Tehchops

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by Tehchops 7y ago
ZDNet has to monetize their low-effort content somehow.
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by Tehchops 7y ago
>So the personal life experience of a male doesn't count for anything? THAT is what I would call the actual toxic attitude. Ah yes, the classic: "I'm not toxic, you are!". Where in my original comment did I say the ma
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by Tehchops 7y ago
This is exactly the kind of comment that make these threads toxic. Gender, like it or not, shapes the life experience of an individual. Why would you not want to have a role model that had a similar life experience to your own? Except, inev
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>How is gold created out of the collision of stars composed of neutrons? They are composed predominantly out of neutrons. Some percentage of their composition is still electrons and assorted atomic nuclei, which is a non-trivial amount
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by Tehchops 8y ago
> "During such events, massive amounts of heavy metals are formed. This collision, for instance, produced a lump of gold with the mass of our planet in just a split second." We need to find a localized wormhole and go mine tha
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by Tehchops 8y ago
His book is excellent as well.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
I don't think I'm missing any nuance. You wrote: > For anyone who is primarily a sysadmin, I would recommend sticking with the default behavior Am I reading that wrong? "Don't customize the default behavior if you&#x2
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by Tehchops 8y ago
I do not understand the: "don't customize your VIM, what if you have to use vi/vim on a server?" trope. I submit that if you're having to log into individual servers enough to make those kinds of changes, you'r
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Wonder what the potential long-term psychological/physiological impact is... Your brain would essentially be forced to constantly process more visual data than it was used to... more data than human brains in general had evolved to p
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>It just seems to me that the more competent you're _perceived_ to be, the lower the threshold for bad behavior gets you labelled as a "jerk". Yep. If the 80/20 rule is true(and I keep finding anecdotal evidence it is
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>I don't want corporate politics and all the worst parts of MBA culture within a hundred miles of tech, yet here we are. If you think politics isn't an implicit reality of any organized group of human beings, I've got a
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>it seems to be his immediate manager that's the larger problem Not discounting this, but someone that thinks comparing to Jeff Bezos to Adolf Hitler is either legitimate or merits public attribution is bringing their own issues t
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by Tehchops 8y ago
I hope this guy gets help with his issues, because they seem to extend far beyond "working at Amazon".
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by Tehchops 8y ago
That's fair. Then they've managed to educate themselves, not exactly a non-trivial feat either.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Where did I say or even imply that? I simply said it was hard and rigorous. Not the most.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>seems more like a bunch of entitled brats. I'd say anyone that drops the money on a 4 year CS education of any rigor, survives it, survives and succeeds at the fairly rigorous interview cycles required to get a job in SWE these day
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by Tehchops 8y ago
What's the generally hold-up with 32GB RAM being a standard option(or even possibility) in this form factor?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
> Let's also consider the social advantage of those who do imbibe with those who don't in regards to building relationships with superiors at your job. Ok, but that "advantage", or lack thereof, is not exclusionary on
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by Tehchops 8y ago
While I will absolutely concede that being born a middle-class white Caucasian male in the US is an objectively advantageous and generally privileged situation to be born in to... You're going to lose me at the notion that I'm s
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Yep. Since it's down, I can't actually read the content, but I too find no small amount of irony in a claim there is any kind of bubble in knowledge work, when the site said content is hosted on doesn't even appear to work.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>Why don't you hire one of these for the job instead of recipe/containering yourself into 'doesn't work, I dunno' posts. Because every.single.one of these "integrated environments" I've ever come a
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>Fixing the DA clock-source results is far better music quality, then any speaker cable will ever can. I read this as a having a decent quality DAC inline between the source and listening device will do more than expensive speaker wire?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Seems like some pretty domain-specific(frontend)choices about which $jsThing to use, and one pretty bad operational miss on choosing a DB tech correctly.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>Source: I'm a software engineer and a qualified lawyer I imagine there is no shortage of demand for your cross-section of skills? Do you utilize them both, or did you pivot from one to the other?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
> One of the big features Macs have for me is that I can call customer service any time of day and they can work through any serious issue I have with my Mac This is something else that often gets left out in these discussions. For bette
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by Tehchops 8y ago
>Almost all my colleagues struggled with setting up python 2 und 3 correctly at some point, whereas this just worked for me on Linux. This is one area where I'd have to concede the Apple experience is objectively suboptimal. However
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by Tehchops 8y ago
^^ Things exactly like this. The practical implications of what it means to the end user is that companies/entities that write any GUI-enabled software for Linux are forced to make decisions about what(if any) OS they'll support.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Is there one that works with Soundcloud and Spotify?
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by Tehchops 8y ago
Found the elephant in the room, you did.
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by Tehchops 8y ago
End-user Linux has definitely improved in the last few years. It offers a lot of attractive features for what I imagine to be the typical HN demographic. That being said, it's still got rough spots that OSX doesn't. It works great

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