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by macksd 5y ago
I'm pretty sure I had one of Sierra's King Quest games on a series of 12 disks (though they might have been 5.25" 512kb floppies). You'd walk from one screen to another and be met with "Please insert disk 8 of 12&qu
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by macksd 5y ago
Actually, yes. I haven't done it with books, but there are a few shows I've rewatched. Usually it's something I enjoy having on in the background while I do other things, similar to having background music. It started as me j
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by macksd 5y ago
As others have pointed out, I don't think we have all the right data to really make conclusions, especially in a historical context here. But if the trend is exactly what the title is implying, I wonder if social networks are a contrib
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by macksd 5y ago
There are much worse ways to lose hours than in Wikipedia. A lot of my general knowledge comes from constantly looking up topics I encounter on Wikipedia. Try a new dish at a restaurant? I look it up. Interesting origin story and nutritio
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by macksd 5y ago
Instead of thinking of Linux for non-technical users, I think you can actually segment non-technical users into people who use a computer and people who use a browser. People who just use a browser for virtually everything (i.e. people who
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by macksd 5y ago
Though as we recently learned, it's considered sufficiently "fringe" by a big chunk of the development community that it's not that big a deal to drop support for it. (Not to imply IBM couldn't be sponsoring develop
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US Space Command tracking out of control rocket(spacecom.mil)
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by macksd 5y ago
I think there's a pretty fundamental difference between "allowing farms to police themselves" and actually prohibiting them from doing voluntary testing for diseases. I would compare it to the difference between eliminating a
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by macksd 5y ago
Clearly you don't know how to run up $28 trillion in debt.
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by macksd 5y ago
The millionth commit in isolation? Sure. The scale it takes to get into that order of magnitude? Quite an achievement.
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by macksd 5y ago
Do security fixes break general usage of stable APIs often? That is not my experience. I mean that's the whole point of semantic versioning: you should be able follow a maintenance release line (or even a minor release line) without an
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by macksd 5y ago
Huh - are DLL's not a thing anymore? IMO the best reason to use shared libraries has always been cases where updates are likely critical and there's a well-defined interface that is unlikely to have breaking changes. Like libssl.
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by macksd 5y ago
Yeah and that's the kind of thing I would hope really does become more normal virtually everywhere. Especially when a job is so easily done remotely most of the time, it should be very low cost for people to be a more available parent
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by macksd 5y ago
I've always been mystified by the state of remote work at Google, because I understood that they pushed pretty hard on being in the office. And yet I've had many video conference calls with various teams at Google over the last 8
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by macksd 5y ago
I had already worked remotely for years and loved it. On average, I would travel to the office every 2-3 months. The trips were always a fun change of scenery (other than dealing with the TSA) and often found that all the face time and in-p
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by macksd 5y ago
They mean private in the sense of private sector vs. public sector, not equity trading.
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by macksd 5y ago
That's my experience as well - I had it 17 years ago, was very ill for weeks, but recovered and haven't had any problems since (but am no longer exposed to risk of new infections). However, it used to be that in the US you could d
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by macksd 5y ago
Designed for deep learning
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by macksd 5y ago
Sorry, but your whole comment history sounds like you believe you've 100% figured out problems everyone else seems to have but you're unable to share details beyond No-True-Scotsman arguments.
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by macksd 6y ago
I thought Inferno sounded pretty cool. I do love a good pun, and it invokes memories of the original Doom.
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by macksd 6y ago
Do you know of a way to screen out people who inflate their expertise on a resume or who fail to demonstrate competency in those areas during an interview, without actually interviewing them? Because if you do I'd love to hear it. But
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by macksd 6y ago
It's also a flimsy excuse given that Facebook recently handled a leak of personal data poorly and does collect financial and residential information.
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by macksd 6y ago
For what it's worth, that's definitely not my experience. I've interviewed or phone-screened at least 200 people over the last few years, and yes, there's been a handful of rejections where the major concern was social s
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by macksd 6y ago
You probably mean less powerful than this, but they do: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/solutions/work... .
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by macksd 6y ago
>> For those that can’t understand the value of NFTs ... >> it has value because people agree it has value Yeah but let's be clear it's often just because 2 people say they agree it has value, and for all we know the
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by macksd 6y ago
It would certainly be a first in the last 20 years to board a flight and feel like I still had privacy, but overall I'm just really surprised that airliners don't include weight sensors that are used for this. It's a big enou
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by macksd 6y ago
Why don't they use the person's weight to decide how heavy they are?
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by macksd 6y ago
I haven't seen much overt rudeness like what you're describing, but it does mystify me how often I'll meet with another company to discuss a potential integration story that benefits us both, and instead of any engineers who
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by macksd 6y ago
Heck - I had to call 911 for an active domestic violence situation in the middle of New York, with a guy high on drugs yelling imminent death threats. The response time was well over an hour and all that was left to do was tell the police t
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by macksd 6y ago
I agree. My Pixel 3 feels great in my pocket, but it's too thin and slippery in the hand. My case is for comfort as much as its a precaution!

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