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by omegaham 7y ago
"In computing, we mostly stand on each other's feet." -Richard Hamming
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by omegaham 7y ago
I'm sure that if they actually started going after people, everyone's job title would magically shift to "Technology Developer" or something similar.
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by omegaham 7y ago
Yeah, I was under the impression that ~95% of posters on WSB don't actually day trade and are just there to meme and laugh at the trolling/idiocy. The other 5% are the fools YOLOing their college loans. The charm of the subreddit
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by omegaham 7y ago
Are climbers any different from any of the other hobbyist subcultures out there? We don't have as much climbing where I live, but we have a lot of cyclists, and yes, they're vocal.
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by omegaham 7y ago
At least jeans manufacturers weren't marketing based on the unblemished workmanship of their jeans. Their typical message is "Jeans are worn by rugged, individualist people. You want to be a rugged independent person, right?"
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by omegaham 7y ago
Stuff that is old-hat to members of a subculture tends to be really interesting to people who didn't even know that the subculture existed. The last time I flew a kite was in elementary school. I guess I knew in the abstract that peopl
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by omegaham 7y ago
I'd argue that you don't need interesting guns if your basic offerings are really high-quality. There's room for "plain oatmeal" in pretty much any market. The problem is that even their basic offerings have drastic
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by omegaham 7y ago
Yep. The gun market is saturated right now. Literally everything that Remington makes is also made by half a dozen (or more) competing companies. If they make stupid decisions and build garbage, that's tough for them. We don't hav
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by omegaham 7y ago
It's definitely region-dependent. I grew up in an affluent suburb of Massachusetts, where guns were really uncommon. I got stationed in Yuma, Arizona, where pretty much everyone owned guns. Here in a suburb of Portland, OR, it's s
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by omegaham 7y ago
Can confirm, my father-in-law has more than 50. It's actually a really neat collection, but I wince at how much it had to cost and how much use he actually gets out of them.
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by omegaham 8y ago
Yes, they do. The result is that time controls have shortened accordingly. It's a lot harder to cheat convincingly when you're playing bullet chess, whereas it might be easier to do so when you're playing 10 or 15-minute time
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by omegaham 8y ago
Considering that he's won 19 of these bets, he'd have to be a very, very lucky person if it was just a 50-50 bet.
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by omegaham 8y ago
He was kinda-sorta relevant in the 90s? I think? I like his Unix programming book. Currently, his hobby appears to be posting wingnut craziness on his website.
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by omegaham 8y ago
The 64 bit clock will overflow about 292 billion years from now. That's long enough for me. --- Worrying about 64-bit time overflow is like worrying about IPv6 address exhaustion.
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by omegaham 8y ago
When my wife worked as a prison nurse, her porter was an arsonist, doing 25 to life. Torching your ex-girlfriend's home with her inside it is looked upon dimly by the courts, even if she survives.
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by omegaham 8y ago
Where I work, being able to ship to the business is explicitly advertised as a job perk. "Ship to us, and here's how to get automatic email notifications of when your package is here!"
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by omegaham 8y ago
Also, the background check process is intense , (and deals with the exact same understaffing problems) and it turns out that most people aren't willing to wait for nine months to get vetted for an entry-level job.
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by omegaham 8y ago
Yep. I live in Hillsboro, a pretty quiet suburb of Portland. Police here are so bored that when a bunch of drunk teenagers were acting a fool on our street, they sent three cop cars to grab the kiddos and drive them back to their parents&#x
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by omegaham 8y ago
> Even then why is such culture legal? In general, Americans see this protection as none of the government's business. If the business wants to provide it, or unions want to demand it, that's fine, but it's not going to be
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by omegaham 8y ago
Note that tech, and especially the tech examined on Hacker News, is an outlier in American business. If this were Civil Engineer News or Actuary News, you'd see a very different attitude toward hiring and firing. Startups are quick t
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by omegaham 8y ago
I think the reason is that HR is similar to IT and QA - if they do their job right, it's like they're doing nothing at all. My guess is that "Thank God HR was on top of that problem" is not a common phrase in meetings. N
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by omegaham 8y ago
Also, the military has pretty great job security, with the only genuine cutoff happening between E5 and E6. I worried about a lot of things during my time in, but getting fired was not one of them.
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by omegaham 8y ago
The late 1800s had some rather severe panics that were caused by deflation - specifically, the Panics of 1873 and 1893. The problem with fixed-supply currencies is that if the economy is growing, and the supply of currency stays constant, c
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by omegaham 8y ago
I've gotten to the point where I just buy Chromebooks, put Arch onto them, and treat them as disposable crap... which they are. I'd rather get a cheap piece of shit than an expensive piece of shit.
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by omegaham 8y ago
Is this going by the quarter system or a semester system? I can't imagine doing groups, rings, and fields in a single quarter with significant rigor. That would suck.
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by omegaham 8y ago
What do you do when large numbers of people don't care, and are content to leech off the few conscientious students who actually want to learn the material? This was a normal state of affairs during my undergrad at a crappy community c
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by omegaham 8y ago
Find the facts that Big Lentil doesn't want you to know!
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by omegaham 8y ago
I classify your description as "Subdivision Hell" rather than McMansion Hell, but I've definitely seen some doozies in Subdivision Hell, too.
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by omegaham 8y ago
I spent several years stationed in Yuma, AZ, and a lot of people would come to Yuma to do just that. They can't afford a procedure in the US, or they're waitlisted to oblivion in Canada, so they fly into Yuma, take a shuttle acros
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by omegaham 8y ago
> "How is this read: \lambda x.\, x - 3" I'd read it as "Lambda x maps to x - 3." In Python, you can rewrite lambdas as regular functions if you want. lambda x : x - 3 is the same as def f(x):

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