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by alecbz 5y ago
Right, what I was missing was why how far the source of the light is effects how much the noise matters, but the inverse square photon concentration explains that.
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by alecbz 5y ago
But what specifically is it? Just random stuff in deep space between galaxies? I’d have thought most of the space between galaxies is mostly truly empty.
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by alecbz 5y ago
What exactly makes the light from these distant galaxies so “weak” that we need to point the telescope there for months to see it? Like, isn’t there a constant stream of photons? How does just waiting longer for them make them show up if th
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think the gist of your comment is reasonable, but it reads as kind of adversarial. Something like: > Being able to navigate a large, complicated code base is a really important skill, and I think one of the important marks of a senior
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by alecbz 5y ago
Some advice a friend once gave me is to “pretend” you’re more social than you are and kinda act the part, even if it doesn’t feel like it’s “you”. Eventually it will start to feel more natural.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I’m for people working a lot if they want to and it makes them happy, but humans are inherently social beings and community is incredibly important to our mental health. OP (of this thread) even says part of what they enjoy is working with
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by alecbz 5y ago
> Here’s the problem: my autodraft team ended up with a roster almost exclusively stocked with the players idiosyncratically overrated by Yahoo!. For example, an older player whose younger backup had just earned praise from the coach, su
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by alecbz 5y ago
"before and after you discover the subreddit for a hobby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZK8Z8hulFg
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by alecbz 5y ago
I used to use mechanicals with fancy layouts, but ended up getting annoyed having to switch between the fancy layout and QWERTY when working from my laptop. I was then just using QWERTY mechanicals for a while, until at one point I realized
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by alecbz 5y ago
Huh? You can also notice objective differences in audio. Whether those differences are good or not is subjective, but that applies to both keyboards and audio.
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by alecbz 5y ago
People hold beliefs of different levels of confidence. I have some opinions I’m very confident in and others that are merely vague hunches. My level of confidence in something is the signal I’m trying to convey, not merely the fact that it
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think a key part of a tribe is the interconnected-ness of the graph. E.g., I find that if I have five friends none of which know each other, it’s nice, but doesn’t feel like a community/tribe. There has to be mutual connection to fee
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by alecbz 5y ago
Yeah I sort of like calendar time as well. Local time is I think misleading, to my ear it implies something like "a particular datetime in a particular timezone".
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by alecbz 5y ago
For a repeating meeting I think the construct you want is actually a datetime, generally. E.g., a weekly meeting is not a meeting that happens on one particular timestamp and then repeats every 24*7 hours. If you hit daylight savings time,
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by alecbz 5y ago
Yeah, I need to push myself to do this more I think. Relatedly: before I read 1984 I thought I wouldn't get much out of it. I kinda thought "yeah I'm sure this was incredibly eye-opening at the time it was written, but these
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by alecbz 5y ago
"Parasitic" can be descriptive? I means roughly someone that takes from a system without giving to or benefiting it. Parasitic does have a fairly strong negative connotation, and Smith doesn't literally use the word, but thos
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by alecbz 5y ago
Comments inline but I think the gist of what you're saying is: * containerization is good in general * k8s' binpacking is good for efficiency --- > Than normal processes that are platform dependent. Why/how is k8s more eff
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by alecbz 5y ago
Yeah, this is exactly the difference between what I’d call “timestamps” (something that represents a particular instant in time), and what I’d call “datetimes”, things like “midnight on Jan 1, 2019”. I worked at an insurance startup that st
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think I need more than 5 quick bullet points for the “why”. > Resource efficiency What does this mean? More efficient than what? > Seamless scalability on containers or nodes Not sure what “on containers” means. “On nodes”, sure. Do
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by alecbz 5y ago
Interesting, so this is something that you were like, actively conscious of as a source of unhappiness in your life? Like if someone had asked you, “what would you do to most improve your life?”, how high on the list would avoiding winter h
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by alecbz 5y ago
Yeah, big +1 on seasons and variety. I grew up on the east coast so I guess I'm just kind acclimated to it, but I never got being so obsessed with the weather. Like when I go outside and it's freezing, am I like "yay"? N
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by alecbz 5y ago
> ..which is just lazy. If you're not willing to do the work to solve your problem, why should we? Eh, don't think I agree here. The initial ask is low-effort but so is the initial response expected ("I could help, what&#x
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by alecbz 5y ago
An important piece for me is weighing myself regularly, usually daily, and sometimes tracking it in a spreadsheet. I feel like the constant monitoring is important as a reminder to actually keep me on track, and to show me granular changes.
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by alecbz 5y ago
> Front-end engineers are invariably the most important and skillful, and backend engineers really aren't valuable. Heh, that's interesting. I didn't see a whole lot of that on Twitter (though I kinda see what you mean),
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by alecbz 5y ago
I'm confused; what controls which of the zero glyphs you see?
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think a coworking facility addresses like 10-20% of what a lot of people are looking for from an office. It’s not about being around random people, it’s about being around the people you’re working with.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I buy I might be in the minority but I like my commute a lot, I'm in NYC, it's a great 15-30 min buffer/bookend for my day, and I've started biking to work which I enjoy a lot. I wonder how much of these remote vs. offic
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by alecbz 5y ago
> a team that has a free-for-all remote policy is effectively a remote team (as others have noted) I don't think this is true in the sense that you (or possibly the original commenter) mean. I think what happens is that if, e.g., 1&
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by alecbz 5y ago
> I don't want to be forced to socialize with coworkers. Okay, sounds like you prefer remote work then? I don't see what's wrong with someone else preferring in-person work. > The collaboration thing is almost never rea
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by alecbz 5y ago
Remote and in-office are both pretty inherently social decisions. If you're remote, you don't want to be left out if other team members are in person. If you're in-office, most of the benefits depend on other people also bein

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