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by jfim 4y ago
> I'm also certain that Ford has a long way to go before I'll even consider swapping my 35-year-old diesel F-250 HD for an electric hauling rig(1) It's not as if they're unaware of it. Their CEO even said that for som
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by jfim 4y ago
Do they have the margins that allows them to pay equivalent salaries? From what I recall, Meta and Google have gross revenues on the order of one million in revenue per employee, while SAP AG has revenue per employee around 200k.
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by jfim 4y ago
It's probably negative in the long term, since there is enough public awareness about the Russian gas imports being problematic and that nuclear power is being considered less of a problem than Russian gas. Also it means that political
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by jfim 4y ago
Wow, that's a great idea, and it turns the Internet into a reward ("how can I use this limited resource effectively") as opposed to nonstop mindless scrolling. Is the router off for everyone when disabled or is it like an IP
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by jfim 4y ago
10k is a negligible amount for a device manufacturer. You'd be surprised at how expensive it is to manufacture things. A plastic injection mold to make plastic parts can be in the five figures, for example.
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by jfim 4y ago
IoT devices can be all kinds of things, from vending machines, HVAC systems, industrial machinery, vehicles, and so on. Some of it might not be updateable over the air, and can be located in all kinds of inconvenient places. I wouldn't
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by jfim 4y ago
Isn't the down payment delta pretty significant? Having to save 160k instead of 40k for a 20% down payment significantly delays the point at which a millennial household could start accruing home equity, feel confident about starting a
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by jfim 4y ago
It seems that the biggest issue then is that the storage primitives that are available (ephemeral local storage and persistent remote storage) make it hard to have high performance and highly resilient stateful systems.
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by jfim 4y ago
There are some times when writing a custom solution does make sense though. In their case, I'm wondering why the host failure isn't handled at a higher level already. A node failure causing all data to be lost on that host should
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by jfim 4y ago
It seems like this is just a generic interview practice website, not really a resource to "meet a pro."
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by jfim 4y ago
> Yes, I am forgetful. If I were smarter, I would just not lose stuff. It's really not about being smart, some people are just more forgetful and distracted than others. What I found helps is to do a regular check that you have your
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by jfim 4y ago
I made a piece of software that logged what was happening on my computer, similar to rescue time, in order to help me fill time sheets. It worked pretty well, but I didn't have the bandwidth to sell that while being in school, so I mot
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by jfim 4y ago
There's https://github.com/matteodelabre/vnsee if you want to use VNC as a client on your remarkable. I've used it in the past to run Chromium on a server and display it on the reMarkable: https://
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by jfim 4y ago
I'm not a material scientist, but the two are constructed very differently. Tetrapaks are laminated, meaning that various layers of solid materials are glued together. Think of it as a sticker on something. For cans, the epoxy is a liq
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by jfim 4y ago
The other kinds of mustard are not really substitutable. It's as if Coca Cola disappeared from store shelves in the US, and someone said it's fine because there's still Fanta and Sprite.
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It's the paradox of choice. The more options you have, the less satisfied you are with any of them, or overall in general.
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by jfim 4y ago
As someone who left the video game industry many years ago, I can tell you that it won't be that creative. The real creativity happens in indie game development and smaller studios, not the "churn the latest AAA game using starry
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by jfim 4y ago
Cool project! Since I'm not particularly familiar with that space, I saw that the first picture shows three different amperages that are being sourced. Is it because the amps are being sourced from each current phase in a three phase s
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by jfim 4y ago
Are they really a violation of antitrust? They're not really different from exclusive supplier relationships or exclusivity deals in other industries. As you point out, it's pretty accepted in the copyright industry to have exclus
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by jfim 4y ago
> Combined with Calibre, I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is. Easy purchasing of ebooks from Amazon, combined with their large selection of ebooks.
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by jfim 4y ago
Good catch, it looks like the channel that's used to stuff cables in wouldn't work with clamp style monitor arms.
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by jfim 4y ago
I believe they use WebRTC for that, eg: https://browserleaks.com/webrtc
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by jfim 4y ago
When I was in software engineering school, we had a tongue in cheek word for this: patternitis. Many undergrads who took the software architecture class ended up catching this strange disease that compelled them to write abstract singleton
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by jfim 4y ago
It's not isolated to Google, for example there's the whole Microsoft Skype, Lync, Communicator, Skype for Business, Messenger, Yammer, and Teams stuff that went on for years. Google is just more visible on the customer side, with
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by jfim 4y ago
The biggest value for corporate users is that they get everything already included as part of their existing cloud agreement. Adding a new vendor to the mix needs to involve procurement, the legal team, vendor negotiations, while using a ne
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I was struggling with that until I started prepping ingredients ahead of time. If you already have diced onion, bell peppers, and mushrooms in the fridge, then it doesn't even take fifteen minutes to make an omelette, a salad, or some
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Keep in mind that the US is generating about 20x the amount of high level nuclear waste than if it were to recycle spent fuel. The French do it, but Americans won't.
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Right, that's why for example it made sense from Google's perspective to kill things like Google reader because that doesn't really move the needle. The biggest issue with that approach is that they're burning customer g
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I'd phrase it differently. Google got lucky in the sense that they set out to build a search engine, someone said "hey why don't we do text ads," it made money, and they've been riding that ever since. They'r
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by jfim 4y ago
Mother sauces are a French thing. They're béchamel, velouté, espagnole, tomate, and mayonnaise. Some stuff can be made shorter by just saying things like "deglaze the pan" instead of "pour some flavorful liquid such as s

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