dhruvmittal

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   by dhruvmittal 4y ago

   During my first week at UNC Chapel Hill, I had an incredibly opportunity through the honors program where a handful of new students (including myself, an aspring CS student) got to hang out with Fred Brooks for an evening. I don't thin
2. 32.▲
   by dhruvmittal 4y ago

   I'm too young to have imagined thinking about Bill Gates the way we think about Zuckerberg today but reading this, it occurs to me that people must have.
3. 33.▲
   by dhruvmittal 4y ago

   I had the same experience. Updated the computer, rebooted into the blinky screen. Powered off the machine & went to the BTRFS snapshot created immediately before my update. No damage to the screen that I'm aware of.
4. 34.▲
   by dhruvmittal 4y ago

   That said, I strongly recommend letting the distro hopping take you on a journey before you land on Arch-- don't skip to the end. It's nice to see how things are done elsewhere (defaults, etc.) so that you've got some opinion
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   by dhruvmittal 4y ago

   While I prefer my personal machines to have 1440p or 4k resolutions, I'm perfectly happy with my work PC's 1080p screen for development and email. I'm hardly watching videos or gaming on that machine, and I don't find th
6. 36.▲
   by dhruvmittal 4y ago

   Reminder that the KDE Connect app also works with the Gnome Shell version GSConnect https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/
7. 37.▲
   by dhruvmittal 5y ago

   Same! My first exposure to mechanical keyboards was back in 2013, very "all the cool kids were getting Das Keyboards." I didn't think much of it, but around that time I started developing some hand and wrist pain while typing
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   by dhruvmittal 5y ago

   I think working at a .NET shop for a few years gave me Visual Studio Stockholm syndrome or something. I'm past that job now, but I still fire up MSVS over other alternatives just because I know all the shortcuts (& because it'
9. 39.▲
   by dhruvmittal 5y ago

   Not iMac specific, but if your focus issues are similar to mine maybe some of the typical ADHD hacks might help. I think a lot of other folks I know (especially SWEs) that I know do things like this, but everyone has their own system that k
10. 40.▲
    by dhruvmittal 5y ago

    Power-tripping middle management is unfortunately a common issue. The question I'd ask is whether this behavior is limited to interviews, or whether it's just particularly visible in the interview situation with the largest power
11. 41.▲
    by dhruvmittal 5y ago

    Thanks everyone, reading this was exactly how I needed to start out my last Monday of 2021.
12. 42.▲
    by dhruvmittal 5y ago

    Is this the same thing as Terminus? It looks weirdly similar, down to the logo, so I'm assuming this is a soft relaunch?
13. 43.▲
    by dhruvmittal 5y ago

    I've worked at places that are loaded with senior engineers/developers. It can be awkward from a business sense because: a) Most of your developers are too expensive, so you put very few of them on any project, b) Senior engineers
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    by dhruvmittal 5y ago

    I think a slight improvement over this model is to have a forward-looking CTO/Lead Developer/etc. who incorporates new technologies into the overall plan with sane fail states. This allows the overall technology stack to remain fr
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    by dhruvmittal 5y ago

    As another builder of a Linux gaming desktop, let me just say: nice! I ended up going with an Nvidia 3080 because I'm more familiar with CUDA than AMD equivalents (and I do still need to get work done). If it wasn't for that, I&#x
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    by dhruvmittal 5y ago

    As someone who got a CS degree in the early 2010s, I both 1) agree wholeheartedly that engineers should learn to critique work effectively and 2) disagree that engineers aren't taught this in school. At least my degree program included
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    Write enough code and you're probably not going to have the headspace to remember it all...
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    While I like the concept, I get the feeling that you're taking the aggressive posture an inch or two too far. If this is a serious business concept, you're running the risk of being mistaken for parody. If this is parody, well don
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    That's what Android Auto does in my car as well-- as soon as I turn the on the car on a weekday morning, it gives me directions & traffic to work. Ditto for the commute home.
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    My experience with this (circa 1 year ago when I last had a PC running Windows Home) is that they periodically come back as the OS updates.
21. 51.▲
    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    I've had to confront my southern accent a few times in my life to get taken seriously. Moving from rural North Carolina to attend college in Chapel Hill, I had to "scrub the rural from my voice." When I went to graduate schoo
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    Possibly naive question but does anyone know if CUDA is supported on the new M1 macs? I think I heard on a podcast last week that eGPUs would no longer be supported, but I can't find a reference.
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    Yes, but as the primary text of the constitution doesn't guarantee any rights, it's sufficient to list the rights supplied by amendments to cover "constitutional rights."
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    The constitution on its own doesn't guarantee any freedoms, so we must look to the Bill of Rights. Does mask wearing fall under: - Freedom of speech? No. - Freedom of the press? No. - Freedom of religion? No. - Freedom of assembly? No.
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    I think we called it a win on "The year of desktop linux" when it was clear that Linux was mainstream enough for Microsoft to tie it up with a bow and offer in their app store. Jokes aside, we're at the point where everyone w
26. 56.▲
    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    Something something RCS. (It works & is genuinely quite pleasant, as long as you have friends & family who also have pixels).
27. 57.▲
    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    The Latitude "Business laptop" has it, but not the XPS. It's good enough.
28. 58.▲
    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    I just learned about this last night, and was really considering it. One thing that I wasn't sure about is the size-- I already love the ergodox I've been using for the last 6 years, and reddit says the moonlander is much smaller
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    Fascinating, never knew the biff one.
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    by dhruvmittal 6y ago

    I thought it was pretty interesting to see that Linus was focusing on power + silence. Made me interested in picking up some quieter fans for my PC.