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by no-s 4y ago
> No version control of course. This is an automatic fail for an employer. In interviews I ask, if it comes up I interrupt the discussion, verify, and if they truly develop without valid source control/revision control - I end the i
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by no-s 4y ago
> I'm now wondering if there is something about the role that lends itself to such behavior. One day they are super pleasant, helpful and friendly. The next they are chewing people out for seemingly minor and random transgressions a
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by no-s 4y ago
I actually machined, de-oiled, and polished a cast iron skillet I bought in the the supermarket. After seasoning with flax oil it was effectively non-stick. I would use a single pat of butter for 3-4 eggs. Regular use with heat control and
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by no-s 4y ago
> History tidbit: Jim Clark, the founder of SGI, invented the GPU which was what made SGI machines so fast at 3D. Even more trivial: When I moved to Silicon Valley I bought a used Porsche on a whim (my recruiter implied it was a proper c
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by no-s 4y ago
> How will the raptors do in global warming? Raptors will probably go extinct first because nutty activists imagine criticism of misguided environmental priorities may be safely ignored because of who brought it up...thus committing a tr
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by no-s 4y ago
> It's not that birds are never killed by wind turbines, it's that this is scrutiny only applied to wind turbines by the fake-environmentalists when they'll happily accept the environmental destruction of other methods of
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by no-s 4y ago
Or it could be Om Malik is projecting... I just can’t hate on Elon Musk that much, he likes the same science fiction as me (cue the Devo version of “satisfaction” [1]) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l92xir5UX-w
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by no-s 4y ago
https://cnn.com/cnn/2022/04/25/politics/mark-meadows-texts-2... is a 404.
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by no-s 4y ago
> The way these kind of projects work is to divert water at the border between multiple catchment basins. Interestingly Colorado river water is diverted to the east side of the continental divide this way, e.g. for Denver water supply (a
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by no-s 4y ago
disturbing, if true...
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by no-s 4y ago
>Everyone knows where the real blame lies and rather than bitch about being inconvenienced by the response, the open source author should direct their anger there. Yes, "innocent" Russians are getting swept up by the response a
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by no-s 4y ago
maybe another reason to have sock-puppet cutouts for everything. Maybe we shouldn’t allow the gov’t to sanction speech in the “1st" place, heheh. Maybe it’s not the Russians that are the problem...
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by no-s 5y ago
This is cool, but it seems jarring when I attempt to read the text, like hitting a speed bump. Upon reflection I perceive the highlights as a subtext signaling incomprehension. Thus I unconsciously reread each word individually to find what
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by no-s 5y ago
> Crockford helped me see that there was more to JavaScript than it was being used for. I read Crockford’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts” and had a similar experience, though it was more like an epiphany. I thought back to all the other di
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by no-s 5y ago
> this gets distilled down to “the Saudi’s own Twitter”. HaHaOnlySerious…
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by no-s 5y ago
I get the feeling Musk thinks Twitter is trading at a discount and the discount will increase. Imagine what will happen if they kick the bot armies off, or if they don’t…seems downhill either way. And suppression of conservative views is fu
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by no-s 5y ago
> You are a complete badass. That is one hell of an inspiring story. Congratulations. Hah! Thanks! But I wish. This was just to get an ordinary job. I don’t even feel like I’m near the upper quartile of performance yet. There are many st
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by no-s 5y ago
> did it work ? Hah! it was a 3 month DBA contract at an LA legal firm that specialized in converting publicly available data from court cases and data mining the results for various ordinary and/or predatory legal practices...I upg
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by no-s 5y ago
>unless your misdeeds achieve a Hans Reiser level of publicity. Really. I know people with felony convictions for serious crimes who got back into the industry they offended against. It turns out that background check firms are only reli
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by no-s 5y ago
I drove to LA once to do an interview the next day after confirming with the in-house recruiter. When I got there they told me they didn’t think I was actually coming because they had already hired someone. Also they didn’t want to pay expe
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by no-s 5y ago
I took a 5-year break and it was 5 months of brutal futility to get back into the workforce at 60, but once I hit my stride I received multiple simultaneous 6-figure offers in month 5. Positive attitude very essential due to many, many, man
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by no-s 5y ago
I have a friend who worked as a principal developer on an EDA product from Synopsys. It was amusing how he converted all of the product and product acquisitions into TCL and whatever compiled language + a c lib so he could invoke the featur
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by no-s 5y ago
“there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” H. L. Mencken This is one of the immutable laws of systems engineering.
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by no-s 5y ago
Do you think Direnv is obsoleted by something else? I’ve always preferred to have an environment specific to my working directory…I seem to recall setting up similar tools for my workstations and network profiles in the 90’s. Seems like a p
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by no-s 5y ago
I think I’ll put Direnv on my todo list and consider not using Autoenv any more. I like the way it’s able to unroll the environment, though the equivalent is possible by e.g. starting a new login shell. Is it time to stop using Bash as my i
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by no-s 5y ago
The punchlines from the joke machine seem to reflect a Russian sense of humor, eg: “How is a pregnant woman different from a lightbulb?” “Because the lightbulb will never light itself!” Is it the source material or some emergent phenomena?
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by no-s 5y ago
I wonder how much development is needed to make liquid-phase reactors useful, e.g. molten salt thorium cycle, or aqueous homogeneous? These seem capable of KW to low Megawatt-scale production, suitable for a small town or industrial plant.
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by no-s 5y ago
hmm, the article also references folkloristics[1] aka formal comparative morphology of folklore. I wonder if it would be fun to study elevator pitch narratives as folklore... There’s even formal classification indices used by perpetrators i
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by no-s 5y ago
Your concept is applicable across all sorts of consumer and wholesale goods. However people are relying on that information asymmetry for margin, which is a powerful motivator. So you will soon be warring with desperate marketers eager to g
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by no-s 5y ago
Yeah, I added steel bottoms to my Scandinavian designs bookshelves, reinforced the bottom edges and braced the corners with steel flashing, and replaced the cheap backer with some good quality hardboard I picked up at the big box. Handed do

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