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Musk isn't a policitican.

> The actions are entirely unconstitutional.

For all the fetishization of the constitution popular media has led me to believe Americans engage in, when push comes to shove it doesn’t seem to be worth the paper it’s written on.

> The BFF pattern is just "mostly microservices dedicated to a particular client type".

If you’re building dedicated APIs for just one client you’ve come full circle and building a monolith with a bunch of extra step. Why not just build a good old web app at that point?

> more like “ends justify the means at any cost”

Everyone is crystal clear on this, the goal is to replace expensive humans to increase profits.

Multicloud looks like something I’ve been looking for but the website gives of incredibly sketch vibes for some reason

> Now I have my whole library in Calibre and on my Kindle.

Funnily enough I’m contemplating buying a MiniDisc player since my music listening has gone way down since Spotify came along.

Its like the abdunance of selection is overwhelming.

> The only other thing you need to know is few hooks.

...and then draw the rest of the owl.

You know you can pay to have the ads go away?

> Fachkräftemangel

Why is this German word thrown in without any explanation? I’ve noticed this is a common trend whenever a Germany-adjacent topic is discussed.

Or Apples family offering. For ~€40 we get Apple Music, Apple TV+, 2 TB of iCloud and probably something more for the whole family.

I’m a backend developer who’s trying to build up some rudimentary design chops and I’ve a consumed quite a few resources about design.

A lot of them say, pretty early on, “don’t use pure black or pure white, period”

So… Black Mirror season 3 then?

It's not great if it's 15 million supporting 35 million children, elderly and sick.

Ah, the main application of Bitcoin - ransomware - is now more lucrative then ever.

My experience is that 99% of the work related to geters and seters is handled by the IDE

> What about developers who don't want to use Tailwind?

What's that Steve Jobs quote? "You know, you can please some of the people some of the time"

I have a hunch there's a good reason almost all of these site builders go with Tailwind rather than classic CSS, but as mostly-backend developer I couldn't tell you what that was :)

Natural gas is terrible, but arguably less terrible than coal which aside from CO2 spews out a plethora of other nasty compounds.

FWIW it’s the same thing if you buy an American stock from a EU country, the dividends are taxed in the US.

That why global index funds are probably the best way to invest for non-professionals

If you ever plan on selling your company you’d do well to have it wholly owned by a holding company (which in turn is owned by you).

That’s odd. Outside of reading comprehension assignments I never had any fact memorization as part of any language course.

Perhaps they changed the curriculum since the 90s

> I refused to learn geography because we had map applications

Which is ironic, because geography isn’t about memorizing maps

I switched to contracting and make sure all my contacts are “up to 80%”.

For the past 7 years I’ve worked around 1200 hours per year on average

I feel that people underestimate the impact of this.

The current world economy is built on the assumption that the population pyramid is a pyramid, if there’s a glut in the influx of healthy new citizens a whole slew of supply chains will collapse.

> A few fumbles by Microsoft early on stunted its growth

Microsoft really, _really_ missed out on a huge opportunity to rebrand .NET into something else when they did the Framework -> Core transition. Despite .NET being cross platform for over ten years and winning benchmarks left and right people still see it a the “slow enterprisey framework that only runs on Windows”.

There’s a near-zero chance of getting caught driving without a license. Despite not having a drivers license checking mechanism, people generally don’t drive without a license because of the mere fact that it’s illegal.

Societal signaling is pretty powerful.

They both cost in the same ball park as a Tesla Model Y. They are not affordable cars by any stretch of the imagination.

> Is it? At this point I’ve driven electric Audis and BMWs, VWs, Kia’s and also BYDs.

The real problem is that legacy car makers’ EVs are all high-mid/luxury cars.

People just want a Honda Civic that takes them from point A to point B.

Sure. But it’s a domain specific term within negotiation that easily researchable if someone would want to learn more.

Just trying to be helpful :)

Negotiation start and stop with BATNA - Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement.

The employers BATNA is they go to the pool of 35 other candidates. Yours is you go back to your job.

If your job hunting first when your sick to death of your job, your BATNA isn’t very strong.

If this is your only offer, your BATNA isn’t very strong.

If you’re one paycheck away from being out of the street, your BATNA isn’t very strong.

See where I’m going with this?

Never mind AI, I just want Siri to have better text-to-speech quality than my freaking vacuum cleaner.