kagakuninja

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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Are you aware that there are many specialty shops that will sell you alcohol, many of them operating 24 hours a day? Many people find bars and liquor shops to be a nuisance; they also sell basically the same set of products!
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
It is not silly at all, although the experiment may be flawed. Pro baseball players report that they can see 90+ MPH fastballs clearly, down to details like the stitches on the ball. Zen martial artists also have claims of being able to rea
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
I'm 60, and have never used any calculus on the job. I did need to relearn some linear algebra when doing game programming, but these days most of the heavy lifting is done in the game engine for us. Nothing I've done on the job i
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
I've been programming professionally for 35 years. I've never needed to invert or balance a tree. When I need a tree, there is usually a library that does what I need, and if not, I can google the algorithm that I need. I could fi
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Good luck, I'm sympathetic as I've gone through some rough patches, and once thought my career was over. Looking at my career, it tanked at age 44, in 2007 due to the financial crisis, and has never truly recovered. Part of this i
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Previous guy misstated things. Sleep paralysis is a form of lucid dreaming. You are aware while asleep. From my experience meditating, one can go through stages of body paralysis, and then enter lucid dreaming states, while maintaining aw
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
People respond to alcohol differently because of genetics. I don't get much euphoria from it, but others do.
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Even for a shitty interviewer like myself, it does work. It just takes me more interviews to finally get the offer. I've tried doing a good job and asking for raises, they never match market rate.
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Take 50% less, until you get a better offer. The job market will pick up again. There is no guarantee that your current stable job will not suddenly come to an end for many reasons. Outside of a few rare companies, there is absolutely no re
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
I have never worked at a FAANG. Not only do typical companies pay much less, there isn't much in the way of stock packages. Usually there is some kind of ESPP, which is just a low-risk way for us to gamble on the stock price going up.
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
I've tried having that conversation a couple times in my career, and it never works. At my current job, I am the top performer on a mediocre team, and it seems to be impossible to convert from contract to full-time. I also demanded som
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
The US government has already spent massive amounts of money subsidizing nuclear science programs, because much of the technology is dual-use for weapons. The same is true of every nuclear armed nation in the world. We subsidized the nuclea
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
That's funny, because I've been taking servers full of large blocking thread pools, rewriting them to be non-blocking, idiomatic Scala, Cats Effect 3 and get +50% throughout. Blocked threads are seriously bad for performance. Yes,
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Or you could use Scala
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
It has been a while, working from memory... We see replicants doing things like: Roy dodging a shot from Deckard with inhuman speed. Priss does amazing acrobatic flips. Replicants dip their hands in boiling water and liquid nitrogen, with n
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
There were several anime adaptations on TV around the same time as Robotech. I'm sure it was the one that blew your mind, so you are remembering that. Of the top of my head: Voltron, Tranzor-Z, Starblazers. Speed Racer was being rebroa
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
As a member of the underground anime scene, starting in the late 70s, I have a different perspective. Harmony Gold did nothing to actually promote anime, beyond hyping their own products. Robotech was the English translated anime that happe
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Deckard does not have superhuman strength or physical resistance to damage, like the rogue replicants. He got his ass kicked multiple times. IMO the monologue at the end was Roy coming to terms with the end of his life. There was nothing to
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Never watched it. I imagine it has even less to do with the book than the first movie. It has a different director and writers.
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
The book actually has a scene where Deckard gets captured by a group of cops, who administer the Voight-Kampff test. My memories are vague, but I think they accuse Deckard of being an android, but the cops are actually androids. Or somethin
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Apple switched to Intel chips 20 years ago. Who fucking cares about PowerPC? Today, Apple Silicon is smoking all but the top end Intel chips, while using a fraction of the power.
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Teams is shit, and hangs and crashes on my Mac. I blame Microsoft for that.
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
I'm an American, so maybe the situation is different elsewhere. Every company I've worked for during the last 12 years gives out MacBook Pros. And I've been developing using Scala / Java for the last 20 years. Employers
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
I don't know what you are talking about, I'm a back end engineer, and every company I've worked for during the last 12 years gives out MacBook pros to all devs. Even the game company that used C# and Mono gave out MacBooks (a
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
You know what annoyed me as a C/C++ programmer? People using Microsoft style braces... But OK, if you are using Microsoft-Java, then Microsoft rules apply. AFAIK there is no rule in K&R requiring no braces for single-line blocks. I
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
I've been at 2 companies acquired by private equity firms. In one case, the company was totally healthy in the niche market of software for libraries. The company was sold because the owner wanted to retire. The vampire capitalists did
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
OOP kind of goes out the window when people start using entity component systems. Of course, like the author, I'm not sure I'll need ECS since I'm not building a AAA game.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
As the article points out, we think we are making rational decisions, when in fact we are heavily influenced by subconscious biases. In particular, we favor people we like. That gives an edge to candidates that are friendly and attractive.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
I'm a Scala developer, so we get the shiny on top of boring old Java.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
I'm interviewing at Disney Streaming, lol

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