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by javawizard 1y ago
That was painful to read. I had a very similar experience at Google about a year ago, and the worst part of it was that they did it 2 weeks before I was set to receive a 6-figure retention bonus for sticking around for 2 years after an acq
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by javawizard 2y ago
And yet only one company I've ever worked for went this way. I wish more did; it really is such a small goodwill gesture to departing employees.
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by javawizard 2y ago
Note that the two are chemically related: glycerol is propylene glycol with its end-chain carbon atom and bonded hydrogen atoms yeeted off and replaced with an oxygen + hydrogen pair. (The process of actually manufacturing glycerol is more
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by javawizard 2y ago
> Aside from GitHub I only have one other answer and it starts with, “this is going to sound crazy but hear me out.” Do tell...
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by javawizard 2y ago
Where did you hear that? You can buy replacement print heads for all cartridge-less printers I've ever worked with, including my ET-8550. The difference is that they're purchased separately from the ink, so as long as the original
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by javawizard 2y ago
Nope! As long as you've got a bottle or a syringe with an opening small enough to fit in the refilling ports, you're golden.
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by javawizard 2y ago
Yes - mine is an Epson EcoTank 8550. It has a flatbed scanner and can print up to 13x19. They also make one that can only print 8.5x11 but that has a document feeder on the scanner. It's otherwise the same printer. I'd recommend e
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by javawizard 2y ago
It's a good point. My workloads are similarly bursty. I've had no problems so far; the worst I've had to deal with is splotchy printing after it's been sitting for O(months), and a quick print head clean fixes that right
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by javawizard 2y ago
I gotta say, switching to an Epson EcoTank printer was one of the best decisions I've ever made. It has ink reservoirs rather than cartridges, and small, permanently plumbed tubes that go from the reservoirs to the print head. Not only
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by javawizard 2y ago
> I consider what's machine-readable to mean [...] I hate to break it to you but the world has a very different and well agreed-upon definition of what "machine readable" means. You're going to get nowhere if you cont
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by javawizard 2y ago
This reminds me of Zach Weinersmith[0], of SMBC fame. He was originally Zach Weiner, and he married Kelly Smith[1] and they concatenated both their names together and adopted that as their last name. There's something I love about that
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by javawizard 2y ago
I'll counter that it does, allowing that it's perfectly fine to adjust the threshold of certainty about a particular thing's purpose to suit the circumstances. If that fence is stopping the school bus from driving off the edg
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by javawizard 2y ago
Ok, this: > Stupid comment got me. There's literally an HN rule about this: [0] > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1
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by javawizard 2y ago
Ah, I hadn't broadened my search terms enough to find that. Thanks!
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by javawizard 2y ago
I can't find a source for this quote or one that fits this pattern. Do you have one?
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by javawizard 2y ago
In case any other Harry Potter nerds come along and worry their memory is completely failing them: Albums Dumbledore says this in the books. Hermione only has this quote in the movie adaptations.
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by javawizard 2y ago
I'll say as an ex-FAANG that recently released a similar stat that it was absolutely real, but only because doing anything required an atrocious amount of boilerplate that AI was really good at figuring out. Compared to how productive
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by javawizard 2y ago
> You don't have ventilation above your stove? My stove fan vents straight back into the room. Anecdotally maybe 75% of friends whose stoves I've observed do the same thing. It's a travesty as far as I'm concerned, bu
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by javawizard 2y ago
You probably want to read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364033 I've never heard of itch.io before but from what I can tell: - Itch.io is a platform where people unaffiliated with itch.io can create pag
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by javawizard 2y ago
I'm pretty sure GP is referring to moving between GitHub and GitLab as repository hosts, not as employers.
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by javawizard 2y ago
Citation most definitely needed for this one.
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by javawizard 2y ago
For anyone asking what this has to do with NCSI, have a look at the README of the parent repo: https://github.com/stryngs/edgedressing/tree/main It turns out that (modulo some details) it's possible to t
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by javawizard 2y ago
I'll bite. Why not?
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by javawizard 2y ago
First sentence of the article: > Investigators probing the serious UK air traffic control system failure in August last year [...]
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by javawizard 2y ago
Sounds great. How do you do that?
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by javawizard 2y ago
Apple has (to a first approximation) a royalty-free license to ARM IP by virtue of the fact that they co-founded ARM - so yes, Qualcomm is most likely paying ARM more than Apple is.
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by javawizard 2y ago
Am I to understand that impression is incorrect then? Where might one look to ascertain the actual revenues involved?
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by javawizard 2y ago
I'm seeing plenty of articles about it. Here's one: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/08/new-boeing-ceo-kelly-ortberg...
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by javawizard 2y ago
Because the group in question isn't the majority group, and still isn't after this increase. It's definitely eliding a lot of the nuance of the article, but technically it's not wrong.
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by javawizard 2y ago
The work they're talking about in that sentence[0] launched ~2 months before Let's Encrypt was publicly announced, and almost a year before Let's Encrypt signed their first certificate. So no, this was a separate effort. [0]

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