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New comment by sl1ck731 in "Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing"

sl1ck731 — Sat, 22 May 2021 02:51:21 +0000

"Have an impact in the world" is a canned answer. I seriously doubt a large percentage of candidates really care, its just not appropriate (unfortunately) to say we're here for the money.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt"

sl1ck731 — Wed, 05 May 2021 03:13:38 +0000

Typically Terraform takes longer to get something working than mindlessly clicking through the console. In my experience those mindless clickthrough things end up sticking around for years even when they weren't intended to.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room?"

sl1ck731 — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:37:41 +0000

Wordpress is probably the elephant in the room.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning"

sl1ck731 — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:56:46 +0000

Presumably the folks behind this would know that he was being transferred to Germany. I wonder why they would not have prevented it through some bureaucracy? Is it common for critically ill Russians to be transferred to Germany? Just seems like something that would have to go through a lot of channels to get done, but I have no experience in healthcare.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize"

sl1ck731 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:29:59 +0000

I was investigating unions over the holidays and saw that these types of things are specific to companies which didn't make sense to me. I'm not familiar with unions in general, but the ones I hear about most in the trades seem to be exterior to any specific company.

Making unions specific to a company rather than a profession seems less useful...or are trade unions specific to their companies as well?

New comment by sl1ck731 in "How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2"

sl1ck731 — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:12:04 +0000

I don't believe its possible to get macOS (or atleast wasn't) onto an AMI in anyway.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "How bad is your Spotify?"

sl1ck731 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:59:47 +0000

No. It uses oauth and scopes for stuff like playlists and activity.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet"

sl1ck731 — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:53:27 +0000

Usually I'm looking for something specific and question whether books will be much help. Eg., I have some salsa, sausage and lentils what can I turn them into type searches.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "A computer science study plan to become a software engineer"

sl1ck731 — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:04:12 +0000

I think the issue is the filter is based on the specific algorithms and not that problem solving ability.

There seems to be more emphasis on "the candidate knew to use bubble sort" or something stupid like that instead of "I observed this candidate reason through the problem and I don't really care that they didn't know a canned algorithm".

New comment by sl1ck731 in "SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet"

sl1ck731 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:29:20 +0000

As someone who cooks a lot, recipes are the worst. As the author points out, it is the obviousness of what the recipe writers are doing that makes it so annoying. I have to acknowledge that I am at least somewhat to blame for this (albeit miniscule in the scale of things) as instead of seeking out concise recipe sites I opt to google in the first place.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "Can lab-grown brains become conscious?"

sl1ck731 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:29:45 +0000

I don't know how much we know about the brain but I think inputs could be electrically simulated. Regardless, I'm not so sure "consciousness" depends on inputs as much. The assumption is its consciousness would be similar to our own but an organism that was created in a lab might feel entirely different such that we can't really compare what it would be like to just take our brain and put it in a jar.

I believe there is some phenomena related to the way people born blind visualize or think about things, but I only vaguely remember reading about such things.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code"

sl1ck731 — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 01:19:56 +0000

I know this is kind of a joke but when I'm doing system admin related things it is basically my OS GUI. Instead of using any of my regular shells like cmd/PS/WSL/Cygwin I use vscode remote to a local Linux VM and do everything using the shell and editor within my VM home directory.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA"

sl1ck731 — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:02:25 +0000

Not having read any legal literature around or really understanding the DMCA, how can they not make a distinction between things with legitimate uses and not? How do torrent clients stand up to that?

New comment by sl1ck731 in "GM sells out first year of electric Hummer production"

sl1ck731 — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 01:34:05 +0000

Lumber and building materials for remodeling like my bathroom (shower and closet doors stuff like that), topsoil and grass seed/sod for redoing my yard. 2000lbs of lava rock most recently. A new water heater when mine went out. Taking loads to the town dump during spring cleaning. There is always something here to do. Not to mention the times I've been in the store looking at a new TV, lawn mower or anything else that I would like to take home immediately (I realize that delivery exists but the convenience is what a truck provides). I've also had times where I've gone to pick such things up and the local truck rentals were out which is super frustrating.

I also don't currently own a truck, but a small sedan so all of these recent things I had to wait/pay for delivery, borrow a truck, or depend on rentals so I'm familiar with "truckless" lifestyle and can say I would prefer at the least a beater truck for these tasks, at which point trading my current car would come out equal to a standard truck in that scenario.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "GM sells out first year of electric Hummer production"

sl1ck731 — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:34:08 +0000

I think your oversimplifying the appeal of a Hummer to only be had by some stereotype you have. I would purchase one of these as I have always liked the way the Hummer looks. I don't care for its association with the military or anything else. I'm not "flamboyantly liberal" and pretty center on a lot of things. It is just a nice looking car, simple as that. I also find the Tesla truck appealing as a homeowner I need something with ample cargo area to get various things for my home. It isn't that its electric that draws me, it wouldn't be that it was an ICE that would draw me either. Its just nice looking and featureful.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "Fuck You Sunday"

sl1ck731 — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 02:40:15 +0000

Columbus Day :)

New comment by sl1ck731 in "Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th"

sl1ck731 — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:03:27 +0000

He seems really insistent on not being ID'd for buses or trains, but its a requirement for flying which has a whole section. Is there something going on with buses and trains that are under more scrutiny? Also, if he can get around the ID with fake names via buses and trains why would he even accept flying?

New comment by sl1ck731 in "Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing"

sl1ck731 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:19:45 +0000

Isn't that only with non-cash accounts?

New comment by sl1ck731 in "Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk"

sl1ck731 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:50:24 +0000

Nowadays no one's plans work out exactly the way they planned.

You can ignorantly (and hypocritically) call avoiding super-spreading schools in the midst of a pandemic an extremist position all you want, but you are overvaluing 6 months of "productivity" and completely avoiding continued remote learning.

New comment by sl1ck731 in "Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk"

sl1ck731 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:36:33 +0000

How does delaying your school career 1 semester cause death?

What debt? School debt? Are you talking about college? If you aren't attending school at all then you aren't adding to the debt (in most cases with Federal loans). If its online then you are still on track so I don't see your point.