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by krallja 4y ago
1981 + 9 = 1990
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by krallja 4y ago
Youtube, Netflix, and Zoom wave hello, in 1080p+ and stereo sound.
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by krallja 4y ago
You know what they call the person who graduated last in their class in medical school? Doctor.
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by krallja 4y ago
I thought the position was called Jonathan, but the title was scribe?
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by krallja 4y ago
I always get asked “do you do a lot of podcasts?” the first time I meet somebody
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by krallja 4y ago
It’s mentioned in the article.
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by krallja 4y ago
I’ve been working from home for 13 years, so, yes? It clearly works for a lot of people.
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by krallja 4y ago
“Now when I got to Hollywood, I was discouraged with animation. I didn’t think I’d ever do another animated thing. I said, I think I’m getting in it too late. Felix the Cat was going then, [and] other things, and I just said, it’s too late.
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by krallja 4y ago
Yep, that seems like what happened. I went down the detergent aisle at my local grocery store today, and they had a brand-name and two different scents of store-brand powdered detergent.
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by krallja 4y ago
> it sure was easier back in, say, 2012 I was on HN in 2012. It was not any easier. People said the same thing back then. “Oh, if only I had gotten started in 2005, with DHTML, when things were easier.” “I wish I was paying attention whe
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by krallja 4y ago
Definitely possible there was a powder shortage. Pods and gel were always available though.
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by krallja 4y ago
I watched this video and was very excited to try out the powder, since I’ve just been using the pods they sell at Costco for my entire adult life. But there are Problems. 1. You can’t find powder anywhere. Not a single grocery store near me
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by krallja 4y ago
Quick, what’s the phone number for the District’s game warden?
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by krallja 4y ago
That's not true, there's also reposts of TikTok videos.
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by krallja 4y ago
Good answers are something like “we don’t have many gatekeepers. if you need a compute instance, just spin one up in Terraform.” bad answers: * (interviewer guffaws) * “work hard / play hard” * implying significant overtime
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by krallja 4y ago
My new favorite question to ask interviewers is “the job description says ‘fast-paced`, can you give me an example of what that looks like for you?”
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by krallja 4y ago
In my case it was tied to how many shares or options you held.
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by krallja 4y ago
“benefit”
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by krallja 4y ago
The only bonus I have ever received which didn’t make me feel scummy was profit-sharing. Most companies don’t do it because profit is for the owners. Everything else just feels like a way to decide whether or not to pay me what I’m worth af
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by krallja 4y ago
Yes, and!
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by krallja 4y ago
How would you solve color clash with a few tens of dollars? Iirc it’s a memory bandwidth limit, you don’t have enough time to load more than a few bits per pixel, so FG/BG+ 8x(on/off) is usually all you can get. And you load the s
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by krallja 4y ago
This is a half-baked technical solution to a somewhat interesting social problem, wrapped in content marketing for yet another crypto coin.
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by krallja 4y ago
> we haven't been able to deploy for over two weeks What is stopping you? Are you unable to type `git push heroku master`?
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by krallja 4y ago
The Pillar of Autumn has the Marathon logo on it, so there’s definitely crossover between the two universes. edit: https://www.halopedia.org/List_of_Marathon_references_in_the...
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by krallja 5y ago
“Boat, (noun): a hole in the water you throw money into”
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by krallja 5y ago
I got an HP 4951b serial protocol analyzer off eBay, and want to do something similar with it. It’s based on an NSC-800 CPU, which feels like a cross between a Z80 and an i8085. My explorations are at https://github.com/InPe
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by krallja 5y ago
If any of them have batteries, you should remove those whenever they go into storage. Batteries have the most chemicals, so they do the most damage when they leak. Big electrolytic capacitors are second.
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by krallja 5y ago
« It is physically impossible to exceed the 70-pound domestic weight limit for a small flat rate box. The interior dimensions (8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8") are ~75.333 in^3. If you filled the box with pure osmium,
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by krallja 5y ago
The textbooks I used in university were "From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry" (Campbell-Kelly) and "A History of Modern Computing (second edition)" (Ceruzzi). There is a b
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by krallja 5y ago
The game inspired by the course is great, too: https://nandgame.com/

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