cecilpl2

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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> My intuitions come from C and C++, so "+=" should always modify a single object (in C lingo it would be "lvalue") in place. Storing the result somewhere else than the left side of "+=" is counterintuitive
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Popularity. Ingress wasn't so popular that you could assume people in the same location as you were also playing. At the height of its popularity, you were the odd one out on the street corner if you weren't playing Pokemon Go.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Amazon famously turned no profit for nearly 15 years. When you run a large business you can do things like reinvest what would have been profit into new projects. This is the whole point of a growth company. Recognize that, simplistically,
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Money, quantum physics, the nature of reality, the nature of consciousness, sex, recent conversations I've had, admiring the beauty of nature, thinking about trips I want to take...
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> You're perfectly free to completely ignore work after 5pm! Nothing bad will happen! Maybe not in a big tech job. But I have worked at startups where ignoring work after 5pm was grounds for a negative performance review and being p
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> the difference is with the current status quo in-app purchases are not really owned by the customers, so even if another game developer wanted to honour their purchases there is no way to interop. Roblox already does this. Your in-game
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
What data do I actually want to carry across websites? I actually don't understand the value here. Is it that I don't have to re-enter my personal information on each site? Signing in with Google already gets me that. Is it someth
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> Because instilling this type of paranoia in children is likely to cause more harm to the mental health of their generation (in total), than those very few bad events that this behavior stops? Nobody gets a finger pointed at them for th
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
BC: https://www.icbc.com/road-safety/crashes-happen/speed/Pages/... > Allow at least two seconds' following distance behind other vehicles in good weather and road conditions (three seconds on a
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Then I just maintain the gap to account for them. I have never been unable to do this. It does mean sometimes I drive 1-2 kph slower than the average speed.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> Usual safety guidelines are to stay about 3 car lengths behind whoever you're following No, safety guidelines are to follow 3 SECONDS behind the car in front, which is about 100m at 70mph.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
No, at 70mph (31m/s) you travel 100 metres in 3.2 seconds. I was always taught 3 seconds on the highway is a safe following distance, and 4 seconds in adverse weather conditions like rain. It's not at all unrealistic - it's s
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Some people feel like "their" is plural and therefore invented a singular gender-neutral pronoun.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
It's a gender neutral pronoun.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
That is why you should always leave enough space in front of you so that you can react and safely come to a stop if the car in front were to suddenly hit a pileup.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
When I did my private license 20 years ago, my instructor asked me whether I had previous experience playing flight simulators. She said that people who had usually required more time in the cockpit to unlearn all the bad habits they had ac
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
This is what it looks like to me in Firefox 99 on Windows. https://imgur.com/a/ohIYfqL
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I used to download full video game soundtracks. It would take me all night to download a single album, and I'd have been disconnected from the internet when I woke up in the morning because my ISP wouldn't support a connection len
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Maybe you have it set to autodetect the current setting. You can set presets for sitting/walking/in transit, and it dynamically switches between them.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> April fools had become its own serious entity in the marketing org This is hilarious and not at all surprising
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> What happened before the big-bang? Perhaps this is like asking the question "What value did the system clock have before the computer was turned on?"
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Randomly reinforced dopamine hits. Same reason some people play slot machines all day.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
When I was a teenager in the late 90s, I had escapes from the social hell of high school. I could go home, invite one or two close friends over, and play video games. I could find a super niche community on IRC and hang with them virtually.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Ideas and sayings evolve and grow over time, becoming pithier and more accessible. Few ideas are born into the world fully-formed, but we should still attribute them to those that birthed them.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
This was fascinating! It started with some simple simulations, but led into some very enlightening generalizations about why culture spreads more rapidly in cities than in the countryside, and why new language spreads more rapidly among ado
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Thank you for saying this. This resonates to a T. I used to memorize her arguments so that I could use them against her later, only to find that she somehow had another ace up her sleeve. Indefinitely. Leaving me feeling, yet again, like ev
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I have never had an initial recruiter message contain comp info. Literally 0 out of hundreds. Maybe 10% are willing to provide hard numbers upon request, and about 50% have given me numbers after a 15 minute ~~phone call~~ sales pitch.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Yes, closer to 4x (120k-480k). Admittedly I was originally underpaid even for my market area and the rise of remote work has allowed me to find jobs in higher-paying markets. Anyway, my main point was that I have found inbound job requests
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
This has not been my experience at all. My three most recent job switches (over 5 years) have gone like this: 1. Ex-coworker or recruiter reaches out with an opportunity that sounds interesting. 2. I ask for comp range and make sure it&#x27
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Yeah I was definitely uncomfortable about giving brokerage logic credentials to anyone. Some brokerages can give you a read-only API key you can supply to an app, which is nice for systems like this. Maybe see if yours do that? Wealthica is

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