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by hardolaf 5y ago
I also don't have kids and I don't necessarily prefer the office... but from over a decade now of experience working in remote and hybrid jobs, I've found that there is no substitute for shoving everyone in a room and tellin
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Another big factor is that we lie about capacity when making up the numbers. We assume summer numbers under ideal conditions and not actual daily average capacity or minimum daily capacity. Just going from summer to winter greatly reduces e
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by hardolaf 5y ago
When assets are frozen as part of a criminal case, they can't be moved or released at all by the institute holding them. At the conclusion of the criminal case, if the defendant is not guilty or the case is dropped, then they're s
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by hardolaf 5y ago
But if they seize the assets through civil asset forfeiture, then they're not frozen, they're seized. And that's what happened here. When assets are frozen, they can also still be used to pay for reasonable lifestlye expenses
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Civil Asset Forfeiture is not freezing assets, it's seizing them with intent to forfeit them. The grand jury never returned a true bill on Nelson and expired before any charges were brought against anyone. This was a shakedown by the F
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Nelson wasn't even working at AWS when the Northstar deal got approved and no evidence was actually submitted in any court against him. This article is about someone who probably has clean hands in all of this but got dragnetted by the
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by hardolaf 5y ago
People also moved away from that paradigm because databases are slow. I work in the world of optimizing TLP level communications over PCI-e buses. To me, a database access is already in the world of "why bother?".
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by hardolaf 5y ago
> What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do? They quit when the numbers don't match what they feel they are worth. You see the same thing in finance. One bad year can send
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by hardolaf 5y ago
FAANG was a coping mechanism for Amazon employees. It was always just FANG.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
The delivery fee being artificially low was a political decision to subsidize utility prices for the poor. Every single utility has step function of pricing for usage fees that works to capture the cost of providing the infrastructure. This
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I'm in HFT and a huge part of our job for the FPGA drivers is managing the NUMA awareness of our software. And we have to constantly educate new devs coming into the low level software teams about this. Luckily, the SW teams are starti
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by hardolaf 5y ago
You also get to become one with the road in case of an accident.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
As the district court pointed out, if a consumer doesn't agree with Apple's business model, they're free to buy a competing product.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
And Microsoft charges 30% of the sale price of any game sold on Xbox plus for physical products another 20% for the right to master it to disc plus. Why isn't EGS complaining about this?
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by hardolaf 5y ago
My wife is a teacher in Chicago Public Schools and there are classes in her school that have spent less than half of the school year in the classroom because of quarantine every time a kid gets COVID. Because the kids all eat lunch together
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by hardolaf 5y ago
It took me two months in Chicago to see a general practitioner and I'm still waiting (4 months later) for an in-network physical therapist to start taking non-critical, new patients for a back issue. Everything is completely understaff
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by hardolaf 5y ago
When NASA switched from internal IT to a third-party contractor, their laptops and desktops got replaced with worse hardware that somehow cost more. This is the Republican way.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I've been doing this ever since I almost got clipped by a car when getting out of my vehicle. It's honestly just a lot safer and everyone should be doing it.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Pittsburgh itself has actually knocked down quite a few bridges over the last 30 years. The suburbs have not as they just run out of money.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Okay, but that's just ignoring that ASML's largest design center is in NY just a few tens of miles from NYC and White Plains. Why is it there? Global Foundries (former IBM and AMD) is nearby and that was where the research was hap
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Yeah, the commercial ventures are all trying to do autonomous driving on a budget. The military systems work a whole lot better but that's because they pack way more sensors and way more compute power and can essentially power through
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Yeah. They still pollute like crazy. Not as bad as the old days, but they're still extremely bad for the local environment.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
You're not going to learn electrical and computer engineering by reading stuff on Sci-Hub. You might get some knowledge, but so much is just simply never published that it's essentially tribal knowledge. Heck, even with professors
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by hardolaf 5y ago
These are mostly blue-collar/striped-blue-and-white-collar jobs. So no, not really. Fabs are also giant ecological disasters. I wouldn't be surprised if Columbus was chosen over Cleveland because the different rules the Ohio EPA h
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by hardolaf 5y ago
You don't need skilled talent to operate fabs. You need people who can go through a 2 year degree program.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
My undergraduate degree in ECE at OSU went far more in-depth on topics and set me up far better than the graduate programs at Purdue or UIUC do in their first year of graduate school. A huge part of that is that OSU's ECE department do
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I mean, you can take the Amtrak from Cleveland to Chicago... but it leaves at like 3:30 AM which is why I never take Amtrak to Cleveland to visit my family from Chicago.
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Chicago, IL is a hotbed. Boston, MA also is doing great these days. Texas and Ohio seem to be in a race to the bottom in terms of the types of work they're trying to attract.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
My Power Systems course in college back in 2014 used Germany as an example of how not to handle energy policy due to the brain-dead decision to get rid of perfectly fine and functional nuclear plants. The professor also had us produce high
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by hardolaf 5y ago
It was never a good plan from the start. They wanted to get rid of nuclear because of irrational fear. The path towards energy independence was always nuclear for every nation. But that got rejected thanks to fearmongering. Now we're b

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