octobus2021

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by octobus2021 3y ago
Help me understand, I must be dumb. If people seem to value privacy and security more so that they don't trust their data hosted at a third party, why are many of these are self-hosted Web apps as opposed to a simple desktop applicatio
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I tried a Keychron and it doesn't work with my KVM, which uses ScrollLock for switching between computers, and it doesn't work very well with Linux... So Das Keyboard it is!
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I mean you can certainly get a Chinese-made Parker clone for under $1 on AliExpress and it might even work fine (I have and it does). But this is Pilot, 100+ yo Japanese company making collector's pens with some high-end models going f
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I think Pilot sells Metropolitan so cheaply on purpose, to get people into the hobby. It's still under $30 on Amazon and is a very high quality. I got one more pen (Chinese clone of Parker 51, The Original Parker) and pretty much stopp
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by octobus2021 3y ago
As the name implies, MBA teaches business administration, or managing business. It gives you 30,000 ft overview of the entire business value chain, and then you zoom in on each individual component separately, knowing where it fits in the w
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by octobus2021 3y ago
It is not about having less interest in hiring managers, it is there is less need for managers than there is need for individual contributors. Due to simple math - one manager is needed to manage unit/organization of multiple individua
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Seeing this way too late, apologies. Apparently the company which invented and patented the technology is trying to get as much revenue from it as possible. I think this is starting to change as people finding alternative approaches or at l
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by octobus2021 3y ago
When bank is about to go under due to some new esoteric product which _should_ work (like packaging risky debt into magically risk-free securities) but eventually doesn't, it is MY money that's going to be used to pay for the loss
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by octobus2021 3y ago
They are all financial institutions of comparable size and using similar business models. The fact that JP Morgan Chase reported Q4 profit at $9.3 bln on the highest annual revenue for any bank EVER, and Bank of America reported Q4 profit a
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Also, effect of rising interest rates takes time to propagate. When mortgage rates skyrocket, mortgage originators can still go on for a few months even though they're not making any sales, as nobody's buying real estate. After a
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Citibank told their employees to work from home in December and common understanding was that it would make the upcoming layoffs easier (quick Zoom with HR and mailing the hardware back to the office is all it takes). In addition their Q4 r
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Fun fact. If I'm laid off from my corporate job and after weeks of searching start driving for Uber or delivering pizzas, I am considered employed in the U3 (the unemployment rate most often reported). I would be excluded in U5 rate (t
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I think water flowing through pipes would be perfect analogy for electricity. I believe the author addressed it somewhere and said he couldn't make it work so had to stick to gears and springs. It turned out to be fine but I preferred
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I gave it a try quite a few years ago. I had a mixed feeling. On one hand, it is a great simulation of actual hardware/firmware dev jobs. On another hand I wasn't sure who the target audience was. If you're doing this for a l
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by octobus2021 3y ago
The game has been basically complete for more than a year, going through the levels will teach you more than college-level micro-controller architecture class does.
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I'm a simple guy, I see Turing Complete mentioned on HN, I leave a favorable comment :) Bought it couple years ago and went through a few levels, then had my (then) 14-yo son go through it during the summer break, with my occasional he
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by octobus2021 3y ago
This does not sound right at all. This is something you'd normally get through Coursera or any other MOOC platform. You should check the background of the college you're attending more thoroughly. FYI in 2021 FTC brought charges
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Was laid off in March 2020 (great timing) and was looking for more than a year. IT but not in the SV. Finally found position for which I was way overqualified but they took pity on me. Much lower salary too. So I'm sifting through Exce
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Check out "The Invisible Screen" recently profiled here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38773669 ). I've seen quite a few people playing with e-ink, the problem is these things are still way too expensiv
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by octobus2021 3y ago
People are moving to social media. How is that better?
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Nice job, creator. I was working on starting up something similar, went through 3 prototypes but never finished it :( A few ideas for your consideration: - 7 inch is waaaay too small, should be at least 10/11 inch. - Touchscreen is a m
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Can confirm. Happened with me couple times. It would just go off the airplane more altogether. Besides, "airplane" mode is just an icon on the screen. If it has WiFi with a known password (or without one) within reach there's
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I bought Clara 2e and was very disappointed with the requirement to create an account. After some googling I found you can start it in "sideloader" mode. To do that I plugged it in as USB device and updated a config file by addin
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Yep it basically says The FAA will complete a Written Reevaluation (WR) to the 2022 Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) evaluating the new environmental information, including Endangered Species Act consultation with the U.S. Fish a
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by octobus2021 3y ago
The closest would probably be FAR menu (F2) where menu options can be edited; you can probably just do "cd [name]" for menu options. I believe there's also history of commands issued in "Alt+F8". So... kinda.
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Ctrl + "[" , Ctrl + "]" - bring the full path in the left panel or the right panel respectively into the command line (so Ctrl"+"[" and then Ctrl+Enter will bring full file path of the file under the curso
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by octobus2021 3y ago
"...to be writing our front-end code in Microsoft C++ instead of Linux." deserves to be with "Opening Twitter timeline results in thousands of RPC calls" :-) I read "The Founders" and it quotes Musk stating &qu
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Open position does not mean there's an actual need, or even a budget allocated. Even if it's not "market research" position (to assess how many relevant applicants will apply) it can be open by the HR at the request of p
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I'm just one person but in my experience the quality of open positions on LinkedIn has been exactly 0 for quite awhile. I was looking for a job in 2020 and LinkedIn was full of open positions with my skillset. I received almost 0 repli
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by octobus2021 3y ago
There's a Linux port too.

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