Why are people impressed with SpaceX?
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    6d ago 97%

    What you're asking is akin to: why are people impressed by the airplane? We've already reached the Americas and India by boat.

    SpaceX, and others actually are not advancing science per se, but are greatly improving/optimising the engineering so that it can be used in cheaper ways by others.

    There's also the issue that after the moon landing we didn't really improve that much and much of the knowledge faded

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    Dinner time around Europe
    My favourite type of self-care
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    3w ago 100%
    • You will spend your entire career chasing trends.

    Depends on the language, that's mostly a JavaScript/typescript issue.

    • The market is volatile. People are constantly getting abruptly laid off. SD has never been very stable, so you should plan on getting a new job every few years.

    Depends on the country, where I'm from there has been very few layoffs.

    • Software companies are constantly looking for ways to make SD easier. As a result, your value will decrease over time, in preference for bootcampers and 2 year degree graduates.

    Not sure what to say, I haven't felt my value decrease. All I see are bubbles saying they will replace me.. and then they burst.

    Nobody listens to developers. Your manager's beliefs about SD come entirely from consultants, magazines, and Elon Musk tweets.

    Agree but that's more of an engineering wide problem, specially when you get managers with very few engineering experience. Take the Apollo landings as an opposite example: great managers that were great engineers.

    • Nobody cares about quality software. If you take the time to make your code efficient and lightweight, all your manager sees is you taking longer to make something than your peers. After all, we can just raise hardware requirements if the software is slow.

    This is a bit too generic to argue against. You can get that in electrical engineering no? If you take more time designing that PCB because you want to better place the components to improve heat dissipation, will your manager care in the end?

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  • There you go little guy
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    3w ago 100%

    Sorry if it sounded aggressive. This topic hits close because I have at least 2 very close friends that continuously ignore speed limits and no argument dissuades them of the "speed limits are a way of controlling the people, and fines are just for the police to earn money" mindset, et al. And I feel they'll have a nasty accident one day

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  • There you go little guy
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    3w ago 75%

    I don't disagree it's disproportionate. But you know how rich and poor can avoid fines? Just fucking respect the limits

    People should follow the law because it benefits everyone not because they want to avoid a fine

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  • There you go little guy
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    3w ago 71%

    What the hell this is new, so road safety was created to hinder the poor? Just drive below the speed limit and stop making stupid excuses

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  • Drinking 3 cups of coffee linked to preventing multiple diseases
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    3w ago 100%

    That's the journalists' fault. They have no business going through studies like this, that are not meant for them to make conclusions.

    Believe whatever makes you feel better, that's all you can do, really.

    Just stop spreading this bs, and stop reading news like these. Believe what accredited sources tell you, like your doctor or other professionals

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  • Capitalist logix
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    4w ago 100%

    Kind of. I agree partly. My mother used to knit winter clothes, for free, for some institutions and she wasn't the one delivering them. They never knew who she was, and she didn't bother.

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  • Hi, how do you run forgejo under a reverse proxy while using an ssh channel to pull/push commits? From what I understand caddy is only able to proxy http traffic.

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    Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”
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    2mo ago 95%

    But that's the thing where you are wrong. They clearly state they don't want C developers to learn Rust. In the particular video posted he was saying "I want you to explain to me how this particular API works so that I can do it"

    The concerns about who fixes what on a merge when the C code breaks Rust code are valid, but that's easily fixed by gathering with the Rust developers, explaining the changes and letting them fix it.

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    One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"
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    2mo ago 92%

    Isn't Linux still Linux even though probably a lot of the original code is gone? Why would slowly rewriting it whole, or just parts, in Rust make it stop being Linux?

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  • Hi there, What SFF machines do you recommend for a server to basically run opnsense (with a 4 port expansion NIC) and a bunch of extra disks to serve as a NAS? I was looking through Thinkcentre m720, m800 et al. I believe these allow for up to 3 disks I know usually you'd run opnsense on a dedicated machine, but I'm a bit constrained on space so am trying to fit all in one. I don't want to stream Linux ISOs on this NAS just to store my own files.

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    Hi all, Anyone with a similar setup to this: I have a machine with 2 NICs one for default gateway and other a "private" subnet with a service I need to access remotely for a few days (basically its a wifi router where a wifi-only device connects). Will tailscale work for this case plug'n'play or will I need setup any routing?

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    Hi, I believe with just one port for opnsense (on a min-pc) we can still do vlans (with tagging I believe?) but how effective is that for segregating and isolating proxmox machines? Say I want to keep a VPN machine isolated, from other virtual machines? How would you do that? Do you have any tips for running such a system?

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    Hi all, anyone has any experience with this machine for running opnsense? I'm expecting to do mostly vlan, vpn, ad blocking, and general experimentation with opnsense. Do you advise other machines of the same or other brands? I don't expect to spend much money for now as this is mostly to get my feet wet with custom routers I've been looking into the Futro S920 and even though it seems a great fit, it's a bit too big. I was looking something of a smaller form factor.

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