nsxwolf

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by nsxwolf 4y ago
Maybe the problem is public engagement. 25 years ago I would get a newspaper in the morning to read on the train. If something made me really mad, I could write a letter to the editor. It probably wouldn't be selected for publication.
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
Is that really permission? It's that or not use the laptop, right?
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
Maybe commercial banks have too much power, but once I do get my cash out of the bank and into my hands I can do whatever I want with it. The government can't suddenly tell me "We saw what you did - your money is no good here&quot
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
This was the most impressive part of the Star Trek holodeck - not the simulated matter and holographic walls, but the computer you could have a conversation with and create a custom “program”. We seem to be heading quickly to that being a r
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
And I hit "Senior" 4 years into my career, and have struggled to get a "Staff" title for the last 18 years. I would love some of this title inflation, but haven't been blessed by it. I think there's some amount
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
You do get to call yourself that, though. This is a bit like saying "irregardless is not a word" when it's in the dictionary now. Calling yourself a "programmer" will be detrimental to your career, so why do it?
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
I'm curious as to why the dialogue is so bad. What AI is this using? When I ask ChatGPT to write a scene, the results are usually somewhat funny: INT. JERRY'S CAR - DAY Jerry and George are driving down the road, with Jerry behind
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
PaperWM is interesting. My only experience with scrolling desktops has been bad - because it was a remote desktop connection on a too-small monitor. You're fighting with windows-within-a-window quirkcs and guest/host issues. But w
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
It feels like they've really been tightening the screws down on its "safety". Early on I was able to get it to write interesting screenplay dialogue. It would object to writing anything for characters with an evil intent unti
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
Curious if any software engineers here had a corporate headshot done and then immediately experienced a major upgrade in their careers or pay. I'm always on the lookout for low hanging fruit.
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
A couple paragraphs ought to be enough to make it copyrightable.
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
I'm not necessarily looking for anything in particular, just new concepts and ideas. I know I can't go back to the 1960s and experience a completely different evolutionary path... There's certain things that have to exist now
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
At this point in my life I'm just not willing to look at a desktop environment besides macOS and Windows unless it is completely different . Is there anything out there that is trying radical new concepts and not just trying to emulat
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
I live in what you would probably call a sprawl hellscape, and I love it.
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
Don't you ever bash your head into the corner of an open cabinet?
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
Given how powerful association is it isn't surprising it took a long time for it to catch on. Pouring a treatment for excessive earwax on your food just sounds disgusting.
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
It encourages me to think that I may still yet have an inflection point.
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
No, which is why I'm not yet too worried about them flooding the space and taking all the jobs away. I've never seen it happen before.
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
We also had a student smoking lounge in my suburban Chicago area high school in 1991! I think you had to have a parent sign a permission slip or something like that, and I don't know how it didn't run afoul of the law as few kids
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
There was a class action suit regarding servers not being paid a full wage while being made to roll up silverware and napkins and other tasks like that where they were on the clock but not able to earn tips. My wife worked at Applebees and
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
I'm hoping I don't have to find that out any time soon, but I prefer staying in the space of unknown enterprisey, line-of-business backend orgs. FAANG/MAANG and adjacents seem to be allergic to these roles and I never see the
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
I don't stay after a big round of layoffs for the same reason I'd rather buy stocks when they look like they're going up, not down. The company is signaling that it is not doing well - why shouldn't I leave for a company
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
The idea of a take home originally appealed to me, but my actual track record with them is very poor. They are usually too open ended - sometimes they'll say to write some service, that it shouldn't take more than an evening, and
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
This is incredibly common. I hate running interviews - we do the leetcode whiteboard pressure cooker crap - it's a policy I have no say in unfortunately. I've had candidates with strong backgrounds go to pieces right in front of m
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
On my last job search I found that overloading myself with interviews was very stressful. It's one of the reason I will no longer continue with any process that has take home assignments - at one point I had 4 different assignments wit
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
I always avoided awk because I thought it was just a really weird looking alternative to sed. When it's nicely formatted like this it looks like a perfectly sensible C-like language.
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
I'll never understand the name - "Windows Subsystem for Linux" sounds like a way to run Windows on Linux, not the other way around.
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
So there's infinite mass? I thought the Big Bang implied a finite mass. Or is the Big Bang not a thing anymore?
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
I'm confused. Are you saying it's hard to believe my question is serious?
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by nsxwolf 4y ago
Is there an "edge" in the sense that, if you lived there and looked in your telescope in one direction, you see galaxies, but if you turned it around, you'd see nothing?

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