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by lumb63 4y ago
I make the point in your last paragraph often. There is a quote I recall reading somewhere, that contrasts with “I think, therefore I am”. Rather: “the thought chooses the thinker”.
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Some of what the author says is accurate. Carbon offset credits are bunk. Industrial agriculture is harmful. There are environmental issues to a lot of the “greening” practices. There are issues around how equitably the climate change revol
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In my experience, one man’s “waste of time” is another man’s castle-in-the-head-building-time-saver. At my current company, if I have reasonable, self explanatory code, such as a function with the signature “read_page(page_num: u32) -> P
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I thought about this as I posted my story. There’s a park on the street next to mine. When weather allows, kids play basketball and baseball there and play on the jungle gym. We never had that growing up. For us, there were two or three par
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Some anecdata here having moved from a suburb to Boston metro: I regularly have to slow down for children riding bikes, playing basketball or hockey in the street, etc. to this day when I visit my mom in the suburbs. I have never seen a sin
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The EWG has a tap water database [0] that I used to get a rough estimate of my tap water quality. Since it was above their recommended levels in several chlorine-containing chemicals and a few radioactive elements, I decided to get an under
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My stock response to assertions that eating meat is cruel: plants feel too. Many species are self-aware every bit as much as animals are. It’s only because wheat and corn don’t have big googly eyes that we feel no sympathy for them. Implici
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I’m still stunned by how many Googlers think they are not in the “wealth class”. Half, even maybe a quarter, of a normal-length career is enough for a Googler to retire.
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Yeah, there is a push to move to the firm fixed price contracts. The contractors hate those, since they’re higher risk. Both parties would benefit from something more incremental and agile. For example, maybe 10% of the contract is paid at
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I want to read more of this later. After 4 years in DoD contracting, at a quick glance, some of this hits the nail right on the head: >Software is made by people and for people, so digital talent matters. The company I was at did not ack
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While I agree with the sentiment of 2, there is a gap here: a lot of low-level Rust code is necessarily unsafe. In some areas, rewriting in Rust provides margin benefit - an unsafe block is little better than C, for example. We should be se
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I used to work for a company that handled a lot of classified data. In that space, there’s a notion of something being “classified by amalgamation”. In other words, I can tell you something that is not classified, and someone else can tell
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Well said. For me, complaints of layoffs in tech companies and startups fall on deaf ears. I say this as someone who works for a startup, and whose partner works for Google. It has been incredibly obvious that technology companies over-hire
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This is a favorite of mine since I saw it on here previously. It validates all my experiences as a systems programmer. While others are writing code in the “garbage collected Esperanto runtime”, some of us are knees-deep in oscilloscope hel
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I share this sentiment. It seems that anything which has not yet been formally proven by academia is “not real” in the public eye and therefore all believers are cranks. We still have major gaps in our understanding of our bodies and our me
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I started I Contain Multitudes and ended up reading 10% Human instead. It’s more human-centric. Fascinating either way. I suspect we are starting to see the first glimmers of a vast space of microbiome interactions.
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I've seen this phenomenon as well. I've noticed a few factors that I hypothesize contribute to this: 1) Making Computer Science programs in universities overly simple. When I was in college, I tutored students in CS. When I starte
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This language is, IMO, damaging to the professionalism and image of software engineering. IIRC, I am echoing content from "Clean Coder", but in "professional" careers, it is expected that the practitioner is competent an
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My company wanted to "script away" all the "pain" of using Git to make it equivalent to Clearcase. I think it's a smell. If you want to use Clearcase, use Clearcase. etc.
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I agree with your position. Our use case at the company I mentioned above was ten developers, all physically co-located, actually all operating on the same 3 or 4 servers. A centralized VCS was a better fit to our development needs. In situ
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I never found a GUI that was more intuitive than the CLI, personally. I am a bad person to consult for this, since I live in vim and tmux (my coworkers hid my mouse for April Fool’s Day and I went the day without it to make a point) while o
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This looks promising as a teaching aide. At my previous company, I transitioned our project from Clearcase to Git to save us licensing and administration fees. Many of the senior developers, who had never used Git, had a hard time understan
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This just in: man tried TDD and likes it.
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I run an SSH server on my laptop and SFTP it to my phone via Strongbox when I’m local.
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I use KeePass. It’s up to you to sync passwords and they’re stored locally. I see those as features despite that they’re inconvenient.
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But how do you know the OS is being honest? Or the hardware?
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A similar phenomenon I’ve found, is if I know something can be done, I will work at it until it is done. For example, I’ve come up with solutions in interviews that I thought were the best, and then the interviewer says, “can it be done in
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If a, b, and c are independent and d depends on them all, you could declare: d: a b c With shuffle, a, b, and c could be made in any order, but you are guaranteed d would be after all of them. This helps to enforce that a, b, and c are actu
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It never occurred to me how strange it is that a company providing people an online socialization medium prioritized non-human entities’ abilities to use their platform.
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I agree with your point about how the personality of (technology) companies doesn’t fit the security minded person well. As a software engineer, I feel I am in the small minority whenever I mention security or privacy concerns at work. I fe

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