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by nvarsj 2y ago
My goal is a non goal. Try to live in the present, enjoy leisure time, and stop stressing about always having to up-skill myself. As I near my 50s, I realise life is too short to always be working. It’s okay to take a break and just enjoy s
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by nvarsj 2y ago
True - but it’s much easier to make an incomprehensible mess in more complex languages. Whereas blub language projects are pretty easy to decipher regardless of the state of the codebase.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Yup this is exactly it. In the middle class UK even cocaine use is normalized. When your parents are smoking weed, doing lines of coke, and drinking excessive amounts of wine/beer, it's not exactly cool.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Agreed. The original comment just made me think "good grief". No, scrolling on a website is not the same as doing lines of coke in the club bathroom.
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It's not in the law... it's the guidance Ofcom is providing, linked in TFA, which I believe will be enforceable. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/cons...
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by nvarsj 2y ago
It's trivial to find via simply searching suicide on google. It's not like this is a super secret Tor site or something.
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Pure fruit juice is not good for you. It has a super high concentration of sugar. The benefits of fruit are primarily the fiber contents, which is completely missing in juice.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Plugging the draft guidance into chatgpt: Age Assurance Methods: Effective methods: Open banking, photo-ID matching, facial age estimation, credit card checks, and digital identity wallets. Ineffective methods: Self-declaration, g
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Realise that code is a commodity. Don't build your entire professional experience around a programming language or specific tooling. Be a problem solver instead - and you will always have a job.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
My knowledge is out of date now, but the main issues IMO are/were: - No concept of apiserver rate limiting, by design. I see there is now an APF thingy, but still no basic API / edge rate limiting. - etcd has bad scalability. It&#
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by nvarsj 2y ago
It's more like $1000/mo I think. 300 would be a no brainer! In London UK we can get dedicated 1Gbps for ~450GBP/mo with 3k install fees.
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Gl. I've yet to meet anyone that actually finished AoC. At some point the problems take 8+ hours to solve and people give up :).
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I feel like Americans are all over the place. The top echelons of business in the US are very blunt and direct. The lower levels tend to be very indirect with lots of toxic positivity. I think this works out for capitalism and exactly fits
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by nvarsj 2y ago
I've had a pretty similar experience in big tech. Some cultures do really seem to struggle with feedback (both giving and receiving). It can be a very painful work environment as a result - given I'm an incredibly direct person. T
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by nvarsj 2y ago
> It's a fact of life that people shut down when approached with evidence that refutes their world view or choices. I don't really agree with you. This is a basic quality of skilled leadership. You want people refuting your wor
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by nvarsj 2y ago
We started a split shift for a really busy oncall and it works out really well. It's Th->Tu, Tu->Th. So basically weekend+2 working days vs 3 working days. Expectation is you are 100% oncall during the working day, so it works ou
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by nvarsj 2y ago
L-Tek is probably the best option by far that is somewhat affordable. Definitely penny-mod them too (just remove the panels, tape washers under the edge of each metal contact point - it makes the pads way more responsive and more fun to use
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by nvarsj 2y ago
1400 sq ft is a large terraced house in London and will cost over 1m GBP (so about 1.4m USD). Yeah, 1400 as "small" is very US oriented :). But having grown up in the US, I really miss the space of the houses.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Under $100: Roll of medical tape for mouth taping at night. I finally sleep well with no snoring/mouth breathing. Under $1000: Plex server I put together over Covid just out of a divorce. I love films and TV, and storytelling in genera
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by nvarsj 2y ago
Fairly sure Google has/had a cliff for engineers to reach senior by a certain time frame. That puts immense pressure to get promoted, or you get laid off.
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Great description of the problems of C++/Rust - that puzzle like property attracts a lot of younger engineers and creates a lot of conference talks that hyper focus on the language instead of how it can solve real problems. Scala suffe
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by nvarsj 2y ago
As long as humans have had to work together, politics exist. Whether you are isolated from it is solely down to your manager and leadership. But it’s always there.
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by nvarsj 2y ago
A lot of this post reminds me of my own experience in big tech. I think it's really brutal to those inclined to the highly sensitive person archetype (overly sensitive to external stimuli). Every little thing you do is analysed and the
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by nvarsj 2y ago
It sounds like something straight out of Silicon Valley. I get they are trying to create a sense of psychological safety for people, but this is a bit much.
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Pretty much secondary school in the UK (12+). I'm guessing middle schools / high schools in the US are the same? Yes, literally every kid in secondary school has a cell phone. Kids have whatsapp groups and communicate all the time
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Kids entire social lives run on their phones. Covid accelerated this and pushed down the age for where this was true. Denying your kid a smart phone is basically denying them a social life nowadays. It simply doesn't work unless everyo
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Hah fair enough. The volume of code is low overall though so the language doesn't matter that much.
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Most kids just stay logged as as their google classroom email, so that includes search/youtube/etc. Of course Google is tracking all that usage and targeting them for ads.
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Usage of java is fine ime. It's the principles that matter. The main benefit of this project is the search based tests which thoroughly test your implementation for edge cases. There's nothing else quite like it - few people can s
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by nvarsj 2y ago
The best approach is to implement Paxos. I suggest https://github.com/emichael/dslabs . It will take 100-200 hours to fully implement with all tests passing.

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