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by nvarsj 2y ago
It’s probably the main reason Tories got obliterated the last election. After it came out we had 1m net immigration (up from prior 500k which had already 2x’d the normal 250k net).
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I bought a 150 year old house. Need I say more?
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I do love Gnome. If only we had hardware to run it :/. I'm stuck on a MBP because it's the only laptop with a great screen, speakers, and battery life. Meanwhile my keyboard keys keep getting stuck after a year of usage, and
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Is Akka dead? TFA implies it in multiple places.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
It's pretty depressing how society went from "that would never happen" to general apathy.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Doesn’t find any of my semi secret subdomains.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Interesting… any more details on how you do that?
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by nvarsj 2y ago
What if your entire career is working on legacy projects? ;-;
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I still cannot get iOS to reliably use Kagi as my default search engine. I've tried the extension, etc. but nothing works reliably. It's madness - how is it market fairness when iOS literally forces you to use Google? I know Googl
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by nvarsj 2y ago
After decades using Emacs and Idea, I have post traumatic configuration syndrome. So now I use VSCode and lazyvim/neovim. Which I can install anywhere in about 5 minutes and have a fully working environment with 0 effort and 1 breakage
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I would love to get some insight from Nvidia engineers on what happened here. The 3 series and before were overbuilt in their power delivery system. How did we get from that to the 1 shunt resistor, incredibly dangerous fire-hazard design o
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the majority of people I interview (in big tech) are now cheating with some kind of assistance. Usually it's obvious, but not always. I am just plodding along though, and hoping my company moves back to on-site int
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Yes perhaps. I guess we all need to hustle for that F U money :).
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I'm trying to understand the point of the affix "as a staff engineer", but I cannot.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Capitalism is the best system we humans have come up with at this point in civilisation, for all its flaws. It’s largely responsible for the technological, medical, and quality of life advances in the last 150 years. Please tell me a better
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Reminds me a lot of what’s happened in countries like Hungary. I never thought this would happen in the US but here we are.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
As someone that used to work in this world I find this opinion of “no value” pretty bizarre. There’s a lot of value in efficient markets with high liquidity and low fees, which companies like JS make possible.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
The US has already jumped head first into the shit can. All those ideals of democracy I learned about growing up in the US - checks and balances, the rule of law, land of opportunity. It's all become a massive joke.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Indeed. It's the road to open government censorship. There is no grey area when it comes to freedom of speech.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Indeed. This is basically enterprise sales, and sales guys will not be happy with anything else.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I live in the UK now, but grew up in the US. My own experience is pretty similar. I was also a highly sensitive kid so took the abuse pretty hard. I was bullied by both other kids _and_ by teachers. I still remember one teacher openly calli
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by nvarsj 2y ago
> This idea – that meaning is replaced by intensification – helps me understand a lot about the world today. I don't see much difference to the "old world" either. Yellow journalism existed in the 1800s. We just do it in a
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I just bought all new parts for an SFF build with a 9800X3D and 5090. So I guess this is a timely post. I know it's overkill for my needs but I love building PCs - been doing it since I was 12, and it was my first job (working at PC Cl
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Interesting, there must be some cross overs going on back in the 70s. The mechanics are so similar to mtg.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
This is fascinating. It seems obvious that this game was the direct inspiration for MtG, as Richard Garfield was a huge card game fanatic, and the number of unique effects it has in common (wraths, bounce, etc.) that are so iconic in MtG.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
This is laughably false and easy to disprove. Blurbusters did an analysis of this many years ago and we won't get "retina" refresh rates until we're at 1000Hz.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Even at Google it's like this. I spent the holidays watching my on-call Google SRE friend trying to diagnose misbehaving mapreduce jobs devs had written. They are basically glorified first line support so SWEs don't get woken up i
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Haha maybe, it's a bit contradictory to my first goal. I'm limiting myself to an hour a day at most of study right now. I might increase it (mostly w/ more immersion) but being mindful to not make it all time consuming.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I co-parent so can relate somewhat. I do get every other week to myself - but it's really hard to be a regular when you can only go every other week (similar issues with dating). I don't really have an answer - it's something
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Ah thanks for reminding me about this. Lots of films to catch up on this year! I love how international Sight and Sound’s list is too. I really enjoyed Kneecap and Perfect Days this year.

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