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by ninkendo 3y ago
Sending an email absolutely involves IO.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Your advice could be generalized into: - Take whatever it is you want to do and break it down into N jira tickets - Make an OKR saying “solve these N jira tickets by date X”, with the result indicator being “number of those particular jira
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> In those cases improving productivity or reducing errors is the result we're targeting, and cleaning the code is the activity we do to achieve the result. Right, but please read the first sentence of my post. It’s the “key results
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by ninkendo 3y ago
It does all of those things. But it’s really really really hard to quantify it in a measurable way. Which is what OKR’s force you to think about: what is the metric, what is its current value, and what is your goal for the metric, so you
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by ninkendo 3y ago
The problem for me is the “key results” part of OKR’s. It means that if it’s not measurable, it’s not an OKR, and in too many organizations, if it’s not an OKR it’s not worth doing. Cleaning up your code base to accommodate all the gradual
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Question to HN, is chkrootkit still useful to use at all? I remember using that tool decades ago thinking it gave me some semblance of peace of mind, but I’ve also kind of assumed that sophisticated malware would likely be able to evade it.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
If LLM’s were local and cheap, sure. They’re just too heavyweight of a tool to use for simple CLI output manipulation today. I don’t want to send everything to the cloud (and pay a fee), and even if it was a local LLM, I don’t want it to ea
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by ninkendo 3y ago
about:profiles
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by ninkendo 3y ago
To save you a click: it’s “rizz”, short for “charisma”. Yawn.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
The point is that most of the popular statically-typed languages (C, C++, Java, C#) didn’t have any type inference when python got really popular. (Edited from “was invented” to “got really popular”… python was invented before Java or C#… T
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by ninkendo 3y ago
This is hard to communicate so I’m sure I’ve been misleading. “Space” is expanding uniformly, yes. But not the matter that exists in space, nor is the distance between local matter increasing. It’s not like the entire universe is underg
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Sure. You could model it as being there being an extremely weak expansion force happening between your fingers, but the force not being enough to overcome any other local forces (gravity, molecular bonds, etc)… said force is not strong enou
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by ninkendo 3y ago
The Bullet Cluster is typically touted as the biggest evidence that dark matter is right and MOND is wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to... Basically, the center of mass in the cluster,
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> It's expanding in the space between your fingers That's not the case (at least not yet [0].) Anything that's bound together by local forces such as gravity or electromagnetism isn't affected by the universe's e
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by ninkendo 3y ago
It really peeves me to hear the phrase “edge case” used as a defense of incorrect software. As if software should not be expected to deal with edge cases. Edge cases are not rare. If you have a lot of people using your system, or people who
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> not repeating Tony Hoare's billion dollar mistake yet again This is the killer for me. After using Swift for a while, I no longer have the tolerance for languages that don’t have proper option types (and perhaps more importantly,
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Two kids is just so much harder than one, it’s ridiculous. Like easily 10 times harder than just one kid. I have two boys aged 2.5 and 8mo, and I’m starting to wonder how any parent of two stays sane. Three or more must just be impossible.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> Apple tried with their unified streaming service UI on Apple TV, but several big players who hate their paying customers refused to implement it, so that’s a dud. It’s not just that companies like Netflix didn’t implement it, but that
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by ninkendo 3y ago
It’ll be interesting if electric cars become ubiquitous and have enough charge to stay above 50% with daily use… a simple change like Ford does with the F150 lightning can allow them to deliver power back to the house, which will be crucial
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> Also, it's not so difficult Heh, was that an attempt at sarcasm? That's super difficult to do from memory, at least for me. Maybe I'm not as good at memorizing things as you are.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Data point of one, but it's precisely what I mean when I talk about silos.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> and for whatever reason we cannot just fix the script so that the variable is set I use this pattern all the time for variables that should be overridable by whoever is calling the script, ie. `FORCE="${FORCE-no}"`, overridab
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by ninkendo 3y ago
In their defense, I also tried it semi-recently and literally couldn’t get past the tutorial. I got to a point where I didn’t know what to do next, walked around for 20 minutes, then gave up. I could’ve searched the internet but I genera
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by ninkendo 3y ago
That’s actually an interesting thought… on earth, such a redirection of the exhaust gas wouldn’t mean much, since the resulting turbulence would cause the surrounding air to get caught up in the wake of the exhaust anyway (making everything
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by ninkendo 3y ago
According to Wikipedia [0], 70 million years ago the earth rotated about 7 more times per year than it did today, meaning we just need to wait about another 10 million years and it'll happen on its own. [0] https://en.wikipe
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by ninkendo 3y ago
So cancel your premium subscription said some years later? At this hypothetical future time you’d be a lot more justified in piracy IMO, but today you don’t have much of a leg to stand on.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Today we’re younger than we’re ever gonna be.
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by ninkendo 3y ago
It’s actually sort of interesting why Linus has basically closed the door on C++ ever getting into the kernel, while Rust seems to have gotten the green light. If you look at Linus’s initial reasoning [0] (which was from a long time ago, ne
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by ninkendo 3y ago
Your last paragraph said that yes. But your second paragraph explicitly says that if you don’t have the time then you’re not qualified as a parent. That doesn’t need to have a gotcha response, it stands on its own as representing willful
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by ninkendo 3y ago
> just doing the best they can after being delt a crappy hand > really shouldn't have applied for the job of parent in the first place Yeah, I mean if you plan on getting laid off from your career some day and have to work two jo

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