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by moosedev 4y ago
I think your thinking is correct, and “almost doubled” is the kind of multiplier I was thinking of for the outlier, but not unrealistic, cases of some staff engineers or even occasionally senior engineers ending up with as much as $800k tot
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by moosedev 4y ago
US-based principal and senior staff engineers, as well as staff engineers who negotiated hard with competing offer(s) and/or saw significant stock growth between their RSU grant and vest dates, could all have plausibly been clearing $8
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by moosedev 4y ago
Thanks man!
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by moosedev 4y ago
Are you speaking from personal experience wherein you made a good-faith effort to try different breathing techniques and experienced no benefits? Or have you reviewed research showing an absence of benefits? Or are you reflexively dismissin
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by moosedev 4y ago
> The pun about "8088 MPH" is the "Intel 8088" was used an "MPH" obviously stands for "miles per hour", a rather fast pace. It’s also a Back To The Future (1985) reference! (The Delorean had to rea
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by moosedev 4y ago
This. Spending a productive, rewarding half a day pair programming with a receptive junior engineer who isn't sure how to approach a complex task nets them 1+ commits and you 0 commits. Spending half a day chasing after a "loose c
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by moosedev 4y ago
Thanks!
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by moosedev 4y ago
Please update the post title to add “(2019)”.
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by moosedev 4y ago
This. I often share random music snippets and other fragments of creative output with my friends in various group chats. I think it scratches the itch of “being seen” while sidestepping hang-ups about posting creative work publicly. Edit: a
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by moosedev 4y ago
Although it’s made of countries, it is also a country, so the headline isn’t wrong to refer to it as “one” country, in case that’s what you were implying. Source: am British
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by moosedev 4y ago
I actually feel the same :) Just trying to help OP navigate tone and context a bit better here.
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by moosedev 4y ago
> Oops, if you could make a quick PR to fix that it'd be great! You might get some seemingly strange or flippant reactions to this, and since you wrote it, I figured you might benefit from some insight into why some people might rea
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by moosedev 4y ago
> To program my Amstrad CPC646 Now I wonder if you meant CPC464 or CPC664 :) (Probably the former, as the 664 was relatively rare, at least in my experience. I’m not sure I ever saw one.)
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by moosedev 4y ago
> if someone uses a woman emoji she is definitely a woman unless there's a specific reason to do so. I'm a man, and I sometimes use woman emojis because I like the look, or because it's fun. Do either of those count as &qu
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by moosedev 4y ago
I also spent some of my formative technical years on the Amiga. The Amiga Hardware Reference Manual is available on archive.org for posterity: https://archive.org/details/amiga-hardware-reference-manual-... I support n
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by moosedev 4y ago
And the PS/1, which was a line of IBM PCs for the home (contemporary with the PS/2, and predecessor to the Aptiva range). Or the PSOne, which was a cost-reduced late model PlayStation (1) :-)
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by moosedev 4y ago
I think it was appropriated, if you’ll pardon the pun, from African American accents, but I’m only an amateur linguist noticing things and making connections, so in the cold light of science, my “think” is no better than your “almost defini
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by moosedev 4y ago
I’ve noticed this shift too in my decade+ in the US. It’s actually really nice to learn someone else noticed it too, because no one I’ve mentioned it to has known what the hell I'm talking about. I think I only heard in it in some Afri
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by moosedev 4y ago
Earlier submission of the NYT article linked in the tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32860728
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Fitness Trackers Reveal Links Between Exercise, Memory, and Mental Health(neurosciencenews.com)
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by moosedev 4y ago
I’d enjoy reading more in this very thread, if you don’t feel up to writing the whole book right now :) Edit: Fan of Borland products in the 90s!
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by moosedev 4y ago
I used it for several years inside Google, and TBH it was often painful in the ways external users have described in this thread. When I was doing something very "normal" from the point of view of Google's monolithic codebase
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by moosedev 4y ago
This is a low-effort invocation of an ethnic stereotype, based on the actions of a few long-dead elites. It doesn't add anything interesting or insightful to the discussion of the article or the topic. https://news.ycombinat
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by moosedev 4y ago
I don't know, but it's quite entertaining when the output occasionally has a corrupted, but recognizable, Getty Images watermark: https://imgur.com/SmibVME (Prompt: "A horse delivering mail in New York City,
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by moosedev 4y ago
Working in WSL (Windows 10) Ubuntu on Ryzen 5600X; uses ~11GB of RAM and takes 2m04s with the default settings. This is the first time I've played with a text-to-image model. I was aware that so-called "prompt engineering" ca
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by moosedev 4y ago
Your F, defined on line 26 [0], is 3Hz off according to this reference table[1]. 346.23 should be 349.23. Just a typo? All credit to @issa's ear. And yes, while you'd be unlikely to have encountered this bug if you were just telli
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by moosedev 4y ago
You have a better ear than you think! I tried it again (and actually tried all the notes this time...) and the F is definitely flat. It's particularly noticeable in the 5th octave (i.e. if you play C5 D5 E5 F5), but all the F's ap
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by moosedev 4y ago
I still stumble over the "-7" version sometimes. I grew up on "Gm7" :) Example from Google image search: https://www.musikalessons.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/0... . At least thi
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by moosedev 4y ago
Nit: G7 denotes a G dominant 7 (i.e. natural 3rd, flat 7th), not a G minor 7. G minor 7 (flat 3rd, flat 7th) is abbreviated Gm7 or G-7. (In my experience, the "Gm7" form is common in "official" printed guitar & piano
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by moosedev 4y ago
Sure thing! BTW I am using Chrome on Windows 10.

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