IvyMike

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by IvyMike 3y ago
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different." https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2017/11/18/we-are-here-... Spending less time on social media pr
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Ask HN: Onboarding of new graduates in a remote workplace
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by IvyMike 3y ago
What if we looked at all of the cloud providers APIs, which may or may not be similar to one another, may be in constant flux, and may have undocumented quirks, and hid all that complexity inside of one black box that provided a single clea
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by IvyMike 3y ago
> If it was intentional, I would tell them that I am sorry for their condition: that they feel that the only way to be seen is to bug people in indirect ways (as they are clearly too chickenshit to resort to outright violence) because th
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by IvyMike 3y ago
"Looking for answers in the bottom of a bottle", seriously? In my own experience, drinking with friends at a spontaneous "fuck that job" party after a massive layoff is one of life's great pleasures. To each their
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by IvyMike 3y ago
Showing myself love by not wasting time arguing with two human brick walls in HR. I guess based on the comments here, giving the drones who were uninvolved in the decision a piece of your mind makes some people happy. To me nothing else c
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by IvyMike 3y ago
Not sure who I am either, but in no way did I say "this is ok". I'm saying there's nothing to be gained to prolonging the talk with two drones from HR. Maybe I'm missing something. What's your best case scena
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by IvyMike 3y ago
> Next time they’ll think twice before gaslighting and humiliating an employee. I mean this in the nicest way possible, but this made me LOL.
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by IvyMike 3y ago
Not gonna argue against "when it comes to competing he's done squat" because I think we're saying the same thing. But on the other hand... the money machine keeps printing money. https://companiesmarketcap.com
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by IvyMike 3y ago
It's also here: https://twitter.com/WhatLayoff/status/1745429342551777406
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by IvyMike 3y ago
I get why Brittany's mad: Cloudflare appears to be handling this about as bad as possible. But those two HR randos aren't gonna have anything worthwhile to say, either. I don't want to be judgmental of Brittany because it&#x
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by IvyMike 3y ago
> Is google turning into a pure cash cow with no ambition? I'm an outsider, but Sundar is a man who knows how to make the money machine print money. I'm sure he would claim that he is all for innovation and research, but if yo
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by IvyMike 3y ago
You should check out the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia/
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by IvyMike 3y ago
I don't understand the tone of this announcement at all. "This is your captain speaking. I'm excited to announce that I have a parachute. Also, the plane is crashing. I wish you all the best in the new year."
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by IvyMike 3y ago
I mean to write a blog entry about this, but clearly that isn't happening soon, so here's the quick summary. Yes, I weatherized my pi by putting it in a weatherproof case. I bough a fancy case (no longer in production, but kind
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by IvyMike 3y ago
"It is very hard to visualize such a dimension directly. Off and on for some fifteen years, I have tried to do so. In all this time I’ve enjoyed a grand total of perhaps fifteen minutes’ worth of direct vision into four-dimensional spa
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by IvyMike 3y ago
I'll take this change to hype up BirdNET-Pi, a citizen science project where participants run a bird listening station 24/7. The results can be sent to birdweather.com. I'm always kind of shocked that I'm one of only s
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by IvyMike 3y ago
Available here: https://cloud.occultwatcher.net/event/1075-319-83995-648466-...
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by IvyMike 3y ago
In the 1990s there used to be company called "Loompanics" which carried all sorts of unconventional and fringe publications. One of my favorite entries in the Loompanics catalog was the 1988 book "If We Can Keep a Severed He
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by IvyMike 3y ago
Latest wigle.net shows <1% WPA3. It is up a lot from last year, when it was <0.1%. https://wigle.net/stats That being said, a flagship system should have future-looking support.
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by IvyMike 3y ago
I learned last night that there are low-cost cards that test for UVC exposure; here is an example: https://www.amazon.com/QuantaDose-Light-Power-Visibility-Tec... They are usually used to verify that a purported UVC lamp is
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by IvyMike 3y ago
It's a matter of taste, of course, but the event does not look incredible to me. https://twitter.com/slandermepls/status/1721352598945677544
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by IvyMike 3y ago
Interesting. The meter was defined in 1791. James Bradley got the speed of light correct to about 1% in 1728, and I think that value stood in 1791. That value was less accurate than either the 10000km pole-to-equator or 1-second-pendulum
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by IvyMike 3y ago
> The kilometer was based on 1/10000 the distance between the poles and the equator. The definition we should have used (and almost did) was that the meter was the length of a pendulum with 1 second swing (in other words, a pendulum
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by IvyMike 3y ago
Is my butt-ugly NFT avatar safe?
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by IvyMike 3y ago
There is Charles F Johnson, the operator of Little Green Footballs, who indeed has moved left. And there's Charles C Johnson who the NYT called "A troll on steroids" https://web.archive.org/web/2023020421
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by IvyMike 3y ago
No expert, but someday I hope to build a full-on digital pinball machine inspired by Jeff Atwood's blog post a few years ago: https://blog.codinghorror.com/your-digital-pinball-machine/ For software he mentions bo
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by IvyMike 3y ago
One fun thing about twitter was always the anonymous novelty accounts that people could fire off on a whim and see where they went. Most of the time they go nowhere but the viral ones can be great fun. Any barrier to entry, even $1, ensur
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by IvyMike 3y ago
You may want to reply to drunkendog so they see your question.
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by IvyMike 3y ago
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-...

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