cbsks

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   by cbsks 6y ago

   One of my most proud accomplishments was reducing the size of a driver from ~3000 lines of code to ~800. The file was 15 years old and had been modified by many people since. There were conditionals that were impossible to hit, features tha
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   by cbsks 6y ago

   Jamie Mantzel is a guy living on an island off the grid in Central America. He’s a little kooky, but his videos are super interesting. He has lots of videos of his progress building solar powered boats and houses. https://youtube
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   by cbsks 6y ago

   I’ve written an XML parser like this for a toy project. I passed the XML through a prettifier first so that it was in a standard format. It wouldn’t work for every XML file, but it worked on the files that I needed it for. I have also had s
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   by cbsks 6y ago

   You missed the invisible sarcasm tag
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   by cbsks 6y ago

   Yes, that's true. It depends on how the interview is structured. I would not excel in an interview that relies on whiteboard coding, algorithm problems, and CS trivia, but I can talk for hours about the projects that I have worked on a
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   by cbsks 6y ago

   The "problem" that I have now is that there are few companies that can offer me double my salary, and none in my area. I'm not willing to relocate so my only hope is that FAANG-type companies start to hire remote developers.
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   by cbsks 6y ago

   I agree that it is pretty great. I think triple my starting pay is very doable at my company. I know that the people at the top of the engineering org chart are doing quite well for themselves.
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   by cbsks 6y ago

   Is the constant churn just a Silicon Valley thing? I get a raise every year of about 8% which keeps me well compensated even after working at the same job for 8 years. It’s possible the company I work for is an outlier? We have lots of engi
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   by cbsks 6y ago

   Here’s a good video of the flight path and radio communications with the tower: https://youtu.be/G7-zh7Sebr8 It’s always amazing too me how calm everyone seems in emergency situations like that. It almost seems like a routi
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    > when things start to get complicated you can `fc` into your $EDITOR, with pretty-print (with newlines) and syntax highlighting or whatever else you want. What?!? How have I never heard about this command? Thank you so much for telling
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    Gig workers say pay has fallen after California's Prop 22(theguardian.com)

    5 points by cbsks 6y ago|2 comments
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    That's really similar to one of my favorites: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/07/31
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    They use Mullvad, which is a reputable VPN provider.
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    De Cecco Finally Reveals What the Heck Is Going on with Its Bucatini(grubstreet.com)

    3 points by cbsks 6y ago|0 comments
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    ifconfig en0 | grep ether # one of these will return a MAC address that matches ifconfig en1 | grep ether # the value you saw when looking for your current ifconfig en2 | grep ether # mac address. ifconfig en3 | grep ether # Keep
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    What differentiates this from Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey?
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    Also: "Participation in the Spaceflight is limited to individuals under six feet and six inches (6’6") in natural height and under two hundred fifty (250) pounds in natural body weight." https://www.prizeo.com&#x2F
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    IANAL, but it looks to me that the text of the law doesn’t differentiate between dried mushrooms that contain psilocybin, and pure psilocybin of the same weight. > (B) Twelve grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectabl
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    Is there some backstory to this?
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    Clearly YouTube doesn’t want to be a public square.
21. 411.▲
    by cbsks 6y ago

    So instead of the scraper’s IP being banned, it’s mine? That’s not good.
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    Incorrect. It’s a limitation of X11 that if the screensaver daemon crashes, including xscreensaver, the desktop will be unlocked. See the JWZ links that are posted in this thread.
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    “We may collect, use, and share End User Information in an aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized manner (that does not identify you personally) for any purpose permitted under applicable law.”
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    My Dell Precision laptop has a manual camera shutter. This seems like a step backwards.
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    For those who don’t know, Matt Levine’s newsletter also goes out by email and doesn’t require a Bloomberg subscription: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    What data do you get on each person who matches the query?
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    So all credit card numbers submitted by the form are viewable by Cloudflare? That does not inspire confidence
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    I interviewed at Apple and talked with 8 engineers. Some had been working there for 6 years and none of them could tell me anything that they had worked on. They couldn’t even tell me if anything they had worked on had shipped. Sounded like
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    The linked pdf is 5 pages. It seems like irresponsible journalism to not just include the text in any article written about it.
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    by cbsks 6y ago

    I have heard good things about PurpleAir air quality sensors. https://www2.purpleair.com/collections/air-quality-sensors