lmilcin

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by lmilcin 5y ago
Maybe not as sexy-looking, but I still prefer VFD displays. The voltage is less threatening. And if you are lazy you can buy them with serial interface. Also you can buy them really cheap.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
A few years back, on day 1 of my new job I was given root access to one of the development boxes. So I ask: "Okay, how do I log in?" The IT guy: "What do you mean, you just log in using your personal domain account and then s
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Pretty much sums up the state of logical reasoning nowadays. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. The standard in this case should be to find a proof she lived that long, not a lack of proof she faked her age.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I wonder if this means there is a niche for no-nonsense, no-bullshit news outlet.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
You know, naming is one of the two really hard problems in CS. But there is apparently a hack which is to open dictionary on random page and point your finger on random word. My next application is going to be called Toreutics which is goin
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by lmilcin 5y ago
"Individuals matter" does not mean that teams do not. The "individuals matter" is contrasted with "individuals do not matter" and not with "teams matter". If you think about this it is exactly pro-tea
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I have been using Linux since last millennium and I can tell you there is no shortage of bugs. Just right now I am fighting my Fedora upgrade and Pipewire systems that are constantly reverting my custom configuration that I wrote to prevent
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out and I have some theories. First, we underestimate how difficult it is for managers to learn which employees are good ones and provide value. There is a lot of reasons for this. Maybe they aren&#
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I think it is simple because it is uniform over the surface of optical element. In optics things get "complex" when they are changing over the area of the optical element. These tend to be a real PITA because it is difficult to pr
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> After I saw the same error with some other websites for businesses in my town I started seeing a pattern. The company that hosts/builds this website apparently copy/pastes their basic server set up, and so every website they
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by lmilcin 5y ago
In almost every industry the bottom is subject to shifts while the top with most ability and experience tends to be secure in their jobs. If the industry shifts needing less developers (for whatever reason), companies will just set higher e
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I have interviewed hundreds of candidates and worked for many projects over past 20 years. > Are these candidates truly incapable of doing the job, or are the understanding of what the job entails misunderstood by everyone involved? Yes.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I am interviewing candidates a lot (I would say on average 1-2 per week for the past 20 years). At least in case of software development jobs I think there is couple additional factors: - people who are absolutely unable to do it but have s
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> You say "free choice" like companies are just throwing out job offers for free. Not for free, you still have to honestly work there. You get salary for value you provide. In general companies set up hiring processes with inte
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The trouble for FB is that best developers have free choice of where they are going to work. Yes, when you need to pay your bills and FB is going to pay a shit ton of money, most people will rationalize, bend and accept FB's offer. But
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Reads well but scarry how seemingly intelligent people can be so stupid to risk everything for couple hundred dollars.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
This is dangerous view IMO. Knowledge should not be suppressed just because some people might interpret it incorrectly. If you fear the problem is "complacency around issues around structural racism and equality in education" then
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I have tested a lot of async frameworks in a lot of languages and I like ReactiveX for Java (RxJava, Reactor) the most. // process1 does nothing and takes 20s to complete // if cancelled, it will print a messag
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I actually went to school (which included economics in its curriculum). I have also worked for many financial institutions over past 20 years including banks, brokerage houses and insurance companies. Currently for Citi Group as a tech lead
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Sounds like a plot of Artemis by Andy Weir. They are literally scraping top layer and smelting it for aluminium with oxygen as a side product.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
So I understand you say that general price increase is just a statistical fluke. A lot of business owners decided to increase their prices for no underlying, common reason? The fact is understanding the common underlying reason for the pric
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Well, you could say that current political situation in US is an outlier. Nothing to worry about, US has had a stable democracy for centuries, the recent data is just abnormal and can be ignored.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> I recommend people focus on the long term trends rather than looking at outliers to predict the future. Both short and long term trends are important. Short term trends help us understand current situation that is different from what
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by lmilcin 5y ago
No, not really. Inflation refers only to the decrease in value of money, it has nothing to do with wages. "In economics, inflation refers to a general progressive increase in prices of goods and services in an economy. When the gener
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Yeah. When he was little younger he had trouble with navigation when flying Elytra between our distant bases. In particular he made a huge tower on a remote (4k blocks) mountain and we made gunpowder farm in the middle of an ocean (7k block
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I went with PaperMC after I found vanilla server lags. PaperMC is "built for speed" and it seems to work fine even with couple people playing. Additionally, I can write plugins for PaperMC which is the whole point of having the se
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by lmilcin 5y ago
So... what did I write? To quote: "but passwd was left because a lot of platform software and scripts depended on it."
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Especially when it is not an arcane reason at all. There was a time when it was considered ok to have the salted and MD5-hashed password available to all users. Then people learned to bruteforce the password and so the hash itself was moved
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Just do: 1) regular backups 2) use LVM for your filesystems and make a script to create regular CoW snapshots. I always have a snapshot running that lets me get back to previous, known state with very little effort.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I am developer with over 20 years of experience. I have learned programming from books where computers were generally not available where I grew up. But my son is learning programming (started when he was 6, he just turned 8 recently). He s

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