dmitriid_y

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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
Everyone's talking about goods being so worthless that suppliers don't want them back, but the answer seems different to me: blatant abuse of return policies must necessarily be so small in proportion to real sales that seriously
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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
> This falls down when people start self promoting their stuff. Pinterest manages it just fine. And Reddit crossposting hints at the fix: sever content from specific subreddits and instead have content be tagged with relevant subreddits
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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
Yes, because organizing software engineers is like herding cats. A former workplace literally had us form a "guild" with standing meetings, and we still couldn't meaningfully coordinate on a thing.
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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
> Don't waste your time working for the kind of company that would choose to hire through such a program. Why are you so confident you know the labor market? Why are the companies that might considering hiring this inherently be exp
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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
From experience, this is not dissimilar to the internship-to-hire programs large firms like Qualcomm have used. At anywhere even 10% of that company's size, any individual can easily feel lost in a tidal wave -- triply so if your firm
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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
Pre-history humans weren't scientists who would've separated this test out from the rest of their lives. You're thinking too literally. Pre-history humans would live close to their dogs. There likely wasn't a conscious &
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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
As long as a tyrant is unchallenged, they will remain a tyrant.
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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
With the benefit of history, we know Ohm was more right than wrong. So -- even if these critics where hitting on a very real inconsistency of Ohm's research in their pursuit of the virtue of peer review -- they fell victim to the arrog
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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
> One of the reasons Ohm’s work was not more readily accepted was because he used contemporary electrical terms that had ambiguous meanings. For example, he did not clearly distinguish between force and electrical potential, and confusin
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by dmitriid_y 4y ago
There are usually "student council" programs that give a handful of elected students a regular audience with administrators, but most of these programs don't have any teeth. Graduate student council programs in particular are
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by dmitriid_y 5y ago
This looks really cool. I have a couple automated control programs that move little motors and such in the real world. These programs can make great use of `compare_and_set` and `swap`!
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by dmitriid_y 5y ago
>> when you pin it to a service you're paying for. >So. A centralized service responsible for keeping your data. How is this different from literally anything else? Because in addition to being like anything else, your data ha