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by dsr_ 2y ago
My response was about what the original poster wrote, which is that they previously had employment as a full stack dev.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
They were hired by a company which is bad at its job of delivering secure or securable products. The products were purchased by someone bad at their job of selecting secure products. They were deployed by someone who was told that having th
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by dsr_ 2y ago
... there are still a lot of people in this business who don't have a college degree. Doesn't stop them from being professionals.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
If I understand correctly, you're about to get a degree but you have several years of software development experience. If that's the case, you should have a significant advantage in 'new grad'-advantaged jobs: you have t
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by dsr_ 2y ago
There are several replacements for electronic logic; some of them have even been built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate#Non-electronic_logi...
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by dsr_ 2y ago
It's strange that you would pick on gold connectors. Gold is an excellent conductor and does not corrode in air, so it makes a great plating material. In the quantities needed for plating, it's not too expensive, either. Silver co
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Tech Radar quotes Tom's Hardware; Tom's Hardware quotes a tweet. Not a tweet from Southwest, mind you. Not even a tweet from someone who says that they used to work for Southwest. Just... a tweet.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
These are complexly related parameters. All else being equal: - a larger enclosed volume produces lower frequencies more efficiently - a larger Xmax (range of motion) on a conventional driver produces louder sound - a smaller Xmax produces
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by dsr_ 2y ago
> Should I ask for a lower salary to avoid tax brackets but more equity in return? There is no vesting schedule, so only realised on sale & if you leave its at the companies discretion about if you keep your share. If you want equity
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by dsr_ 2y ago
KEF builds an equalizer into the radio->DAC->crossover->amplifiers chain, and the default for that is much of what you are hearing. The other part is that they hugely overbuild the amplifier sections (at least by rating -- 280W for
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by dsr_ 2y ago
This will be a much more relevant story on HN if it turns out that Elon Musk sent this rather than Biden. (At the time that I write this, the only place this news is sourced from is Twitter. Every news org is quoting Twitter and then adding
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by dsr_ 2y ago
You want me to trust random translation tools on the internet for technical issues? No.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
This is one of those situations where "move fast and break things" is not good advice.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
It might be the most awesome software in the world, but if I can't read the majority of bug reports, it's not something I can feel comfortable using. (This is not a flaw in the software, this is a flaw in me: I don't know how
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Have you tried KOreader? https://koreader.rocks
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by dsr_ 2y ago
You're going to want to change the wording to "Jeopardy-style" rather than implying that it's a Jeopardy product. I would also recommend changing the default color scheme; it's inviting a lawsuit.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
The Asus Zenphone 9 is basically the same size, and two years into it I still average 25-45% battery usage from rising to sleeping for the night. GSam says average per complete battery charge is 2d 16.2h, and Screen On is 11h 58m with an ob
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by dsr_ 2y ago
That was, in fact, my point. Most discussion systems are inferior to 1990 Usenet, 34 years later. At this point it is traditional to shout about Usenet not having good moderation. In fact, it is possible for either individual news groups or
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by dsr_ 2y ago
You can't reasonably claim "they would not pay for the browser, or pay a subscription [fee]" when it is not even possible for a user to donate to the Firefox project specifically.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
It was a well-documented technique of quality control across industries by 1940.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
It's quite easy, as long as you have threading, quoting and read/unread flags equivalent to 1990 Usenet.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Please display your definition of "political" which makes sense in all our usual contexts but also makes at least some art unable to be viewed as political.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Which flower did you choose to paint? Why? Is it native, an import, a new arrival, or endangered? Is there cultural context? The Victorian Brits encoded messages into flowers; some of those meanings are still current. (Give a friend a red r
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by dsr_ 2y ago
... and that is because... Everything involving a substantial agreement or disagreement between persons is politics, that's what it means. Claiming that something 'should not be political' is almost always an assertion that y
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by dsr_ 2y ago
"maybe I missed the totally rigorous case study on how X company became Y percent more profitable by doing Z thing with LLMs (or similar), and if so I'd be grateful for citations, but neither Google nor any of the big models seem
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by dsr_ 2y ago
You missed the point. One of those scenarios is available. The other isn't even being worked on in any serious fashion. And you definitely don't get to tell people that your product is just fine, they are wrong for wanting somethi
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by dsr_ 2y ago
It does not end! That's the point. If you want a reliable separate path, you must test it, and you must be prepared to spend time and money on fixing it. The tests include calling up the engineering manager for the separate path and ve
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by dsr_ 2y ago
If it were as good or better than before, nobody would want to pay attention to when to schedule deliveries based on the deliverator. Since this person specifically wants some deliverators over others, that means that the quality of the ser
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by dsr_ 2y ago
So... they've turned it from "we provide a good quality service at a fair price" to "over time you will have a chance to pick favorites, but not consistently". That's enshittification for your use of the servic
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by dsr_ 2y ago
I don't want low-rent LLM capabilities. I want a robot chef which can learn my kitchen, pantry and tastes, determine the ripeness of an avocado, and cook omelets and steaks as well as a minimum-wage line cook can. Anybody can shove inv

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