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by nkingsy 5y ago
All work I’ve done that earned me raises was not fed to me by managers. I spend a few months knocking out work that’s fed to me and I use that time to understand the business and the code base and where they’re not playing nicely at a high
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Except your version is wrong. People were eating milk and meat long before shipping. Meat-dominant diets, sure
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What’s wrong with renting? Aside from having to move if the owner sells, it’s pretty nice not have to think about maintaining the house. Here in the sf bay (Marin sfh with two kids) our landlords just decided to sell. It’s been stressful, b
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by nkingsy 5y ago
What’s the theoretical limit of heat -> electricity + hydrolysis? It seems if we could capture electricity from a space shuttle reentry and make hydrogen/methane during descent, this would enable less energy intensive launches. I’d
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The 1900 Census counted 92,264 musicians or music teachers in the United States. In 1950, 166,000 people identified as "musicians" or "music teachers." In 2010, there were 182,000 musicians, singers, and related workers
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Total hours paid to be a musician, like as a job compared to doctor or construction worker, across the global population. Per working musician, they may gig more, but there are just vanishingly few now.
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Commented down thread I agree recorded music is the problem, but it’s more direct. Recorded music is one of the very first automations, and it has slowly automated 99% of professional musicians out of a job.
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The sound system killed music. Before clubs had ubiquitous sound systems, these were provided by live, working bands everywhere. The number of hours played by working bands has never been lower in history.
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This passes my person smell test (dad joke)
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that has to be some kind of hat tip from whomever is running the simulation.
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Sets generally will give you constant time lookup where lists generally will not.
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I feel like most people got it as soon as they saw the iPhone in action. A similar “you’ll know it when you see it” applies here I think. For iPhone it was “everyone has a phone, and now that phone can give them turn by turn directions anyw
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Never say never. A “stuff” import seems like the kind of feature that would have to be copied by other platforms as soon as one does it, but there’s a chicken and egg aspect. I disagree with the whole “value of ownership” thing. Making knoc
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Your version is less accurate in reasonable contexts. People at a Carlin show or on HN are not the average person.
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Was shocked to hear the ceo at at my last job say he was expecting to be able to access ring camera feeds soon (2018, safety-related startup). Why would anyone pay for these things to publish a feed from your front door to anyone Amazon wan
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As far as I can tell NFT relies on social proofing in forums. I'd ask the rhetorical "how does that scale", but we all know the answer already. It doesn't. This will be ruined by spam in 5... 4...
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by nkingsy 5y ago
I’m a happy commenter and code writer. My big issue with writing prose was that the only good stuff I produced was confessional. I shared it with trusted friends who encouraged me, but I was terrified to make anything public. I’m so glad I
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As an established professional applying to Big tech, I kind of enjoyed LC prep. It’s a rare opportunity to see other people solve the same problem as you, and I found I discovered quite a few interesting tricks, and was generally in awe of
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The gp article lays out two things clearly: 1. It is standard practice at dismissal phase to proceed is if the plaintiff’s claims were correct. 2. The case was dismissed because political rhetoric is not enforceable in court.
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Less sugar per calorie. One pop tart with peanut butter is better than two pop tarts
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At one company I was asked to make demos of things that didn’t work and never would. I listened to the ceo lie to the faces of law enforcement and gov bigwig potential customers as they paraded themselves around the room behind us, watching
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I work in big tech I selected all my previous companies because they seemed to have a worthy mission from the outside. Each disappointed me immensely. At startup scale you have to see the sausage be made or at least sit next to it. I know b
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“ I must read this, learn that, keep tabs on who’s who, and never overlook any chance to compete for research-project funding.” This is the mind of the modern academic. At least in industry I can feign incompetence at the politics side and
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The article clearly states a claimed 92% efficiency.
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Maybe things have changed but in 2016 I was unable to get life insurance in CA due to admitting to recreational cannabis use with a vaporizer. A ridiculously expensive “smokers” policy was the only thing on offer.
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I would say people who are good at languages have an advantage, but that’s a wide definition. Math is the most transferable language and anyone in the sciences has a solid math background. The biggest prerequisite, though, is a love for com
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I'm building a strongly typed form abstraction layer for work. I use code like this to express "if this generic can be undefined, this field is required. Otherwise it cannot be used". So: FormElement<string|undefined>
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Off-topic, but is levels.fyi... on the level? I ask because I'm hearing about all sorts of 350k-500k offers for senior engineers, but they're not showing up there. My current salary seems right about "in band" on there,
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Leaded gasoline in the air is the proposed culprit
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Yes I like strategy games but I was responding to the type of game that gets adrenaline flowing. Timing games and shooters. Even old prince of Persia was too much for me :)

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