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by aswanson 4y ago
I suffered necrotic tooth pain. Wish it on no one.
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by aswanson 4y ago
https://youtu.be/B965f8AcNbw
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by aswanson 4y ago
The Bronze Age collapse is fascinating, especially with the mysterious Sea People involved.
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by aswanson 4y ago
Which is silly, because a corporation, in the end, is nothing more than a group of people cooperating. So a group of people agreeing to murder is just a market imbalance that will be corrected by market forces.
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by aswanson 4y ago
Libertarianism is analogous to calculus limits in political philosophy. It's useful in terms of what you're approaching with regard to an ideal, but forever mismatched & inapplicable to the real world with initial conditions.
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by aswanson 4y ago
Yes. The most recent information indicates they have made a wrong judgement. Your faith in them should be updated accordingly.
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by aswanson 4y ago
Serial killers should be locked up for life. Full-stop.
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by aswanson 4y ago
Stuff like this makes me less regretful of ignoring the original bitcoin posting on HN by chaostheory.
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by aswanson 4y ago
Exactly. Not all forms of development require deep thought mode, and a lot of them add value to your overall productivity and code quality.
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by aswanson 4y ago
Definitely. My dad always recalled working on the Navy Ship yard and how cold it was before saying to himself, "F--- this" and going to college to become an accountant.
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by aswanson 4y ago
...two dozen crypto bros and boxing promoters... For some reason this sentence had me howling with laughter.
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by aswanson 4y ago
Amen. I've been doing embedded since forever and am continually stunned how engineers shun simple, open source tools for complicated expensive ones with no value add.
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by aswanson 4y ago
Was it common knowledge back then that CMOS would eventually deprecate TTL, ECL, etc?
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by aswanson 4y ago
The 70s were everything.
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by aswanson 5y ago
I need that book. I will fulfill myself in finding it.
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by aswanson 5y ago
The name evokes a Neal Stephenson cyberpunk type disease vibe.
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by aswanson 5y ago
Lol
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by aswanson 5y ago
Politician engineers, ugh.
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by aswanson 6y ago
Analog is the future. Steampunk nuke ops.
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by aswanson 6y ago
Im even lower-level in the stack, and some of the comments make me want to just learn php. I remember one comment where Joel Spolsky wrote on twitter where he wrote stack overflow in asp .net and scaled it running on one box. Its all about
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by aswanson 6y ago
I dunno. I think its like my last visit to the dentist with to get my wisdom teeth removed. I had some serious necrotic pain and had to get them removed. Horrible pain. I sat there and the tech shot something in my arm. I said to myself, &q
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by aswanson 6y ago
Excellent advice.
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by aswanson 6y ago
I love the design on this site.
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by aswanson 6y ago
Amazing, the nth level effects a superior notation can have in problem solving. The same consequences of a higher-order programming language.
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by aswanson 6y ago
It's like Homelander from "The Boys". An unaccountable menace that had a public image as a defender, reporting to dark interests.
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by aswanson 6y ago
I had a guy ask me the number of hardware interrupts there were on a processor I used 4 years prior and what the exact part number was on an interview. Just incredibly stupid questions.
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by aswanson 6y ago
Sure, why not.
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by aswanson 6y ago
Tech seems to be the only field that does these dumb types of interviews. Accounting, law, medicine etc seems to work well without these filters. Why are tech interviews so stupid?
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by aswanson 6y ago
Apologies to the community. This post was after a few beers, but inexcusable nonetheless. Won’t happen again.
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by aswanson 6y ago
My father was a veteran of the vietnam war, an immoral war the US fought against the people of vietnam. I pray the Vietnamese nation can hold the line against China.

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