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by nrr 2mo ago
Not so. I'm part of a religious community for whom FICA is something we can opt out of via IRS Form 4029, and I can avoid contributions to FICA more broadly (not just SS taxes!) by handing HR the approved 4029 that I receive in respons
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by nrr 2mo ago
I can entertain you since no one else has so far. I've been using Fossil since 2009. > My dream "forge" would just be nice-looking frontend for displaying repos on the web, a public issue tracker (with per-issue permission
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by nrr 2mo ago
My (actuarial) read on this is that pre-Microsoft GitHub acknowledged that the complexity inherent in their technology stack imparted a lot of change risk, and that probably informed their decisions around shipping new features. My (not-so-
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by nrr 2mo ago
Forgive me. Did I advocate for not understanding data structures and algorithms?
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by nrr 2mo ago
Not really. I'm typically less concerned with how much someone costs than I am with how much time they'll wind up wasting, but I'll admit that this perspective is colored by my experience having run a kitchen in a restaurant.
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by nrr 2y ago
Nothing.
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by nrr 2y ago
No, I left the industry.
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by nrr 2y ago
dang seems to have outright banned him just over a fortnight ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653007 On Hacker News, banned accounts can still comment, but those comments are immediately dead until vouched.
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by nrr 2y ago
"There's no foresight. There's no planning." Couple that with "as an expression of agility," and it really rings true to me. I've worked in enough shops where the contractual obligations preclude any abili
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by nrr 2y ago
I've had a lot of experiences like this, and I wound up ducking out of the industry entirely in 2021 after having had my skillset reduced to dogmatic use of the infrastructure buzzword of the day.
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by nrr 2y ago
A lot of newer[0] US domestic market manual transmission cars do, in fact, have an interlock that prevents the starter motor from getting power without the clutch pedal also being depressed. Of particular note, my 1984 Ford Bronco II, 1991
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by nrr 2y ago
Georgia HB 87 (2011) and its unintended consequences say otherwise. While the H-2A is indeed popular, there are still a staggering number of people working these jobs who are here illegally. https://www.forbes.com/sites&#x2F
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by nrr 2y ago
It's all part of the actuarial mindset. The entire point of the exercise is to arrive at a model of reality that has some degree of predictive power. > For me the only things that scare me are in the "I have no data on that&quo
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by nrr 2y ago
I'm also on team Keep An Eye On Things™, and approximately none of it really feeds into an anxiety loop. (There's a tiny sliver of the pie that does, but it's easy enough to talk myself off that ledge and go engage in a Welts
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by nrr 2y ago
> There's something very, very wrong in the way we write programs nowadays. I largely agree, but... > ... the database is you main source of invariants. I guess my upbringing through strict typing discipline leaves me questionin
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by nrr 2y ago
> If your unit tests have some overlap on your integration tests, that's nbd especially seeing as you can run your unit tests in parallel. Exactly. Another upside I've run into while doing things this way is that it gets me out
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by nrr 2y ago
> The only thing enforcing these invariants in production is the interplay between your database schema and the queries you execute against it." I'm unsure that I agree. The two examples you gave, establishing that IDs are uniq
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by nrr 2y ago
I think it's probably worth mentioning that the principal concern for tests should be proving out the application's logic, and unless you're really leaning on your database to be, e.g., a source of type and invariant enforcem
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by nrr 2y ago
Starlark is Turing-incomplete, which makes it somewhat unique among embeddable languages. It's definitely a draw for me for something I'm working on.
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by nrr 2y ago
It was! I've, however, gotten way more use out of saddling whoever is most senior with the role of making sure the team as a whole is on track. This way, it's a little more familiar with the way Western management hierarchy operat
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by nrr 2y ago
I'll push back in defense of Scrum, but it probably bears a little explanation because my conceptualization of that framework is very likely a lot different from yours. (As something of a bonus: I'll bring in the military given th
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by nrr 2y ago
cmd.exe is largely still concerned with starting processes and hooking them together in much the same vein as Bourne shell, so I tend to use it for that. (I actually use Yori[0], but it's pretty much to tcsh what cmd.exe is to csh.) Po
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by nrr 2y ago
"A depressed person often wants to be depressed ..." I'd caution against expressing it this way. It's less a want and more a ground state . I am one of these depressives, and I definitely do not want to spend all day
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by nrr 2y ago
In practice, at least in my experience, only up to 13. (Though, I have the sequence memorized up to 21 because of a sign outside Chattanooga[0], which is what gave me my "hey, wait" moment about this.) A combination of both the fu
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by nrr 2y ago
Fossil ( https://fossil-scm.org ) is actually a proper grow-only set from what I can tell: merge conflicts upon synchronization are encoded in the DAG as forks of the history at the conflicting points in time. If no action is take
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by nrr 2y ago
The larger problem in my mind is that a lot of asset purchases bestow a lot of tax deferment privileges because of how the tax code is presently written. Consider someone who holds a lot of capital with unrealized gains but nonetheless need
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by nrr 2y ago
"It felt like procrastination, a tech version of a bullet journal." There's a lot out there that certainly falls under what I call "procrasturbation," but the Bullet Journal is ironically the thing I've stuck w
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by nrr 2y ago
I'm not and never have been NSA, but I nonetheless have a sordid past with what is arguably a related line of work. This is how I manage my passwords. In environments where regular rotations are required, I print off a new "biscui
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by nrr 2y ago
I'm not sure I agree, particularly given that there's some incentive for us to get our relatives using these messenger protocols and clients. The Web made it work because everyone came together and gathered consensus (well, modulo
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by nrr 2y ago
I don't see any practical difference between "it depends" and "no" here.

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