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by fargle 4y ago
No doubt having lots of threads and lots of memory make this a very nice workstation. But it's about twice the price of a 16-core AMD 7955 which has about 150% the performance both per core and overall. The M1 certainly might win on po
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by fargle 4y ago
I'm going to write a nice missive about my very first imperial faberge egg. It's a far more practical and economical tool for the average billionaire than you'd think!
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by fargle 4y ago
We should certainly send China a bill for any damages and costs when their "mostly peaceful" research craft with limited maneuverability, which is illegally in our airspace and also not compliant with many FAA regulations, is acci
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by fargle 4y ago
actually 3-4 ORDERS of magnitude worse Say two people were to eventually die here. Bhopal: 20,000. That's literally 4 orders of magnitude worse. And nobody has died or been seriously injured yet, so even that is premature. Being chi
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by fargle 4y ago
I think you misinterpret my comment. Being "laid off" is being fired (in consequence) because of the incompetence of your management. It is ironic that the incompetent jerk who ran the business into the ground does get to keep the
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by fargle 4y ago
being "laid off" is simply the same thing as being "fired" for someone of a higher pay-grade's incompetence. semantics.
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by fargle 4y ago
OK I'm a nerd. Here's an interesting Illinois appellate court case about how a non-complete might go in Chicago: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=167375774515190... I have ... so ... many ... questions
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by fargle 4y ago
As far as the Warn act goes, notice of impending layoff and staying technically as an employee for 60 days is the equivalent of a "penalty" of two months wages. What twitter did there is normal business practice. You raise a point
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by fargle 4y ago
simply write.
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by fargle 4y ago
Absolutely and I totally agree. Sorry you had to go through that. My comments are not to minimize this clumsiness of twitter, but picking at when it's incorrect (if it's incorrect). It's pretty poor journalism for one thing.
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by fargle 4y ago
yes but in what way? the article says twitter reneged on severance but contradicts itself. it talks about "valuable benefits" but does not say what they were.
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by fargle 4y ago
"Musk agreed to at least match the company’s existing severance package, which offered two months’ pay as well as other valuable benefits. Instead, he laid off employees with the minimum notice required by federal and state law and ref
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by fargle 4y ago
ISO-IEC-9995-4 first put out in 1994 talks about the 10-key layout for keyboards. none of this directly answers calculators, but it might be related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_9995 surprisingly, the 0
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by fargle 4y ago
There are so many big government IT contracts that are saddled with products like MS-SQL or worse Oracle instead of postgresql or mariadb. Big multicore M$ hyper-V with per-core pricing and so on. It's just terrible to see the $$$$$ wa
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by fargle 4y ago
> This should have the effect of making it easier the CIO's office of the DOD is saying that if you didn't consider open source alternatives you would be in violation of the FARs. Wow! They are basically saying you must do
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by fargle 4y ago
my opinion is that what people call aspergers and autism are: - definitely a spectrum. it can range from severe mental disability to nearly "normal" - seem heavily correlated to people who like to work in software, math, etc. engi
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by fargle 4y ago
agree with [1], been there. But projects that have a bus-factor ~1 are often some of the tightest, best ones. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, don't worry so much. Hopefully the owner leaves some keys and contingency plans, but otherwise, carry on a
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by fargle 4y ago
LOL, 55 years old is nearly dead? Ha! Knuth is 85 and still active. Kernighan is 81, likewise. Torvalds is 53 and he's just starting to mellow out and grow up (a little, not too much). Anyone can get hit by a bus at any age. So the age
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by fargle 4y ago
the original ext2 format uses 32 bit times from 1970. I don't think ext2 was designed after Y2K [edit: researched it was 1993]. ext4 has all the right hooks - if you use the "large" inodes, which appear to be done in a backwa
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by fargle 4y ago
I just did the same thing. I was messing around with mke2fs, part of e2fsprogs which is the user mode component for ext2/3/4 filesystems. There are a bunch of bugs in it wrt. to their extended timestamps. There are lots of place
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by fargle 4y ago
put the two smartphones in the freezer. put the other person and the cat in the rear bedroom and lock the door. cotton balls. if you don't have them, you can cut up your socks. you put them in your ears. if the sound keeps on, then th
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by fargle 4y ago
it's not toxic if you do it for good reasons. it's toxic if you realize that you can't get promoted doing what you like and take a job you hate and are bad at just to get a promotion. it's totally toxic if your idiot MBA
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by fargle 4y ago
we don't really know the width of the distribution of course! and it depends on where you are and what you are doing. "rare" i agree with. that's a far cry from being a myth or not existing. "The 10x programmer does
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by fargle 4y ago
there are problems that people solve that you could pick 10,000 average engineers and they'd never solve. if you have the right person and the right problems why not? how many books have you written vs. Donald Knuth? Richard Stevens? e
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by fargle 4y ago
that's not a real 10x. that's a 0.1x who heard about it and tried to emulate it. it's not 10x in SLOC or whatever, it's total, long term, value. and yet it does exist. it's like arguing that Michael Jordan doesn&#x2
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by fargle 4y ago
yes they do and yes they should
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by fargle 4y ago
nope, sorry they absolutely exist and 10x may easily be an understatement. now, the conditions must be right - you put a 10x embedded system software engineer into a java microservices job, in a couple weeks he might be a 2x. You make a 10x
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by fargle 4y ago
In "MBA" run orgs that don't value good engineers and have poor career paths for engineer individual contributors, you see this a lot. But not in a good way. Not everyone is conscious of managing their career, but the enginee
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by fargle 4y ago
I have always harbored a secret suspicion that it was caused by and transmitted principally by lawyers and MBAs. Possibly engineered intentionally. In the dark ages, I'm not sure what you called them (clergy?) but I know they were th
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by fargle 4y ago
So why burn everything down? I mean he failed to completely do so, but he really tried to destroy it all. That's the tantrum. Asserting your boundaries is - "look I put it out there, you can take it or leave it. I'll do X, bu

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