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by nkingsy 5y ago
Nicely put, and this is exactly what I dislike about video games. Adrenaline pumps, my heart goes crazy, I sweat and grip the controller till my hands turn white, and I feel totally overloaded. Put me on a mountain bike on a crazy descent,
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by nkingsy 5y ago
You saw her special? Everything else I’ve seen of hers was cringey, but baby cobra was solid work. If you don’t like it you likely don’t like most “good” stand up comedy these days. Awkward and embarrassing is a pretty good description of t
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Ronny Chieng Bill Burr Nate Bargatze Fortune Feimster Gary Gulman Just a few I was able to dig up who made me laugh a lot. I guess it depends what you like, but the art form has been really sharpened over the last 10-20 years, to the point
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by nkingsy 5y ago
You mentioned all the not idle things in replying to a comment warning against idleness. I didn’t hear “I sat on the couch and ate ice cream for days and it was great”. For me, the key to enjoying extended slack time is planning and putting
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Antigone is the name of the executive who testified. Will the gods be mad that she was blasted for burying things?
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Just to hammer this home, at my last job, I was planning to transition out slowly, wrap up projects, document, etc. I gave some actionable feedback when they asked why I was leaving in the meeting to discuss that transition. I think it was
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Even at a company that encourages it, unlimited pto was stressful. How much are others taking? Have I earned this? On the bad end, I quit a company that wanted me to take a report to task for using too much unlimited pto (3 weeks in a year)
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by nkingsy 5y ago
They expect you to take 2 days on it. Ie cheat. I refuse take homes on principle at this point, as I know I’ll be working with a bunch of cheaters if I do get the job.
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by nkingsy 5y ago
My wife and I changed our last names in California when we got married. There are quite specific rules: The new name must be in the format {substring of original name 1}{?-}{substring of original name 2}, or you have to go through the much
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by nkingsy 5y ago
If hn is not the place to discuss web regulation, I don’t know what is. New things pose new and unexpected harms and nuisances. Regulation is the cure. On the flip side, this particular dark pattern was caused by regulation. As usual, shade
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by nkingsy 5y ago
I thought it was an oral pleasure joke, not a pick one of one joke.
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by nkingsy 5y ago
I got down leveled when I moved to big tech. Spent two years completely remaking the product I was tasked to work on, while the two other engineers on my team, both a level above me, cheered me on and didn’t do much. I turned our product fr
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by nkingsy 5y ago
In medicine you spend a decade making yourself employable. The on your own part is a luxury and a curse, in that we don’t need patients to practice on. The closest comparison I have is professional musician. you’re supposed to love the lang
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by nkingsy 5y ago
I actually agree with the practice, and generally don’t think you should be employed to learn the basic tools of the trade. First there’s a code fluency wall you have to get over. Then there’s a tech debt/spaghetti lesson that needs to
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by nkingsy 5y ago
So much of this best practice discussion seems reactionary to me. Very few rules are broadly applicable to me as a software engineer on an existing code base: - achieve the goal with the simplest set of changes possible. - make your code lo
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Most companies offer pretty good health insurance immediately. Usually there are options like Kaiser in CA that are all inclusive similar to what you’d see in Europe. Some offer cheaper options. Some offer options that include health saving
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by nkingsy 5y ago
The text of this article is 50% a repeat of the embedded tweets. It’s like high schoolers gaming word counts have taken over publishing.
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Plastics production is pretty terrible even if it ends up in a landfill. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
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by nkingsy 5y ago
How many starships full of copper would be required to run a hvdc line between enough points to get constant coverage?
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by nkingsy 5y ago
yeah I seem to remember being able to make it stay on the screen if you start another action.
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by nkingsy 5y ago
80-20 cycling is important, but discharge rate is as well. If each cell in a 15kw battery discharges at 1c to move a car, each cell in a 45kw battery discharges at .33c. Same goes for charging. Might be diminishing returns, but discharge ra
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by nkingsy 5y ago
I wonder if these arguments take into account decreased battery life with a smaller battery in a plug in hybrid. From what I know about li-ion, the larger battery should expect many more charge cycles before degradation than the smaller one
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by nkingsy 5y ago
I just know from my big Corp training manual that things like “crush” and “take down” should never be in corporate communication for legal reasons. From a “reasonable” perspective, there are two possibilities, both of which implicate the ce
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by nkingsy 5y ago
"While there’s no suggestion in court papers that Wenig knew of the plot, prosecutors say his angry emails triggered the scheme, and they play a central role in the narrative spelled out by the government. "Take her down," We
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by nkingsy 5y ago
The leaf is a special case with poor thermal maintenance. Even basic thermal maintenance results in much longer lifetimes for batteries, well into the 250k territory where the car is definitively old.
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Yes, and the fact that these platforms haven't taken steps to prevent abuse of the cheat code in our psychology means that they find the benefits of outrage to their bottom line outweigh the "unmeasurable" costs such as damag
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Yes, it works and it sort of scales. Why, then, does the outrage porn rise to the top of the Reddit home page? Because it measurably increases sales in a huge way right now. To use a baseball analogy, how do you tell a juiced to the gills s
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by nkingsy 5y ago
The headline feels wrong, as the author started by laying out their assumptions, and revised after more or less getting their question answered. One could just as easily form this as a question. “All three are usually at the application lay
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by nkingsy 5y ago
I'm speaking in the context of tact. When someone is being tactless, they are communicating to achieve a goal without regard for the social implications of said communication. The tactlessness has no relationship with the underlying ho
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by nkingsy 5y ago
I don't see a 1 day ban as much of a punishment. If there's a platform involved it could just block posting/voting for a day. As far as incentives to lurk, I see quite the opposite. I don't comment on reddit unless I hav

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