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Re:Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:40PM (#47604037)
Why was this downvoted?
Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:04PM (#42330070)
The unemployment rate is very low in the US while tightening of money supply is happening, it is a weird thing to witness as a new comer to the US. But one has to admit Jerome Powell did accomplish something significant given what his detractors like Summers were painting was going to happen given the covid bonus US citizens got.
Re:A common trap for people entering programming jobs on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:20AM (#31860157)
> can they be responsible? Or have they bought into the fantasy where they offload responsibility to a “decider” while they play the role exclusively of “doer”?

I do want to care but decisions feel remote even when you ask or provide feedback and it's overlooked only for it to come back later that what you had suggested was plausible and is being done only a few months late when you've already implemented an RMQ integration that was possibly avoidable.

It's demoralizing when your company starts moving in the direction of bug resolution is simple of a legacy system whose original authors are no longer with the company and you need to be pushing out 10 JIRA tickets in two weeks. Clearly trying to turn the engineers into code monkeys how am I supposed to care in this environment?

Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:28AM (#31832377)
Does anyone have an Emacs package they recommend or have been able to use this with in Emacs?
Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2021? on Friday January 01, 2021 @04:11AM (#25601900)
Some country in Africa is going to have a civil war.
Yo this is dope.
The idea of living together in a society/city is believing that your neighbour does not wish you ill intent. The question your should ask yourself is if you got it, do you trust yourself to self-quarantine.
Is it possible to get an invite?