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by offices 3y ago
So instead of learning one fact (x country uses family-given ordering) the reader must learn 1000 facts (whether y name is a family name or given name) about a language they don't know so they can infer which ordering the translation i
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by offices 3y ago
Additionally, it's not enough to just invest the time and money that Nvidia did. Now that Nvidia are embedded and have a head-start, AMD would need to spend much more to undo the advantage.
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by offices 3y ago
Depends how old you are when you take it out. I have more than that for less than that.
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by offices 3y ago
My steam account is now over 10 years old. CDs start degrading at 20 years.
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by offices 3y ago
But then we don't include the Linux environment I develop code in. Or the multiple Linux computers I ssh into to develop code.
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by offices 3y ago
Are there any cool companies left? I think consumers and employees have become more cynical. - OpenAI is already 'evil'. - Apple has staying power but I still wouldn't consider it cool anymore. - Likewise Tesla.
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by offices 3y ago
Quite a lot of the plot depends on Raskolnikov being sickly and fainting at inopportune moments. In modern fiction, this would be considered contrived. It's also not just a case of modern expectations being shaped by influential novels
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by offices 3y ago
>not this US-style agent-works-for-me stuff These still exist for large companies (especially US companies) and those with internal recruiters. It's a shame that the latter get tarred with the general term - they have very different
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by offices 3y ago
> having it stay open for months on end, right I stayed with you. Here's the non-sequitur. New positions appear on an ongoing basis and the latency from opening to accepted offer is non-zero.
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by offices 3y ago
It's one of the skills that indicates someone is more than a software-engineering, misanrthopic robot. This world has enough of those. Signalling is an important thing, it's why you iron your shirt before the interview - it may ev
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by offices 3y ago
Substack is a good display of why editors exist. Any time I read a Substack link on HN, it's twice as long as it needs to be.
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by offices 3y ago
Multiple colleagues here in the UK have told me stories about spending time working with Americans and realising their drinking habits around work made them look like alcoholics to the Americans. It's going away with younger generation
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by offices 3y ago
Homebrewing wine made me suspicious of the claim that beer/wine were drank because the water supply isn't clean. The first thing you do is sterilise anything that will make contact with the liquid or it will spoil and be poisonous
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by offices 3y ago
>it must have been useful to someone at sometime for it to have gained such a popularity. How about blood types? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_personality_theory
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by offices 3y ago
>Another really interesting one though is to see how many songs mention Donald Trump back in 90s/Early 2000s I wonder if the same would apply to Ronald Reagan before his presidency?
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by offices 3y ago
Provided federation pans out, it doesn't require an app. You could follow all these people from another instance.
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by offices 3y ago
>It's clear that they intentionally did not release a web application It doesn't even have a login-switch feature. They didn't release a web application because this is the M of MVPs.
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by offices 3y ago
>The <iostream> operator overloading syntax is bad In an obnoxious way. The first code someone will see of a new language is often 'hello world'. In C++, 'hello world' is an advertisement for the fact that opera
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by offices 3y ago
>We have record low unemployment, yet companies that complain about labor levels These seem intuitively linked? If there's not enough labor to go around, more jobs will be pushed under the 'water level' where the value pro
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by offices 3y ago
It's funny that editing the registry is considered black-magic in Windows world while elsewhere we often edit untyped unchecked text files.
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by offices 3y ago
^n
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by offices 3y ago
That massively depends on how often you remote into machines. It's also the same logic for using bash instead of zsh, a battle that zsh is winning - it turns out that learning one does not prevent learning both.
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by offices 3y ago
No modes means modifier keys for the most common actions which means Emacs pinky.
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by offices 3y ago
Like Godwin's Law, every discussion of Vim on HN will inevitably tend towards complaining that it doesn't have features that it has shipped with 10-30 years.
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by offices 3y ago
And it's synergistic with making private spacves to accomodate praying or expressing milk.
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by offices 3y ago
That sounds like an plausible excuse of two groups who buy HGH
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by offices 3y ago
>Lens Other way around: they're pushing Lens over reverse image search now.
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by offices 3y ago
Lots of life depends on information discovered without the scientific method.
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by offices 3y ago
I'm saying the concept of creating private working spaces was unsuccessful. IME workers tended towards tolerating distractions or wearing headphones. > I always assumed the open spaces trend was just pablum being served up by Corpor
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by offices 3y ago
>The hybrid shit in the middle with all the context switching drives me absolutely bananas. Get into the pool, or get out of the pool. You cannot exist in a superposition of org chart and hope to survive long term. We did this forever! I

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