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by galoisscobi 4y ago
I really like Zack Freedman’s channel. He hacks on wearables and does cool stuff with 3D printers and is hilarious. https://youtube.com/@ZackFreedman
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
That’s just free speech absolutism!
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
The cars don’t even have ultrasonic sensors any more. It’s a standard feature in all cars and Tesla is shipping without it. I wonder if people will realize that and question their buying decisions. They want to transition park assist to Tes
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India police detain students gathered to watch BBC documentary on Modi(reuters.com)
41 points by galoisscobi 4y ago|19 comments
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
I don’t know how I feel about this post. On one hand, if I were running a company, I would want a hiring process similar to this. On the other hand, the company I work for has draconian publishing policies. I can’t have a technical blog, ca
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
Isn’t it fun to move goalposts! On layoff threads, people comment that the CEOs “taking full responsibility” should cut exec pay. Now we have a company that hasn’t had any layoffs and the CEO is taking a paycut and it’s a pointless symbolic
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
Academia folks love to hack on notation. In a research lab I used to work in, my colleagues publishing papers could explain to me the core idea in 2 minutes and probably an undergrad freshman could also understand it. However, if you then r
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
My brain and fingers hurt using the vim keybindings in Xcode. Looking forward to trying this extension out in VSCode which has far superior vim keybindings.
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
> mark zuckerberg and the google founders became wildly wealthy from raw intellect and business cunning Mark Zuckerberg went to Exeter before going to Harvard. Raw intellect alone doesn't open doors to schools like Exeter. It would
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
Sure! It'll only help make app development more accessible. I also think I should be able to write code for my own iOS device, sign it myself and run it on my own device without paying them $99/year since I "purchased" t
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
What do you think caused them to open up Fitness+ videos to non-Apple watch owners?
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
I’m fully in the apple ecosystem but agree that a person shouldn’t be forced to buy another device to use the device at hand. The ecosystem should be a nice to have and not a necessity (although Apple Watch might be an exception, given how
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
Strongly agree. It’s been frustrating to deal with this at work. I’m at a FAANG, and we’re required to come in 3 days a week. Coworkers came in visibly sick coughing away without wearing a mask. I wrote to people support and they say they c
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
That’s going into the territory of protected classes and can backfire (depending on where you work). My approach is that if a candidate brings up any info related to a protected category is to not engage in it and move the interview along.
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
That's great! Thanks for linking this.
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
That’s cool. I wonder if they’ve stopped disengaging autopilot milliseconds before crashing to evade legal liability. Context: “On average in these crashes, Autopilot aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact. T
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
Ugh, annoyingly Experian was the hardest one to do a credit freeze on. A few weeks ago, I was able to easily do a credit freeze on other bureaus but Experian wanted me to call them during business hours so I put it off. It might not help mu
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Tell HN: Oculus will delete purchases if you don’t switch to a meta account
138 points by galoisscobi 4y ago|44 comments
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
Joining a cost center at Google can be effective if you want to chill out and make good money. The main trade off I can think of is you don't know when the project gets axed, but even if that happens, you can spend a couple of months n
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
On VLC’s page it says not spyware in green and then says it has some opt-in spyware features. It’s also interesting that Steam is listed as extremely high spyware level.
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
Matlab fun fact: It was voted as the most dreaded language in the stackoverflow 2022 survey.
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
As others have mentioned yabai +skhd is excellent. I think using this guide to set it all up went a long way for me: https://cbrgm.net/post/2021-05-5-setup-macos/ Yabai is my daily driver and I really like it.
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
I read Build, The Pragmatic Programmer and A Philosophy of Software Design last year. All three were excellent reads. My favorite take away from A Philosophy of Software Design was to try to make low-level functions more general and high-le
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
The article’s title is misleading as it omits that the nightly version had the issue. Omitting that makes the problem’s scope sound much bigger than it actually was.
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
As an aside, I’m curious if Bitwarden is considered a relatively safe password manager?
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
I hope this fails. John Oliver had an excellent episode on facial recognition and its perverse effects on society and especially the creepy work that Clear AI is doing. It baffles me that people willingly sign up for Clear AI (probably beca
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
The director for the org I work in says something along those lines after every release cycle. He thanks everyone for working long hours and on burning the midnight oil on weekends, and that’s it. I personally never work long hours or work
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
https://ciechanow.ski is excellent, not really SWE focused content but it is a high quality technical blog. https://increment.com doesn't have any new posts but I would still recommend it.
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
What sample sizes are we talking?
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by galoisscobi 4y ago
One time I ran into someone who ran a consulting firm in the Bay Area at a meet up who told me that Onewheel had raised capital but had horrendous engineering when they came to this consultant. The consultants turned it into a product that

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