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by fatnoah 3y ago
Correct, and this is something I've used to my advantage before. It's not a huge one, but when all othet things are equal...
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Watching someone struggle with your code in real time teaches you a lot more than someone just fixing your code or telling you it sucks or is confusing. Very true. There's nothing more humbling than trying (and failing) to coher
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Personally, I don't care about the ads, but I would pay some amount to have a "suggestion-free" experience.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> The ultimate in "this would only apply at Google", was having to establish backup communication side channels that weren't Google dependent. Not sure this is an "only at google" thing. In a past life, I ran En
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I was excited to get a door opener that I could open remotely and ended up with a MyQ model. I'm pretty sure that I managed to successfully control my door once or twice in 5 years. The app could never find one or both openers, the &
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Maintenance is problematic if things aren't built with maintenance in mind I've spent a long time in startup land, sometimes as the only "back-end" person and nothing teaches you to build for maintenance like having
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Not quite the same, but I remember sending emails via telnet. I showed that to a younger dev who was somewhat blown away by the fact it wasn't via some REST API.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I don't anymore, but I previously worked thr AR org for one of the named companies. Getting compute moved off of the device is a major goal, especially for any sort of all-day wearable AR device.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> Eventually the body will “habituate” if it does not go away. This has been my experience. If I "notice" it, then I hear it until it goes away again. Of course, one thing that causes such notice is reading anything about it
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by fatnoah 3y ago
In theory, having a third party would be nice. In my experience, it's merely added substantial friction to the process. Any changes required going back through the third party, which means waiting to talk to someone for changes that
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by fatnoah 3y ago
It definitely shouldn't happen. By all accounts, including video surveillance available of the incident, the officer's finger wasn't on the trigger, but was on the side of the barrel, which was pointed downward.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Earlier this year, my child got to experience this. An anonymous tip led to a lockdown and police investigating an area of the school. During that investigation, one of the officers accidentally discharged their weapon. That, of course led
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by fatnoah 3y ago
My better half has been on Wegovy (same drug, but indicated for weight loss) for several months. No diarrhea, but definitely nausea that peaks on the injection day and then slowly recedes. Over time, the overall level has decreased. The e
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I don't think they are boiling it. It read to me like they're just evaporating the water in some efficient way, rather than boiling There are definitely efficiencies to be had, though I don't know enough of the math to j
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by fatnoah 3y ago
1. Yes, once. 2. There was some impact, since I had to take a job at a lower pay than I wanted. There wasn't any impact on the search itself, though. 3. No.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
This blew me away: "According to Home Office figures, between March 2022 and March 2023 there were 18,395 firearms operations in England and Wales - the Met Police accounted for 20% of these. In that time, there were only 10 incidents
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I don't have the knowledge or the patience to find out, but it would be interesting see the overall pattern of 1 day calls on Splunk stock to see if this was an outlier.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Speaking of red flags: >Staff using the app have told the criminal justice campaign charity Fair Trials that they keep it secret from parents and carers, and admitted many would be concerned about it if they knew of it. The other red fla
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I haven't had to do it a lot, but in previous cases where I came into a codebase blind and had to fix bugs or figure out what's going on, I've always started by mapping the flow first and then digging into the details of what
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by fatnoah 3y ago
It's fascinating to watch the fallout from this. I've seen a few "insider trading" conspiracy pieces about the CEO selling 50k shares of stock this year with the knowledge that the announcement would tank the stock pric
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I just peeked and saw what I think is the Westbound Capitol Limited stopped at Elkhart IN. I base that on the Superliner equipment and the fact that the yard is to the left of the train. I n any case, this is pretty great, though I'v
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I have a similar story, though from almost 10 years ago, so maybe things have changed. As VPoE for a small startup with mobile messaging apps (something like a couple million MAU and ~200M messages/month), I orchestrated a lift-and-shi
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> If you give access to your DB directly, your API effectively becomes your API with all the contract obligations of the API. Suddenly you don't completely control your schema: you can't freely change it, you need to add things
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I work on AI startup that with squinted eyes could be described "AI for pricing the insurance policy". I work in a very similar domain, and my company is also in the business of "solving problem x" with AI as the me
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> It sounds weird, but running into friends and acquaintances is one of the things I miss the most about living in the city Hah, I guess I worded that awkwardly. The weird part isn't the joy of running into people, it's that i
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> In terms of serendipity, I'd put a college town far ahead of a large city My family moved from a suburb to downtown Boston just before our child entered kindergarten. We ran into people we knew literally every day. It became a
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Meta is famously "bottoms-up" in Engineering. The difference here seems to be that Engineering was done a little more traditionally with hand-picked teams and top-down management of the Engineering.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> It's right out in the open that many companies are making enormous profits and giving out astonishing executive bonuses, at the same time as freezing salaries and layoffs. I started my career at a large defense contractor. This wa
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I was using still using a 300 baud modem with my C=64 when Q-Link launched. Wow, that brought back memories for me. Quantum Link was my first "online" experience, and the cost made it very much a "get in, get it done,
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> I'd add that underlying all that / in addition to that is the fear that people aren't putting their jobs first. I'm a terrible manager. I openly admit that "real life" comes first, and constantly remind p

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