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by efficax 5y ago
i've driven dozens of cars in my life. only recently have i gotten a car with a touchscreen (a 2020 civic hatchback). The touchscreen is a completely insane device for use in a car. You have to look at the screen to use it. All my pr
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by efficax 5y ago
RSUs are taxed as ordinary income but when they vest they become (usually) class A shares. The sale of those shares will incur capital gains taxes, if there is a gain.
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by efficax 5y ago
> In theory, a mechanical keyboard can last for 3 to 5 years. 3 to 5 years! I expect all of my mechs to last a lifetime. My daily driver is cherry mx blues that have been clicking away for 11 years now, 6-10 hours of software engineering
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by efficax 5y ago
There's no doubt Apple has a lead in consumer grade chips for the moment, but I expect Apple's lead here will last for 2 or 3 years tops before intel, amd, or perhaps other arm chip oems catch up. Apple doesn't have access to
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by efficax 6y ago
The wide reporting of the fallout from this move, especially of foxconn's demolishing of homes https://madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/owners-n... was probably impactful on Wisconsonian&
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by efficax 6y ago
iSH is an x86 emulator. But yes I would love it if the iPad Pro could just run macOS and i could actually use it as a software development environment, but also run iOS apps. I'd buy that device yesterday
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by efficax 6y ago
practice
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by efficax 6y ago
(but also steroids and growth hormone)
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by efficax 6y ago
Yes a lot of it is difficult, which is why rich people hire people to figure this out for them. Mitt Romney is the inspiration for the management fees as capital gains trick. https://www.businessinsider.com/law-professor-say
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by efficax 6y ago
Incorporate yourself and have your salary be paid as management fees to the corporation. Declare those fees as a capital gain and pay 15% tax. Or, have the corporation housed in a tax haven, pay almost nothing in taxes. Setup a foundation,
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by efficax 6y ago
Worker productivity goes up year over year: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ Nobody even knows what makes a good CEO
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by efficax 6y ago
stock based compensation exists for C-level employees because it allows them to reduce their tax burden by taking their income via long term capital gains. It's still income!
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by efficax 6y ago
This is interesting. I think you'll soon find that the in-memory data structures provided by Rust's std::collections aren't going to work for you when you start thinking about on-disk storage of data. One resource that is inv
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by efficax 6y ago
to be fair, if assert is removed in release code, you still have some protection with the `if`
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by efficax 6y ago
This is in fact a pretty common pattern in production code. Here's an entire suite of type safe generic data structures in C: https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib
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by efficax 6y ago
you can do better with a monolith on a ten-person team, or a 300 person team. Monoliths have their advantages
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by efficax 6y ago
Header only implementations of data structures are definitely the only way to accomplish type-safe generics in C, which is a great reason to avoid C! It's part of the reason why all C code bases eventually become a kind of unique, macr
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by efficax 6y ago
Unfortunately no compiler currently supports all these features
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by efficax 6y ago
Notion is definitely the closest but it lacks some of the magic (maybe it will get there). Lotus Agenda for example would take your notes and automatically categorize them based on the categories you created in the earlier not taking proces
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by efficax 6y ago
The author, Leah Rowe, is English as far as I know
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by efficax 6y ago
The departments of every large org do this, private sector and public
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by efficax 6y ago
Mensa is hardly representative of most high IQ people --- i would hope that many of them are smart enough to not join it!
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by efficax 6y ago
Chicago has used a kind of beet brine for deicing. It's beet juice mixed with salt. It means you can use less salt, the sugar makes it more effective in colder temps, and helps it stick to the road so there's less waste. Also make
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by efficax 6y ago
Docker is just a layer on top of cgroups, and Dockerfiles are basically just shell scripts. It doesn't have to be a huge undertaking
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by efficax 6y ago
Do you have a database, a queue service, a caching layer (or 3), a session store? If all your app needs is an http server then sure, why bother with docker... But if it's more complicated than that, it's great to have standard rec
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by efficax 6y ago
The likely cause is that tech companies are the most recent space for capital innovation and profit, so have the hottest stocks right now
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by efficax 6y ago
I think you mean that Arc is an atomic reference counter (it uses atomic cpu instructions to prevent race conditions when incrementing and decrementing the ref count)
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by efficax 6y ago
It's called a lease, but also it's likely some small numbers of staff visit the offices from time to time
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by efficax 6y ago
Why don't you ask the union organizers in the Alabama union drive what they are hoping for. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/23/amazon-be... https://www.nytimes.com/20
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by efficax 6y ago
They raised wages to head off worker organization. Just to start: maybe they could get bathroom breaks! https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse...

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