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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I'm beginning to wonder if it's actually more difficult for C++ developers to learn Rust, at least speaking from personal experience. There are so many things I want to do in Rust when mapping from my C++ knowledge that are genuin
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Wealthfront cash has a 4% checking+savings account (the distinction is no longer necessary, as iirc the monthly withdrawal limit has been done away with a few years ago). Have you tried Primus? A bank offering a better percentage than RRP s
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Can you get a better rate with CDs than just parking cash in VMRXX [0]? The fund just ladders bills and gets 4.32% 7-day yield with T+1 liquidity. [0] https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I've been using Scoop on Windows [0]. Chocolatey is probably the more "professional" answer, but Scoop doesn't require Admin privileges, which I could never quite figure out how to do with Chocolatey. [0] https:/&#
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I can't tell what is worse now: the sycophantic ChatGPT hype guys/gals who write articles "it's coming for all of our jerbs!", or articles like this one that deliberately misuse ChatGPT and then say "it's
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Yes! It's basically like having a knowledgeable senior dev, but on pretty much everything. Maybe they don't always get the details right, but the insight in explaining the "fundamentals" of how something works is key, an
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I'm getting pretty tired of these posts dunking on ChatGPT making it to HN. Yes, we know if you try to see if it is "smart", it'll fall down. It's pretty easy to show how silly it is compared to things a human could
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I went to tmobile's 5g internet after Comcast refused to negotiate better terms on renewal. I live in a HCOL metro but have yet to be hooked up to the local fiber company, so although this 5g home internet isn't so great (high lat
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Any of the options lighter-weight that Kubernetes is usually good to start with, but for anyone already running these solutions (e.g. docker compose), learning Kubernetes can be a valuable job skill (because like you said, it's for meg
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
That's true, any of my colleagues who have bought houses recently were dual-tech DINK and had to sell off a bunch of RSUs. Single-income folks just have to wait it out and hope prices come down, or just give up the narrow search and ge
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
And Silicon Valley is uniquely messed up by Prop 13 and NIMBYs, not to mention the fact that there is no room to sprawl out like midwest cities given the geography. That's not to say that other cities don't have a similar mix, but
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
The real question is why can't we get much denser housing (e.g. condos) and a smaller commute. At least for Seattle, it seems like the liability for the builder and the costs don't really justify building for less than some un-sel
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
The point is not that the roth ira is a useful savings vehicle for one's emergency fund, but that it's a good idea to think of the extra FAANG / MAGAM (whatever the acronym is now) money one gets on top of a non-MAGAM develop
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I've seen two types of people here in Seattle in tech affected by these layoffs and Amazon and Microsoft: a) living paycheck to fat paycheck because of how they decided to misuse their compensation, i.e. luxury cars, getting the maximu
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I have tried to figure out how to use Nix as a package manager to deal with this, but it is still too much wizardry for me to wrap my head around.
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I have advocated to at least try bazel (or even buck), but the higher-ranking devs all say that it's too much "organizational knowledge risk", i.e. if I force something unfamiliar onto the team and they only shakily know how
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
A sane build system + package management solution for C++. I have to cobble it together via CMake + Conan every time and I'm praying I get put on a new Rust project someday, but my position and sizeable comp are mainly for being a &quo
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I wonder where EU tech workers (big or not) fit in this. Certainly pay is less than US, but when I worked in Europe, everyone took all of their vacation time and generally did not work beyond regular business hours. Where I work today in
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Paying without a credit card is just supporting the credit card fees of those who do pay with one. The price is the same, but you often get 2 or even 3% cash back (depending on offers). Anyone financially responsible (i.e. that won't g
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
They might also listen in on meetings, write a summary in a word doc that no one reads, and then adds tasks in whatever kanban one's company uses that you never look at. Product Manager-aaS
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Maybe I just haven't had the opportunity to buy any big ticket items with BNPL, but the few times I tried it (trying to do the "free money" thing, getting a bit more interest in my HYSA by amortizing the total payment out ove
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Oh wow I totally misunderstood this snippet; I thought it was in fact the opposite (i.e. a shortcut to send a job to the background). Toggling back to the foreground is even better with the same shortcut! Neat!
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
s/fg/bg/ ?
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
People ooh and aah over the tacky gigantoscreen in Teslas, but it was really a hack to avoid having to design the usual litany of buttons and knobs that go onto a dash. Thankfully most other manufacturers haven't gone as totally screen
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I really wonder which of the following will win: * a brand-new battery chemistry based on cheap and readily-available elements that avoids the issues related to existing lithium-based cells for vehicle applications (e.g. cost, cold, low pow
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
> Barely anyone is making money writing reviews today, most sites are farmed content. I'm sure ChatGPT will be able to write a bunch of terrible SEO prose that precedes the actual air fryer review (or worse, recipe ) about how the
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
My recommendation: Tom's of maine's natural floss is pretty good, but it might be a bit too thick for some folks
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I think newer heat pumps (forced air or mini splits) do this. My parents got one and it seems to just run almost all the time, producing a varied amount of heat or cooling. This does indeed require some fancy touchscreen super thermostat th
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Perhaps we have different anecdata, but I think gratitude journaling may work better indeed for people who aren't truly depressed. In my own case and the few coworkers I unfortunately recommended gratitude journaling to (who were, like
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
First off, I would caution anyone about doing positive affirmations, or even forced journaling exercises (e.g. gratitude journaling). These exercises are incongruent with how one see's oneself; people who are already grateful or have h

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