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by anthomtb 2y ago
> This restructuring will result in an approximately 16% workforce reduction Probably the most salient detail for non-Automattic employees. Everything else was generic fluff.
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by anthomtb 2y ago
The parallel is senior leaders ignoring secure communication rules that their rank-and-file must follow. Hillary's email server did not immediately spring to my mind. Edit: Its safe to say that this story involves multiple levels of hy
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by anthomtb 2y ago
This hypocrisy reminds me of one of my former lead developers. He required everyone on the team to go through multi-person code reviews and pass an extensive CI suite before merging changes into our mainline. But him? Half that time he&#x27
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Is it me or do attempts to generalize career development across companies seem futile? The concrete example here I can give is working at one company where "Manager" meant you had 10+ direct reports and were expected to do almost
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by anthomtb 2y ago
I travelled to Stockholm from North America a few decades ago, right around midummer. Worst jetlag of my life. The problem was that 20 hours of daylight, especially having 2:30 AM feel like 6:30AM. It was impossible to get an adequate amoun
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by anthomtb 2y ago
My in-laws only obtained passports in their late 60's. They took one trip to Canada, which was their only international trip, ever. My FIL is quite proud of having never seen the Pacific Ocean. They are also 3-time Trump voters. If the
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by anthomtb 2y ago
> he falls for every single "the current thing" in the book. I remember when he was pushing for so much of the crypto stuff and all of that evaporated to nothing Isn't this what an early-stage VC firm is supposed to be doi
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by anthomtb 2y ago
My office now has an automated machine. I’d give it a 4/10. Not great but much better than the 1/10 from the old drip machine (and the occasional 0/10 when someone brewed with a double quantity in a misguided effort to coax a
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by anthomtb 2y ago
No. I use like 3 eggs a week. Not worth the effort.
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Well, he (probably not she) is describing expected earnings once hired, not chances of actually getting hired.
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Thank you. I was trying to figure out what "forge" meant here. When I think "forge", I think a tool to turn a raw material into finished product. Ergo, the blacksmith tool that turns iron into a horseshoe. The software a
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by anthomtb 2y ago
5 hours of thought later, I am recalling that Greece is also seismically active.
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by anthomtb 2y ago
I have trouble lumping those 5 services together. Maybe its something to do with me being a middle-age American male? Instagram/X/TikTok: Hot garbage. Good riddance. Ban them and this country is a better place. Whatsapp/YouTu
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Southern Italy. I believe the rest of Europe is quite seismically stable.
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Breaking up the travel on the way to the much, much better beaches and much, much clearer water in the Caribbean? That's the only reason I'll be spending a night in America's wang.
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Am I missing something or is that ADALM-PLUTO a really good deal? Its going for $195 direct from AD. Half the frequency range of a USRP but 15% of the price. I was going to hold off on my SDR hobby until a few more gray hairs and $$$ came i
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by anthomtb 2y ago
From the press release: > expand very low power device operations across all 1,200 megahertz of the 6 GHz band alongside other unlicensed and Wi-Fi-enabled devices. Unless I am missing something, this means Wifi6 currently operates in th
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by anthomtb 2y ago
I've no idea how to quantify such things. I do know that adding C to that graph would require changing the Y axis to a logarithmic scale.
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Have we forgotten how venture capital (VC) is supposed to work? A new technology comes out. The new tech has high startup costs and low marginal costs. You invest in 10 companies developing this new tech. 8 go bankrupt, one hangs on by a th
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Most of my development experience is in C/C++ and Python. Know what I'd do if the interviewer asked me to debug PHP? Pretty much return the question: "I've never used PHP. Are there logging macros/functions defined
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by anthomtb 2y ago
I realize FM radio is strictly an example, but would you not rely on bandpass sampling? Where you sample at some multiple of your bandwidth and rely on the spectral replication effect to get your waveform. Ref: https://en.wikiped
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Tech employment had hockey stick growth from 2016-2021 and I suspect the number of HN users followed that curve. My guess is that the ratio of comments/users is the same or perhaps even slightly lower than 2016.
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by anthomtb 2y ago
Since promoting a secure economic future is clearly not in the Democratic party game plan, maybe trick the Republicans into starting a war and then campaign on stopping it? I am not sure what could hit at the self-interest of the 18-29M dem
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by anthomtb 2y ago
> breathing low-grade gas fumes for years I have been doing most of my cooking on a gas hob for 5 years now. Could you share more detail on this point? I feel the need to be scared today (it is Halloween after all).
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by anthomtb 2y ago
> any EMF above 60Hz. Isn't that effectively all the EMF? You may be missing a prefix. Edit: huh, turns out these frequencies do have some applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_low_frequency
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by anthomtb 2y ago
I replaced my own bottom bracket! Ok well, first I destroyed the threads on the cranks meant to interface with the bottom bracket tool. Thus requiring a shop visit. And the shop, after consulting with the frame manufacturer, cut the destroy
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by anthomtb 2y ago
As a self-confessed "former punk", do you really deserve to make that assessment?
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by anthomtb 2y ago
On holiday in Whistler back in 2019, I had a brief conversation with an Englishman in the hotel elevator. A few days later, he recognizes me outside the hotel but I am noticeably slow to recognize back and he mentions "we chatted on th
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by anthomtb 2y ago
I have always taken both Taiwanese and TSMC culture to be fairly reserved. So if you see language like "podcasting bro" slipping out, it really means something like "f cking bullsh t con artist".
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by anthomtb 2y ago
> Don't forget social media. I mean, we have some of the smartest, best paid people on the planet incentivized to use every bit of data they can to hack your evolutionary biology to keep you scroll, scroll, scrolling. I remember thi

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