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by _huayra_ 5y ago
As a recovering long-time Ubuntu user, I encourage everyone to strongly think about whether they need to stick with it. If you need stability, there are plenty of RHEL offshots (e.g. Centos, whatever became of "old Centos" that wa
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Yeah I think the standard is to sell some percentage of the RSU grant each time there is a distribution (to cover the taxes of getting it as income). Unfortunately this is usually insufficient in most companies and one will likely still owe
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This is especially true to people who get paid in RSUs or do ESPP through their employer. Even FAANG employees should not really sit on these to get the maturation of these stocks to cap gains, as they'll likely go down by a larger mar
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
We were discussing a potential hire at work a few days ago who suddenly turned down the company's offer for another company despite our team being his "dream place to work" and promising to not make a sudden decision without
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
If you use purely PaaS offerings (or FaaS as well), then you also don't really need sysadmins. That's not to say that you can get away with knowing _no_ sysadmin skills in these scenarios, but you don't need to have someone o
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Having been on both the knowledgeable and noob side of this "pair programming onboarding", I find it to be fantastic. When furiously googling / grepping around the code to self-onboard, it is so difficult to see the bigger pi
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
What heat pump did you get? I think it's so great they have ones that can work in such cold weather!
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Do you live in a tech hub / city? I'm living in a "rent cheaper than owning" tech city and it just seems like homes are being snapped up by DINK couples (both working in tech) who want to build a real estate portfolio. H
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I wish I knew if there was any lit on this, but I think the same way. When the cost to own a given size house is double the cost to rent that house (in some VHCOL places like Seattle that is true at the moment), eventually people are just g
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This reminds me that whole thing where some study showed a comparison of average daily alcohol consumption and showed that "moderate" drinkers actually had lower mortality than those who don't drink (obviously heavy drinkers
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I've always wondered if you can buy your own debt from collections and pay it off there, as some sort of soaring medical cost hack albeit tanking one's credit score.
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Is there a non-"team green" solution that works well? With all the bad press about Deere these days (including a few HN comments from suppliers to Deere that revealed they deliberately ask for slightly tweaked parts to avoid being
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Yes if you have to buy only one, Moonlander is the right choice. If one has access to a 3d printer, they have a community set of cad files for useful accessories (e.g. more tenting support, if needed) [0]. [0] https://www.zsa.io&
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
You really ought to consider a split keyboard. I'm also broad-shouldered, and the Advantage still caused inward rotation of my arms (i.e. activating my chest muscles to pull my hands inward). With split keyboards, you can place the two
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
One can also just use stress-ng [0], which is packaged in pretty much any distro. [0] https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
A better headline: most US workers had no choice but to accept the pandemic profiteering of corporations that have little, if any, competition, leading them to raise prices for no reason other than shareholder rewards and stock buybacks. We
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
The hardest part of buying used is that it's so hard to find people who have taken care of their cars. If someone has gone 20-30% over the recommended oil change interval, you'll end up paying for that a lot on the tail end. This
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iirc, one other confusing element is that tables (hash tables? I don't remember what they're called) return null when a lookup is done for a nonexistent key. This is not necessarily a bad choice. Exceptions and such can be a real
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I really wanted to love Nix and tried my best to ease into it, e.g. using it as a "pip" replacement for Python, then managing dotfiles, etc. Maybe I chose the wrong side of the "flakes schism", but it was so foggy and un
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Everyone can easily move to email at their own domain. A com domain is about $14/year and you can get free email hosting from your domain on zoho. Google can cut off your account on a whim with no recourse and God forbid you want to es
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Yes it's good to have rules on how far one wants to go down the maintenance rabbithole. I usually set the limit at whether I'll have to buy an expensive tool just to do the service (e.g. one of those tools to clean the valves on t
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
A very similar thing happened to me. Any used car or on-the-lot new car (in whatever apportionment a dealer will get) is hiked up to astronomically levels for impatient folks. This means when things eventually correct in price, there will b
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
The best way to change your habits is to really understand and appreciate what they're doing for you. You're not running towards whatever your procrastination mechanism of choice may be; you're running _away_ from something e
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I think leetcode medium level of questions can be fair game. With only a moderate amount of practice, anyone who writes software professionally should be able to spot common patterns, or at least get in the right direction by the end of the
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
> When I interview people I try really hard not to do stuff like laughing at a serious question or suggestion from a candidate unless they're obviously trying to be funny. Anyone who has worked at a big company knows how much terrib
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
A lot of the HR-y systems and other things being not hosted on-prem and moved to salesforce or something means a lot of random click-through links in legitimate emails, e.g. to take some "totally anonymous survey" at work or vote
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I know plenty of tech-adjacent people whose interests stop at Wired articles, but it's really impressive you've actually dived (doven?) into the command line and Emacs, even to the point of building stuff! You'll definitely b
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I hope you manage to get back home and hunker down before this cold snap moves in! If you're in the Redmond / Seattle area, it's gonna be one of those "everyone forgets how to drive" things today and tomorrow (and m
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
If you're focusing on just getting a software job and not shooting for a particular industry where C++ is used heavily, there are far more jobs that use much easier languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python). C++ really takes some time to under
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
What field are you in that you use Emacs? I'm always curious what non-IT folks that use some rather IT-specific tools do (not that Emacs is just for coding like gcc, but it's pretty rare to see it jump over the wall).

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