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by beebmam 4y ago
If only it were possible to buy a Raspberry Pi at MSRP!
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by beebmam 4y ago
I totally agree with you. It is a cliche, but truly, they are only cheating themselves. Careers eventually filter out (most of) the cheaters. From my observations, only the students who were committed to understanding the material went on t
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by beebmam 4y ago
It seems like it is a suboptimal choice to use a garbage collected language when trying to optimize for throughput. What made you decide to use Go instead of a language like Rust or C++?
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by beebmam 4y ago
Now this is a question I'd like to know the answer to.
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by beebmam 4y ago
I've done the same thing and it has significantly made me feel comfier at night. There are other ways to improve your sleep quality as well! Don't use any electronic devices 30 minutes before bed or while in bed. Meditation before
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by beebmam 4y ago
I have a hard time believing people feel comfortable using Python applications in production for anything other than prototyping. I have seen some shit over my career, across many kinds of interpreted languages, that will never let me appro
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by beebmam 4y ago
E-bikes are an even better alternative for most tasks we do around town. BUT: Bike thieves. I'd be riding my e-bike everywhere if we actually held bike thieves accountable to the same level of car thieves. If I leave my e-bike outside
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by beebmam 4y ago
Be aware that if you travel to India, you will almost certainly need to bribe people during the travel process. It's something westerners tend to be really uncomfortable with and usually stresses them out.
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by beebmam 4y ago
As long as you keep your kids away from addictive things, like social media, cell phones, heavily processed foods, drugs, sex, etc, they'll probably figure things out all right. But it seems easier than ever to fall into cycles of addi
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by beebmam 4y ago
>In Christian churches I am least impressed by a sermon that talks about how marvelous heaven is going to be at the end. To me that's not the message of Christianity. The message is about how to live now, not that we should live in
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by beebmam 4y ago
> I still have an iPhone, which came out 13 years ago - blockchain also came out 13 years ago. The iPhone has changed the world in that time, but crypto has not. It has searched for a use case and the one use case it’s really found is ex
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by beebmam 4y ago
Super weird reading comments like this, when you're saying that being opposed to these industries is "morality policing": - illegal drug trafficking/sales - sex trafficking - immigration trafficking - child sexual abuse
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by beebmam 4y ago
Never seen OKRs be anything but a disaster. Probably never will see anything else.
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by beebmam 4y ago
I'm fine with being permanently connected to work if they pay me $500k+ a year (In 2022 dollars)
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by beebmam 4y ago
Daniel has sincerely enriched all of our lives, and I will support him with virtually any decision he makes. I'm not entirely sure what he means in this by "server hosting and management" though. Like, will he operate a data
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by beebmam 4y ago
>Diversity and inclusion are essential, and should be reflected not only in the job posting but throughout this process. I encourage managers to use take-home exercises as a delta for talking points rather than a pass/fail test. Why
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China's Lockdown Problem(youtube.com)
6 points by beebmam 4y ago|0 comments
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by beebmam 4y ago
That's 60% marginal rates. Last year I paid 17% of my total income in taxes.
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by beebmam 4y ago
The only people who deserve bullying are the bullies.
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by beebmam 4y ago
I have a hard time taking any company seriously that facilitates the consumption of alcohol during work hours, with the exception of parties/celebrations.
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by beebmam 4y ago
In the workplaces that Russian scientists and engineers will go in western countries, like software/pharma/bio/academia/etc, it's highly unlikely there will be virtually any ethnic hate. I've never once seen it
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by beebmam 4y ago
Here's a relevant quote from Google's code review guidelines on speed https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/speed... >When code reviews are slow, several things happen: ... >D
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by beebmam 4y ago
I used to use a notebook exactly like this, but then I became fully remote. Now I use org-mode for everything in the exact same way, except now it's structured and navigable and searchable!
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by beebmam 4y ago
Twitter is only relevant to the people who use it. I personally don't know anyone who uses it in 2022.
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by beebmam 4y ago
That's what I learned in CS, along with many other topics. There's no way in hell I would learn about registers or assembly languages if I was learning about programming in 2022 outside of a CS program.
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by beebmam 4y ago
I've had two Pi 400s, and I've wanted to use them similarly as you do. But each of them have had the space bar break. Such a disaster of a device.
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Elon Musk, Twitter’s next owner, provides his definition of “free speech”(arstechnica.com)
5 points by beebmam 4y ago|2 comments
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by beebmam 4y ago
Probably most, if not nearly all; tech is eating everything.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Superb question. If I were an employee there, I certainly would be sending out applications elsewhere.
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by beebmam 5y ago
I haven't signed off any email or letter in years. Your words can stand on their own without a sign off!

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