charred_patina

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by charred_patina 3y ago
I think that my work is honestly the most important factor in my happiness. I spend 8 hours a day (probably for the rest of my life) at work so it's going to be the thing that impacts me the most psychologically in my life. After reali
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by charred_patina 3y ago
What a coincidence! I've got my dream job too! The things I did to get here are honestly kind of stupid. I started out at a defense contractor after graduating and left in the first six months because all the software devs were jumping
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by charred_patina 3y ago
How many people if I may ask? And how many TPS for your services? I am hoping I can get away with a simple monolith for a very long time.
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by charred_patina 3y ago
That I'd be comfortable with.
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by charred_patina 3y ago
> Denying the world access to clean, affordable fuels like gas, oil, and coal is a real problem. This is literally the second sentence of that article.
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by charred_patina 3y ago
Class interests supersede national interests.
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by charred_patina 3y ago
I don't want to be negative, but this post reads like a list of things that I want to avoid in my career. I did a brief stint in cloud stuff at a FAANG and I don't care to go back to it. Right now I'm engineer No. 1 at a curr
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by charred_patina 3y ago
I mean, you could come back as a contractor and have them pay your rate to show them how to get the authentication script authenticating again. Obviously this isn't ethical. > Don't put in 80 hours a week for months unless you
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by charred_patina 3y ago
Sorry, replace "is it legal?" with "how likely are you to get caught and face penalties?".
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by charred_patina 3y ago
It sounds like they were never given written confirmation for the bonuses. How likely are you to face penalties if you put a "time bomb" in a codebase like this? Something with plausible deniability like let's say like an aut
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by charred_patina 3y ago
Is there anywhere to read about what CI/CD looks like for a Mars rover? Curious what a pipeline for something like that looks like and how they account for bugs, what kinds of conventions they must use to keep errors from occurring.
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by charred_patina 3y ago
> Are you sure you can see this genocide? Yes, I make sure that I have verified that what I am seeing is real. I immediately do a fact check. I read Haaretz because if Israeli media is confirming it then it is undoubtedly real. So many p
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by charred_patina 3y ago
There is disinformation on TikTok. There are white supremacists and antisemites that take every Israeli conflict as an opportunity to spread their hate. This is true. What is also true is that you can clearly see Israel conducting a genocid
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by charred_patina 3y ago
> Can you name a single state in the world with a majority muslim population that hasn't adopted any laws based on religion or passed any laws that discriminate against non-muslims? I don't know that Turkey has zero discriminat
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by charred_patina 3y ago
> All of this would end in an instant if Hamas would give up hostages and surrender. No, it would not. There would still be 400,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Palestinians in the West Bank would still live under occupation. Do yo
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by charred_patina 3y ago
> Modern-day Zionism to me and many others means that Israel has the right to exist. I think the framing of this argument is so tricky, because states don't have any rights. States aren't human beings. There is so much to unpac
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by charred_patina 3y ago
As a westerner, I have never heard a single person in the western sphere mention a peaceful, non-occupational one state solution. How common is the idea of a democratic single state solution in Israeli politics? Do the advocates for it have
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by charred_patina 3y ago
Not all, sorry I should have qualified that statement. I was just trying to point out that when Israel claims that it stands for all jews, it can backfire and actually end up causing more antisemitism. I have added some qualifying statement
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by charred_patina 3y ago
To add to this, OP if you want to learn more about why Israel is so callous to Palestinian life you need to learn about the Israeli right wing and how it came to power. I mean, this whole thing goes back further than that but for understand
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by charred_patina 3y ago
A common sentiment I have heard in the US is that "TikTok causes antisemitism". What I believe is actually happening is that TikTok debunks a lot of Hasbara talking points about the Israeli occupation of palestine (because people
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by charred_patina 3y ago
I am pretty sure in anime that you have specific studios and directors who direct and animate fight scenes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutaka_Nakamura Is one who comes to mind. It requires a specialist and costs an
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by charred_patina 3y ago
I do some biology-adjacent programming work. I think protein and cell simulations would be a fun area to learn about. I am familiar with projects like OpenWorm. You seem pretty knowledgeable about the field. How does one get into computatio
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by charred_patina 3y ago
Oh man I loved the podcast you did with Mike for Newgrounds. I had never stopped to think about the fact that Mike had to actually write an entire flash emulator to get Castle Crashers to run on the xbox. It's so clever and genius, s
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by charred_patina 3y ago
I think the issue is more that power laws distributions have a lot of negative externalities. Inequality is correlated with a lot of societal problems. > People see these power law distributions and are surprised? But like, do you actual
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by charred_patina 3y ago
> I can't help but think of all the media organs, the WSJ, Bloomberg, FT, Economist, CNBC, Fox Business, et al who cater to this small segment of the population. I never thought about how small their audience actually is. That said,
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by charred_patina 3y ago
> A terrorist intentionally targets civilians, and non-terrorist does not. That's it. When a leader targets their own people, we don't call them terrorists. My point is that the distinction comes down to whether the state is re
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by charred_patina 3y ago
Prosperous for some.
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by charred_patina 3y ago
Ok well all you are doing is limiting your ability to understand the real world. If you don't mind being ignorant then go ahead.
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by charred_patina 3y ago
I think they would. You would need to have them sign an agreement (as well as Israel). If they violated this agreement, then sure, the USA could be justified in taking military action. However, painting them as savages and approaching it wi
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by charred_patina 3y ago
States invent a legal framework that they can use to differentiate their civilian casualties from the civilian casualties of other groups they refuse to acknowledge. That is what I mean by the state monopoly on violence. You can't le

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