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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Halfway through my career, being on both sides of the table (interviewer and interviewee,) I've observed that a common interviewer mistake is to expect candidates to regurgitate facts; or be able to provide a memorized answer. In this
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
A common interviewer mistake is looking for exact answers, assuming that a candidate just needs to regurgitate facts.
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I find images are good for speed-reading; they convey information that otherwise would require much more time-consuming attention. I'm significantly more likely to read a long article, after skimming it, if it contains contextual image
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I think a much better solution is to get rid of phone numbers (and email addresses), and instead only allow incoming phone calls, texts, email, ect, from people and companies you know. "Cold calling" can either come from governmen
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
> Not all elevators have buttons in them. Some of the fancy new elevators have a kiosk on each floor that allows you to specify what floor you're heading to before the elevator even arrives. The kiosk then points you to which elevat
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I'm fairly certain those exist. The "click" that a car charger makes is a commuter (sp?) (basically a relay) connecting the car to voltage. Mine handles 40 amps.
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Where were these "3rd place" video rental shops? By the mis 1990s Blockbuster pushed everyone out in my town! The selection was limited, the staff rude, ect, ect. I switched to Netflix (DVD by mail) because it had a much better se
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Cold outreach is great when it's personal. SPAM isn't: I don't want automated cold outreach. I don't want something trying to fake making it look personal. I wish that we could turn off email / phone where anyone ca
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Every time I look at a "how to do pure REST", it seems like doing REST correctly is building a self-describing database instead of making an API that does a thing. Here's the thing: Customers don't care if your applicati
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I skimmed that. First, I'm not referring to a smart plug. I'm referring to a thermostat-controlled plug. You were afraid that it would rapidly turn the AC on and off, which would burn out the motor. They don't do that. Mine (
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I don't understand why he can't just connect / disconnect the power? The thermostat is a bi-metallic strip. Assuming the thermostat is controlling 120V AC: 1: There are plenty of cheap wireless thermostats for AC that you c
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
The US is on the metric system: The official definitions of US customary units are in metric. For example: https://www.regulations.gov/document/NIST-2019-0003-0001 > After December 31, 2022, any data derived from or
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I wish there was a hiring site (cough Linkedin cough) that limited the number of jobs someone could apply to; or otherwise allowed hiring managers to say something like "I'm only interested in candidates who've applied to no
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
TLDR to your response to me. You should update the page to say that. I'm not going to jump through all those hoops to understand what a link on Hacker News is about.
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Page requires a login
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
What do you mean by "converting palettes"? Perhaps give some examples, with some before and after images.
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I think our interests change as we age. My kids take up so much time I find myself spending less and less time paying attention to "tech."
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=sink+or+swim&ie=UTF-8 (In case my results are personalized) > "Sink or swim" is a common English idiom that means a person must either succeed through their own efforts or fa
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
We're asking the wrong questions. What we should be asking is: "What kind of software do you have agents writing without human supervision?"
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
I need to plug "Grave of the Fireflies". I initially didn't watch it with my kids because (at the time) it was only subtitled, and one of my kids was too young to read. One night I decided to watch it after I put them all to
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
In the US, Real Estate Agent is a sink-or-swim job. There are a lot of barely competent real estate agents who go through the motions, but otherwise only superficially understand how to do the job. For example, I run an HOA, and agents rout
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
Has anyone come across a Dolby B (or similar) encode / decode program? I've been wanting to experiment with quantizing Dolby (or similar) encoded audio to 8 bits, and then unencoding to see how well it can sound.
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
Basically, on analog media, playback speed isn't perfect. There's constant speedups and slowdowns. This creates a "waa waa" or "wow wow" effect that's noticeable when playing a constant pure tone.
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
> Spending your time cleaning up AI slop that you didn't want to write in the first place doesn't sound like much fun. Pretty much every job I've had since 2003 involved cleaning up human-written slop. For the moment, I&#x
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
A few hours after I wrote the above comment, my wife dropped a thick bottle of nail polish and it shattered. That being said, life without any risk is boring.
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
School textbooks also have a lot of bias, and may oversimplify issues in ways that are necessary with children, but lead to longing misconceptions. IE: Was the US Civil War fought over slavery or states' rights? Someone's answer m
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
In the bolded text, the "n"s are lighter grey. Anyone know why they did this? Once I saw it, it became too distracting.
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
This is similar to how Explorer / Finder handle cut: The file isn't moved until paste.
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
I've found passkeys generally simple and easy to use on MacOS and Android. On Windows, I hate them. They always push me towards using a PIN instead of my Yubikey or password.
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by gwbas1c 3mo ago
To put it in perspective, people used to consume mercury-based medicine. I'm sure if the glass is thick enough, the risk of a spill (and your health) will be generally managed.

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