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by gred 3y ago
$132k is great pay. You get to retire at 56 with a nice federal retirement package, plus an extra supplement to top things up until you are eligible for social security (which you're not initially, since you get to retire so damn ear
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by gred 3y ago
> these days, generating or decoding PNGs is the bottleneck almost nowhere Anecdotal, but I'm familiar with a system which spends ~50% of CPU cycles on PNG encoding (most of which is actually spent in zlib compression). The other ap
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by gred 3y ago
> Pay is not attractive That's not my impression at all, based on discussions with FAA employees. From a quick online search: > ATC 2022 median pay: $132,250 per year https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-an
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by gred 3y ago
My guess is that this will probably require a Constitutional Amendment to shore up the fourth amendment (call it 4A++).
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by gred 3y ago
> Monitoring invocations of a REST API Yep, we use custom JFR events to track API calls and correlate them to other built-in JFR events and statistics (garbage collection, memory use, allocations, CPU use, deadlocks, etc).
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by gred 3y ago
I suppose it's the last little fig leaf being blown away (by the combined blast of two thousand NVIDIA Tesla A100 cooling fans).
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by gred 3y ago
Interesting thought, but you might be missing the hardware perspective. I switched from Windows to Linux this year, and the biggest issue has been drivers and hardware compatibility: audio available via headphones but not (laptop) built-in
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by gred 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_(Roman_coin)
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by gred 3y ago
I think that's the context, though. Going back as far as a decade ago, the Hugo Awards were leaning "inclusive". There were some reactionary campaigns. Regardless, the trend has continued. Not everybody is happy about it, and
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by gred 3y ago
https://gizmodo.com/the-hugo-awards-were-always-political-no... https://www.npr.org/2015/08/26/434644645/how-the-sad-puppies...
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by gred 3y ago
HTTP 1.1
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by gred 3y ago
I hope they do try it. If they do, one of two thing will happen. Either it will fail dramatically, in which case the LVT muppets can finally shut up about it... or it will succeed, all of our cities will migrate to this new utopian taxati
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by gred 3y ago
This article is UK-centric, but something similar is happening in the US: https://fortune.com/2023/08/11/school-chronic-absence-record... Test results also show significant decline in the US: https:/&#x
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by gred 3y ago
The only thing beyond the pail is the mop.
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by gred 3y ago
This gives me and my descendants a competitive advantage!
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by gred 3y ago
It's not just HTML -- same thing for SQL, JSON, XML. Java is doing some interesting work in this area: https://openjdk.org/jeps/430
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by gred 3y ago
Thanks! As mentioned in a sibling response, I think I'm in the "invent our way out of it" camp, but even here there are the both top-down approaches (e.g. geo-engineering) and the bottom-up approaches (residential solar, comm
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by gred 3y ago
Thanks for the reference. I watched some of his Joe Rogan episode to get a sense of his thesis, and it sounds like he's hoping for either litigation or a popular opinion shift to open the door to government intervention (taxes or polic
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by gred 3y ago
Hire PHBs, win PHB prizes.
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by gred 3y ago
Are there any environmentalist schools of thought which accept human nature for what it is, make pessimistic (realistic?) assumptions about the (un)likelihood of global coordination on this topic, and use that as a starting point for resear
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by gred 3y ago
This made me chuckle, as part of the cohort described above. I read your comment, thought to myself "what on earth is he talking about? there's nobody on my radar who might fit that bill", checked the name, and immediately th
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by gred 3y ago
> Enhance the JSON SQL functions to support JSON5 extensions Wait, what's JSON5?? > Object keys may be unquoted identifiers. > Objects may have a single trailing comma. > Arrays may have a single trailing comma. &g
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by gred 3y ago
It always makes me chuckle when a bunch of non-contributors come out of the woodwork to provide their opinion on a change which will affect them not at all.
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by gred 3y ago
For what it's worth, I "took the loss" in a similar situation. The owner put everything he had into the business, it legitimately failed, and I didn't want to kick him while he was down. My financial situation was such t
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by gred 3y ago
Yeah, I think I'm happy with outsized rewards for outsized contributions. You guys feel free to spend time worrying about how to split the pie equitably, I'll be over here making more pie (and demanding a share).
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by gred 3y ago
Yeah, a few weeks ago they launched two in just one day. "Dozens", indeed :-)
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by gred 4y ago
It's all the little things. I just set up my first Linux / Windows dual boot laptop to ease my way out of Windows, but my day 1 experience with Linux involved disabling IPv6 so that I could get onto WiFi + internet, disabling the
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by gred 4y ago
var internetExperience = uBO ? Experience.NICE : Experience.DIE_A_LITTLE_INSIDE; var internetSafety = -10; internetSafety += windows ? -5 : 3; internetSafety += uBO ? 4 : -9; internetSafety += uMatrix ? 13 : -99;
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by gred 4y ago
> if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly I also keep coming back to this phrase. I believe this is the source (G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717&#x
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by gred 4y ago
Having been away from the JS world for ~5 years, it has been an eye-opener to come back to ES 2022 + VS Code + JSDoc + //@ts-check. I'm writing an application in one big HTML file with one big script tag and no build system,

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