Demonsult

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by Demonsult 4y ago
Since English is hard for you, it's spelled synecdoche and is hardly an excuse.
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by Demonsult 4y ago
As far as I can tell, the only US states that care about the software engineering distinction are Texas and Florida. And it's for legacy bureaucratic reasons more than anything. I'm not personally concerned about someone incorrect
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by Demonsult 4y ago
NoMachine uses hardware h264 encoding. I can watch youtube remotely and barely notice the difference. It's commercial software with free personal use.
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by Demonsult 4y ago
I've been low-key abusing emojis in binary protocols: result=0x3a29
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by Demonsult 4y ago
See also, "Hacker's Delight" by Henry Warren for a deep dive into bit manipulation tricks.
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by Demonsult 4y ago
I do have purposeful meetings with customers, when the need arises, and I enjoy those. There are no recurring meetings or standups. It's heaven.
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by Demonsult 4y ago
I really love technical sales. Management wasn't for me (hate meetings), and I get paid more.
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by Demonsult 4y ago
I took the easy job. It made me a little anxious at first, like I was doing something wrong. Picking up some side work filled that hole. The side work can be paused at any time. It's pretty much ideal.
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by Demonsult 5y ago
It was in the early 2000s outside of the valley. A coworker was basically held in indentured servitude by a family of a higher caste. They dropped him off at work every day, berating him the whole way there. We hired a lawyer, got all of hi
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by Demonsult 5y ago
People who absolutely hate math are driving these bad ideas, thinly veiled as justice or some other high-minded nonsense. Many of them carefully plotted their way through college, doing as much as they can to avoid math. Of course the kids
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by Demonsult 5y ago
Or are healthy, well-adjusted men just more likely to end up married?
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by Demonsult 5y ago
The visual of determining if something is clean, or just a pile of usable goods going to waste can trigger disgust across the ideological spectrum. Although, I do agree that usage of "problematic" has become annoyingly problematic
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by Demonsult 5y ago
The impossibility of getting good, reasonably priced health insurance for a small family ended my stint years ago. I am employed for healthcare.
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by Demonsult 5y ago
I've gotten to the point where I wince at compliments because of the shit sandwich technique. When I get one, I know I'm dealing with a passive-aggressive person and limit my interactions from then on.
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by Demonsult 5y ago
> Neonicotinoids have a half life of 5 years This is nonsense. When exposed to light, which most of it is, the half-life is 39 days. It may last 1 year in the soil. Any claim that makes farmers stupid or wasteful is immediately suspect.
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by Demonsult 5y ago
I happened to have, by chance, practiced writing sort from scratch right before an interview where they asked me to do just that. Doing it correctly in just a few minutes gave me pretty high status. Higher than I deserve. The randomness cut
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by Demonsult 5y ago
Take a photo maybe?
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by Demonsult 5y ago
Closed-source software for aerospace and industrial.
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by Demonsult 5y ago
It's been discussed a few times on here, but one way is through technical sales. For me it was that or management. I was a coder for 25 years. At some point, it doesn't matter if you are still getting better at code. There's
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by Demonsult 6y ago
Also somewhat related, "Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act" covered similar ground for automobiles. This help discourage auto manufacturers from keeping the digital aspects of repair (error codes, etc.) from being too
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by Demonsult 6y ago
ls | yank -- clip.exe
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by Demonsult 6y ago
I recently realized DuckDuckGo's !sp operator can give you Google results anonymously via Startpage.com "Startpage acts as an intermediary between you and Google, so your searches are completely private. Startpage submits your que
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by Demonsult 6y ago
> "it’s fun to draw black people" - what is it an example for? The author is oblivious to the fact that he can't think his way around his pangs of identity guilt. He doesn't realize the mere mention of black people is
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by Demonsult 6y ago
Many of my clients in aerospace are still designing in PPC parts in 2021.
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by Demonsult 6y ago
The new icon looks more like Hitler with side-combed hair
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by Demonsult 6y ago
HTTPS reveals the server name in plain text early in the connection process. That, the DNS query and the IP header are tunneled away by a VPN.
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by Demonsult 6y ago
I learned years ago to cancel everything in writing, via post. It sounds anachronistic, but actually takes less time and stress. Companies don't mess with letter writers. There's a lot of legal precedent behind us.
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by Demonsult 6y ago
I had a lawyers suggest I drive him to court. This turned out to be a trick so he could "justify" billing me for the commute time. It was like Uber, except the driver pays the passenger $500.
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by Demonsult 6y ago
Keep in mind that sales engineers usually have a good sized base salary, unlike pure sales people. With that comes a smaller commission than sales people. As for contribution to society, I don't agree. The big winners is software make
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by Demonsult 6y ago
I made almost 50% more this year. Also, the bonuses flow in continuously instead of once per year.

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