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by jacamera 3y ago
Same, personally. But I also did on-site tech support in the same era and would always give customers the option if they had a drive I couldn't recover. Honestly seems negligent to me not to. On several occasions they opted to spend th
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by jacamera 3y ago
Great story! This had me confused though: > Often I'd show up only to tell them their hard drive was dead and everything was gone. This was just how things worked before iCloud Photos, nobody kept backups and everything was constant
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by jacamera 3y ago
Reminds me of the excellent Ted Chiang short story, "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling": https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterrane... We're absolutely already cybo
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by jacamera 3y ago
I felt like I was having a stroke multiple times while trying to get through this article.
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by jacamera 3y ago
Your comment contributes nothing to the conversation and I'm only commenting to make you aware of that. Enjoy your upvotes.
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by jacamera 3y ago
> Have you worked in a restaurant or retail? Yes, both. > The real reason we want teenagers in low-skilled jobs is to keep wages low. Who are you speaking for? Do you own a business that employs low-skilled labor?
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by jacamera 3y ago
This is the exact kind of sociopathic elitism that we should seek to minimize by promoting a diverse array of experiences for young developing adults, including working jobs that are “beneath” them.
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by jacamera 3y ago
Not to sound too grandiose, but I think that the tradition of teenagers working in low-skilled retail and service jobs is also important for societal cohesion. Nothing is going to give you more empathy for the people working in those jobs t
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by jacamera 3y ago
> The new minimum wage for fast food workers will apply to restaurants with at least 60 locations nationwide, with an exception for restaurants that make and sell their own bread, like Panera Bread. The exception for small restaurants ma
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by jacamera 3y ago
This doesn't appear to be just a PR stunt to me given that Nucor is also directly investing $35 million in Helion as part of the agreement. If you're going to post the usual fusion naysayer comment I think you should at least addr
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by jacamera 3y ago
I'm assuming it was a trackball mouse from the description. The OP said it was cheap so I don't think cost was an issue but from my experience some employees are very particular about their peripherals (don't blame them one b
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by jacamera 3y ago
Is there any mistake that a self-driving car could make that a novice (or any) human driver couldn't? I fail to see how this line of reasoning is relevant at all.
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by jacamera 3y ago
Great point. They're against it unless you're running it in a loop and paying for every API call!
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by jacamera 3y ago
I think it's ironic that some people are saying the likes of Chat GPT will make software engineers obsolete when in reality there will be huge demand for the humans that will eventually be needed to clean up messes just like this.
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by jacamera 3y ago
This was also me. It's 100% true. Works even better when you can just set them up with an iPad and a keyboard case! Everyone is much happier. Windows without Active Directory and Group Policy management is a straight up nightmare. Even
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by jacamera 3y ago
> People get upset about title editing on HN because they only notice the cases they dislike. Any practice will seem obnoxious if you only count the things it gets wrong. I don't like or dislike any particular title or headline. I d
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by jacamera 3y ago
I really don't understand the policy of altering headlines here. It's such petty, obnoxious behavior! I really wish they would stop doing it and I would be really annoyed if it happened to an article that I wrote and submitted mys
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by jacamera 3y ago
Agreed! Doesn't justify anything that Amazon did in this case but it sounds like a pretty off-putting "feature".
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by jacamera 3y ago
Interesting. So is actually executing the script, server, or API call without errors part of the interview? Is that what makes them "practical" or is it because the data structures and algorithms are related to your business domai
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by jacamera 3y ago
I feel like this article is dead on. It's old but the principles still hold true. > Because C# is really, really good. The first language I learned was VB.net because I thought "Visual Basic" sounded easy. I quickly moved
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by jacamera 3y ago
I'd love to know what dynamic programming exercises you're asking interviewees to complete in the timespan of an interview that wouldn't show up on LeetCode.
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by jacamera 4y ago
The most illuminating thing about ChatGPT for me is just how terrible most programmers on HN apparently are. I thought it was just a funny meme that all we do is copy/paste from Stack Overflow but apparently that is literally what a lo
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by jacamera 4y ago
Awesome! I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Also thanks for linking to that document. I was sketching out rough diagrams for myself but I was totally unaware that manufacturers provided such sche
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by jacamera 4y ago
Wow, that Biamp Nexia is something else. Very cool setup there. Both those analog mixers look nice except for the lack of mute buttons for the mic channels. I suppose I could always go for a separate XLR mute device though so that probably
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by jacamera 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. This is super interesting to me. After doing a bit of research though it appears that in order to go with a mixer over an interface I'd need to find one that supports some form of multiple outputs (aux sends,
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by jacamera 4y ago
This is the conclusion I've come to as well, but I'm still not 100% happy with my setup. First off, many cheaper audio interfaces might have a hardware monitoring toggle but not allow monitor mixing. I found these devices to be to
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by jacamera 4y ago
Really beautiful UI but unfortunately I can't use it on my phone either. iPhone SE (1st gen.) 320px wide viewport. I know it's a small phone, but I don't think I've ever come across a web page that blocked me from intera
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by jacamera 4y ago
Yes but it only requires a couple hundred watts to power the blower motor and electronics of a gas furnace. They're easy to power off of a small portable generator or even a cheap inverter hooked up to your car. The same cannot be said
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by jacamera 4y ago
This is an interesting question. It reminds me of the contract disputes that content producers sometimes have with cable companies that might result in one or more channels suddenly becoming unavailable for cable customers. Content producer
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by jacamera 4y ago
> Vaccines and boosters are the best defense against severe illness from COVID-19... Is there any evidence that suggests vaccines and boosters are a better defense than maintaining a healthy body mass index, exercising regularly, eating

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