lazyant

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by lazyant 5y ago
About giving our a number, I see two cases: - if you have a decent job, not in a rush to change, do give out a number that is very high (top of the range for the job or more). This anchors a high figure and hey, they may give it to you.
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by lazyant 5y ago
As a team lead, I try to assign success to the team ("they") and blame to me when possible (or the team, never a person publicly). I _think_ a soccer coach does this (want to say Bielsa) "the boys won the game" never &qu
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by lazyant 5y ago
Yes it was "The Abyss", see the rat scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6hw4dGhm8Y From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss "The breathing fluid used in the film actually exists
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by lazyant 5y ago
https://hollandfintech.com/2020/06/research-the-average-age-...
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by lazyant 5y ago
Faraday’s law of induction: when a magnetic field (generated by the guitar's pickups)is changed (by the metallic strings) a current is induced (this current is the signal that is created in the pickup and goes to the amp).
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by lazyant 5y ago
Problem is (as it seems the case in the author's case) when this group (I really loathe the term "adults in the room", by exclusion the rest of people are children or to be treated as such) has people with power that are &quo
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by lazyant 5y ago
Depends on the place and time? they were going to lynch a black man for marrying a white woman but they got off since she was from Sicily and thus considered "not white", somewhere in the 1800s [citation needed]
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by lazyant 5y ago
Seems convoluted and unfair to condemn all people using a term for what you think are their reasons. Simpler explanation is that "Latinx" doesn't carry a gender so it's more inclusive than "Latinos" and shorter
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by lazyant 5y ago
Why do people care if grass is tall? lawns were invented by rich French nobility to show off how they could afford to have nothingness gardens instead of productive farm land.
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by lazyant 5y ago
"Well if you're not in the hospital, why aren't you working?" wtf, hasn't this doctor ever seen people with disabilities or mental health issues outside a hospital? we all know or have family members in that situat
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by lazyant 6y ago
Ronald Reagan, the man with blood in his hands for sponsoring terrorism in Central America while arming an enemy, ignoring AIDS, using mass incarceration, kicking mental patients to the curb and purposely delaying the release of American ho
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by lazyant 6y ago
Reminds me of Dice Man
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by lazyant 6y ago
Towards the end (Rule #11) "Avoid the use of apt/apk upgrade". Why? (assuming base OS image version is pinned)
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by lazyant 6y ago
Sounds more like "trato" ("treaty" or "treat") but speculating doesn't mean anything
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by lazyant 6y ago
Startup idea for ex-googlers: backdoor access to GCP support (frozen accounts etc)
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by lazyant 6y ago
With 1) database backups and PITR (from SaaS like RDS) so you don't lose customer's data 2) basic monitoring so you are alerted of downtime, even if not responding right away and 3) infra as code so you can deploy things pretty qu
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by lazyant 6y ago
If you are writing academically, please watch this (or other) session by Larry McEnerney, Director of the University of Chicago's Writing Program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM , this is what he's bee
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by lazyant 6y ago
Maybe, but in this "study" they only accounted for peaceful protests.
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by lazyant 6y ago
Am I interpreting this correctly that on and after v7.11 users won't be able to use Amazon Elasticsearch Service (unless AWS contributes back)?
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by lazyant 6y ago
I've noticed from recruiter email that some US companies have decided to go fully remote (no doubt due to COVID-19) and have started looking for talent in Canada, offering a bit more compensation than our local one (not parity) so I ex
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by lazyant 6y ago
8 years ago
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by lazyant 6y ago
Process beats goals. Don't set a goal of running a marathon or losing x pounds/Kgs but rather run every day x distance and eat / don't eat every day x healthy food / y unhealthy food. Once a process or habit is in p
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by lazyant 6y ago
There seems to be a lot of benefits from it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex
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by lazyant 6y ago
That this book and the very similar "Grokking the System Design Interview" (I went through both) get accolades just shows the poor resources we have. What we need is more "Designing Data Intensive Applications", adapted
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by lazyant 6y ago
See also dysania / clinomania.
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by lazyant 6y ago
You don't get sign off (approval) from peers but comments from them. It's important the RFC is public and anyone can comment on it. If after a period of time there are no objections expressed in the doc (people are busy etc) then
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by lazyant 6y ago
I think if you want to make a prediction you should think about the odds you'll take for a bet against that prediction. This way you also assigning it a likelihood, even if only a low bar (a bet you'd always take). For example, I&
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by lazyant 6y ago
The conclusion of this article is "why not offering different cards design for different groups?" I don't understand; many banks allow you to pick the picture for your credit card, so you can show off whatever you want.
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by lazyant 6y ago
Somehow related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman#A_Theory_of_th...
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by lazyant 6y ago
Or, Egypt could build a pipe between the Mediterranean and the Qattara Depression (~ 100 Km), which is below sea level, so you'd get water in the desert and power as well. (Half jokingly, this probably won't work?)

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