jrockway

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by jrockway 3y ago
It also keeps tigers away. I don't see any tigers around there, anyway.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah. Like you would think you could just look at reflectivity data to determine whether or not it's currently raining, but at most places you are far from a radar site and even the 0.5 degree tilt is scanning a mile above your head.
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by jrockway 3y ago
People seem to have different opinions on how good forecasts are. I think it likely depends on which model your forecast source of choice pulls from. I notice that the weather on my Apple Watch corresponds exactly to what GFS says. GFS i
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by jrockway 3y ago
People have averted hijackings by using sudden movements to whip the hijackers around the cabin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705
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by jrockway 3y ago
Who is going to pay someone to look for problems months down the road? Ultimately if malware doesn't think it's a VM, then test taking software isn't going to either. Malware is trying to resist analysis by trained professio
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by jrockway 3y ago
I guess my favorite thing is that Google now uses GraphQL, but error code 13 is still "INTERNAL".
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by jrockway 3y ago
You can run your VM such that VM detection can't detect it. It's an arms race. The mouse is always ahead.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I built my second printer from scratch, but I have no idea how you would build a 3D printer without a 3D printer. There end up being a lot of parts you have to prototype, and you can't do that unless you have a printer already. You al
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by jrockway 3y ago
I find this very annoying. I don't know if this is the right thing or not, but my workflow for starting new work is "git checkout master; git pull; git checkout -b new_work". This is all fun and games until you have a workt
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by jrockway 3y ago
> All data was lost because the storage is not removable. I have removable disks in my workstation but that has never saved me from data loss. The most common cause of data loss is an errant "rm -rf" or "git checkout&quot
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by jrockway 3y ago
Good luck surviving the 5 minute bike ride to a restaurant in the suburbs.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, transportation is pre-tax, so not really $2500. There's also no such thing as a free lunch. If your employer is buying you an office, then that comes right out of your take-home pay. Or, you're underpaid. Ultimately you
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't know if there is any amenity at the office that would make me want to commute (and it is like 20 minutes for me to get to work). Like, I already have a private office. Nobody I work with wants to be interrupted with random co
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by jrockway 3y ago
I have 8 Noctua fans in my PC and I can tell you they are not silent at 100%. Are they annoying at full power? Not really. But they aren't silent. Thus, fan curves are applied so that when air movement is not required, they aren&#x
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by jrockway 3y ago
They are wearing MTA-branded hard hats and MTA badges, so I assume this is a facility owned by the MTA, not Alsom.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Interesting point. I am sure the steel beam that is stenciled with "1 ton" can hold more than that, but the plasticky thing that's the actual lifting mechanism looks pretty hardware-store grade.
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by jrockway 3y ago
This doesn't bother me. It's about making you whole after random events. It's better to imagine a meteor hitting your car. If it turns your $100k car into a crater, you have a $100k car afterwards. If it turns your $10k c
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by jrockway 3y ago
People like them because they happen more often. "This is the hottest February 29th on record!" but it's not the hottest February 28th or March 1st. Compare that to something more mathematically rigorous: "Today is warm
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by jrockway 3y ago
You can send me an email. To me the golden rule is "show your work". Every operation that can start and end should log the start and the end. If your process is using CPU but not logging anything, something has gone wrong. Aim
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, it's for speculators speculating on the price. Crypto is too volatile to use as a currency. Like would you buy a pizza with your NVDA shares? No. You just hold them in the brokerage and turn them into cash when the price me
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by jrockway 3y ago
I like logs. Unlike most people selling and using observability platforms, most of the software I write is run by other people. That means it can't send me traces and I can't scrape it for metrics, but I still have to figure out
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by jrockway 3y ago
The legal system has sort of recognized this as a problem, which is why many states have anti-SLAPP lawsuits. Unfortunately, I don't think this strictly falls under the definition of "public participation", so there is no pr
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by jrockway 3y ago
What switch port costs $105,000 a month?
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by jrockway 3y ago
I agree with that. But you don't borrow 44 billion dollars from a bank to buy a company in maintenance mode. I think Elon's vision is to make X an "everything platform" like they have in China. Someone is going to have
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by jrockway 3y ago
Interesting projects. Pushing your code to a billion users. TC in the $500k-$1MM range. I would really encourage people that don't mind big companies to study for the interviews and just get the job. I promise you that you'll s
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think that Twitter is an anomaly that shows the strength of the architecture they built. Certainly you don't need those people around to keep the lights on, but if you want to attract new users with new features, someone needs to de
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by jrockway 3y ago
It's interesting that the airlines are fighting back against the intrusive searches that the TSA does. I always assumed the TSA was the revenue protection branch of the major air carriers. That's why they need to match the name
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, the ticket quota doesn't involve giving speeding tickets to people driving under the speed limit. If the sign says 35, drive 35, and you're good.
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by jrockway 3y ago
The post you're replying to doesn't say that Windows runs on everything. He's saying that every piece of commercial software runs on Windows, and that every widget has a Windows driver. I have found this to be quite true.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Looking up your cell phone number in a several-months-out-of-date database is not the KYC process for bank accounts in the US.

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