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by efficax 6y ago
It's the standard anti union playbook: you're giving up your power to negotiate as an individual! we're a family! you'll have to pay dues now! The fact is that there is no solid argument against unionization in an indust
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by efficax 6y ago
I just uninstalled Google Music by dragging it to the trash on my Pixel 4a. I'm super annoyed about the YouTube music switcheroo myself fwiw
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by efficax 6y ago
Woah woah easy there pardner
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by efficax 6y ago
vr is a tv but really close to your face. It's strange to think it has more revolutionary or creative potential than a PS4. The dream of radical transformation through creativity was always just a dream, even if the dreamer was awake,
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by efficax 6y ago
What could go wrong
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by efficax 6y ago
lol yes it is, texas is huge btw, but also has no interconnects with the rest of the grid, hence the price rise at a time of zero supply and high demand
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by efficax 6y ago
Peterson is a jungian hack
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by efficax 6y ago
CAPTCHA solving farms are cheap relative to these "assets", they're not even remotely a barrier anymore
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by efficax 6y ago
Is the thinkpad better value than the MacBook? The i7 16GB ram / 512GB ssd Thinkpad X1 Carbon is $1900 and you don't even get a nice display. The M1 16GB/512GB ssd Macbook Pro is only $1700 and you get a best-in-class display
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by efficax 6y ago
Some of the first software I ever wrote for pay was a daily shell script that pgp encrypted an ACH batch and sent it from one financial institution to another over a dedicated frame-link, via FTP. This was over 20 years ago! Can't beli
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by efficax 6y ago
4k (Page size) writes with fsync is the standard way to commit database pages reliably. My understanding is that modern SSDs also have the 4K page as the minimum unit of input. Can you refer me to the documentation or article that shows a p
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by efficax 6y ago
There hasn't been a genuine 'lockdown' anywhere in the united states with the possible exception of NYC in the first month of the pandemic. Otherwise we've basically done the bare minimum and even in places with strict p
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by efficax 6y ago
That's a completely theoretical max with 64 shards of the whole network, and reconciling those shards is an unsolved problem
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by efficax 6y ago
the solution to this is to enable NFS for your volumes. The default volume configuration is a huge bottleneck for docker on macos
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by efficax 6y ago
<i> Nobody seems to know what the solution is, other than moving away from the places where the worst inequality is right now.</i> Taxes! Tax financial gains better and more consistently, tax income more progressively, elim
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by efficax 6y ago
I had no idea the guys who make the msg that makes my chips taste good are also involved in the other chip production.
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by efficax 6y ago
This sounds like every big company ever, more or less. As a principal engineer your role is more political than technical. The title is prestigious but if you want to be happy, there's nothing wrong with topping out as a senior enginee
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by efficax 6y ago
It's very late stage capitalism for a company named robinhood to actually be stealing from the (relatively) poor to enrich themselves! You love to see it.
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by efficax 6y ago
IC means individual contributor (engineer, senior engineer, staff, principal) as opposed to a management track
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by efficax 6y ago
Monopoly is inherently the tendency of capitalism because price competition forces profit margins down, meaning you can only match your earlier gains by expanding your market. The easiest way to do that is to acquire competitors
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by efficax 6y ago
When I worked as a consultant tracking billable hours was the hardest part of my job, far harder than any engineering problem, and the thing I hated even more than bad clients who couldn't make up their minds about requirements. For th
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by efficax 6y ago
> I don't consider MBPs as "professional" devices due to lack of options Counterpoint is the 10s of thousands of "professionals" (like me, senior software engineer at a Company You Know) who use them....
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by efficax 6y ago
It's fascinating how obsessed this site is with vitamin d. I mean I take it myself but really y'all are fixated on it
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by efficax 6y ago
The air is using binned chips where one core has failed (a very common practice that intel also does), so the pro is on a better processor
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by efficax 6y ago
you can do all of that in `unsafe` blocks
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by efficax 6y ago
Are these falsehoods "programmers" believe about timezones or just falsehoods this one guy had about timezones. Most of these 'misconceptions' would never have occurred to me to think.
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by efficax 6y ago
What can you not do with a grid of characters exactly?
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by efficax 6y ago
Damn, 6 months? Well the pandemic will definitely be over 6 months after it started so no point in ramping up production.
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by efficax 6y ago
literally who cares
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by efficax 6y ago
Candidates pass the technical screens all the time but don't get offers for various reasons. Maybe there was someone else who impressed more, but there's also culture fit and personality to consider. I've rejected very very s

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