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We should always add a mental asterisk to the names of male researchers who discovered things while women were oppressed.
That said, this meme is playing loose and fast with the specifics, which undermines that important message.
Just picking the first one:
Payne's work was her Ph.D. thesis and Russell did not tell her not to publish it, her advisor did. The advisor told her not to rock the boat in her thesis. This is good advice that even Einstein was given. Payne, badass, declined.
When Russell later reproduced her research, he cited her thesis as the "most important research" he'd seen on the subject.
The real snub with Payne is that her title was "Technical Advisor" for 20 years despite being well regarded as a full time professor. It wasn't until the 50's she was recognized as a professor, when she was also made chair of the department.
Source: https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/cecilia-payne-profile
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You’ve never done ecommerce logistics
I literally have. Go climb up a tree.
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Did 39 people really believe this enough to upvote this? This is easily proven false. Amazon is convoluted because it's old as heck and they hire subpar engineers. Like me. I used to work on the team that made the search page. It sucks because most of us were fresh out of college and had never made a website in our lives.
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Have you tried buying from aliexpress? It's the same products as on Amazon, but directly from the supplier. Imagine Amazon, but everything's 50% off.
Source: I'm cheap as heck and buy random trash from them
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Too long, didn't read
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Meta's emissions were 3000x higher than they reported?! What the heck are they doing over there
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If you're the one working on this infrastructure, then why are the reports saying that it's only 13%? Are you guys lying on the forms?
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God damnit not this swill again. It's not even close to triple, it's like 15%. Read. The. Reports.
For real. Why does this misinformation keep spreading? I have the actual real numbers right in front of me now.
And it's the same as what MIT Technology Review reported and what Google reported publicly.
The EU's CSRD requires most of these companies to disclose their carbon emissions. So just go look it up, ya taints.
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I see your concern, but in practice that's not what happens in languages like Java and Python with exceptions. Not checking for exceptions is a choice because everyone knows you need to check in your top-level functions. Forgetting to catch is a problem that only hits newbies.
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Oof, some of these comments. Sorry on behalf of the edge lords, OP.
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But the entire point of Rust and Result is... to force you to make a choice of what should happen
Checked exceptions also force you to handle it and take way less boilerplate.
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Nit: One engineer at a company saying something is not the same as that whole company saying something. I wish they would just say "Google employee insists..."
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Zigbee or really any Bluetooth alternative.
Bluetooth is a poorly engineered protocol. It jumps around the spectrum while transmitting, which makes it difficult and power intensive for bluetooth receivers to track.
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Yes. Supplier markup is 50% above cost, so set up a price watch and wait for it to go on clearance. You'll get it 50% off.
I got mine new at Best Buy last year when they were clearing out M1 stock.
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In summary, a bunch of 60 year old C developers with social deficits hijacking the conversation when he gives a talk or tries to get anything done. E.g. the link was people interrupting a QA session to complaining "I don't want to learn Rust".
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This post was maybe true 5 years ago, but PC laptops have really started to suck. My macbook air was only $300 and it's way better than my work's $1k+ Dell laptop in terms of performance and battery life.
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Feel free to add it to the list. It's Wikipedia.
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The government had a warrant, read the article.
It's just made confusing by the fact that the thief had signed into the victim's phone, so it makes for a good clickbait story "police got the wrong guy's data"
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If by "when asked" you mean "given a search warrant with very clear evidence that this man had stolen a car", then... Yes? I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here.
The ex-boyfriend had signed into the guy's phone. It's not like the police just cast a wide net and randomly got his data.
"Google has announced plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of their Google account effective December 1, 2024." "The development is part of a series of changes the company has enacted in response to allegations that it misled consumers and illegally tracked their movements despite turning off Location History from the account settings by taking advantage of the non-obvious Web & App Activity setting."