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by kyralis 3y ago
From the article: > The force, which is trialling the system, said if an offence has been correctly identified, the driver would either be sent a warning letter or a notice of intended prosecution, depending on the severity of the offenc
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by kyralis 3y ago
> In my experience, it's always the junior who shouts "This could all be so much simpler!". Or the actual senior engineer, as opposed to the mid-level engineer with a senior title. It's the ones in the middle that r
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by kyralis 3y ago
Freedom from facts.
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by kyralis 3y ago
Apple's Car Play has supported that from the beginning, since many of the first adopter cars didn't actually have touch screens, just screens.
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by kyralis 3y ago
The latter. Apple didn't want exclusivity; they wanted control.
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by kyralis 4y ago
Because the label has a connotation that is not accurate. Connotation is just as important as denotation when evaluating meaning and accuracy of statements. Engineers love to pretend otherwise - that's probably part of why we're e
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by kyralis 4y ago
Wat? Only a small portion of services are related to land. Property tax is in fact usually considered quite regressive and hardly "the most fair tax there is."
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by kyralis 4y ago
"Easier to write, easier to read" is the part that's wrong with that advice. It absolutely is, on toy problems like the one described in the article. It very frequently is not when embedded in much larger domains as part of l
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by kyralis 4y ago
That's an uncharitable interpretation of the GP, I think. "Absurdly low to be considered exempt"? That's not "privilege of the developer", that's "we shouldn't screw over employees who aren'
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by kyralis 4y ago
Shorts do not create shares that way; they're shares that have been borrowed, which means they've temporarily changed hands. Consider for voting. If you've borrowed shares from someone else over the time period that determine
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by kyralis 4y ago
These two statements are not compatible: > When an engineer like this proposes something that adds unnecessary complexity, it's usually hard to argue with. The proposed change typically does indeed make the system objectively better
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by kyralis 4y ago
This is the sort of thing that's great for helping engineers go from junior to mid-level and then dangerous for going from mid to senior. Thinking clearly about exceptions to "rules" is one of the most important skills you ca
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by kyralis 4y ago
"Full Self Driving"
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by kyralis 4y ago
That awful track record has a lot to do with priorities driven by political talking points and who has the power to complain about the IRS. The book _Perfectly Legal_ by David Cay Johnston has a good chapter on this. (The book as a whole ha
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by kyralis 4y ago
> Once you have 100% branch/statement coverage in your tests, all bugs that are left are those that arise from the interaction of two or more statements, in a way that wasn't covered in the tests. A bit tangential, but this sta
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by kyralis 4y ago
The first random one I got was simply incorrect: very + old = dilapidated And several others weren't much better: very + helpful = essential There are definitely words for which "very" is unnecessary and an alternate would be
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by kyralis 4y ago
"Having a say" is not the same as "Your opinion winning out".
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by kyralis 4y ago
Chiropractors are a little more interesting. There are a lot of quacks out there that claim that aligning your spine will cure cancer, but the reputable ones can actually improve some things. My wife has an issue with her SI joint that she
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by kyralis 4y ago
Anecdote, much? I ran around with other kids in the neighborhood without direct adult supervision all the time as a child. I now make well north of your 250k USD with a loving wife and a house. Neither story means anything in the general ca
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by kyralis 5y ago
Yes, there's been effectively no evidence for any of the claims.
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by kyralis 5y ago
It's not so much that they don't want google to know what you bought or paid: it's that they want you back on their website so that they can track you / encourage additional purchases.
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by kyralis 5y ago
> Database systems have subtle bugs and oddities, and you can avoid a lot of bugs by avoiding database systems. Wat? That is... not a great takeaway from this experience. "Oh, this library had bug reported in it! I know, that means
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by kyralis 5y ago
You're looking at this consistently through the lens of someone coming in with an existing high salary who can exploit that during negotiations. But someone coming in from that perspective is likely already in a strong enough economic
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by kyralis 5y ago
You're missing that the company has the same information from a pool of other existing employees or candidates, and you do not. The information is not 50%, because you're in the dark about the state of the market - you're hig
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by kyralis 5y ago
That's amazon. The company I'm at is 25% after year 1, then 12.5% every 6 months. Once you get a few years in it's pretty much just a rolling part of your salary.
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by kyralis 5y ago
> I'm aware of many people who were hired who brought negative value. A salary history of low wages is a red flag for such. Is it really? If someone's bouncing between jobs, doing a terrible job at each of them, why would their
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by kyralis 5y ago
On what basis? Knowing the candidates job history may do so, but what signal does the salary itself give? The company is highly unlikely to answer the question, "what did you pay the previous employee in this position?"; why shoul
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by kyralis 5y ago
> But any cell randomly getting a spike protein tag-alone likely will no longer be a fully functioning cell. Do you actually have any evidence to back this up? Cells have a myriad of receptor sites, and single bindings without other resu
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by kyralis 5y ago
Fastly is unable to reproduce the benchmark against Cloudflare . They reproduced a modified (and theoretically improved) benchmark against their own service , but then had to compare it to the original values provided by Cloudflare.
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by kyralis 5y ago
I repeat that wisdom about performance optimization more frequently than my coworkers probably like, but it can still be taken too far. If you have two approaches that are equally clear and equally easy, take the one that you expect to be m

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