koyote

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by koyote 2y ago
I too learn better by myself. But I think there's a difference between someone who 'teaches' you and someone who is at a high enough level to discuss ideas or issues with you. For example, in my first job I 'learned&#x27
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by koyote 2y ago
As someone who has driven in many different developed countries in the world (and been a passenger in many developing countries), California highways often feel like those in developing countries but it's combined with a much higher tr
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by koyote 2y ago
> I've seen the inexperienced ones giving super low estimates and the experienced people giving larger estimates I have the same anecdotal experience with a possible explanation: Inexperienced engineers often don't see the grea
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by koyote 2y ago
Those Pixel features are underrated. Another good one is for the phone to stay on hold for you. That one has been extremely valuable to me as Qantas would regularly keep me on hold for over 5 hours when I tried to get my money back for a ca
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by koyote 2y ago
I see no difference in someone being unresponsive by not being at their home desk hours (days??) at a time than not being at their in-office desk. If it's an actual persistent issue with the employee and they are not on a pip, then t
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by koyote 2y ago
I recently moved to a 'cheap' ISP because I could get double the speed for half the price. They use CG-NAT and it's been awful. I don't need to forward any ports but seemingly because I share an IP with a billion people
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by koyote 2y ago
Given that it took C++ a similar amount of time to invent the string specific string_view I don't think it's as simple as you're making it out. ReadOnlySpan is so powerful because it can be used generically and has implicit c
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by koyote 2y ago
> When it started deleting books i had side-loaded via calibre Could you expand on that? I load all my books via calibre but I also have the kindle set to aeroplane mode at all times. Does this happen when syncing?
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by koyote 2y ago
Those examples are mostly good ones, but: > The US is a different world than most countries which tend to be geographically tight and culturally homogenous I am not sure how much you know about Australia, but homogeneity and geographical
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by koyote 2y ago
I assume you are referring to a larger amount of people living in poverty in the US? Could this also (partially) be explained by the cost of healthcare? Something like a downwards spiral where average people end up poor either due to direct
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by koyote 2y ago
It's not that I do not trust the shop to scam/fraud me (well, sometimes I do), but I do not trust their IT processes. There are a surprising number of online shops that rolled their own payment processing (or at least seem to be).
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by koyote 2y ago
Same here, I absolutely despise PayPal but end up using them often because I simply don't trust most retailers with my card information :( (and it's often faster checkout if I don't have my CC details handy) That being said,
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by koyote 2y ago
As someone who uses Proxmox without bash scripts and is scared of the day I have to re-work out all the config files I (often randomly through trial and error) changed: Do you have any tips on how to get started? Do you simply make the chan
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by koyote 2y ago
> Please, tell me what types of income earned by a U.S. expat isn't covered by a tax treaty? I am not a tax person, but selling a house can cause you to owe tax in the US even if you did not owe any tax in the country you are living
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by koyote 2y ago
This is undoubtedly cool and I am a bit jealous! Maybe a bit of a stupid question, but what do you actually do with the models you run/build, a part from tinkering? I'd assume most tinkering can also be done on smaller systems? Is
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by koyote 2y ago
That's how it works in the UK, all direct debits show up in your bank account and you can unilaterally cancel them and they auto-cancel if it's not been used in over a year. You're also protected if an incorrect payment was m
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by koyote 2y ago
I'd argue that it's not the 'default' workstation most developers who do not have specific requirements will be running, especially on the RAM side. My personal machine is very mid-spec'ed because my personal projec
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by koyote 2y ago
> Employees benefit from calls out of hours. How? The employer is able to offer better service to customers, and make more money, and the employee can negotiate a higher salary from the more profitable business. Employees who are inflexi
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by koyote 2y ago
Why not get a data-only SIM card?
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by koyote 2y ago
I think there's a vast ocean of different software engineers and the type of code they write on a daily basis, which is why you get such differing views on AI's effectiveness. For me, AI has only ever been useful for very basic
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by koyote 2y ago
Tiktok and Instagram don't force you to, but remind you that you really should be using the App. There was an Australian low-cost airline (Bonza) that only allowed bookings via their app. It went under very quickly (I wonder why...).
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by koyote 2y ago
What's broken with it? Seems to be working fine here. What I have noticed is that the satellite view for Sydney is over 3 years old.
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by koyote 2y ago
Why would they be impossible? Plenty of people do similar trips every year. I know two people who cycled from London to Sydney several years ago. There's also the Mongol Rally and similar fun adventures that people do. Today you migh
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by koyote 2y ago
Please don't throw wild vague claims around without substantiating with data/sources. Crime has decreased pretty much everywhere over the last three decades. I am sure there are pockets in the world where it hasn't, but those
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by koyote 2y ago
I can't wait for my Word documents to be uploaded to Microsoft to ensure I am not writing anything that is deemed to violate their content policy.
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by koyote 2y ago
Wow, that is surprising. Even Australia, a country with high skin cancer rates and high public health campaigns to reduce it recommends people get Vitamin D from the sun (although in limited amounts in summer): https://healthybon
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by koyote 2y ago
> std::exception does not take a string in its constructor You're right, I used it as a short-hand for our internal exception function, forgetting that the std one does not take a string. Our error handling function is a simple sta
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by koyote 2y ago
> (perhaps one of the inlining heuristics is "Don't inline a function with more than 100 tokens", and the "final" keyword pushes a couple of functions to 101). That definitely is one of the heuristics in MSVC++.
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by koyote 3y ago
Counter data point: I am an excellent navigator but can't recognise people I know on the street, even if I know them reasonably well. If I know I will be meeting them, and I know them well I mostly recognise them but even then I am som
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by koyote 3y ago
Counter data point: I am an excellent navigator but can't recognise people I know on the street, even if I know them reasonably well. If I know I will be meeting them, and I know them well I mostly recognise them but even then I am som

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