pastaguy1

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by pastaguy1 2y ago
Jargon is everywhere but office jargon is its own sub genre. For office jargon, it's maybe not a practical matter, but I could see a friend being a little put off by someone speaking in office jargon to them. Office jargon is sort of i
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by pastaguy1 2y ago
Is "solves" used like that in the wild? Haven't heard that one.
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by pastaguy1 2y ago
This isn't meant to be taken too literally or objectively, but I view YAGNI as almost a meta principle with respect to the other popular ones. It's like an admission that you won't always get them right, so in the words of Bu
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by pastaguy1 2y ago
What's the background on doing a soft layoff (or w/e) and hiring at the same time? Many of us have seen one of these close-up, just wondering what the case is here.
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by pastaguy1 2y ago
I suppose people might be wondering what happens when this small number of big players finish their buildouts.
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by pastaguy1 2y ago
Funny comment about it being dark in Michigan. My feeling here in the summer is like, will the sun ever set (somewhat light out until almost 10pm depending on location)? I know what you mean, of course.
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by pastaguy1 2y ago
> I had two EE roommates in college, their exams were HARD, but their home-projects were easy compared to CS (less projects overall as well). Maybe that's just a result of EE take-home projects being less practical? Hold on, let me
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by pastaguy1 2y ago
Can you explain the cuda-less stack a little more or provide a source?
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by pastaguy1 3y ago
I thought the number in the title seemed low, but this makes it seem closer
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by pastaguy1 3y ago
I agree. I'm not quite so shy, but on that same side of the spectrum for sure. The deal with me these days is that I've got a couple kids; one thing that comes along with that is quite a bit of social interaction with people you&#
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by pastaguy1 3y ago
calc 2 was the hardest for me, and anecdotally many others. hang in there!
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by pastaguy1 3y ago
They can hear the tinnitus, but not real sounds at that freq. IANAD, is there any kind of "gain correction" theory for tinnitus? ie, the brain notices your ear can't hear this frequency very well, so it pumps up the volume ..
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
I can do more than 5 if I'm able to maintain discipline and work at a normal pace. Normally though, time pressure or "get shit done" pressure gets the better of me, and my brain goes into turbo mode. After about 30 minutes of
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
> So many engineers move to management, yet want to remain "hands on", and won't let go. It's obnoxious and frustrating, when they inevitably have their heads spinning from meeting after meeting, and no time remaining
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
I've definitely spent some time thinking about it, or did in college anyway. There's a lot going on with the typical bike population on a college campus. A fair amount of bikes get stolen on the way home from a party or whatever,
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
I have an 08 corolla that seems indestructible. I sorta want to replace it, because I don't really like driving my children around in it, but new cars seem incredibly complex. I'm just trying to drive here, man.
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
FWIW, there was a near miss during a blue angels flyover a couple years ago. https://youtu.be/Wh3TIy2gtPs
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
Would there be any value in a GC'd language where you had the option to explicitly call do_gc_now()? Is this functionality already out there and just not popular? I haven't spent a ton of time in these languages, so forgive the na
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
First question is a bit subjective, but Hennessey and Patterson is a good place to start. It's thick but reads fairly easy in my recollection
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
What?
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
The F15 doesn't get a ton of fanfare, but it's an extremely capable aircraft.
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
Something feels a little off in this particular case. I feel like there is an implied increase in flexibility with WFH for many of us here, but I doubt call center employees get that benefit at all.
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
Never considered the speedrun route, but I also had someone (a prof. in my case) tell me something that changed the way I viewed college/the curriculum. Paraphrasing, he said, "don't get too wound up with the syllabus, treat
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
Since the cause was multiple birdstrikes, I don't know how specific to being a test pilot this episode was. Maybe they do more stuff with higher risk of birdstrike in general, or maybe they didn't yet know the plane's flight
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
I can't really refute any of that, but I'm ok with Teams on balance. Our team used WebEx before, which was pretty bad, IMO, but some of that was probably due to it not being as tightly integrated as Teams was (we're a MS plac
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
ah yes, the PR PR
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
The really good parts of having children are really difficult to convey, IMO, so viewing the decision as a pros/cons list (which is a highly objective, concrete thing), is usually a losing battle. There are always plenty of reasons not
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
For me I think graduating to a smartphone later than "normal" had a similar effect. Mid 30s, but I got my first smartphone at ~25 instead of ~20. There's a lot of external pressure to be constantly on your phone. People of my
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
What's heat based SAD? I always feel like garbage during the summer, but always chalked it up to allergies, some kind of low level chronic dehydration, or poor schedule discipline (used to be, when classes ended, my bedtime became abou
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by pastaguy1 4y ago
I have a Logitech g533 headset, which is wireless, and came with a dongle. It might be something other than Bluetooth? I paired it once when I got it 2 yrs ago and that's it. I forget to charge it sometimes but that's on me. I lik

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