gymbeaux

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721.
by gymbeaux 3y ago
He’ll either get a raise or a performance bonus
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Gambling addict?
723.
by gymbeaux 3y ago
I’ve never heard this explanation before and I don’t buy it. Transmission power is constant regardless of the antenna used.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
True, but Optane would be a better option for scratch, even on an AMD platform. Wouldn't have to worry about drive wear, and... I'm not sure which would have higher IOPS. With PCIe 4, it's possible the RAID0 NVMe drives would
725.
by gymbeaux 3y ago
I was thinking more like IDEs and the debugging experience and so on. Rust for example, most people probably use IntelliJ IDEA with the Rust extension, whereas with Python I get all the niceties of Pycharm. Visual Studio seems to be colloqu
726.
by gymbeaux 3y ago
This is why I prioritize “existing libraries” when investigating which programming language to use for something, and Python almost always delivers in this area. The tooling is probably a close second. If it sucks to develop software with a
727.
by gymbeaux 3y ago
I remember reading something somewhere about a guy doing tests on "3D" NAND and other TLC/MLC NAND SSDs and finding that data was lost well before the "10 years or so" that we have come to assume unpowered SSDs can
728.
by gymbeaux 3y ago
There will always be a need for platter drives (or other magnetic storage) because flash memory loses data over time if it's powered-off. Theoretically you can store a tape or other magnetic drive for decades in a safety deposit box or
729.
by gymbeaux 3y ago
I wasn’t building RAID arrays when this paper was written, but I have always heard RAID6 is to be avoided and to just use RAID10 (or RAID5 if you don’t have enough disks). Lately I’ve heard (and agree) the conventional wisdom is to avoid ha
730.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
I definitely don't need one... but god damnit I want one.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I'm not sure what I was thinking, I must have been tired and maybe mixed up 2007 and 2017. 2007 absolutely would have been CD player central with a sprinkle of Aux/3.5mm connector every now and then.
732.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
My issue is that these coding interviews tend to turn up a lot of false-negatives and sometimes even false-positives. And of course they do. There’s so much more to what we do than being able to implement A* in 45 minutes without a real IDE
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Yep. I realize that’s not going to resonate with many or even most people, but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe it and that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have merit. Law firms don’t ask lawyers to litigate in a mock courtroom setting before hiri
734.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
Any alternative is kind of an FU to customers IMO, but I get it.
735.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
2007?! They were putting CD players in cars in 2007?! Are you in the US?
736.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
Last I heard US customs was seizing these at port. Can I realistically get one of these in the US?
737.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
If this is true Amazon should force everyone to reset their passwords next time they visit the site
738.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
They might mean HPV. HSV consists of HSV-1 (oral herpes) and HSV-2 (“pubic area” herpes). There isn’t really a consensus across studies for what percentage of the population has HSV-1, but all studies agree that it’s “very common”. The reas
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I think Section 31 in DS9 was excellent because it shows the complete suspension of morals/Federation principles for the sake of preserving the Federation and poses the question “do we betray our morals in order to preserve them?”
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Don’t forget that it’s estimated a significant percentage of middle and upper managers are psychopaths, so quite literally YES they can live with themselves. I fear you’re giving an oral presentation at a deaf person’s conference.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I don’t get why I have to prove to some strangers I can write code when I’ve been doing it for the last decade. It’s a ludicrous and broken system.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
But what you don’t know is whether people who didn’t give a stellar performance would have gone on to be adequate or even excellent hires.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
False negatives are always better than false positives. Every company who does leetcode interviews agrees with that.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Why? We don’t have animals hunting us and a constant need to fend for food and water like our ancestors did. Why in 2023 should anyone be under pressure for anything to do with their job?
745.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
Is there any other means of evaluating for this skill?
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I don’t understand how Americans have been brainwashed into thinking getting fired is the end of the world and doing anything to “rock the boat” is being mean to the company. Especially SWEs at FAANG. Y’all absolutely minted money the last
747.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
If your company over-hired while you were CEO and then performed layoffs to correct for the over-hiring, your compensation should be *0* and you should be put on a PIP.
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
Whether he died or not is irrelevant. He GOT cancer and I think OP’s suggestion that it was environmental is plausible. That he was rich is only significant because he DIED from the cancer, but he died because he refused modern medicine and
749.
by gymbeaux 4y ago
If you’re specific enough, it is excellent at writing not just simple stuff but complex programs. Entire programs. Usually they work, but if they don’t, it’s a matter of swapping out usually a word or two in a single line of code. It is exc
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by gymbeaux 4y ago
I’ve been using ChatGPT to do my job for a couple of months now. You have to be very specific with requirements you give it, and you do have to test the code of course, but at worst it gets me 90% of the way there in seconds instead of the

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