bit_logic

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by bit_logic 4y ago
A recent example I found: https://tools.usps.com/rcas.htm (the "Initializing Services" modal never goes away in FF, works almost immediately in Chrome and Edge) This is just the most recent example I remember, unf
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by bit_logic 4y ago
Another term for this is grinding. The CEO is saying they should have made the grinding parts of the game longer. Grinding is usually boring and repetitive part of the game that's required to advance. A typical RPG example is defeat
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by bit_logic 5y ago
They need to release more technical details on this to restore confidence. How can a sandboxed user installed app with limited permissions cause dialing 911 to fail? How do they know other apps won't cause the same issue? And they me
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by bit_logic 5y ago
I'm in LA and it's in a downward spiral. Went to a restaurant yesterday and a dish was $16 which was a shocking increase. I went to look at menu photos from 2019 on yelp and the same dish was $12 back then. Service was really b
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by bit_logic 5y ago
One of the most powerful NIMBY arguments against more density is traffic. And unfortunately they're right. We see it again and again in the cities and suburbs that grew since the car became mainstream. The roads can only take so muc
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by bit_logic 5y ago
I agree that climate change is an issue, but I've become so disappointed in the environmentalists response to it. They simply resort to zealotry over their one "true" solution without any practical considerations. For examp
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by bit_logic 5y ago
I’m very concerned that the mask debate for elementary school (and especially pre-school) is not considering the potential long term negative effects. The anti-mask side uses false arguments about breathing too much CO2. And the pro-mask
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by bit_logic 5y ago
This is nice, but can Google do a better job covering the basics? Their weather widget used to display air quality (AQI) a few years ago (2018), then it suddenly disappeared one day: https://9to5google.com/2018/11&#x2F
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by bit_logic 5y ago
An interesting possible future, as the EROEI of traditional fossil fuels continues to drop (the cheap easy oil is gone), the oil price naturally goes up. At the same time, renewables (solar + wind) massively increases, but there's no
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by bit_logic 5y ago
I'm also not into trying to maximize every dollar and care a lot about other factors like WLB. But these days I'm feeling a lot of pressure due to inflation. Everything is going up and I feel like I need to switch jobs and incre
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by bit_logic 5y ago
Reading code should completely replace all the coding portions of current technical interviews. There's a lot of issues with writing code under interview conditions, many tech interview threads here and other places have covered this.
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by bit_logic 5y ago
Those comparing this to ICE car fire statistics are missing the point. The problem with EV fires is that they're often related to charging. And charging is an active process that happens during the most vulnerable time in a home (for
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by bit_logic 5y ago
I think we need to add a new level 2 assisted driving skills section to driving tests. Level 2 can be safer but it really requires understanding how level 2 works and limitations. For example, when I use level 2 (mine is Honda but applies
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by bit_logic 5y ago
There is a huge difference this time: Intel no longer has a process lead and is actually now far behind the best fab (TSMC). Intel was able to come back last time because of Core + best fab in the industry. Without that advantage this tim
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by bit_logic 5y ago
Decades of poor technical interview practices started by a blog post (the one about fizzbuzz). It's amazing how a single blog post changed the entire industry by causing such fear about "false positives". Looking at that bl
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by bit_logic 5y ago
I've realized recently that what I really want isn't FIRE, but a kind of soft FIRE. Basically, if I had the money for FIRE, I would find (or stay at) a job that is comfortable, has great benefits and is low-medium stress. I coul
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by bit_logic 5y ago
The government decided that phone numbers are important enough to create regulations that allow phone number portability between carriers. Email addresses need the same regulation. The arguments that lead to phone number portability apply
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by bit_logic 5y ago
The article doesn't mention the #1 problem with tech hiring: leetcode. Some advice for recruiters: try starting your emails with "NO LEETCODE" in the subject line and watch your response rate from senior experienced engineer
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by bit_logic 5y ago
I’m a bit surprised at the downvoting and wondering if there’s misunderstanding. To be clear, I’ve been working remote for years and fully support it. Physical location doesn’t matter. A team could have someone in a Bay Area house, someo
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by bit_logic 5y ago
Don't use the environment to justify full EV. From that perspective, Tesla, ID.4, Mach-E, these are all a waste of precious battery resources. For the environment, all that matters is increasing total aggregate EV miles driven. One
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by bit_logic 5y ago
The most important thing is the whole team being in the same time zone. Even a 1 hour difference is too much. That may seem extreme, but I've had so many important discussions happen around 5pm near end of day when everyone's do
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by bit_logic 5y ago
This is why I think the SUV PHEV is the perfect vehicle for the US market. And the market has shown this, demand for the RAV4 Prime is so great they can't make them fast enough and it's going for over MSRP. The car manufacturers
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by bit_logic 5y ago
That was the great mistake by the car manufacturers. Look at how popular the RAV 4 Prime is now, they can't make them fast enough and it's selling for higher than MSRP due to demand. They just needed to put this in SUVs and truc
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by bit_logic 5y ago
It would cost more than ICE, but less than a full EV since the battery is smaller. It can be more environmentally friendly if it means getting more aggregate EV miles driven by everyone, since the battery in one Tesla could be used to buil
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by bit_logic 5y ago
I agree, the current push for full EV was too soon. Even after extraordinary efforts like Tesla + Superchargers, the range and refill experience still isn't as good as ICE (range goes down with cold weather, and Superchargers still re
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by bit_logic 5y ago
Are you just saying that or did you look at his proposed plan? It included VAT and other ways to make it sustainable.
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by bit_logic 6y ago
What upsets and concerns me the most is when I see poorly developed SPA on really important sites. For example, government service application websites. If reddit or nytimes has a bloated, intermittently failing SPA site, that's an a
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by bit_logic 6y ago
There's a saying in software, you throw away the first version. The main idea is that when you start on something, you don't know what you don't know. The labor of the first version allows you to learn the domain, the limit
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by bit_logic 6y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/2020/ I need some help interpreting the location data. For example, if you click on Los Angeles, there's a bar chart with median and different percentiles. I assume this is across all engi
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by bit_logic 6y ago
I think the industry has this backwards. All the focus is on writing code and there are so many issues doing that within an interview context. The interview should be all about READING code. The original reason for writing code during an

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