altgeek

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by altgeek 4y ago
Yes, that's what elicits the laughter from the audience, tinged with sad cynicism.
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by altgeek 4y ago
That maps rather well to an old routine from George Carlin "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." https://youtu.be/AKN1Q5SjbeI?t=19
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by altgeek 4y ago
Cyndx | BE/FE Engineers, DS | ONSITE (NYC, West Palm Beach, Dallas) | Full-time AI-Driven Corporate Search for M&A, PE and VC Growth. Python and Typescript (with React), and some other languages. GCP stack, heavy on the analytics d
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by altgeek 4y ago
One orbit of Saturn ago, achieving an Oracle OCP opened doors for me and let me charge big bucks during the dot-com boom.
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by altgeek 4y ago
This is a gift to the mafia and the DEA. The cat is way out of the bag at this point.
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by altgeek 4y ago
It's a very valid criticism of diagram "systems" like UML. But, "read the code" doesn't scale. It makes it brutal when onboarding new team members who will not understand the "tao" of the system witho
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by altgeek 4y ago
"... make the diagram concise and understandable; the sort of decisions that machines just aren't that good at. ..." Exactly. I've found that there is no perfect tool and I'm closing in on 40 years of writing softwa
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by altgeek 4y ago
I always think of Don Bluth's "The Secret of NIMH" when experimental pharmaceuticals edge those lil' squeakers closer to being an uber-rodent.
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by altgeek 4y ago
The issue with metformin is your own personal gastrointestinal sensitivity to it. If you're tried it in the past and quit, people have reported success with the time-released variant. See https://www.drugs.com/pro/
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by altgeek 4y ago
"You'll work off that cake in the ACID MINES" - Homer Simpson, s12e07
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by altgeek 5y ago
Lots of posts with nootropics mentioned. Just experiment with them on an every other day, or up to a 2 week on-2 week off cycle. Everyone's enzyme kinetics are different, and homeostasis is a thing...
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by altgeek 5y ago
It's a technique that I use often - "Start from the end"
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by altgeek 5y ago
Oolimo is another visualizer / chord playground tool that I like. https://www.oolimo.com/index.php
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by altgeek 5y ago
<<Firstly, stop this rubbish about getting old; with current life expectancies I wouldn't even consider someone middle aged until they are their forties. Old is probably late sixties to seventies. You still have a long way to go
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by altgeek 5y ago
Yes, very true. One has to prove their point of view. It's easier when the engineer in question has proven themselves in the org (I would say industry, but when you arrive at a shop, you generally need to start over.) I should have mad
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by altgeek 5y ago
(Note: I mostly write Java these days, so my viewpoint is colored by this.) Code is meant to be read by humans. Compilers don't have wetware eyes. Homogenizing code that was hand-formatted for the situation ignores the art and craft of
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by altgeek 5y ago
For the body hackers reading this, DNP is not something to be trifled with. Cataracts are a common side effect, and overdose is uniformly fatal. But, you'll die a ripped corpse ;) Flex!
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by altgeek 5y ago
The Sweet Cecily, as a member of the carrot family, resembles poison hemlock. Anything with that flower and leaf pattern immediately sets off alarm bells in my head when I see it. See https://www.growforagecookferment.com/po
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by altgeek 5y ago
There's a related tangent here; Van Halen's "No Brown M&M's backstage!" clause in their venue contract. Here's one link: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232420 Basically, if they
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by altgeek 5y ago
Sounds like Wells Fargo :grin:
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by altgeek 5y ago
What you're doing sounds distantly related to http://www.rosettacode.org
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by altgeek 5y ago
As far as GAAP goes, employees are expenses, not assets. -> https://hbr.org/2019/10/the-problem-with-accounting-for-empl...
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by altgeek 5y ago
Exactly. Many opeds have been written about this. Here's one: https://time.com/5696950/bring-back-the-draft/ The general populace, those that supply their children as cannon/IED fodder, has no control of
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by altgeek 6y ago
This is not hacker worthy news. This is a "if it bleeds, it leads" post. Junk.
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by altgeek 6y ago
So, Wall Street lives off of skimming fees from the retail investor, and now they cry when the masses cause them pain? Won't anyone shed a tear for the masters of the universe? Aren't these 2/20 "investment managers&quot
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by altgeek 6y ago
So true. The big (top 5) global bank I worked for loved butts-in-seats. I've finally arrived at a place where I refuse anything that requires more than 3 days in-office.
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by altgeek 6y ago
^This Everyone gets into "heads down" mode, "get tickets" done mode, and the big picture gets missed when everyone is scattered with 100% WFH. Also, hiring new engineers with 100% WFH has been an total nightmare. I think
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by altgeek 6y ago
I feel that the 71% approach (in-office 5 out of 7 days) is, in general, too much commuting (NYC area). But, the current pandemic's 0% is not optimal either. Too much is lost in translation from our early-to-mid stage startup that has
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by altgeek 6y ago
Get an MD with environmental medicine credentials to test you for mold exposure (quick googling comes up with https://selfhack.com/blog/c4a/ ) I was exposed twice to high mold spore environment; it was an enclosed
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by altgeek 6y ago
The PRC is playing the long game. Decades from now, they'll take the ROC without firing a shot. It will be through economic integration leading to a vote. I know plenty of businesses in Taiwan that set up factories right across the way

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