hfdgiutdryg

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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
After all those humdrum job interviews, skill tests, certification badgering; what I experienced is writing code that generates a sql query to the parameters that's taken from the frontend which had NOTHING to do with interview questi
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
I've seen recruiters do some really weird stuff, not to mention HR feeling the need to insert themselves into every process, despite their vast unknown-unknowns.
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
That site is extremely uncool on mobile, and I can't even find a way to contact them about it. Their desperately uncool need for Facebook and Twitter credit, along with their insistence that you read at a font size they've chosen
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
rates of drug addiction and mental illness among the homeless, although very high compared to the general population, are nowhere near as high as people would like to think. Probably because nobody notices the clean, sane person living ou
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
If a firefighter can save ten lives in one day and develop emphysema many years later, it was a worthwhile trade-off. It would be only futile if they dropped dead after every person saved.
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
FWIW, "mass shooting" isn't really defined and can be anything from Columbine to a gang scuffle of four people where nobody died. https://www.politifact.com/california/article/2017/oct/04&#
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
And I'm saying that is, in and of itself, a huge problem. To be blunt, if you require a shifter in order to stay engaged while operating a two ton hunk of metal, you have no business being behind the wheel in the first place .
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
A well-executed command line is a precise and efficient way to get work done. It is invaluable, and its value is unrelated to problems present in other interfaces.
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
People do say this though And the other people, who were discussing the command line, ignore them. The point is that you can't really criticize something when your criticism seems to boil down to "I don't understand this&qu
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
I don't understand what throttle response has to do with demonstrating that it's in lockup. With an average car engine, you're going to get fairly disappointing acceleration with the torque converter locked up. I suspect th
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
It sounds like you aren't very good at using Word. Imagine if someone said "I cringe every time I have to deal with a command line."
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
Libre can't even reliably update Word documents, which is literally the only thing I ever asked if it. I don't think MS is threatened by it, and I have no idea why you're going off on a free market tangent.
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
But for the love of god: a textured red background that made the already shittily rendered text even harder to read?! What were we thinking? Form over function. Fun, original formatting was more important than coveying information well.
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
Microsoft Word is a more complex piece of software that delivers more value to more businesses and individuals than (virtually?) anything that anyone on this site has ever made. It amazes me how little people value other people's work
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
Even torque converter automatics don't use torque converters for anything other than low speeds anymore. Unless something has changed radically in the last few years, that's just not true. The torque converter will drop out of
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
Just an aside, you shouldn't be holding the clutch in much. Only when coming to a stop in first gear (hold until the vehicle behind you stops so you know you won't get rear ended) and when starting to move (i.e. a few seconds bef
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
A choke gets used once upon start, a shift happens dozens of times per drive, it's not the same thing. It's still "increasing engagement" which is what GP claimed to want. How about a persistent pull to the right in t
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
This is the kind of thing I was talking about elsewhere. You need to take responsibility for maintaining mental engagement regardless of the transmission. Using a manual transmission as a crutch for mental focus is a terrible idea.
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
A modern DCT transmission doesn't use a torque converter, which is where most of the efficiency was lost. A DCT is effectively a manual transmission that's automatically operated.
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
In every US city I've ever spent time in, including San Francisco and Portland, you're taking your life into your own hands every time you use a crosswalk. Or even a sidewalk, as people will just turn into driveways without check
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
There are people who genuinely enjoy being engaged while taking a drive for fun. The more disconnected you get and the more stuff is done for you, the more it feels like you're a passenger instead of the driver. As someone who drives
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
I do the same thing, but I only use strings that are maybe four or five characters of letters only. Most of these answers are expected to be things like people and street names, so I think it's still vastly more secure without looking
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
"Fermi estimate" questions are stupid most of the time. Why? Because they leave out the educated part of educated guess. The idea is that inaccuracies in a series of educated guesses would tend to even out (though they're
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
That's the first, obvious example of Walmart losing in court. A few minutes of skimming yields cases from 1993, 1995 and 2000 in the US, then 2003 in Germany and 2012 in Costa Rica. That's as much effort as I'm willing to p
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
They appear to have been found guilty of predatory pricing in at least one case: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/13/business/company-news-wal... Searching "Walmart predatory pricing" returns qu
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
What are some intervals that you've seen recommended in Europe? I seem to recall Porsche going to 30k mile intervals, but I believe that they had a shorter filter interval. Of course, they were using a synthetic. My understanding i
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
Nobody turns brake rotors in the US anymore. If your price sensitive, you'll just buy a Chinese-made rotor for about what turning would cost. If you're not so price sensitive, chances are good that your brake rotors use an alloy
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
It's going to be rough working in English all day, then trying to learn German in the evening, especially if most people interested in talking to you are those who want to practice their English. It's tough to find people willing
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
It was just last week that you saw the Commodore 64 ad on TV. Now that M A S H was over, you were in the market for something new to do on Monday nights. This Commodore 64 thing looked even better than the Apple II that Rudy’s family had i
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by hfdgiutdryg 8y ago
Here's my view on this: I've stopped caring. I don't have kids and I don't particularly care about the future of humanity. Humans will most likely ruin the planet and, at some point, due to a lack of foresight, kill t

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