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   by marstall 5y ago

   The one thing Google is good at is finding a specific named thing: - google a company name, it will find the company's website. - google a historical figure or event, it will bring you to the appropriate wikipedia page. - google a prod
2. 422.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   what point was the "innocuous" post making?
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   by marstall 5y ago

   exactly. when I see "censorship-resistant," I hear "we don't have a way to control abuse on this platform."
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   by marstall 5y ago

   I recently read an interesting thing about memory. Which is that remembering something - that is, bringing it to mind and playing it out - refreshes the memory, makes it new again. And if you don't do that, you will forget. So now when
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   by marstall 5y ago

   study link: https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/9/12/176
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   by marstall 5y ago

   Sorry, hacking a paywall is just helping to kill the parts Adwords didn't kill.
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   by marstall 5y ago

   one path: Solidity+web3js steps: 1. create a MetaMask wallet and and add funds to it with your friendly neighborhood Bitcoin ATM (they do ETH too). 2. learn the Ethereum stack on eth.build and create a program in the language known as Solid
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   by marstall 5y ago

   I also hate the question "what do you do?" Though I've figured out a couple things about it that have be helpful. First, I realized that most people don't know what a software engineer is, so they are left tongue-tied. W
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   by marstall 5y ago

   macintoshjs co-creator Christian Bauer's personal website is appropriately 90s-website-y and full of goodies (recommend the Japan travel pics particularly!) https://www.cebix.net
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    by marstall 5y ago

    just ... wow
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    by marstall 5y ago

    geeked on Nextjs lately, but I would definitely give a hard look at rails7 with HotWire if I was starting fresh today on a new project. A good static-generation/CDN hosting story would be essential for any choice I made. Also Firebase
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    by marstall 5y ago

    thanks for offering this perspective, which is much more normal and common than the experiences offered here in the software engineering bubble!
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    by marstall 5y ago

    but let me get this straight. It's OK for the monopoly-seeking/having company shareholders to become billionaires off the labor of their workers while sitting on their asses?
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    by marstall 5y ago

    indeed. > If they don't have an FPGA engineer, or have a very small team, they are not serious about finance, or they are just dumb. are FPGAs that core to Finance writ large?
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    by marstall 5y ago

    I think so yes. the "summary for policymakers" is as far as I've gotten but I feel it gives a good snapshot of the current mainstream view.
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    by marstall 5y ago

    fact checking is a normal part of a normal news organization. They all do it and it's above board. I was briefly a freelance journalist at a major urban newspaper and here's how it worked for me: - as I researched and reported, I
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    by marstall 5y ago

    Have been an AWS user by default since launch. Basically try to muddle through, have had some good experiences (RDS, S3, EC2, Amplify hosting) and some frustrating moments where I threw up my hands (other parts of Amplify, doing custom stuf
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    by marstall 5y ago

    flagged wtf is this doing here
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    by marstall 5y ago

    awesome question.
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    by marstall 5y ago

    my 9 year old son loves it - he's learned basic programming ideas in it for sure - loops, functions, etc. gives him a sense of accomplishment and we do it together which is nice.
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    by marstall 5y ago

    if you read that document it is a very measured kind of rhetoric about the various dimensions of global warming ... they even have a section where they lay out exactly what terms such as "likely, very likely" etc. actually mean in
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    by marstall 5y ago

    bigger picture, via IPCC6: "There has been no significant trend in Antarctic sea ice area from 1979 to 2020 due to regionally opposing trends and large internal variability. Human influence very likely contributed to the decrease in No
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    by marstall 5y ago

    I have vibrant dreams with very detailed renderings of landscapes, particularly non-existent cities that sprawl out block after block and mile after detailed mile as I move through them. In these places, I also experience intense interperso
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    by marstall 5y ago

    nope.
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    by marstall 5y ago

    leaving aside the FAANG outposts in my town, I'm doing pretty good.
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    by marstall 5y ago

    yeah that's not far from what I was thinking.
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    by marstall 5y ago

    that makes it sound interesting - thought it was more about critiquing others more directly ..
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    by marstall 5y ago

    "radical candor" sounds like something I would run and hide from. But I'm speaking from a place of complete ignorance. Anyone have any real-world experience with this particular approach?
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    by marstall 5y ago

    I'm on your team. up front technical "gotcha" style evaluations feel like they don't respect where I'm coming from, nor my track record of work - and are a cue that the job is not the place I want to be at. I'v
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    by marstall 5y ago

    more options at the high end, I'd agree with the general point. check out the Topic app, which distributes a highly curated set of quality foreign shows. Insane level of quality across the board.