nvarsj

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by nvarsj 5y ago
No AMD and no matte screen is a showstopper for me on the framework. Especially the processor - AMD thermals are in another class. It makes no sense to buy Intel laptops right now.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Have you ever tried working outdoors on a glossy screen? You will wish very fast it was matte.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I can sort of see what you’re saying, but the cognitive management of what you describe sounds like a huge pain. I use PaperWM and it’s awesome. It just gets out of my way and let’s me manage tons of apps and windows with ease and 0 manual
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I'll be happy when I can finally delete my Windows partition, which is used exclusively to play games. I've already moved to Linux for a lot of stuff, because frankly, it just plays games better than Windows 10/11. For exampl
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by nvarsj 5y ago
As someone on FODMAP, what works for me is to do breakfast/lunch meal replacement with low FODMAP shakes (like Huel), then get a few FODMAP cookbooks and make dinners out of that. Works great and is fairly painless - lots of delicious
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It sounds to me a lot like you've prioritized your professional life over everything else - no wonder you're feeling empty. You need to focus on you, make social connections, join social groups, get out there and make your life mo
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by nvarsj 5y ago
My relative is pretty much the number one reader in his year (reading at near adult level when he was 10, reading 2 million words in a year when he was older...), and it was completely because of his obsession with Minecraft. It got him dev
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Interesting, was that in the EU? I recently had a friend go through the process in the bay area, he didn't get anything harder than easy/medium. I thought that Google, at least, was trending to making their algo portion easier as
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I agree with you, although you can get near/past FAANG level TC by contracting/freelancing. Even just being a Java dev, you can make around 650+ a day which is about 150k/year. Plus you can expense almost anything IT related.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
They all adjust based on your location. Like Meta aims for top 5% pay in the market. Other places will be lower/higher accordingly.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It definitely doesn't take 500 leetcode problems. If you have a solid grasp of algorithms, you can probably get by by grinding ~30 medium problems. If you're needing to do that many leetcode then you're basically solving on p
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by nvarsj 5y ago
https://github.com/berdav/CVE-2021-4034 works more reliably and is simpler.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
My first gen AirPods had the annoying habit of simply not playing audio about 5% of the time despite showing as connected in Bluetooth and everything. I still have memories of standing in the rain, at dark, after work, trying to un-pair and
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I moved from the US (Bay Area/LA/Chicago) to the UK (London). Biggest sacrifice is my family is all US based, and the time zones really suck for staying in touch. The next thing would be the eye-watering compensation increases in
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by nvarsj 5y ago
For me, nix the language itself is not that bad. It's all the magic happening in nixpkgs and the tight coupling there with the user interface (configuration.nix, shell.nix, etc.). In NixOS/nix, you are essentially extending the ni
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Hard level are really rare in FAANG, based on my friend who recently went through Google interviews. More like easy/medium. It actually sounded fairly easy to me, he only prepped for a month without any prior leetcode experience. I thi
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It's really hard to self medicate when you're head is in the wrong place. It's much easier to abuse in moments of weakness. Like drinking when depressed, etc., which can just become a downward spiral. I agree with the origina
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I assume you talked to a doctor about it? Insomnia is the worst - you have my sympathy. I personally have recurring short lived bouts (falling exhausted at 12, only to wake up 3 hours later unable to sleep again, repeat every day). My dad h
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Self medicating is one of the best ways to become addicted. I think drugs can be useful, but it's also an easy way to escape from your issues, or can make them worse. It depends a lot on the individual and their state of mind.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
But what you describe is rare like the OP points out. For two people to be so honest and open and direct with each other requires large amounts of maturity and mutual respect and selflessness. Which, to be honest, is rare enough in a sing
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by nvarsj 5y ago
We're way past the point where government is meant to be a check on unchecked capitalism. Mega monolith corps are the now and future.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
While I think salaries have gone up in recent years, I'm also going to call BS on 400k for entry level. I just looked at levels.fyi, and I'm not seeing that all. A couple unverified outliers for Citadel doesn't represent the
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by nvarsj 5y ago
You're screwing the people who have to pay much more to get on the property ladder than those before them. In essence, it's a transfer of wealth, predominantly from younger people (getting on the property ladder) to those who have
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by nvarsj 5y ago
AFAIK long term fixed rate mortgages only exist in the US. Every other country has the equivalent to ARM only. This is why the rising of interests rates could be devastating to lots of home owners who budgeted based on the existing rates. I
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Unless it changed dramatically in recent years, when I was in Chicago prop trading firms were paying mid 200 to 300 after a few years. 500k was definitely not normal comp for most engineers at any trading firm, although obviously there are
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Spoken like someone without kids or external responsibilities. Free time is a precious resource for those with families.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It’s a joke right? Seems like Meta may end up being the industry’s scapegoat so the gov can say they did something. Probably also explains all the FUD we see in social media about FB, but none of the other tech giants.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It’s just terribly insecure. Humans are really bad at making unique passwords. I have around 500 unique passwords in my password manager. No way I could do that manually.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I meant in terms of the OP's complaint about fans spinning up at the slightest usage - that is an Intel CPU issue. Modern mobile intel CPUs get way too hot, too easily. You're right, the wifi side is Intel, although Framework coul
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by nvarsj 5y ago
PIA ownership has made many question them. I personally tried Mullvad for about a year but found the speeds on it were terrible. PIA gives me line speed (400/40) no problem. Personally I trust no VPN regardless what HN thinks, so I set

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