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by eric-hu 2y ago
> godlike technofeudalism Interesting term. On a geopolitical scale, how is the US/NATO’s position any different? There are export controls around advanced semiconductors and encryption algorithms. Is it okay to do this between coun
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by eric-hu 2y ago
There’s command to see your leaf dependencies: https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage#leaves---installed-on-request--...
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by eric-hu 2y ago
You might be looking at the 100 hours thinking that’s grueling work. Meanwhile workers could be looking at that thinking it’s their AWS auto scaling for their family income. I have a friend doing electrical line work. He’s gone back and for
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by eric-hu 2y ago
When you say "to supposedly help", do you mean they actually help, or this industry is also scammers? Asking because someone in my extended family owns a timeshare and got scammed with an exit offer. It sounded similar to the time
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by eric-hu 2y ago
I’m currently job searching and I tend to just see (remote) or (hybrid). It usually requires me digging into the description to see if a company has an office I can go to. Some that are hybrid optional list themselves as (remote), but do so
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by eric-hu 2y ago
How have you kept the ageism from scaring you off or just turning you off to go to another industry?
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by eric-hu 2y ago
Whatever the cost is, it's one time. I ported a number to Google Voice in 2016 and haven't paid a dime for it since then.
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by eric-hu 2y ago
https://levels.io/remote-ok/ 2015 > It’d analyze the feed, see which jobs were remote, then normalize the data and then push it into a simple SQLite database (yes, I’m not using JSON text files as a database anymore
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by eric-hu 2y ago
I only learned the term grayware from this thread. I wasn't sure precisely what did and didn't qualify as malware, so I checked Wikipedia and found it there. As for the Windows fear, I understand that. That was me 10+ years ago, a
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by eric-hu 2y ago
You got a chuckle out of me with such a specific reference that I know I got auto-installed too. I don't know, personally, but I do recall reading accounts of malware from them from around that era. I suppose I would call what I saw &q
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by eric-hu 2y ago
Didn’t they also start packaging malware into binary downloads?
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by eric-hu 2y ago
Indeed I was. I mentioned vim because I’m used to that level of performance and VS Code is on par. I have experienced sluggishness with Slack, so I meant Slack likely has performance issues due its application code rather than its Electron
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by eric-hu 2y ago
> (which will cause your licenses to eventually expire, in the year timespan or so) Can you manually modify the system clock? If so you could roll the calendar back every 3-6 months.
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by eric-hu 2y ago
After using VS Code for a while coming from vim, I’m inclined to say it’s bad application programming.
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by eric-hu 2y ago
Why focus on revenue instead of income? Regardless of what Intel’s revenue is, they’re losing money. AMD is earning.
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by eric-hu 2y ago
That sounds like a policy I can get behind. Can you share a name of such a policy or a link to one?
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by eric-hu 2y ago
> Another way to look at it: Intel market cap is 83B, AMD's market cap is 228B. Do you think Intel is expected to make 1/3 of the money AMD is going to make in coming decades? I see no reason to be as optimistic. Nit: market ca
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by eric-hu 2y ago
> Desirable urban areas of California are expensive because we don't have enough housing. I hear this a lot about California and other places. But I also know lots of people look to buy a 2nd, 3rd, etc property for rental income. Fo
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by eric-hu 2y ago
> While I've read that there's not a lot of difference between just chilling and thinking of some hard problem I find that difficult to reconcile with chess grandmaster calorie consumption. https://www.npr.org/2
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by eric-hu 2y ago
I’m currently job seeking. Some companies apply to the letter of this but still share almost no information. I’ve seen salary ranges like 140-280k. In essence that tells me the company still wants to not overpay like the parent comment said
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by eric-hu 2y ago
That's news that Ortberg is succeeding Dave Calhoun. Boeing announced that Calhoun would step down back in March.
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by eric-hu 2y ago
I’m not seeing news about that when I search for it. Got a source?
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by eric-hu 2y ago
Wow. I had to fact-check this. Wow. https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-... > San Francisco is slightly smaller than Jacksonville, Florida. Yet San Francisco’s homelessness budget—$1.1 billio
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by eric-hu 2y ago
> Google cannot make a profit from them *enough profit Remember that Google has sunset many products because those profits pale in comparison to search and advertising.
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by eric-hu 2y ago
That sounds amazing, thank you for sharing. I wonder if your experience with maple syrup is different from the author’s because of differences in pork belly size. My recent food experiences lead me to believe that sugar doesn’t penetrate so
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by eric-hu 2y ago
Can you share more about what you did for salt curing bacon? That sounds intriguing
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by eric-hu 2y ago
Have you looked into L-Theanine? It’s an extract from green tea. I add it to my coffee sometimes and it smooths out the experience
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by eric-hu 2y ago
I just looked at their careers page. Dozens of engineering jobs but only in India https://app.careerpuck.com/job-board/avalara
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by eric-hu 2y ago
My understanding of steroids is that they increase muscle mass all over the body. And that it's a long term health issue for the heart, because having a heart with excess muscle is actually bad long term. A few lifting YouTubers I foll
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'We're not stuck.' Why Boeing's Starliner isn't returning to Earth (yet)(text.npr.org)
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