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by dvirsky 6y ago
The annual salary in the calculator goes up to $140,000 for the US. This needs to be way higher if we're talking Bay Area.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Very good post, just one thing caught my eye: > it’s very small (think >900 sqft) That is an average middle class apartment for a family where I come from (Israel). Thinking about it as being small is so American :) And BTW you don&#x
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Thanks for prompting me to read about HAM!
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by dvirsky 6y ago
What's the lifespan of an e-ink display?
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I agree. I'd like to try a color 10" Kindle with a screen like that so I can properly read graphic novels for example, not sure that big a screen would be very useful for that.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It only displays 4096 colors, I don't think that's enough to render art properly.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
What would be a practical application for this?
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by dvirsky 6y ago
The language relies heavily on comments from way way back.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
> they get no error, just a totally broken program. Actually now - the import protects from that.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
+1 this is so nice. I actually think this is a bit too much magic: > import _ "embed" > //go:embed hello.txt > var s string > print(s) But the embed.FS example looks much nicer, I'm glad we can have both
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by dvirsky 6y ago
At one of my first jobs in the early days of the internet, the hiring manager had a very low budget and was offering me really really low pay, and to try and convince me he literally said: "Look, I know it's not much, but we work
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It's interesting that as a native Hebrew reader, while I _know_ that it doesn't have vowels, it doesn't feel like it when I'm reading. It dsnt rd lk nglsh wth th vwls rmvd t ll. First of all, you've got י and ו deno
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by dvirsky 6y ago
In Israel almost all construction, even single family homes (not that there are many of them), has concrete/steel beams and floors as the load baring infrastructure, and light Ytong bricks serving mainly for insulation. But it's s
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Is this related to why Sony has been having a hard time catching up with demand for the PS5?
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I'm 45 and there are people who've been using Unix for longer than I've been alive. That's really something when you think about it.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It's worth mentioning that vim has added debugger integration support as a plugin, but that plugin is available with vim by default, you just need to enable it. It's not perfect but it's usable - you can set breakpoints visua
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Yeah even though it's completely coincidental - "avir" means air in Hebrew. There's also the similarity to Avion which I would guess is not coincidental.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
FWIW Aviron means Airplane in Hebrew.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It was just published today that in Israel, where around 20% of the population has already been vaccinated with the first dose, they're beginning to see clear evidence that vaccinated people do not transmit it others.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Just basing on people I knew who were like that.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It takes some getting used to this idea, but I try to remember that when someone mispronounces an uncommon word or jargon term, it means that they're getting all their information through textual means - which probably means they don&#
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by dvirsky 6y ago
People planted pipe bombs in the capitol building. Wow, such peaceful, much protest.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
There's a point where you can actually see the robot dripping fluid.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
You can see the vibrations of the plexiglass walls and the camera crew reflected in them vibrating in amazing detail. You can also see people walking around in the background in normal speed. It doesn't look like it's accelerated,
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Well, at least we can be certain that there hasn't been any contact made before that's been kept secret for decades.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Interestingly most of the examples it gave me for being stuck in the early 2010s were from the second half of the decade.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I started out believing that COVID is blown way out of proportion for the first couple of weeks, seeking evidence that mortality rates are lower than people thought, etc (not that it's a conspiracy or whatever, just that we're ove
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I don't know if that's true or not, but I just like Gnome so much more as a DE that it's a shame to read that.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It was about to be demolished anyway: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936677582/world-renowned-arec...
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Creating an open source desktop app tends to require a different set of skills than what most open source developers have, and getting top notch UX designers and product managers to work on an open source project. When open source developer

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