Aurornis

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by Aurornis 4mo ago
I agree and I’m confused that some other commenters aren’t seeing it. > The grapevine was large and healthy and full of juicy grapes, and all those grapes contained the juice of the same message: Jarred was a stinky manager. > Jarred
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
Adding the RAM to the system this way isn’t exactly like expanding the main system RAM. The RAM is connected over a PCIe type link so it doesn’t behave like the primary RAM. It’s better for server farms where engineers can customize and tun
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> Then you shouldn't be asking those questions in the first place. > Why do you want a job?, Why do you want to relocate?, Why do you want to work here?, I never said anything about those questions or even the type of questions.
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> I guess I just prioritize a job I want to work at over a city I live in. Most people don't prioritize work over everything else. They move toward the life they want and try to find a job that supports it. People move to be closer
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> A no-op is exactly what the candidate wants. The candidate wants to be judged on their skills which are transferable from job to job. The interview is to determine their skills. Some candidates will talk about their work history for 30
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> They don't want a faker, they want a true believer I'm trying to explain that it's easy to spot the fakers. When you do a lot of interviews you see a lot of candidates who follow the advice above. Unless it's your
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
You would be surprised. A large number of resumes for every job posted are from people outside of the area who want to move there for different reasons. Most people want to have a job set up before they move to a new city.
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
I’ve done a number of interviews in my career. You don’t have to be a genius to see through the candidates who play this game where they tell you a perfectly sanitized, idyllic response that they’ve calculated as the optimal phrasing that y
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
This is very good, practical advice. I would go even further and say that you shouldn’t even allow yourself to get into a position where you need to manipulate your answers to interviewers for this question. If the primary reason you want a
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
For better or worse, testing was used as an assortative matching between students and universities they applied for. Though far from perfect, a university that set their acceptance bar at a certain level could expect incoming students to at
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
A family we know got swept up in the "banned books" movement. They repost banned book content on their Instagram and even got T-shirts with witty sayings about supporting banned books. They bought some books for their kids from a
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
We "ban" things from school kids all the time, though: Pornography, gambling, smoking, alcohol, R-rated movies. Dua Lipa wasn't doing a photo op with Maus . In the photos she's posing with modern books that are still be
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
The “banned books” theme has become intentionally vague because it has become a marketing tool. That’s how we got to Dua Lipa doing a promotional photo op holding up books that can be purchased on Amazon and delivered to your Kindle to read
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> dang bans someone from HN? no confusion. alcohol banned in public? no confusion. weapons banned from schools? no confusion. Notice how all of those bans include a specific context? From HN, in schools, in public. No confusion. Notice h
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
The confusion is because some books were literally banned somewhere, while others were just deemed not to be age-appropriate for young children in a school environment. We don’t call R-rated movies “banned” because we’ve decided not to show
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> A quick check here in the States showed all of them available on Amazon for under $25 each. The term “banned books” has become a pop culture meme. In this context it doesn’t literally mean banned, it means the book wasn’t allowed somew
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
I wish this had some discussion of the results. The earlier reports about this sensor and process were very mixed. It’s a cool process either way, but I’d like to know how usable the real world output can be.
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
We didn't tolerate it for main production projects. But you're missing the vibe at the time: You would get downvoted and argued with if you tried to say that it was one person's hobby language. It was supposed to be a big mov
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> Were people forced to use elm prior to a 1.0 release or something? Obviously not, but for a short while it felt like Elm evangelization was everywhere. Ironically, the small group pushing it so hard at the company I was with at the tim
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
They're referring to Memantine, an NMDA antagonist that has been approved for treating symptoms of Alzheimer's for over 20 years.
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> It's also a learning lesson for people who thought that a tiny, pre-v1.0 ecosystem that already had breaking changes would never break again especially in a way they disagree with. I think it's time to just accept the lesson.
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
That’s not a good analogy because a gallon of gasoline has a known amount of energy in it. The efficiency of each vehicle is also known, at least in a way that is easy to compare on a relative basis. I can go to 10 different gas stations an
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> An interesting new drug is Auvelity, where Dextromethorphan is proposed to help stimulate neurotropic growth factor to help the brain repair itself, Auvelity is interesting, but the exact mechanism of action is not very clear. Auvelity
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
You can find positive and negative results for everything. If that implies the effect is neutral, then by extension that means nothing works at all.
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
This article uses the trick where you pick studies that support your argument and ignore all of the studies that disagree with it. There are other studies where Dextromethorphan improves both objective and subjective measures of coughing:
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
I'm saying the paper itself wasn't a bombshell or even that noteworthy. The reason it got PR and continues to come up was because the authors manufactured this self-inflicted drama around it, not because it was leaking secret reve
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> in part because Google fired two of the authors, Timnit Gebru I remember being angry about this situation when I first saw it on social media, until I read the details: This person submitted a list of demands to her employer and said t
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> Then the author just kind of disappeared and the project stalled. There was more to the story than that. They made some major breaking changes in v0.19 that broke a lot of apps and left no path for them to continue with Elm, then dug t
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
> your definition of dead is elms definition of stability, I think :D haha The Elm community (or those who remained anyway) has a very cult-like way of spinning the current status quo as being good for you, even if it’s not. Removing nat
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by Aurornis 4mo ago
We had some big Elm proponents who were trying hard to convince the company to use Elm, including doing proof of concept buildouts in Elm. Then the 0.18 to 0.19 Elm drama happened: The core team restricted the ability for users to do any na

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