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by jjice 2y ago
My compilers course was definitely the hardest, most rewarding, and most fun course I took. I got to take it my last semester and barely squeezed in since it was a grad course and I was an undergrad, but I had taken the professor's Pro
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by jjice 2y ago
SQL is a great one because I've found so many devs either know nothing, or so bare minimum that it's easy to become the SQL guy on a team just because you're familiar with window functions. There's a lot of SQL out there
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by jjice 2y ago
Depends on if you mean Linux internals, or working with Linux in general. In the case of the latter, I really liked "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook". It's a monster sitting at just under 1200 pages (for the fif
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by jjice 2y ago
The audio is the biggest memory blast for me. That low quality flash-style audio is just so nostalgic. Does anyone know what specifically causes that? Is that just due to audio codecs at the time?
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by jjice 2y ago
Also throwing in my data point: Very consistent for me as of late. I've had issues in the past, but most of those were nearing a decade ago. Amazon is probably the best delivery service I use on a day to day basis, with FedEx being the
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by jjice 2y ago
Thank you, this is exactly what I needed!
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Tangential, but what's the state of semiconductor fabs in the US? Looking at this Wikipedia article [0], there are quite a lot. That said, all but three (assuming I counted correctly) are pre-2020. Is the push for fabs in the US specif
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by jjice 2y ago
I really appreciate this breakdown! This is so much better than the searching I did on my own about a month ago.
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> The problem with all of this is that it assumes the attitude that pay is the most logical, if not only, measure of success in your career. I see what you mean, but I don't think the parent commented about career success, but just
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by jjice 2y ago
Wasn't my choice, but one wasn't enough so we threw a few more at it. So mostly for performance, but the redundancy is an added benefit. They were a pretty decent space, power/heat, performance, and noise ratio for us. Our of
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by jjice 2y ago
We're about eight months in at the moment, so here are some current stats: - No OS upgrades (running Ubuntu 22 LTS), but regular update - We've had a power outage, but not during the day, so when they rebooted, they went right bac
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by jjice 2y ago
We're a small team (four engineers) and we purchased four Dell mini PCs to toss into our small office space. The break even compared to our AWS hosted runners (which were much faster and cheaper than the GH ones) was like four or five
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by jjice 2y ago
I'm only aware of it in the context of Avatar The Last Airbender. I'd assume this is a gameplay mechanic based on that? https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Bloodbending
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by jjice 2y ago
Oh man this would fix the most annoying and terrifying part of bank transactions in the US (IMO). Instead, we have a million third parties that help ease the situation, but all take a cut, so some services make you use the original method.
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by jjice 2y ago
I'm not sure, and that slightly concerning to me. I'm on the path to be financially independent within the decade, but I'm not really sure what I'd do in that case. I'd probably keep writing software (since that&#x2
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I think you're right, but it seems like you get into a tricky territory that'll never be great (as everything with security has compromised). Too long is an issue for attacks, but convenient for users. Too short and you have to do
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by jjice 2y ago
Can't tell if this is satire or not, but Khan Academy is named after their founder, and migo is probably from "amigo" - Spanish for "friend"
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Ah I didn't even consider the time correlation there. Makes sense. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the same company that operates Burger King (and their god awful Seattle's Best coffee) would also decrease the quality o
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by jjice 2y ago
Very tangential to the quality of chain restaurants that have decline in quality: I'm from the US, but on the Canadian border, and Timmy's was the dominant coffee shop growing up. Even if you didn't drink coffee, that was the
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by jjice 2y ago
Khan Academy is a treasure of a service. Probably my favorite non-profit out there. High quality information with low barrier to entry. It got me through Calculus, Calc 2, and Linear Algebra.
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On a related note, I actually really like Kagi's quick answer feature for simple questions. The fact that they cite sources that you can then double check is the biggest win to me.
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This and the associated series of regex posts from Russ Cox are probably the best content on practical regular expression engine internals you can get. If you have a cursory understanding of NFAs and DFAs, it's some of the best technic
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Sorry, but to confirm, they charge a 10% flat fee and that's it? That's insanely good compared to every other platform I've seen for any type of commerce. Sure, Amazon, Apple, and the like also help offer exposure and some ot
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by jjice 2y ago
I know there's a PHP package of the same name. I wouldn't be surprised if there were other packages of the same name and maybe it's just a namesake that continues.
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The reason I personally think Stuxnet is so interesting is because of it's reach. The goal was so specific and it accomplished it while infecting lord knows how many machines (but I bet Wikipedia knows). Impact wasn't massive by a
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I got a Hamlet vibe from it when I picked the book up when it originally released. It could just be because it looks pretty sick though
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Haha I remember this launch and how awful it was an thinking about how a bunch of fans have done such a better job. Hell, even Nintendo did a better job for the Wii's Virtual Console.
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> N64 is notoriously tricky to emulate Huh, I wouldn't have expected that. I don't know much about the specifics of N64 emulation, but I've had N64 emulators running perfectly since the early 2010s. I played mostly the big
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> SQL, as hard as folks try, it's not going away. I love SQL. The only thing that can become a pain is switching between dialects, especially on an older DB version. I was stuck on MySQL 5.7 a few years ago at a previous company, an
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Anecdotally, I've seen at the SaaS companies I've worked at that the larger customers are often a way better ratio of revenue to support time and easier to work with. Not that smaller customers are bad, but the ROI isn't as g

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