Gene_Parmesan

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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Except he did get away with it. My wife works in Medicare compliance for a large insurer and under Trump, every single communication they received from Medicare about an initiative literally included the language "Through the leadershi
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Many companies are moving to four day work weeks. Productivity peaks at under 50 hours per week. Silicon Valley humans are not immune to this just because they work in big tech. Anyone who focuses purely on hours worked or misery while work
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
WaPo is not HuffPo. Generally, you can still trust the real news coming out of places like the Post and Times to at least be accurately fact checked.
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
At this point, who would want to? Genuinely. I haven't any idea. I'm a huge F1 fan and F1 racing there feels like such a bizarre move, and it's one that has almost put me off the sport. Dirty money and F1 go together like mac
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
In general, I think that in cases where intentionality around specific details is required humans are going to outperform AIs for quite some time, in any creative domain. Conversely, when I don't really know what I want beyond vague di
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
> Firmly direct him to end the call right now. Throughout the conversation keep stern demeanour, keep eye contact and the same level of volume when you speak. I'm not quite sure the other person is the one whose social calibration i
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
As a non-SVer, this has always been something that confused me. What is the actual definition for "startup"? It doesn't seem to be tied to age, funding level, employee counts, user counts, revenues, or really anything else at
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
There's no IP protection for ideas for stories. Regardless, almost no fiction shop is going to agree to print a book on spec, just off a story pitch. Write the book first. Then you already have protection, in the form of copyright (whi
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Last time I played (few years ago) there seemed to be some controversy about the direction the project lead was taking the game. Something about realism over fun. Did that ever get resolved in some fashion?
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
I'm usually OK with me 'wasting' time playing games like Factorio that exercise my brain, and Factorio specifically I feel has actually improved my software/systems architecture skills. But it is definitely very easy to
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
There's more than one person but it's a small team, core development on the pre-1.0 versions was done by three or so people I believe.
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
I find this common assumption that non-Earth lifeforms will automagically have found ways to break the laws of physics curious. Given the age of universe, it's highly likely that most other lifeforms will have developed within a roundi
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Did you miss this example from the linked post about redux-toolkit? https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/blob/4ab8c42cb20ae1... This is what types look like when you're on the library side. The post
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
This obsession on here with 'productivity' is depressing. I thought the HN crowd was beyond all that. Frankly, to suggest that this man should have given up on his dream so he could.. what? be an office drone for 50 years?... is l
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
I have no inside knowledge whatsoever but we can all rest assured that each side is in a near constant back and forth of implicit unstated "communication" about capabilities and doctrine. Merely publishing a paper on a certain sub
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
I always wonder about these types of studies too. I have diagnosed delayed sleep phase disorder, secondary to adhd. I sleep odd hours compared to the norm - approximately 3am to 10am. However, my schedule (while odd) is completely stable. I
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
In my opinion, the sort of person who is into this kind of idea is the sort of person for whom finance is a game. These people want to be the ones gaming the system and making money off of other people who are playing. They don't want
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
The reason people say it's a myth is because the study that purported to identify this concept was found to have an extremely small population and confounding factors. In addition if I remember correctly it tried to do this identificat
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Man, the heating on my MacBook is insane. I have a Thinkpad with on board Nvidia card, beefy CPU, etc, and it can play gfx intense games at 4k and still sit in my lap comfortably. Meanwhile my MacBook from work gets risking-burns-hot from j
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Nothing like a strong dose of existential dread to get me through the work day.
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
I mean, it makes sense. It's fairly well encoded into the genetics that determine our circadian rhythms. There is a dip in energy levels, corresponding to changed brain waves, that occurs at approximately midday. That 1pm drowsiness is
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Yes, it uses ML-style type inference, but that doesn't mean you are literally unable to annotate types, and the compiler is absolutely still doing type checking. I'm sure people like Jane Street annotate everything. In addition, p
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Certain MS documentation is actually incredible. For instance, the docs for the Win32 API are some of the best out there, rich with notes, examples, warnings, links to relevant topics. For instance, here's the page for CreateWindowEx:
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Grief is an enormously complicated emotional state that cannot be pithily summed up like that sentence. It's just a quote from a game. In my experience, it doesn't pass, as in disappear. Instead, the fact of the loss slowly become
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Thanks for making me aware of the existence of furigana. Unique corners of language are a pet interest of mine and that was a fun rabbit hole to go down.
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
As recent decades have progressed and more of our lives have gone digital, self reported rates of loneliness, isolation and depression have been skyrocketing. It's sometimes called the Internet Paradox - a technology that is supposed t
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
The guy is unhinged and has a persecution complex. He is a "priest" in a bizarre sect and has long claimed that Google has it out for him because of his religious practice. This was a publicity stunt plain and simple.
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Seconding the RTCD recommendation. Handy code examples, and my favorite part is that the book is real-world-performance-conscious (hence the "real-time" in the title).
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
FWIW feature size doesn't really mean what it used to. Due to the 3d mesh manufacturing process, it's become a sort of shorthand for "equivalent in 2D." What really matters is transistor density, and different manufactur
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
> To deliver this fusion result, First Light used its large two-stage hyper-velocity gas gun to launch a projectile at a target, containing the fusion fuel. The projectile reached a speed of 6.5 km per second before impact. First Light’s

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