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by emidln 5y ago
Or someone gets the bright idea of putting together an army and conquering their neighbors (who don't have a standing army and are relying on Mercenaries who keep a good feel on which way the wind is blowing (and who will have the mone
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by emidln 5y ago
Another way of looking at it is efficiency hasn't changed and need stays constant, you need 20% more people to do the same work. This is an interesting way of affecting mass employment.
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by emidln 5y ago
How exactly is Google.com different from a phone book in 1990? Phone books, to my knowledge, were not prohibited from advertising Southwestern Bell or Ameritech junk at the beginning, they were just incentivized not to do so because selling
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by emidln 5y ago
The only reason most devs I work with don't use a Linux laptop is that our corporate security, vpn, and auditing software isn't available for Linux. We settle for garbage-tier UX from docker + x11.app so we can do our jobs, not be
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by emidln 5y ago
I've done various rust and clojure projects by downloading a lot of git repos ahead of time for reference while on a long-haul flight. This works pretty well, but you need to do a bit of research ahead of time on which libraries you mi
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by emidln 5y ago
vim-sexp is very very good and IMO better than smartparens/paredit. I'm not a fan of the paredit-style keybindings by default, but the way it integrates into vim's model is IMO perfect.
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by emidln 5y ago
I think cadets knew they were playing the Kobayashi scenario in the movies and the books. In games of poker or games of magic, you often don't sit down to a table knowing you're in a no-win scenario. Even uneven stacks in no-limit
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by emidln 5y ago
Playing poker and magic (really any strategy game with chance built-in) , sometimes you'll make the play with the highest likelihood to win and still lose. You can have all the advantage, play perfectly, and sometimes the cards don&#x2
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by emidln 5y ago
I posted a couple years ago about my experience finding Clojure jobs in 2018. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075132 I still have about 10 recruiters a week mail me about jobs relating to Clojure (either Clojure role
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by emidln 5y ago
Prodigy spoke ppp, was reasonably priced, and still had news access in 99/00 and a good feed at that. At some point they underwent a series of mergers/sell-ofs/rebrands until Yahoo owned them. I think their nntp servers still
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by emidln 5y ago
This reminds me of prime Slashdot commentary. My recall isn't good enough to have an intuition if this would have been negative or +5.
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by emidln 5y ago
I've used something very similar in the past, called SimpleFlake[0], which is essentially a 64 bit version with the same principles. I've used it in Lisp, C, C++, Clojure, Python, and Rust. It's conceptually simple, and fits
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by emidln 5y ago
> 7200 per day Let's say it takes 5 minutes to properly adjudicate a dispute. 5 minutes allows 20 per person-hour. An 8 hour shift could resolve 160 reviews. 7200 / 160 = 45 shifts per day to review all of the hypothetical cop
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by emidln 5y ago
Rust integrates pretty seamlessly into Bazel projects via rules_rust ( https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust ). The existing rules even allow for c calling rust and rust calling c. Example: https://github.c
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by emidln 6y ago
I use cw and Cw a lot, but the point is made, c is more useful than "some delete op" + "insert mode".
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by emidln 6y ago
> Further, if I take a high resolution photo of you, and then go to your mom and ask for money by presenting her the picture, she won't accept that picture as proof that I am you (although she may suspect I'm blackmailing or ot
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by emidln 6y ago
Your mother doesn't view you through a 0.3MP camera in a dimly lit room with no flash when deciding if the person in front of her is her child. Further, if I take a high resolution photo of you, and then go to your mom and ask for mone
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by emidln 6y ago
s/ACS/ACW/ ACW being American Civil War. I don't know how I made this mistake multiple times.
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by emidln 6y ago
> It wasn't the poweder it was the rifle. Before the rifle you could have armies face each other in a sword type formation and shoot, so few bullets would hit that this wasn't that costly in lives. By the civil war a good shoot
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by emidln 6y ago
IDK, I worked for a startup (Curiosity.com) within a big company (Discovery Communications) that spun off and raised a series A to become an actual company (and was later reacquired by the same big company).
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by emidln 6y ago
The American Civil War in the 1860s didn't feature smokeless powder, which wasn't produced in a stable manner until 1884.
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by emidln 6y ago
The American Civil War demonstrated the horrors of trench warfare back in the 1860s. The penultimate Union campaign in which Grant took Petersburg, Virginia and Richmond, Virginia was primarily a 10 month long series of trench maneuvers cos
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by emidln 6y ago
> In many countries and U.S. states, laws guarantee that the cost of an employee to an employer is almost twice as much as what the employee is paid. This might be true at the lower end close to minimum wage, but payroll taxes are a spec
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by emidln 6y ago
I attempted to be a Fi user. I was a Google Voice number, but apparently some small % of Google Voice numbers could not be ported into Fi at all. After a couple escalations the rep was very sorry but said their system was not able to handle
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by emidln 6y ago
Around $115k to $125k, which was about market for non-finance.
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by emidln 6y ago
In my experience hiring for jr webdev and full stack roles, about 1 in 5 people could pass fizzbuzz (even when the mathematical algorithm was explained in writing). About 1 in 100 completed the basic web app demo (untimed, take home, expect
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by emidln 6y ago
Most likely VMS
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by emidln 6y ago
Pull requests are the best form of communication. Have you ever had a user propose a feature, agree to contribute it, and go dark? A pull request says "I did this work, I think you might want to use it". Even for repos that aren&#
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by emidln 6y ago
> I've always been a bit extreme on this but I more than ever believe that it's insane that we consider that leaving teenagers with unsupervised internet access is reasonable. I grew up on the internet. I first connected with I
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by emidln 6y ago
Ignoring for a moment how insecure most cheap locks are (including locks on safes), little safes are rarely effective vs a prybar + carrying them away to be cut into at the attacker's leisure. Larger safes have some of the same issues

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