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by lnanek2 5y ago
Seems an odd thing to be infuriated about. Like, some people have no email address, right? Should we be infuriated about that? No? Then why are we infuriated about people with an email address with a whitelist? It doesn't stop you from
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Google Maps does have an offline download option it offers occasionally if you know how to trigger it. Have never seen Apple Maps offer that.
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Even if Apple Maps doesn't have as much data as Google, the experience is so much better. Makes a lot of sense that Google is copying it as per the article. Whenever I use Google Maps, it constantly harasses me about how there's a
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Not even just that. Often we engineers know about the issues, but they are so rare the PMs aren't willing to let us work on them. PMs get bonuses for shipping features, not letting their engineers do KLO work and keep all the rare edge
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Apple uses their own IP address when accessing sites to protect privacy: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212614 Maybe the majority of iOS 15 traffic coming from Apple servers instead of individuals is causing trouble
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by lnanek2 5y ago
It's true there exists a "fat burn zone" where the ratio of fat burned to calories spent is higher. It's not true that's it's beneficial for people trying to lose weight to limit their calories burned to that z
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by lnanek2 5y ago
I've never had an issue with my $200 used bike for commuting 45 minutes to work, honestly. Those multi-thousand dollar carbon fiber things are just for racers and status symbols and minor improvements, basically. There are people at my
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by lnanek2 5y ago
It's true that "unlimited" is just a scam so that the company doesn't have to pay accrued unused vacation. I think most people just read between the lines and understand it is "unlimited with manager approval."
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by lnanek2 5y ago
> While you notice immediately that something is on time, you'll also notice really quickly that something is of bad quality, unreliable, inconsistent, low performant, etc Not in my experience. Our team has a couple core perf metric
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Maybe this is a cultural thing? My girlfriend is Chinese and I've never seen her do a "call" that wasn't actually a video call on WeChat. Japan also has had video calling for much longer than it took Apple to popularize
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by lnanek2 5y ago
It wouldn't. Their immune system already has a sample of the virus. Giving them a vaccine would give them nothing they don't already have. The idea behind a vaccine is the give the immune system a sample before it encounters the r
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by lnanek2 5y ago
It doesn't seem like a bad thing that they do care. The end result in the study was that people trusted the person who doesn't make time for them less. But that's exactly the right result. You should be less close and show le
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by lnanek2 5y ago
I consider journalist sensationalist as well, but in this case: 1) Tesla is a stock market darling, so a lot of people have a lot of money riding on it. Some of those people may make different decisions with extra information they didn&#x27
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Yeah, that was kind of strange. The kidneys naturally turn off while sleeping anyway, so you shouldn't need to pee in the middle of the night. I worry he's going to get a slipped disc later limiting his fluids like that.
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by lnanek2 5y ago
They likely don't implement any BTC support themselves, just have some other company do it that only supports exchanges?
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Was kind of strange making up the crow dropped a USB stick lie. I assume he can't say he pirated it because the article would get taken down with a DMCA notice, but I would have preferred he just not mention how he got it. There was in
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Seems like a valid approach. The cheapest way to do self driving is to just have a drone pilot from a call center driver your car remotely through a video feed. An hourly fee enables that. As long as they take fault as the driver in acciden
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by lnanek2 5y ago
> The vast majority of images are jpegs, which are internally 420 YUV, but they get converted to 32 bit RGB for use in apps. Using native YUV formats would save ... > You can do it today, but you need to do the color conversion manua
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Strangely enough, Apple's most advanced ear pods/headphones and the like change the audio you hear as you move your head. Kind of gimmicky, but they do technically have a way to render spatial audio even though they only have two
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by lnanek2 5y ago
In this case, though, it's more like protecting the user from streaming higher bitrate than anyone can hear a difference in on that hardware anyway - which will help their battery life. We're talking about things like ear pods her
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by lnanek2 5y ago
He actually didn't even cover one of the worst parts about the whole process - fake buyers who just want to steal your tech. I was working at a startup with a ground breaking product no one had released before, we had shipped hundreds
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by lnanek2 5y ago
You could always pick one language to be an "expert" in and just study up on the book learning for that language for your interviews. I've shipped products in a dozen languages myself, but for an Android interview I'll o
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by lnanek2 5y ago
The article said not using the phone before bed helps: > avoiding smartphone use before bed can improve your sleep. Night Shift enabling makes me hate using my devices because the screen becomes dim and red and annoying to use. So I stop
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by lnanek2 5y ago
> I've interviewed at Google, Facebook, Dell, NSA, CIA, DoE (E=Energy), Airbnb, Palantir Those are some pretty impressive names for places you've interviewed at, but they also have the highest bars to get in. Why not try just s
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by lnanek2 6y ago
As a developer, having an open source client side is hugely beneficial. With closed source mapping libs you often know what is wrong with the providers library from your stack traces, but have no way to fix it. Open source means trivial bug
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by lnanek2 6y ago
> once unions disappeared in america, the working man lost wages I've worked the same role in union shops and non-union before. Non-union paid more and had less deadbeat co-workers to navigate around. Depends on your profession and
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by lnanek2 6y ago
Most theories like this are starting from the place of trying to solve the Fermi Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox As time goes on, and we find no evidence of aliens, the dark forest model is more an
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by lnanek2 6y ago
As a developer 70% of my time is in XCode and Github. Guess where the rest is? Google Calendar and Google Hangout. I discount Gmail because I just use my phone for that, swiping away messages while compiling. Want to know where my boss is f
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by lnanek2 6y ago
I'm too young to have played his games, but looking at the wiki page for Balance of Power, it looks very similar to Plague Inc.. You have a world map and you react to events. Plague Inc. is so super popular even my kid nephew plays it
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by lnanek2 6y ago
USB-C is super slow for this. You need to use Thunderbolt NVME enclosures which can run the NVME at PCIe 3.0 x 4 speed. I have 5 and RAID them together, which handily beats the internal drive for speed by about 2x.

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