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by moosedev 4y ago
Without commenting on the correctness of the English in the article, which I didn't finish reading: when I moved to the US as a Brit, I was amused by many commercials' use of "a savings" to describe the effect of a sale
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by moosedev 4y ago
Another one: Deploy time: 2022-11-17 17:00 Deploy point: 47.548° N , 121.537° W Floats all the way around the world before passing within a few hundred feet of the start point. I was quite surprised when the second launch I tried turned up
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by moosedev 4y ago
Minutes of fun to be had in trying to pronounce it at the precise midpoint of however you pronounce "tree" and "try". (That word breaks my brain, too - the above is a coping mechanism.) In the past I recall reading/
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by moosedev 4y ago
Of course, I forgot about kegs/barrels. I can well believe that that's the older etymology. Thanks!
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by moosedev 4y ago
And check your fire exits, if you live in a larger building. Know where the closest one is. Know where an alternative one is. Check they’re not locked or blocked.
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by moosedev 4y ago
I'm guessing it's derived from plumbing jargon[0], in the sense of inserting an access point into an existing system to gain access to the resource inside; this idea is also found metaphorically in the common phrasal verb "ta
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by moosedev 4y ago
OP's writing doesn't sound British, at least to this Brit. The last sentence, "What will be a good way to stay in shape", reads as non-native, even, due to the non-idiomatic use of "will" (compare "What wo
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by moosedev 4y ago
(Not directly answering the question asked, because sibling comments already did.) FWIW, I've heard and used it in FAANG for well over a decade. Usually I see HN comments using "IC" followed by someone asking what "IC&qu
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by moosedev 4y ago
Agree, quite clear, nice writing.
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by moosedev 4y ago
I found small factual errors in the first 2 pages I skimmed, e.g. the clock speed of the Amiga 1000’s CPU and the names of its custom chips. Hardly material errors, but the apparent lack of review by anyone who knows the subject matter woul
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by moosedev 4y ago
This FR24 capture is wild/terrifying: https://twitter.com/_phil_reid/status/1622078084966133761?s=... Props to the FedEx pilot for spotting the other plane and taking swift action, apparently. Note that visib
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by moosedev 4y ago
Something radically changed for me 7-10 days ago, wherein certain non-spam but clearly not-inbox-worthy emails are now consistently hitting the Inbox, often with the "Important according to Google magic" flag set. Examples: A clea
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by moosedev 4y ago
Pay me $1MM/year, and I'll jump right back in that pool... Edit: Oh, and let me stay on the West Coast.
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by moosedev 4y ago
Yeah, it's been an interesting emotional experience to flip from years and years of "I should have no problem getting a job at any tech company if I don't screw up the leetcodes" to "I'm not even worth a 30 min
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by moosedev 4y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp > A dead cat bounce is a temporary, short-lived recovery of asset prices from a prolonged decline or a bear market that is followed by the continuation of
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by moosedev 4y ago
Been "looking" since November. I'm still averaging 1 recruiter message every few days on LinkedIn, but 95% of them are from agencies with vague pitches for contract roles I'm not interested in. The daily messages I used
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by moosedev 4y ago
Seconding this recommendation - great (and scary) book.
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by moosedev 4y ago
These days*, the equity component of most** offers takes the form of RSUs, not options, i.e. when the equity vests, you just get stock (public or private). *, ** For some definition of "these days" and "most", based on f
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by moosedev 4y ago
I'm enjoying that interview right now - thanks for sharing! I also identified with the rest of your post. I've felt regret recently for the career "potential" I lost to the inner struggle, and at around 15 years in, I th
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by moosedev 4y ago
That's interesting - I didn't know that the memory subsystem could "know" which of the 4 segment registers was in use for a given request. With that detail, one could certainly call it a 4MB "address space", al
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by moosedev 4y ago
Hey Ken, Always enjoy your posts! > The much-reviled solution was to create a 4-megabyte (20-bit) address space consisting of 64K segments, Did you mean 1-megabyte here? (and again later in the same “paragraph”, pun intended)
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NASA Analysis of 386 and 486 CPUs for Space Station Freedom (1991) [pdf](ntrs.nasa.gov)
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by moosedev 4y ago
That side of the EM role is 50% of why I hesitate to move back into management… performance review season is bad enough as an IC!
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by moosedev 4y ago
I feel its spiritual meme-cousin is this one: https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl
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by moosedev 4y ago
> We also should not forget the Sega Genesis. Thank you - I forgot about the 68000-based consoles :) Ironic, given how many great articles about console architecture[0] have done the rounds recently! The Atari Jaguar and Sega Saturn also
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by moosedev 4y ago
Ha, I (like the commenter on the post) thought this was going to be some insane modern hobby project until I clicked through. It's in fact a set of period photos of the original (industrial) prototype. Very cool either way. Some contex
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by moosedev 4y ago
Previous thread (different article, same case): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33763875
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by moosedev 4y ago
Well, I might be over-worrying. But yes, for the last few years I certainly felt like a "premium candidate" as your sibling commenter described it. The last time I changed jobs in the mid 2010s, I applied to 2 FAANGs (only) and ha
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by moosedev 4y ago
It does, doesn't it! I felt a bit bad about posting here, because the thread is ostensibly about layoffs, while I quit voluntarily, so any feelings I'm feeling about the situation now are my own fault :) But it's somehow comf
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by moosedev 4y ago
I took ~1.5 years off after 12+ years of FAANG. 1 month ago, I decided I was ready to work again and started talking to recruiters for real. It's been very slow. Most positions I've applied to, I've heard nothing back, even w

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