollars and it has been steadily growing every year.

It’s amounted to a lot, actually. One of the stated goals of Bitcoin was to reduce government control. And it has, magnificently: in the drug trade.

Seriously, online drug marketplaces have become massive and highly lucrative. Estimates vary anywhere between $700 million to over $1 billion each year.

Cryptocurrencies have also become useful asset stores for the wealthy living in authoritarian countries. So much so, that an estimated floor of $3-4 bil of cryptocurrency assets during the peak was just that.

I used to joke: if someone says they’re into crypto currencies, they’re either a tool or have good ketamine. Years later, that rule still shakes out.

> more efficient, cost effective, and reliable than anything prebuilt due to their nature

Absolutely untrue, and I’ve run the numbers to prove it. Prebuilt PCs have lower TCO because they extensively test configurations and have aggressive pricing around support contracts. Every broken pc costs them! Some vendors are better than others, as well.

Now, if we’re talking about gaming PCs, the numbers are a little different there. It makes sense to roll your own for that. But for most people, building their own pc yields nothing but the entertainment of building their own pc.

“AI” is not a scam, but it’s a very wide term that people abuse.

The self driving software packages that work, the Cruze and Waymos and Mercedes of the world, are in limited careful rollout. These companies and teams want to make sure it’s safe and robust before entering mass market adoption.

Tesla is one of the weakest and most immature offerings of the major players, and it has been given the widest distribution. It is utterly frustrating.

It’s because it makes it accessible, which is important.

Yes, the Turks also put their hands in the boiling pot, but only the British were arrogant enough to try to turn these regions into countries with neat, straight borders and also with western style governments. Which destroyed local alliances and created a massive power vacuum when the empire fell. Then, the us and Russia had a go of it, which certainly didn’t calm the situation.

But go on.

That doesn’t excuse the actions and behaviors of the invaders who stole these artifacts dozens or hundreds of years before isis was even a thing.

Btw things like isis are a direct consequence of actions taken by the English colonialists when they created artificial boundaries.

Unlike Covid, which is a relatively new family of virus to us, humans have hundreds of years with this family of disease

We have a much firmer foundation of understanding monkeypox and it’s long term effects

That’s a bit of a willful misinterpretation

Native is more about replanting things into a stable ecosystem, versus non native, which can become invasive and detrimental to that ecosystem

Except, Tesla removed radar from their cars, a relatively inexpensive and simple mechanism that significantly reduce their fatality rate.

It’s a false dichotomy here it’s frustrating, especially when they had implemented a check to their software and then removed it to save money on a $50,000 car

No, they don’t. And you won’t find many watch enthusiasts who agree with you either about this class of watch.

First of all, training users to copy stuff into a terminal is just a bad idea.

Also, youre basically suggested that users use a GUI (a web browser) to get instructions on how to use a command line.

It makes a lot more sense for there to be a clear and easy to use package manager, and if users are having trouble figuring that out, work needs to be done to rectify that.

Also, if you’re targeting power users who are familiar with the command line, that’s one thing. But right now linux desktop feels like it wants to be everything for everyone and that’s a very hard rope to walk

It’s complicated. AFAIK there is no official ban.

It’s not so much that time travel itself is banned, it’s that the Chinese government has a bunch of rules that make time travel movies impossible to execute.

For example, the Chinese government wishes to protect the dignity and honor of historical culture. And that means, any movie made of those time periods must fundamentally be serious.

Also, it’s possible that whoever is running the movie review board personally thinks time travel is “too silly”.

This article makes some incredible leaps. Marijuana addiction is an under-recognized problem, but the implication that a kid killed himself because he had a weed addiction is incredibly misleading.

> After several stays at mental hospitals, the doctors determined that Johnny had a severe case of THC abuse, Ms. Stack said. He was prescribed an anti-psychotic medication, which helped — but then he stopped taking it. In 2019, Johnny died after jumping from a six-story building. He was 19. A few days before his death, Ms. Stack said, Johnny had apologized to her, saying that weed had ruined his mind and his life, adding, “I’m sorry, and I love you.”

I can buy an array of chemical substances on the internet with cryptocurrency

While I’m not a fan of cryptocurrency… cash is just colored paper, why don’t you give it all to me :)

It is, of the new young far right

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Fren

Thank you to both of you for your responses, I admit I had some confusion - I hadn’t looked at your product since the last time I used it. And, I wouldn’t say that it had gone well last time.

I have amended my post to refer to yours, for clarity.

Well, I had to pass an extensive interview process in which said friend was not involved. So I wouldn’t consider it nepotism.

Edit: it looks like I was wrong about some things. The team at Triplebyte has also answered my questions. In the interest of fairness, if you read this post, I encourage you to read their responses as well.

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At this point, if you (Triplebyte) haven’t set private the profiles of everyone who didn’t explicitly consent, then you are irredeemable. You’ve had, what, two years to work this out?

I would love to understand what the goals and numbers here are, and what the revenue implications of public profiles are? It seems to me that you’re trying to build a social network of some sort with verified-skill capability.

I went to your site, and your about me page, to see what your business model was. What you stated, the mission and the copy, does not align with a public profile and social network style feature.

If you truly are trying to make hiring better, how does public profiles achieve that?

If you truly are trying to make hiring better, people on all sides of process should be benefiting. And there should be nothing to be afraid of in terms of mission.

Your /manifesto document falls short. What, exactly, is your business model? You should have no shame in it. Unless you think it’s shameful, in which case, please stop.

Like your manifesto claims, transparency is good!

Eliminating the same boring foo bar baz coding test is a great concept.

Being able to skip an hour or two out of a full interview across many companies is a great concept.

Having a 3rd party verified that allows you to be quickly matched with potential employers is a great concept.

Execution may be difficult, or impossible even. But that’s not an issue, when said company insists on shooting itself in the foot constantly.

I went through their process, passed in their top cohort (or so they told me, probably it was to massage my ego). And then they dropped that public profile bomb the first time around.

I’d say I cost them a lot of money when I deleted my account, but they actually cost it themselves.

They could have asked me if I wanted a fancy jacket, because that ended up immediately getting recycled. The book was dece tho

Anyways, I ended up getting a job that I love the old fashioned way - through a friend.

Great concept, shit company.

Edit: Triplebyte employees reading this: you massively betrayed my trust. Had you asked me, and let me review on my own time, I might have even been proud to have a verified skill set badge page I could link to. Instead, I will probably look directly for your competitors on my next job search. You had a great idea, too bad that you seem to be irresponsible.

Stop reading pop science articles

I don’t see anyone mentioning the latest South Park “movie”, but they presented this in a very humorous, yet grim, way.

I’m not going to say it’s broken, but it sure is rough.

I’m still on KeePass. I keep meaning to get off of it but it more or less works okay (not great)

I use windows, Debian, iOS, and Firefox as the browser on desktop. Any recommendations?