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541.
by brimble 5y ago
If you're specializing in something else but have knowledge of some other, unrelated thing, the latter is often at least accidentally concealed because it rarely comes up. Further, one might deliberately conceal it, to avoid having
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by brimble 5y ago
You could have leased time on a ten million dollar supercomputer in 1990. It was serious capital. Try leasing time on your iPhone.
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by brimble 5y ago
Parents really don't like war-type stuff these days, especially for young kids. Cops & robbers or playing war or anything like that—IDK about anyone else, but, like, the main activities of my childhood ages ~4-10, rivaled only by
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by brimble 5y ago
I was holding steady with probably a 3k/day diet before that. Abs visible, full-on six-pack if I had a really active week (went swimming a lot in a Summer week, stuff like that). Down from ~4k/day of pure junk food in high school
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by brimble 5y ago
> I always say that Types are not there for the truly expert programmer. Machine-verifiable documentation about the intended I/O of functions and shapes of structs and objects is hugely fucking valuable to everyone . Your documen
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by brimble 5y ago
I tried to lose some weight with strict calorie counting once . ~1400/day. No loss in about 60 days, with zero cheating. I also started doing a lot of cardio at the same time (bike riding, running). No help there, either. Gained a t
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by brimble 5y ago
Maybe it's a local thing? New York, perhaps? It's definitely not widespread. It'd be a really weird question in most of the country (of course you drive)
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by brimble 5y ago
On-demand food delivery is for people with lots of disposable income. It's really expensive. You get pick-up otherwise. At least in the US. Maybe it's different in Europe. $4+ per diner delivery markup (increased base food price
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by brimble 5y ago
If there's not a law to prevent it, I'd assume banks sell your balance info anyway.
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by brimble 5y ago
If Russia weren't capable of lying, to good effect, about who shut it off, we wouldn't be worried about this to begin with. I don't think it matters who does it.
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by brimble 5y ago
I did. So I could slyly cheat on high school chemistry & physics exams :-) I wrote little programs to work problems for me and print all the "show your work" bits. I did it all on the device itself, since I didn't have
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by brimble 5y ago
The language is rarely a hurdle. The (almost always bad and broken) tools, the (often misleading, as far as best-practices go, or muddled with old versions and outdated advice) documentation, and learning the culture and ecosystem ("Oh
553.
by brimble 5y ago
Yes, that's a good point. They've shown themselves entirely willing to cut out the parts that they think do them more harm than good. What remains is the part they think is net-beneficial, so unless we think they are very wrong a
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by brimble 5y ago
If the Russian government thought that the parts of the Internet they still allow were any threat, in excess of the economic or strategic benefit it provides, they'd have already cut it off. I think the viability of any kind of Interne
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by brimble 5y ago
Does the global Internet, or does it not, provide immense value to an economy? If it does, then of course we should consider cutting them off. If not, then IDK why we're all so well-paid. I think the "we could use it to counter pr
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by brimble 5y ago
Either access to the global Internet is not, in fact, economically valuable, or yes, it absolutely would help (in the sense of harming the Russian economy, that is)
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by brimble 5y ago
I'm pretty sure "so-called" and scare quotes were supposed to communicate in bright flashing lights that they don't think the label is accurate.
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by brimble 5y ago
If we could cut off Russia's electricity like we could the Internet, without that being likely to escalate to a hot war with them, we'd do that too. We'd be crazy not to.
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by brimble 5y ago
Further, if those rates are similar across time and roughly evenly distributed among populations, it means that carefully-researched family tree your aunt (or whoever) has spent so much time working on gets unreliable (as far as biological
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by brimble 5y ago
Agree, the problem with if/else is that you end up having to consider the whole block plus usually a little context from just before it. I still find it much easier to read, unless very poorly written, while all ternaries slow me down
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by brimble 5y ago
Basically no-one else hires like this, outside of tech. If you describe what our interviews—even relatively light ones, not FAANG—look like to people outside our industry, reactions tend to be of the "what the actual fuck?" variet
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by brimble 5y ago
Last time I looked (a couple years ago) the market was so hot that any company taking longer than a week to decide and more than maybe two interviews, counting an initial phone interview, was gonna lose the candidate.
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by brimble 5y ago
Try as I might, I have to reason through ternaries every time I encounter them. I think the = being so removed from what it's actually assigning, but without grouping parens, is what messes me up. Plus I always forget what the punctuat
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by brimble 5y ago
Same here, same family size. Bad insurance is more expensive than property tax + mortgage.
565.
by brimble 5y ago
It's entirely about company size and profit. Small companies can't afford to have their limited staff wasting time on bullshit. Big companies tolerate or even encourage it, for various reasons.
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by brimble 5y ago
Maybe it's survivorship bias and I'm only seeing in-fact-rare good examples, but organizational communication seemed so much better back in the 1940s-~1960s. And other communication, for that matter. Instructional videos from th
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by brimble 5y ago
PowerPoint decks for the upper tiers of an organization can take on a whole different character. I shit you not that it's common to pass them around in email as if they were a document format, even for information that is never intende
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by brimble 5y ago
> That is part of the reason Powerpoint is everywhere. You cannot assume that people have read anything before the meeting, you cannot assume they will read during the meeting, so you need to read it out loud to have a decent chance of i
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by brimble 5y ago
Slack should at least bridge to an open protocol, if not use one outright, so I can use any client I want. Like they used to.
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by brimble 5y ago
That makes sense as a legit problem. Reminds me of people going "LOL WTF do you need 12 hours of battery life for?" about the new M1 laptops. Well, for one, more battery life is always nice, and for another, it'll be really

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