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by cbanek 7y ago
What if two philosophers grab the same slice and won't let go?
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by cbanek 7y ago
> But we’ve found that a key element of the battle between truth and propaganda has nothing to do with technology. It has to do with how people are much more likely to accept something if it confirms their beliefs. So true (and not just
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by cbanek 7y ago
Wipers are important, and underrated. Seatbelts are mostly muscle memory if not absolutely required, and you have to use the brakes basically to even start the car or get anywhere. But wipers you don't use on every trip. One time I w
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by cbanek 7y ago
While crime rates have certainly changed, I'm not sure you can easily say that it's because we have more laws. If anything, it seems like a lot of laws are enforced with huge bias to race/class/wealth. If it was proven
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by cbanek 7y ago
I suppose that makes sense, although that would make visibility harder. Maybe if you went full virtual HUD helmets, and didn't need to see out at all... although then you might just want to have drones with AI dogfighting capability?
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by cbanek 7y ago
> That's why fighter pilots without legs can actually withstand higher-g maneuvers. You just wrinkled my brain. Is there an actual group of fighter pilots without legs who are taking advantage of this?
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by cbanek 7y ago
Also, talk to your company. If it's a company trip, they may be on the hook this.
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by cbanek 7y ago
Once upon a time, I had a surprise bill for about $4,000 that health insurance decided should have been $700 for that procedure. I fought it and won. But it took forever, almost a year of calling them and going back and forth - and this w
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by cbanek 7y ago
To quote the Tao Te Ching: The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men’s weapons, The more trouble in the land. The more ingenious and clever men are, The more strange things happen. The more rules an
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by cbanek 7y ago
> "What is corruption? On the Internet, it's botnets and DDoS attacks." While I don't disagree these are problems, it seems like the real corruption is misinformation. To follow the flow of the article, the cheaper a
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by cbanek 7y ago
Counterpoint: The three deadly sins of a software developer. 1. Lazyness. The first step toward never refactoring your code, or tackling tech debt. "We can live in the cruft, we've been doing it for years." 2. Impatience. T
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by cbanek 7y ago
Wow, this is even more questionable than how Otto proposed, "you're my rose, will you let me be your thorn?" > Polina Soldatova, the psychologist, says the only people who get to enjoy the experience are those in the posit
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by cbanek 7y ago
Not that I disagree that putting public keys everywhere is somewhat annoying, I feel like the same arguments could be made about Kerberos and ssh. And I think Kerberos handles the lifetime a lot better than short lived certificates.
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by cbanek 7y ago
Well, sure, who would want to give up their personal fortune when they've gone through all the motions of forming a corporation to protect themselves from these exact types of things? This kind of thing is exactly why you incorporate a
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by cbanek 7y ago
Lol, no, although I think these are valuable lessons that anyone needs, not just managers or princes. I'm omitting a lot of the great books I would suggest but others have suggested as well.
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by cbanek 7y ago
The Prince by Machiavelli, 1532 Chuang-tzu, 4th century BC The Art of War by Sun Tzu, 5th century BC Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, 14th century AD
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by cbanek 7y ago
My experience was that while you might get to talk to your manager before accepting, you don't get to interview with the team you will be working on. That hugely slants the purpose of the interview toward Google, as the candidate reall
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by cbanek 7y ago
> The fossil record shows that biodiversity in the world has been increasing dramatically for 200 million years and is likely to continue. The two mass extinctions in that period (at 201 million and 66 million years ago) slowed the trend
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by cbanek 7y ago
In my time in school for Engineering (UIUC), I think the "gaming the system" was mostly with the group projects. Many high level classes such as processor design made people form into groups of 2, 3, or 4 people to do a project.
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by cbanek 7y ago
The other half of the time is spent editing the tightly coupled mocks/tests when you refactor the real code. Bad tests can be a liability, not an asset.
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by cbanek 7y ago
And yet, UI menus are one of the things that always break, and break right in front of the user ("I can't click this button. This is greyed out and it shouldn't be.") Menus should definitely be tested, and I think test
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by cbanek 7y ago
As someone who worked somewhere where 100% code coverage was practically required, while it does point out flaws in your testing where you may have "missed a spot." It still doesn't prove that you're testing everything.
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by cbanek 7y ago
There's a lot of great advice here already. > Tried to break down tasks together, to a point where I rather have implemented the stuff myself I know this happens. I've felt it myself sometimes. But I just try to remind myself
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by cbanek 7y ago
My silk eyemask totally changed how I sleep. Best $10 I ever spent. For me, my problem is I tend to sleep in later so when the sun is out, sometimes it's hard to get woken up midcycle. https://www.amazon.com/gp/pr
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by cbanek 7y ago
Almost sounds like you have a cultural hero issue? This happens a lot. I think some of it is because people praise people who work extra hard, rather than those who finish their work quickly and well and rarely have to come back to it. M
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by cbanek 7y ago
Don't look for a silver bullet. Find the largest cause of chaos and try to solve it in the simplest way, which may be a manual process. Some things that cause chaos are: no CI, no tests, no code review, etc. Trying to add some kind o
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by cbanek 7y ago
That's true, but it may take a while for the company to fail, and in the meantime, perhaps no one wants to buy your stocks. I think there might be some way to give them back to the company if they want to, but not being able to sell t
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by cbanek 7y ago
Tucson actually has a small monsoon season, which I am desperately waiting for to cool us off. It's an interesting weather pattern. https://azclimate.asu.edu/monsoon/ Tucson gets a lot more rain than say, Death V
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by cbanek 7y ago
> The Macomb County Sheriff’s office responded and found he criticized what Judge Rachel Rancilio pinned on Pinterest as in his opinion inappropriate > The investigative report also says at no time did he threaten harm or violence. Th
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by cbanek 7y ago
> But that's not true, because suppose if 99.9% of investors are buying ETFs and only 0.1% are actively managing, there won't be enough funds to bring all these panic dislocated stocks back up for many, many years. The price ch

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