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by cbanek 2y ago
I think people are starting to drink less too. Now doctors are starting to ask patients how often they drink and advising them to drink less and less frequently.
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by cbanek 2y ago
Maybe Square would be interested for Final Fantasy!
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by cbanek 2y ago
I also feel like a lot of companies and managers overestimate how important their services are. A lot of time it's about managers saving face or having a record to prove to the boss. When you're working on something stupid after
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by cbanek 2y ago
I remember these! And they weren't exactly circle CD-ROMs either, they had round sides but then straight top and bottom, so you could fit them in a business card holder / wallet. I always thought these were pretty cool.
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by cbanek 2y ago
It's interesting you call out a year as a time span. I have no idea what the goals will be in a year, let alone how I'll code it. A year seems like a really long time, but also just short enough to justify adding extra work in e
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by cbanek 2y ago
> But an accretion of kludges around an insufficient set of core functionality is absolutely worse than having a little extra functionality that you end up deleting later. I agree that an accretion of kludges is bad. The problem here co
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by cbanek 2y ago
I've never been bitten by an interface that is too simple. I've never had a bug in code that I didn't need to write. Don't try to solve future problems. You'll have the problem that the problem you solved isn'
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by cbanek 2y ago
While some parts can be pretty corny, let me call out the music as amazing. Each episode has a lot more unique music than I thought!
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by cbanek 2y ago
In the last few days I just finished watching it! Totally worth every time.
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by cbanek 2y ago
While I agree, I don't think the layoffs are getting rid of the bullshitters. If anything, it seems like they are still prospering just fine (from where I'm at). Bullshitters seem like cockroaches, they can survive just about an
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by cbanek 2y ago
ah yes you are totally correct, thanks!
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by cbanek 2y ago
(I worked at SpaceX) Two words: flight heritage. Successful concepts are very often reused. For example, heat shields, parachute landings, sea landings, air bags for landings on hard land, etc. Now, let me try to explain this in something
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by cbanek 2y ago
My favorite Ballmer practice is stack ranking. It completely screwed up the entire company. I worked on Windows Mobile at the time the iPhone came out. We were all shitting ourselves.
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by cbanek 2y ago
Of all the things that Ballmer was wrong about... I guess this is one of them.
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by cbanek 2y ago
VPNs seem blocked and return 403
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by cbanek 2y ago
I worked in an office building where the AC was on one circuit, but somehow the difference between the warm side of the building and the freezing side of the building was over 10F, which was about 30 feet away.
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by cbanek 2y ago
Sidequest: “I’m going to do Windows and then I’m going to do Windows Mobile and I’m going to do Windows embedded.” (all on intel x86) As someone who worked on Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded, it's funny because that's what man
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by cbanek 2y ago
Have also used 1password. It's great. It has an API that you can code against for automation, and you can also mirror some passwords / tokens into hashicorp vault.
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by cbanek 2y ago
I also really enjoyed the 800. That picture of Joust brings back memories.
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by cbanek 2y ago
I wonder how this interacts with, or not, getting charged with a crime and possessing cannabis and a gun at the same time. It seems like they all really trump up the other charges federally, even when the crime doesn't involve either.
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by cbanek 2y ago
A lot of times the questions I ask are literally about the job, since interviewers are so focused on trying to ask candidates things that they forget that it's a matching game, and the job has to be explained too. I'll try to &quo
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by cbanek 2y ago
Any nethack players here? I love the sokoban levels, probably my favorite little sidequest.
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by cbanek 2y ago
I'd love this, but right now I'd be happy with a team reverse engineering these things and not getting hit with some kind of IP lawsuit from whatever company. I think there's going to be a lot of abandoned-ware IoT stuff, mo
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by cbanek 2y ago
it's recommended to give it some time if it's been running and to short across the terminals with something, like a screwdriver that has a non conducting handle. It's nothing too ridiculous.
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by cbanek 2y ago
This is when smart gets stupid. I'm a bit worried about this with my nest and other smart devices, but even with normal air conditioners there are a few stupid simple problems that will cost you hundreds of dollars! A couple of weeks
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by cbanek 2y ago
AI summaries of the news being one of two features mentioned in the article, so I'd assume those are the newsworthy things. My point is that this functionality is already present on the device and works quite well without needing any
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by cbanek 2y ago
And yet another way to try and destroy journalism: AI summaries of the news. Why not just listen to the news? You can listen to BBC on Alexa, along with almost any other news radio station you please. If you want short summaries, just loo
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by cbanek 2y ago
Honestly I wish I knew. Having orgs and teams (since it is such a "local" problem in a corporation) that are willing to advertise to me that it's going to be a problem can even be a plus. It's very rare that these peop
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by cbanek 2y ago
Same is true for interviews. As a woman who isn't super attractive, nor do I really try to be, some interviewers just have a weird expression when they meet me, and I know it's over from there. Just had this happen last week int
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by cbanek 2y ago
I'm not surprised, Fidelity also owns a piece of SpaceX.

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