killtimeatwork

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by killtimeatwork 6y ago
> They just lost 30% of their investment. They only lost money if they bought on the peak and then sold the stock after the 30% fall. Otherwise, they're just stil holding a piece of CDPR, whose market value fluctuates and is not tha
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> I find it interesting but maybe not entirely surprising that games can actually crash on consoles. It still surprises me when it happens on my Nintendo Switch. Yeah. What about the testing that is a part of mandatory game certification
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by killtimeatwork 6y ago
> Company 1: The company went bankrupt, founder renamed the company, started a new company with the same name as the original, transferred some assets for pennies on the dollar. It later went public, but collapsed in the dot-com crash. I
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> Imagine property tax is 0. Why would anyone ever sell? All the land would effectively be owned by hereditary feudal lords. You'd sell for the usual reason, i.e. you'd prefer having money rather than that particular piece of l
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by killtimeatwork 6y ago
> it will not take days and months. one heat wave will kill hundreds of thousands of people in their sleep. Peak temperatures don't occur during the night. How do you figure heat wave will kill people in their sleep?
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by killtimeatwork 6y ago
Out of curiosity, I've just computed how much time do I would have to work to pay someone to clean my apartment and it turns out it's... 9 minutes. It's an amusing number, but ultimately not that relevant, as doing the cleani
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by killtimeatwork 6y ago
They said "market", which is the place where things are bought and sold. That's why it's fairly clear that they refer to revenues and not companies valuations.
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How much are senior software developers making in China?
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by killtimeatwork 6y ago
Agreed. There's one in my family. She's literally putting the same kind of sticker on the same kind of car 8 hours a day for months or years (they rotate positions in factory so that people don't go crazy - but retraining for
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by killtimeatwork 6y ago
> In contrast, I don't get React What's the point of reviewing something you don't understand? I'm a tech lead as well within a remote team and I don't review such PRs.
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> Every major logistics corporation is lining up to snap up self driving trucks between warehouses. Of course they're lining for it, but if no one delivers L5 autonomy trucks, then they'll still be stuck with drivers.
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Right now you're at school though (i.e. not working in the field?). I wonder how much better it will end up being after a couple years of practicing it. When I look at HVAC techs, I see guys with supreme health and stamina - for examp
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> You would not believe how many people, though they may be mentally ill, are smart, honest, good people, who just got fucked by the system. It seems that they got fucked by mental illness, not by "a system". Not being helped i
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> That's not what he's saying. That's just one possible interpretation of it. That why I put "perhaps" in my characterisation of what he's saying - even if 0.1% of people decide that the solution to them &qu
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I also often notice a self-serving conclusion that you should quit your comfy corporate job (and perhaps create a startup?). In this particular essay, it's close to the bottom: "Is there a way to cultivate curiosity? To start with
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In Java, every object stored on heap (and they can't be stored on stack) has a JVM-induced space overhead. Also, the allocator is free to spread the objects across the heap in a chaotic manner, which will make for less than optimal uti
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> All my friends who bought a new car can afford an electric car as well. Buying a new car in itself is a luxury. Dunno where you live, but here in Poland there's over a 3x difference between the cheapest (new) petrol car and cheape
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Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Pretty much the only video game I've played a lot of (200+ hours at this point) since I started working 15 years ago.
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> Companies who treat code this way aren't software companies, and they ain't gonna stick around for the long-run. They just use software for some end, and given their apparent lack of attention to detail, they will go out of b