gknoy

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by gknoy 5y ago
> With CL, it felt like I was constantly fighting the tide.... just to get basic things working that are already solved problems in other languages (Node).... I was mostly fighting it alone. Based on the author's comments in the art
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by gknoy 5y ago
> $700/hr attorneys How many hours of attorney-work should one expect to budget for?
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by gknoy 5y ago
I realize this is almost completely off-topic for the article, but I really like the way this website communicates the server's charge levels with color and indicators as a percent of the page's visible area.
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by gknoy 5y ago
I wonder if that's a situation where the bosses above your boss think that there should be a proper "shape" to a team's rankings (e.g., can't havea team with too many principals, or all SWE 3s, etc). Even when one&#
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by gknoy 5y ago
One of the few hyperlinks is to an article by PG about how using Lisp enabled his small team to build amazing stuff that ran circles around larger teams that were using other languages. Based on that link, with no other knowledge, I also a
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by gknoy 5y ago
The issue is if you're doing something illegal that you don't know are illegal, but are one of the small number of people in the geofenced area. We don't even have to be guilty, the police just have to _think_ you are guilty
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by gknoy 5y ago
I suspect that once they make the offer, you can then ask them for the salary before accepting the job, unless I misread that phrase.
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by gknoy 5y ago
> US has universal ID(not secure though) Do we? Our SSN is not a unique number, and not just because the keyspace is too small for our population. (It's worse: some of the prefixes are geographically related.)
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by gknoy 5y ago
I've never ever heard of this. Can you elaborate? I hesitate to say "citation needed" but this seems like an extraordinary claim.
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by gknoy 5y ago
I've read a fair bit of Stephenson, and have never felt _satisfied_ by any of the endings. I enjoy reading his stories enough that I still read (and have re-read) them. Maybe it's that I want more from the characters, or an epilog
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by gknoy 5y ago
From Neal Asher's Wikipedia page [0], you may consider starting with "Gridlinked" (2001). I've read 3/5 of the Agent Cormac series set in the Polity setting, starting with that book, and thoroughly enjoyed it. (No
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by gknoy 5y ago
> 8 years of oral antibiotics Holy cow. That is a frightening amount of time to have to take those.
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by gknoy 5y ago
> if it's a DMCA request, there are stipulations that it needs to be made in in good faith under penalty of perjury I seem to recall those being notoriously lax.
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by gknoy 5y ago
I think they mean the wages at large [game studios] are below the average for large [software companies in general].
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by gknoy 5y ago
Agreed. Especially on a small screen like a laptop, being able to reclaim the dock space by positioning on the side is VERY useful. It sounds like the most trivial concern, but this is absolutely the level of configuration that makes one co
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by gknoy 5y ago
PXC-550 series has this feature. I can turn it on by tapping one earcup a certain way. It's also _always on_ when using the headset for phone calls or as a microphone input, which infuriates me, but YMMV.
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by gknoy 5y ago
Seconding the PXC-550 (I have the older version), which I am wearing as I write this. They're very comfortable, and pair well with my macbook, phone, etc. They cancel most noise enough not to be bothersome (_except my Roomba_), and l
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by gknoy 5y ago
My wife and I are the same way -- we never seem to feel refreshed from midday naps. Is there something we're doing wrong? :)
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by gknoy 5y ago
> macOS ... contains very serious design mistakes Would you be willing to elaborate, or link to articles supporting this? I'm sure that they have them, but since I swap between windows and mac daily I might just not be noticing them
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by gknoy 5y ago
> Nobody opposed that, even when own citizens were affected I know that many of us bridle a bit at that. I recall being furious about it, and writing to representatives, and voting for people who I thought might do less of it. It's
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by gknoy 5y ago
While all (most? many?) extraordinary renditions are kidnappings, not all kidnappings are renditions. The difference is that when doing extraordinary renditions, we are delegating the incarcaration/torture/interrogation of the vic
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by gknoy 5y ago
'woodruffw beat me to it, but I'll quote from the EFF's page that he links: """Federal courts and the Justice Department have recognized the right of individuals to record the police. Although the Supreme Court
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by gknoy 5y ago
Getting charged money, unless you have some audible ping or something, won't be noticed, so you don't have the immediacy of the enforcement. Great point on the danger of being shocked while driving, though.
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by gknoy 5y ago
Completely off topic (I think?), thanks for posting that video. Her entire channel seems full of things that can be useful to me.
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by gknoy 5y ago
I believe they meant that the color of the tea matters, as an indicator of how thoroughly/well it's been brewed, rather than the fact that you can see it or not.
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by gknoy 5y ago
It's considered part of a "four part apology", and is often taught when teaching kids how to apologize. I'm sorry. What I did was wrong because ____ Next time, I will ____ Do you forgive me? Forgiven
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by gknoy 5y ago
I don't know. I'm not a lawyer, but I recall that when it comes to contracts, they often allow you to waive protections that the law would normally give you (e.g., specifying that conflict is resolved with arbitration) if both par
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by gknoy 5y ago
When running for president, her policies were at least significantly left of the Republican party's platform. She's firmly in the authoritarian end of that axis, but also a bit to the left.
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by gknoy 5y ago
How would you study history, philosophy, or ethics, then? Those classes covered things which I have never encountered in my _trade_, but which formatively affected my views on how one should treat others (or treat oneself). I feel like the
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by gknoy 5y ago
> The best team I've been on didn't have a manager I feel exactly oppositely. The best teams I've been on have been ones where the manager has a strong focus on being a crap-umbrella for the team, sheltering us from anythi

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