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by filoleg 10mo ago
> "Bose blows" is a popular comment amongst the audiophile community but, to me, it seems like they don't blow at all[0] That comment is not wrong, you are imo just not making an important distinction that the criteria on
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by filoleg 10mo ago
> To get promoted at Google from L5 (Sr SWE) to L6 (Staff SWE) you need to do the work of a GOOD L6 for 1y+ and have made some very solid internal networking connections and have multiple managers on your side and have an opening for suc
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by filoleg 10mo ago
There was a period of time in my mid 20s when me and a close friend ot mine lived across the street from each other, and what you said here resonates with me strongly. It is such a massive boost to quality of life to just be able on a whim
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by filoleg 10mo ago
I noticed the same with Severance (also Apple TV). After every episode, there is a short director commentary/crew interviews about random episode specifics or more higher level thoughts. I liked it quite a bit.
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by filoleg 10mo ago
> It feels like gaining weight is incredibly easy and losing it is incredibly hard I feel like there is more to it. Obviously, I sympathize with you, and I noticed that when I switch from a bulking cycle to a cutting cycle, it is a bit d
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by filoleg 10mo ago
> There's a futures market for RAM prices if you want to hedge that risk. No different than corn. Yeah, and that's a fine vehicle for insuring against this risk for a finance company or for an individual. I am prepared to be wr
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by filoleg 10mo ago
> DJI got banned Not sure how that statement squares against the fact that a lot of major US stores (Amazon, Target, Costco, Walmart, B&H Photo, Microcenter, etc.) have DJI products available for purchase, as well as that there is li
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by filoleg 10mo ago
You nailed it on the head, down to the exact examples. I was still in high school in 2010, and was told the same thing about outsourcing to India/SEA/etc. making a CS degree/career (in the US) a terrible choice. It wasn'
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by filoleg 10mo ago
First, no, it wasn't solved. In fact, many tech companies that previously allowed remote work went back on it. Technically yes, I can "solve my commute" by taking a very significant pay cut (more than 50%), in addition to lim
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by filoleg 10mo ago
There is nothing fun about sitting in traffic on your commute to/from work, and neither there is much fun in doing long-distance driving in a straight line on highway for hours on end (regardless of the horsepower). That's what au
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by filoleg 10mo ago
Your eyes will be fine (assuming that we are talking about automotive LiDAR specifically). Automotive LiDAR is designed to meet Class-1 laser eye-safety standard, which means "safe under normal conditions." It isn't some subj
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by filoleg 11mo ago
I mean Singapore has mandatory conscription (for men), and I wouldn’t call it militarized. Especially not in comparison to some countries that are in the latter category.
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by filoleg 11mo ago
> I've watched a lot of live coding tools out of interest for the last few years, and as much as I'd like to adopt them in my music making it's not clear to me what they can add to my production repertoire compared to the
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by filoleg 11mo ago
> It reminds me of people in BigTech that don’t sell their RSUs as soon as they vest and diversify. I make just as much now in cash as I did in BigTech with the difference being 40% was in RSUs. Why would I keep 40% of my income in AMZN
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by filoleg 11mo ago
Thank you for the response! To be clear, I didn't mean for my original comment to be a dig at Orion at all. I am just genuinely excited for it, but an extension ecosystem is something I value a lot in a browser. So I was a little bit m
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by filoleg 11mo ago
Is there any info with a bit more details on extensions on the desktop version? More specifically, is Orion going to have its own extension ecosystem? Is it compatible with chrome or FF extensions? If it is gonna be its own thing, are there
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by filoleg 11mo ago
> What would happen if you had to tap a card/phone to get in to the subway system (and this was enforced, no jumping turnstiles), and then have to tap it to get out too. Not sure about the "measure how long the subway rider h
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by filoleg 11mo ago
> One third of all scams in the US are operated on Meta platforms. And 100% of all internet scam traffic in the US goes through either US ISPs or US cell carriers. Should those entities be held liable instead? Or maybe, Meta instead shou
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by filoleg 11mo ago
> This will probably lead to a series of committees about how to scale back the laws [...] > [...] which will create new rules which will be put in place [...] > [...] and then the career eurocrats will move on to their next job, w
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by filoleg 11mo ago
> [...] most websites just don't follow the law. Yes, they're doing illegal things, but it turns out enforcement is weak so the lawbreaking is so ubiquitous [...] I just checked the major institutional EU websites listed here[0
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by filoleg 11mo ago
> There is no fun in typing out a well-researched answer only to face a torrent of one-second "nah, you are wrong" replies mixed in with AI slop. Bananas. That "AI slop replies" excuse you mentioned would only apply
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by filoleg 11mo ago
> The bullied have no respite from the bullies I feel like I am missing something important here. The great-grandparent comment was talking about things like not being invited/kicked out of group chats, not being spammed/harass
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by filoleg 1y ago
And also (an incompetent and lazy) lawyer’s worst nightmare. At least once a week, there is another US court case where the judge absolutely rips apart an attorney for AI-generated briefs and statements featuring made-up citations and nonex
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by filoleg 1y ago
> There are so many base features that are inexplicably relegated to 3rd party apps. > Like a better finder experience. > Or keeping screen on. Do you mind linking or naming which tools you use for those 2 purposes? Asking out of p
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by filoleg 1y ago
> If you are happy to work for a for-profit corporation w/o any financial compensation then you are more than welcome to do that. Seems a bit irrational to me but that's just my opinion. Not the person you are replying to, and
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by filoleg 1y ago
> Just had to poke the touchpad every so often so it didn't go to sleep Unwarranted tip: next time, if you use macOS, just open the terminal and run `caffeinate -imdsu`. I assume Linux/Windows have something similar built-in (a
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by filoleg 1y ago
> Do people actually get in trouble for this? Unless they willingly and provingly try to grift IRS on a continuous basis, no, people don't get in trouble for this. If you mess something up or underpay on your taxes, and if (or when)
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by filoleg 1y ago
> It sucks at the one thing it's supposed to be good at (writing code). It sucks at replacing software engineers. So yes, if you expect it to design a complex scalable system and implement it for you from start to finish, then sure,
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by filoleg 1y ago
Blockchain does, NFTs not so much.
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by filoleg 1y ago
The difference is that NFT always seemed to be just hype for hype’s sake, with zero functional/helpful use-case at all. No, “trading cards [more like hashes/serial numbers receipts of those tbh], but digital” is not a functional u

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