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by dave4420 2y ago
It says USA only, and the only remote option is “Remote, USA”, but some of those “Remote, USA” jobs are remote in Europe.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Massively underrated as satire.
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by dave4420 2y ago
He’s referring to 1. Jobs that are inherently BS — whatever the modern equivalents of telephone sanitisers are 2. Jobs working on BS projects — projects that never go anywhere. This will include engineers working on those projects I wonder
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by dave4420 2y ago
Stackoverflow.co, not stackoverflow.com… are we sure this is legit?
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by dave4420 2y ago
I’ve not found this to be the case. I’ve argued at work before for us to deliver a simpler subset of a feature, that delivers most of the value sooner, then to assess later whether we actually need the rest of the feature. This is also why
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by dave4420 2y ago
Relative lack of physical constraints?
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by dave4420 2y ago
It’s not illegal to say that multiple US presidents in living memory have treated women as sex objects, and that one of your major presidential candidates is a proud sex pest. The body rots from the head down. But also you need to get rid o
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by dave4420 2y ago
…250 million years from now. Valid research, but this is click bait reporting.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Every time macOS has updated, I’ve had to reinstall Nix. Which I guess is in part a consequence of Nix not supporting single user installs on macOS.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Tried to comment on the blog, but it didn’t work, so: Shell scripts (all programs really) have their own current directory, so you don’t need to restore the current directory when you exit… removes some of the complexity
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by dave4420 2y ago
Yeah… but then you get nix’s problems. - steep steep learning curve, so your team is split between those who can understand it and those who have to blindly follow checklists and ask for help when something breaks - it doesn’t play well on
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by dave4420 2y ago
Why would “smart” mean “not large”?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Headline on the article says it’s 45 years old — presumably that’s a typo and they mean 35 years old?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Part of climate change is that the Earth’s albedo is heading in the opposite direction — as the ice caps melt, less light gets reflected into space, more gets absorbed. It feels like you’d need to lighten the Earth’s surface a lot just to c
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by dave4420 2y ago
If you want to show that all growth since 2008 is fake, shouldn’t you subtract QE instead of dividing by it?
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by dave4420 2y ago
A little bit verbal, a little bit intuitive, but mostly visual (both equations and diagrams).
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by dave4420 3y ago
Is the phrase “race condition” actually causing confusion anywhere? I have never heard of this before.
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by dave4420 3y ago
No. If I was going to avoid cats then I wouldn’t have got kittens last year.
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by dave4420 3y ago
“Fair” as in “on the same terms that their own retail unit gets”, without any terms that would be anticompetitive. And no cross subsidisation. (I meant “fair to competitors”, but I think you thought I meant “fair to the infrastructure owner
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by dave4420 3y ago
If it fixes a bug, but makes the system less maintainable, is that an improvement?
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by dave4420 3y ago
You force the infrastructure operator to allow competitors to use their infrastructure on a fair basis. It’s what happens in Europe (including the UK). It works.
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by dave4420 3y ago
It makes money for YC, by publicising YC, and allowing YC-funded startups to post job ads that don’t follow the same rules as other posts.
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by dave4420 3y ago
Is it good enough to realloc down to the number of bytes you’d want copying, and then realloc up to your desired buffer size?
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by dave4420 3y ago
Actual link: https://www.niskanencenter.org/culture-eats-policy/
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by dave4420 3y ago
Humans aren’t AIs
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by dave4420 3y ago
If we don’t have free will… why do people need an excuse to punish criminals? They have no choice!
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by dave4420 3y ago
You’re getting old. It happens to us all.
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by dave4420 3y ago
Twitter users made it up, and Twitter chose to amplify it.
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by dave4420 3y ago
For those a little bit further away from ground zero, I imagine a fatal dose of radiation would be slow and painful.
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by dave4420 3y ago
Why would this be different from the best site to track weather predictions in general?

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