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by mabbo 4y ago
> If the bad publicity alone causes even a tiny fraction of the population to choose another manufacturer, the've lost their $4,500 and then some This week, I begin shopping for an EV family car. On my list of options are the Ioniq
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by mabbo 4y ago
Honestly, it's exactly this that made me choose to work here over a higher total comp elsewhere. It's what's kept me even after the stock crashed so hard. Tobi isn't a sociopath. The people he puts at the top aren't
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by mabbo 4y ago
Both my home internet and mobile are through Rogers (for the time being). I had no access to the internet for 15 hours, 6am to 9pm. Couldn't do my job as a remote developer. And all through the day I kept thinking to myself "I bet
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by mabbo 4y ago
Then you have a strong motivating reason to do it. Honestly, I mostly mean things like "if we xor the two variables we can save one variable during the swap", etc. Clever code is not a great thing.
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by mabbo 4y ago
The most clever trick I've learned as a programmer is not to use clever tricks. Write code that is obvious, clearly readable by future programmers maintaining the code. Don't do clever things that are hard to read and reason about
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by mabbo 4y ago
Signs they've got interviews scheduled and will be leaving soon.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I read your comment, and rubbed my chin, noticing the unusual scratchy beard starting to grow. I think I need a day off.
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by mabbo 4y ago
What made me upset about the "Forte" process at Amazon was that managers deadlines for submitting their evaluations of their people was earlier than the deadline to submit peer feedback. Managers made whatever decisions they wante
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think rather than asking everyone to read the manual, the designers of software systems ought to all read Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things". Apple products became what they are because no manual was needed. They
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by mabbo 4y ago
Oh no, I think it's a beautiful piece of art. With sharp edges that keep cutting my hands as I try to handle it. I love git. I just wish it was more usable.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I said this in another comment recently about git, but I find it odd that even after a decade of using git as a mandatory part of my professional life, I'm still learning new things. That's maybe not a good sign about the usabilit
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by mabbo 4y ago
... and therefore everyone using Linux owes us the following amounts of money...
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by mabbo 4y ago
When I was in university, I had a coworker at the book store who casually mentioned that he used Linux on his home computer. I asked if he was in computer science or engineering. Neither. He loved computers, loved programming, but when he t
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by mabbo 4y ago
Yeah seriously, is this kid looking for work?
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by mabbo 4y ago
The things that we often fight over are becoming less serious problems. Energy? Fusion is almost there, finally. Money is pouring into it because it actually looks like it's happening now. We'll see it in our lifetimes. Solar, win
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by mabbo 4y ago
Oh, to be clear, I'm all in favour of hydroelectricity. I grew up beside a hydro dam with many neighbours who worked there. It's great stuff. My concern is that we'd be talking about perhaps doubling the variable output neede
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by mabbo 4y ago
Rick Houlihan did a talk a few years ago about designing the data later for an application using dynamodb. The most common reaction I get from people I show it to- most of them Amazon SDEs who operate services that use Dynamodb- is "Ho
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by mabbo 4y ago
Maybe. There's an open question around whether hydro can handle that much more variable load. Climate change is changing rain patterns, which changes the parameters around hydro dams. Look at Texas- they only fall apart 1-2 days per
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that nuclear is pretty well loved in Ontario. Around 2/3 of our energy is coming from it already. https://www.ieso.ca/power-data Nuclear is the base load, alternatives supply what t
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by mabbo 4y ago
The full title of the article includes "WITHOUT A WARRANT". The law doesn't oblige anyone to provide police with information without a warrant. Amazon is choosing to do this.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I feel employers should be forced to pay an extra tax, something like a dollar/euro per hour of work, for employees who are given less than 35 hours per week. And do the same for minimum wage: an extra dollar/euro per hour for wee
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by mabbo 4y ago
I don't get why this is difficult: charge the airlines more money. They will charge the passengers more money. Either there will then be fewer flights and passengers, and the existing staff count can handle it, or there will be the sam
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by mabbo 4y ago
As the world moves further towards authoritarianism, how secure do you think Sir Mo feels about that? In his shoes, would you be brave enough to speak out politically against a government in power, given his situation?
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by mabbo 4y ago
But it still answers the question asked in the parent comment.
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by mabbo 4y ago
My car is the first on the list, a 2012 Honda Civic. Thankfully I've been doing a lot of research lately on buying a new car and whichever EV I want is only a 6-24 month waiting list. (But truthfully, my car sits barely used in a secur
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by mabbo 4y ago
Setting aside that he's a celebrity and others aren't, the home office has said he's safe... today. What of every subsequent government? What happens if he becomes a loud, vocal critic of a current or future PM? If he wants t
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by mabbo 4y ago
Get ready for this answer because it is wild: There universe grew way, way faster than the speed of light. > At this point of the very early universe, the metric that defines distance within space suddenly and very rapidly changed in sca
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by mabbo 4y ago
Time will pass for them very very closely to the same rate it does for us. But here's something fun: the space between us and them is stretching, so in a billion years when the light arrives at our position, the time between photons wi
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by mabbo 4y ago
You don't. You know losers who blame their problems on whatever Fox News told them was bad. What the heck does "unknown chemicals" even mean? You don't know what the chemicals in a fresh-picked Apple are- does that mean
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by mabbo 4y ago
The Euro is getting weaker, faster. There's a war with Russia. And apparently some monetary policy changes are moving too slowly.

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