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by macksd 5y ago
I fully agree with this. Scanning Google News or a couple of the more professional international news services like BBC / Al Jazeera / Reuters I still feel pretty well informed (and confident that there's usually nothing of i
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Mental / emotional burnout is certainly not uncommon in tech (probably in most other careers, I'd bet). Most people in Silicon Valley are changing jobs more often than 4-5 years. I don't like to constantly be the new guy, but
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by macksd 5y ago
"Confront" means that you can actually take it to court and evidence is examined deeper than "this machine generated this alert and the machine must be right". I get nervous that so many cases in our legal system get ple
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If it needs to be updated, you actually have to update it, though. You can't just pretend it isn't the law anymore.
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I probably wouldn't do this in a shared office, but I'm pretty open about the fact that I often like to have a show in the background while I work. Keeps my mind from wandering too far if I have a momentary pause for a big downloa
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by macksd 5y ago
A national currency would be even more centralized, and centralized banking systems have not been free of problems either. They acted irresponsibly for years and then many got bailed out because they were "too big to fail". And pe
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"Block chaining" is absolutely used to refer to that concept in cryptography, and pre-dates cryptocurrency.
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Maybe that says more about you than them. You're on a social website right now, engaging with people voluntarily, but you're insisting you're only happy by not connecting with people?
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by macksd 5y ago
You misunderstand - the computer belongs to Windows.
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As far as I know, someone noticed something fishy and told the final interviewer their suspicion to be sure. Like the way the candidate would only explain stuff after it was written. If you're on a video call and observant, I think you
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by macksd 5y ago
I suppose it is possible that a temporary contractor has an email address from that company, but I think you can get reasonably high signal by looking at their LinkedIn history. Switching positions every few months is a red flag. Even if th
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by macksd 5y ago
I'm curious how trials like this work, in that if you engage in practices that leave you at risk of HIV infection, you really ought to use condoms or other prophylactic measures. Without telling people they no longer recommend such pra
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by macksd 5y ago
Apparently my coworkers interviewed someone a while back who got pretty far into the onsite interview panel before they realized the candidate was not the same person typing out the code they were seeing on CodeBunk...
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by macksd 5y ago
You say "just" because the technology for doing this isn't novel. It doesn't feel like it's "just" anything when so few businesses bother to even put that much effort towards a good customer experience.
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Not to be confused with "How to use an IUD"
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One of the responsibilities of your manager is to deal with a lot of this stuff for you. It can be nerve-wrecking as a new grad, but one of the things I would do in your shoes is have a 1-on-1 meeting with your manager as soon as possible a
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by macksd 5y ago
Don't alienate yourself. Just diversify your friend investments. That's often a good idea anyway. You don't want one life event of one societal change to make your entire social support system come crumbling down.
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by macksd 5y ago
I agree that a lot of the implicit type conversions are problematic, but Python's handling of that is hardly as unintuitive as things like a lot of Perl syntax, or JavaScript typing, etc. If that's the kind of impractical example
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by macksd 5y ago
Python has a very simple and consistent and unsurprising syntax compared to Perl. I think most programmers from other languages can look at Python and feel like they're reading pseudo-code that they actually understand for most operati
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by macksd 5y ago
I think the point of interest was 32 cores to handle what sounds like 10 messages per second at most. That's not really a ton of throughput... It's certainly a valid point that an awful lot of uses cases don't need Twitter-sc
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by macksd 5y ago
In my experience, a higher portion of Azure customers are larger enterprise customers that engage professional services from Microsoft to architect things, etc. AWS is far more popular in general, but especially with smaller teams that are
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by macksd 5y ago
does the Charleston
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Someone from Craigslist comes and takes it away? On what, their back?
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by macksd 5y ago
Was that not a proxy doing DDoS protection?
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by macksd 5y ago
Agreed. I eventually found a very good counselor for my situation. But I'm extremely fortunate that I'm both very well off and wasn't suicidal. And it was very apparent to me that if I was different in either respect, I perha
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by macksd 5y ago
One of the many things needing overhauling in our mental health system. I avoided seeking help for a long time because I was interested in jobs that would likely require government security clearances, and (I don't know how true this i
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by macksd 5y ago
Yes I chose my use of "apparently" and "if this is true" carefully. There is another widely reported instance, better known as Meta PC, filing before Facebook for the mark "Meta", covering "Computers, lapt
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by macksd 5y ago
If this is true, the detail that sticks out to me is that before the legal filings StreamLabs thought to reach out about using the name. If StreamLabs thought the names were similar enough that they reached out about using the name, that pr
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by macksd 5y ago
I'm a big fan of some of the graphics you see on the big rack farms too. Like the Jaguar art Cray used a decade or so back.
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by macksd 5y ago
That's fair, but I will say that my experience with cable news is that every time I see it, not only does it feel extremely manipulative and emotion-based, but it's like, "oh - we're all still obsessing over this one cou

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