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by flatline 3y ago
Costco travel alone has saved me hundreds if not thousands of dollars in rental cars over the past year. Easily 40% cheaper than the competition.
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by flatline 3y ago
I worked with a non-software team that used this to build a UI about two years ago. It’s great to spin up something quickly, and worked well for a team that didn’t have much UI experience - to a point. It becomes very hard to maintain and n
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by flatline 3y ago
Deepness and Marooned in Realtime are his favorites of mine. Both sequels to less impressive novels imo. I like his writing in general but those two were really brilliant.
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by flatline 3y ago
All I can get is callbacks for some places. This is newish. You can call, wait in the queue for 20+ minutes, get routed to voicemail, and leave an option for a callback. That’s it. And the CSRs won’t reveal any semi-secret info to confirm w
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by flatline 3y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/polio-era...
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by flatline 3y ago
Containers can run services without most of the overhead they talk about. And as everyone else is mentioning here, a service-oriented architecture is not dependent on any one tech stack, it’s just a way of designing applications.
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by flatline 3y ago
I had a nasal infection once and tested positive for MRSA from a nose swab. The doctor indicated I probably always have it living there, I’m curious if that sounds right?
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by flatline 3y ago
My coparent had her bike stolen. It was parked at her work - a government building. In front of the security office with a window facing the bike racks, and security cameras on them. The cameras were not operational, the police did nothing
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by flatline 3y ago
I’m sure the big tech companies are working on exactly this and trimming resources from other areas, both from a simple logistics standpoint and from conversations I’ve had with folks who work (or worked) for these places doing AI. I person
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by flatline 3y ago
Mine is first initial, somewhat-uncommon last name at gmail.com. Address acquired during the public beta back in 2004. I regularly get reminders for dental visits in Oklahoma, purchase orders for machinery in Germany, and course registratio
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by flatline 3y ago
Where is the financial incentive beyond the seed funding here? Big scientific efforts like this have always been well-suited to government funding, or in some cases industrial R&D by a big established group with a separate profit center
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by flatline 3y ago
About that scaling… I’ve seen workflows with data chunked out into multiple excel files because the results exceeded the row limit (4 million?) Going through all that by hand was a pain, and it took hours to go from a flat file format to sp
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by flatline 3y ago
It’s all fun and games till “they” become part of a group and the antecedent is complete guesswork. I use they/them pronouns, but there is a slightly different effort for different usages, and I wish we had something else that was mo
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by flatline 3y ago
From the platforms, generated by ad views by followers. Or more accurately, ad clicks downstream from that.
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by flatline 3y ago
What do you mean? Cars are a marvelous solution to traveling a medium distance rapidly. They are ubiquitous as a result. I doubt we will ever have effective public transit across the US. It’s just too big and most places have too low a popu
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by flatline 3y ago
So-called “soft skills” are essential to effective management and hence team cohesion, employee happiness, and lots of other hard to measure metrics which still contribute directly to the bottom line and the team’s ability to deliver. Someo
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by flatline 3y ago
I am employed and looking to relocate to the Bay area. I’ve been applying for a few weeks and am going into a third round interview this upcoming week. I am getting responses from established startups, nada from big tech. I’m looking at lea
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by flatline 3y ago
That sounds like a pretty amazing layout. Maybe in 100 years we will have something like that in the US! As a single person, I do not think living in a city is that big a challenge. Sure it’s expensive, you still have to hustle, but you can
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by flatline 3y ago
She points out many things that would help and yet I am unsure by how much. There is only so much land in and around most major cities. Anything “affordable” with access to desirable things will not remain so for long. The most likely outco
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by flatline 3y ago
I have worked with interns and young devs just out of school who are sharp as tacks. I had an intern a few years ago, the first task we paired on was to figure out why our MySql connections from Qt were misbehaving. We stepped through the a
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by flatline 3y ago
Neither is mm-dd-yy!
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by flatline 3y ago
There is no clear path for growth. We have already written software for about every common need. The industry is finally somewhat mature, and it is hard to see how it is sustainable at this scale.
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by flatline 3y ago
You really don’t need a ton of staff dedicated to those things in a 100 person company. This is still a small business by most measures. A C Suite? It could be a sole owner still at that size, though it is stretching the margins. Roles tend
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by flatline 3y ago
There have been several notable collisions in the last decade. I think a full blown Kessler scenario is unlikely but it will definitely be a problem for satellite operators. Let alone the impacts on terrestrial astronomy.
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by flatline 3y ago
The cost of preserving life, human or otherwise, has skyrocketed. When I was a kid, it cost $25 for a vet visit and something like $100 for a minor surgical procedure. Adjusted for inflation those are probably about the same today, the diff
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by flatline 3y ago
Google docs, really any online collaborative editor uses them. If you have a distributed system with multiple asynchronous data feeds into the same sink, this is one way of automatically resolving conflicts. A complicated way that most appl
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by flatline 3y ago
Do you really have an engineering manager role open? I may be interested, but it is not listed on that page.
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by flatline 3y ago
I’m saying that organizations can, in fact, write safety critical code. One wheel does not need to account specifically for pedestrians crossing the road, but it does need to behave properly under a wider variety of conditions than a spacec
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by flatline 3y ago
We can write safety-critical software. Look at NASA’s CMM level 5 processes for some of their flight control software. I’m not as familiar with applications in other domains, but I know they exist. This is typically not fun code to write. I
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by flatline 3y ago
I would consider $150k/yr in a MCOL area comfortably middle class - what single-income households used to have much more regularly. You can afford kids, a house, a car, a couple low-cost family vacations each year, and maybe put some m

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