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by jnwatson 5y ago
I’ve had almost universally positive experience with recruiters, as a hirer and a recruit. Not exactly an agent, but you can hire a negotiation consultant at levels.fyi. When you get to the nosebleed levels of comp, it makes sense to have
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Just like TLS, the payload is encrypted. The skyking stuff is just header. It has the advantage that there’s less to go wrong and doesn’t take sophisticated equipment to receive.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
I live in a planned high density office/shopping/residential development. When the developer switched to paid parking, there were literal protests: folks with signs. It absolutely gutted the shops. Foot traffic was way down. An
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The next 10 years? 0%. We’ll be lucky if the market is flat in the next decade.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The number 1 lesson I learned in laser safety class: do not look into laser with remaining eye.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Hilarious. Some people just don’t mature past 15 years old.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
That’s the point. Money laundering is the main feature. It is great for traditional criminals, but also helpful for folks for which money laundering is a weekly part of just surviving, because they don’t have a local reliable currency.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The non-proof-of-work schemes are all either small experiments or World of Warcraft gold with signatures. I genuinely hope for the environment that other schemes work out, but we’re not there yet.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
This isn't a new interview style. I interviewed with Microsoft in 1997 and encountered the haughtiest person I've ever met.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
If everyone buys 4 years of supplies, that exacerbates the problem. The supply chain bullwhip effect will be massive. For the next 3 years, fabs will be swimming in profit. After that, I expect a major correction.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Good list. Also, Taiwan drought and Texas freezing impacted some fabs last year.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
At least one additional step which is required on some architectures is you must flush the data cache and invalidate the instruction cache at the location of the new code. Dynamically loading code is indistinguishable from self-modifying co
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by jnwatson 5y ago
We have solutions for this. It is called public housing. My grandmother was homeless until a social worker found her on the streets and got her an apartment (in D.C.). The logistics are actually quite simple. $5K houses aren't the ma
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Bariatric surgery patients almost universally have tried several other treatments before they try surgery.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Seriously, this is the first time in 3 months I decide to work on CI. I could not for the life of me figure out how it broke. Well now I know.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
At least at Google, you get vested shares every month, and you start receiving them in about the 3rd month. You can also have your broker automatically sell. It is pretty close to cash.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
They are required to post the notice about how to get the source code.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
If you timed it right. Several of my friends’ parents had 18% APR mortgages.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
I’ve always imagined that we’re in this situation of creeping ecological and environmental collapse because of a long buildup over hundreds of years of bad priorities. But it isn’t. Most of the damage has taken place during our lives. Ove
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by jnwatson 5y ago
I had the same opinion, until they started delivering malware. Then, realizing how much better web pages load without ads, I was hooked.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
It doesn’t scale. Even if they took 100% of the current US work visas, that would cover less than a third of their current hiring.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Surprisingly microkernels seem to be coming back. Google has Fuschia, Facebook has Reality OS.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
In my 23 year career, I’ve gone from having my own office room, to office room with a nice view, to shared with 1 other person, to a cubicle, then a bullpen. We’re not going in the right direction. If I wasn’t working remote, I’d have a wor
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by jnwatson 5y ago
I agree with you about the target customer group. It looks like it would only take up a corner of a room though.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
It isn’t hard to make a mask. Distributing instructions so everyone could make their own would have saved lives.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Deciding that your attrition is too low is like determining your days between accidents is too low.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
I think the more likely situation was that, given that humans spend so much of their energy in their brains, early humans had high selection pressure to make this process more efficient. We spend roughly 10% of our entire energy budget on t
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by jnwatson 5y ago
For a lot of people, waiting 8 hours to eat is a long time. If you’ve ever been around snackers, you know what I mean.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Let’s ban CI. Imagine all the extra CPU cycles we spend testing our software.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Every web page you visit allows a “malicious program” to be run on your machine.

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