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by calt 9y ago
Which brings up the topic of responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities and leaked credentials.
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by calt 9y ago
My friends and I used to play this a race. We weren't concerned so much with the number of hops as how quickly we could get here. It was always fun reviewing each round and seeing how everyone got to the destination.
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by calt 9y ago
Or perhaps UBI can set people free to live as they see fit, cultivate themselves spiritually, artistically, and communally without needing to consume nearly as useless garbage.
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by calt 9y ago
What's the connection?
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by calt 9y ago
Don't tell me that I just needed to believe in myself more. My belief in my ability to succeed was briefly shattered by my dad's employment situation. He was a well qualified engineer laid off from manufacturing. That made us stru
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by calt 9y ago
The author's story makes me incredibly grateful for the current situation for developing engineers. I went to a cheap state school and had paid internships. Also, we have a long way to go on sexism and discrimination, but there are cou
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by calt 9y ago
As of a while ago (they took down the page explaining it), it's not even split up per user. It's split up per total Spotify streams. Those people that leave their Spotify playing Muzak all day long are diluting your dollars. http
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by calt 9y ago
Yes. That's the point. They don't know them, and they can still be productive. However, if you require the knowledge it can be taught and you might have to help teach it.
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by calt 9y ago
A while ago they had an offer for lifetime membership for a lump sum. I'm sad that my cynicism around that offer was accurate.
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by calt 9y ago
“It’s intended to be a symbol of what we believe at Facebook, which is that our work is unfinished,” said Lori Goler, vice president of people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11&#x
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by calt 9y ago
I personally feel that cubicles are the worst of both worlds. You get none of the privacy and sound isolation of a private space, but you don't get the frictionless collaboration and socialization of an open office. I felt like I was s
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by calt 9y ago
A lot of interesting engineering research into floating offshore wind is being done at University of Maine. They have some prototypes producing power. Understanding the characteristics of the carbon composites has, AFAIK, been the major lim
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by calt 9y ago
After my dad's manufacturing related engineering position moved overseas he got told by an automaker that he was over-qualified for line work. However no one was interested in his engineering skills even after he tried to pivot to qual
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by calt 9y ago
Who the fuck are you? Imagine having nothing and then being told you can't have the companionship of a dog or even cheap beer because that means you aren't interested in changing your situation.
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by calt 9y ago
I ride my bicycle all winter. When the weather gets bad, I go a longer route with better bicycle infrastructure where it's safe to go slowly and I'm not being tailed by a car. If I lived in a city where no such route existed I wou
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by calt 9y ago
Anecdotally I see them driving like snails on Valencia Street and elsewhere in the Mission day and night. It's very well mapped, but one of the more challenging areas to navigate in America. I've never seen them pulled over in the
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by calt 9y ago
The headline should read "Priceline Group Inc. now worth $100B" priceline.com is pretty tiny compared to the totality of the group... Mostly booking.com really.
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by calt 9y ago
One word: Addiction Facebook events are invaluable to my life these days, but the news feed is an addiction that I've been fighting since university. If only I could be %100 dedicated to all resolutions without any effort then I wouldn
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by calt 10y ago
I've worked on financial systems still running on mainframes from the 80s. The Y2K compatibility commit messages are there in the logs. Airline reservation systems run on software written in the 50s and 60s Your views on evergreen this
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by calt 10y ago
Or "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" ... even though he's clearly not singing it as a contraction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWi5jdgTUJs
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by calt 10y ago
Traffic in SF is traffic that works imho. I love the nuance and judgment that drivers are forced to use. I feel safer walking/bicycling/motorcycling here than in any other city, and that speaks volumes about the city's livabi
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by calt 10y ago
There's a big difference between being a supported first class citizen and having a hacked together ecosystem that Mostly Works™. After my experience with Mono on past .NET versions, I'm skeptical of any of these "compiles to
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by calt 10y ago
Is this what it's come to?
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by calt 10y ago
There have been attempts a universal language that are quite fascinating. There's an interesting RadioLab on the subject of Bissymbols. I suppose the one that sticks and evolves over time is the one that probably matters though. https
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by calt 11y ago
> So as usual, Apple is lying/misleading people here. At least 'technically'. No. Apple are arguing that the patents are invalid. They aren't sayin they have been found invalid already. The TechCrunch article said &qu
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by calt 11y ago
Out of context relevant quote time: "...and reality has a well-known liberal bias" -Stephen Colbert
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by calt 11y ago
> The difference is human drivers will stop the car if blinded. So will the self driven cars, if you read the article.
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by calt 12y ago
I'm just going to answer with a webcomic that fits exactly this. Stop comparing yourself. I went to a shitty cs program after dropping out of an electrical engineering program. I'm doing great. http://www.smbc-comics.co
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by calt 12y ago
I'm happy to see experimentation in new wind technologies, but it makes me sad to see things like this grabbing headlines when floating offshore is such a strong contender that just needs some more funding for the engineering effort (m
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by calt 12y ago
Does anyone have a plain text transcription? I'm having trouble reading that scan.

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