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by ahelwer 5y ago
You are mistaken, this is literally - word for word - my imagination of what managers do.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
If you want that then hire someone to stand outside your office with a stick and reply rudely to emails. We don't need to give them hiring/firing/promotion/rewards authority.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Very entertaining to read a thread of managers telling themselves they shouldn't do any work, and then simultaneously describing not doing any work as "many times the return of you as an IC" (presumably counting themselves no
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by ahelwer 5y ago
My impression of these services are that they are simply available so people can feel they have "done something" about someone who seems suicidal by giving them the number, then wash their hands of the rest of it. Not that someone
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I've heard cursorless ( https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless-talon ) is good but have never tried it. Syntax-aware voice navigation of code, powered by tree-sitter queries! I also have a friend who is a gift
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by ahelwer 5y ago
A bit taken aback this still needs to be explained, but the point of having an account is so they can use your email address and phone number to correlate you & your actions across the entire internet to better surveil you & serve y
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by ahelwer 5y ago
On medium, when I logged out and saw what sort of experience the site was giving the readers of the things I worked so hard to post there, I stopped posting there.
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Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Ethereum is the only major smart contract chain that uses proof of work. Any other chain would use proof of stake, which doesn't have the environmental concerns you laid out. If you're passionate enough to take the time to write g
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I recently read a book on the history of socialized healthcare in Canada[0], which was fascinating. I'm very passionate about the development of a comparable system down here in the US but realized I didn't know anything about how
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Look on the bottom right of that webpage: > Scheduled to launch Q1 2022: "You can choose a chain from multiple chains to write to" I ain't reading the rest of your comment.
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Regexes in the Z3 Theorem Prover: Analyzing Teleport RBAC(ahelwer.ca)
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Not an NFT guy but according to https://papyrusnft.io/ they're enabling non-Ethereum chains which will address the environmental concerns.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I use gitlab pages which lets you use any static site generator (not just jekyll) and is otherwise just as good as github pages. I use hugo for ahelwer.ca although I really should get around to putting effort into learning/customizing
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I lived the no car/short-term rental car life for eight years when I lived in Seattle. I would use bike & public transit to get around the city, but if I wanted to go out to the mountains I would need to rent a car (or carpool with
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Part-time is much more difficult to find and much less lucrative than full-time consulting part of the time. The big leap is you have to give up the perceived stability of your monthly paycheck. You are unemployed and unpaid by default. The
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Interesting. I’ve been idly speccing out a Linux workstation from System76 to replace my 8-year-old PC but maybe I should look into the Simula One. An evolution of form as well as function. Thought oculus would be too low-resolution for thi
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by ahelwer 5y ago
This isn’t an accident. It’s an intentional pattern that creates a ratchet effect. Dems are quite happy to keep many things in place that they could easily reverse. Policies continuing to exist don’t get much press, so they don’t have to gi
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Because you cannot rely on the rich to fund common goods through voluntary donations. It is not a good idea and never will be. Other than some medical research, charity has never solved a single social ill.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
The scientific method does not give an account of why a given theory must be accepted or rejected. That process is ideological - and no, Popperian Falsification isn’t used, update your understanding of this phenomenon (science) you love so
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by ahelwer 5y ago
It is, but there are a lot of applications that people like to use on Windows PCs (think CAD or data analysis stuff) that have computationally-intensive subroutines. In that company’s case it was GPU-accelerated electromagnetic wave simulat
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by ahelwer 5y ago
People are quite good at lying to themselves about how objective, rational, and scientific their thoughts & opinions are, yes. Science is itself prone to ideology. See people being attracted to beautiful, simple theories.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I used to work at a high-performance scientific computing company. In the mid-2000s they ran into a weird issue where performance would crater on customer PCs running windows, unless that PC were currently running Windows Media Player. Some
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Yup. As soon as you think you're "non-ideological" at that point you're fully ensconced in ideology, because your beliefs are so invisible to you that you mistake them for reality. Zizek beats this drum a lot. He did a
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Formal methods and distributed systems. I'm also fairly knowledgeable about quantum computing.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
A few friends have asked me about this, idly wondering whether they should join a bootcamp or whatever. I enjoy teaching, and am quite good at it, so I give them an offer: a free 1-2 hour 1:1 introductory programming lesson. About half the
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A Man Who Ended History: A Documentary [pdf](kenliu.name)
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I’ve found corporate software environments anathema to learning. The daily standup will not reward “yesterday I learned how to use a debugger” or “yesterday I spent time reading documentation” but it does reward “yesterday I spent hours gri
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by ahelwer 5y ago
There are a few ways: (1) Many people living in the US (myself included) would feel much relieved at their tax dollars not going toward bombing teenagers, weddings, or whatever other Enemy Combatants were yesterday identified with a High De
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Keep spinning those stories! Now I feel much better about paying hundreds of bucks a month in health insurance premiums to a company that would happily leave me to die in more excruciating pain than normal if it fit their bottom line. Any a

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