Plasmoid

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by Plasmoid 4y ago
I noticed that recruiter reach outs dropped to ~0 in Jan/Feb, but are starting to tick back up again. I'm fortunately still employed so when a recruiter does reach out I refer my friends.
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
Buying a font ought to be on par with buying stock art. No necessary but if it makes you feel good, go for it.
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
Ditherpunk is really cool. I found this article about it to be so interesting - https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/
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One of the best ways to describe a lot his work is making compelling games out of painfully banal work. Obra Dinn - You're an insurance adjuster filling out paperwork Papers, Please - Dystopian document simulator, you're a low ran
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
IPv6 adoption has been increasing.
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It could be including depreciation, loan interest, and insurance.
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A cache is such a red flag when I'm doing a system design interview. I ask people to design a system but the system itself is very write heavy. Like 50 writes per read imbalanced. People will often suggest a cache because it's in
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
That's what the whole ESG kerfuffle has been about. There are some funds that are "socially minded" that try to exclude cigarette manufacturers and other bad things. They're smaller and have a higher expense ratio than
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
I have never seen a study that actually bears this out. If you've got citations I'm all ears.
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Generally it's the Karman line but there aren't any treaties that specify where flight ends and orbit starts.
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
Housing is a pretty terrible product. Everything is bespoke, but often durable enough that you can defer maintenance for a decade without paying for the costs. We've also tied a bunch of financial planning into the mix which amps up t
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
People create a lot of laws around rental housing that are designed to help the poor. The effects tend to make housing completely inaccessible to the working poor but more accessible to middle class. For example, making it difficult to evi
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
They were also 100% cost driven and not value driven. A lot of companies have opened offices in other countries and hired great people, but they focused exclusively on value. Most companies just looked at the direct cost and went with it.
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
"Fun" fact - it was the lawyers that did it. There was a real nasty lawsuit against one of the GA manufacturers. I believe it was Cirrus but it could be Cessna. Basically, this person sued everyone because their relative died i
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
This is genuinely one of the less helpful comments I've seen on HN. Instead of simply saying the reason is 'X' or even providing a link to a resource that explains why. You have linked to an article that can be fairly summar
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
Actually, Advent of Code is pretty good. The problems are challenging but you have a defined end condition and lots of help out on the internet.
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
- United States - Canada - UK I'm sure there are countries where that is legal, but effectively they're illegal pretty much everywhere you'd want to work.
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Unpaid internships are illegal
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
Blockbuster was always such an unpleasant experience every time I went. They had basically zero brand loyalty to lean on.
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Landlords are not politically strong. At every protest against new housing it is 100% homeowners.
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
Looks neat. Could you add support for storing books in a storage system I control? I'd like to upload my books to somewhere that is under my control (google drive, dropbox, etc...). I've had bad experiences with services basical
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
I find myself much more productive at home than in an office. Between long commutes and deliberately noisy offices, I can get so much more done at home.
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
> Right now, most application software need non-trivial rewrite to add ipv6 support: That's not right. If you've been using the platform network libraries for things then IPv6 will just work with anything more recent than Windo
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by Plasmoid 4y ago
> The tech industries 2020-2022 "hire everyone then figure out what they should work on" caused the layoffs to increase in magnitude. So many companies hired borderline recklessly during the pandemic. The question in my mind w
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DEF Con 18 – John Curran – IPv6: No Longer Optional (2013)(youtube.com)
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As an honest question. By what authority do you have the right to "show someone the door"?
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Sounds like ownership via borrowing with extra steps.
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Landlords aren't in the property business. They're in the liquidity business. I know it sounds weird but that's their function in society, they are one of the many "business lubricant" sellers that allow modern soc
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How do you know it's the landlords that inflated the costs? That's a major premise that you haven't demonstrated.
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They are. Luckily the only GRB candidate close enough to do that is eta carinae and it's probably pointing in the wrong direction.

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