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by pfooti 5y ago
> Cancel culture at its best. Von Braun was a Nazi. Haber was a Nazi-sympathizer (putting himself in a difficult spot, since he was Jewish) and an horrible person in general. And? Not sure if you read the linked science article, but ther
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by pfooti 5y ago
As an autistic person myself, but by no means an expert, I can say a few things. Adding here because there are at least two replies to parent that are the same "well, it seems like a useful list" at time of reply composition. Firs
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by pfooti 5y ago
What happens when that singleton has dependencies? And they have dependencies? Not unrealistic once you have a config block that sets stuff like language direction ltr/rtl or API endpoint at runtime based on test/prod env. Not say
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by pfooti 5y ago
FWIW, an anti-vax cousin of mine has had covid three different times. Each time he recovered, but each time he kept spreading it. So don't count having had covid once as a blanket "I don't need the vax" card.
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by pfooti 5y ago
FWIW I had a similar behavior on my (work) MacBook pro for a while. I'd unplug it from my screen for the weekend and find it overheated with a dead battery. Turns out I kept bumping the Bluetooth mouse which kept waking it up, and it w
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by pfooti 5y ago
There are plenty of reasons to live in a city that have nothing to do with work. I can walk to the library, cafe, grocery store, park. I can ride a bike to the beach, go to the opera, shows, etc. I mean, I can't go to the opera _right
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by pfooti 5y ago
Yeah, I have an Aeron chair i purchased in 2006. It is still great. It just recently started to misbehave a little when raising or lowering it (my spouse sits a bit higher in the chair) - still works, but is a little sticky. But this is the
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by pfooti 5y ago
Hmm, so when in August of 2017 I called their ship date of 18 months wildly unrealistic, I guess I was right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15091512
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by pfooti 6y ago
that, and the instacart business model is only feasible with large VC infusions (so yeah access to capital) and via externalizing other costs of doing business (living wage, insurance, benefits) to the social safety net instead of providing
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by pfooti 6y ago
Because, given the opportunity and no regulation, companies will always push to make all employees contractors. Independent contractors represent a significantly lower liability on the balance sheets. Except that those lower liabilities are
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by pfooti 6y ago
and i should add that this constraint is one of the reasons why some products get discontinued. right now, I'm dealing with migrating a dependency that has some breaking changes in an old section of my codebase that nobody has touched
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by pfooti 6y ago
disclaimer: i work in google cloud, but on the apps side. One thing worth noting here is that google pretty famously has a monorepo and single-version policy. Meaning: while you may be right about the subteams/orgchart meta-issue, it&#
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by pfooti 6y ago
I'm sure you and others realize this, but it bears repeating: everything is political. If you want to work and not talk about the politics of your work, or the politics of the general world, that's basically signaling that you you
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by pfooti 6y ago
This may be poe's law at work, but it's pretty disingenuous to have the conversation in this fashion. Of _course_ it would be better to raise taxes and have a universal basic income and free healthcare. That's because the ult
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by pfooti 6y ago
One could perhaps argue that billionaires moving to other countries (and therefore taking their political lobbying that creates environments where becoming a billionaire is possible) might be a net gain for the country losing the billionair
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by pfooti 6y ago
I agree with this. I work at a FAANG that does whiteboard coding interviews (opinions my own, etc etc). When I interview people, I give pretty straightforward questions. My goal is not to run some algorithm guessing game. If I'm interv
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by pfooti 6y ago
Yes, I agree with your overall thesis. A feature like this can help normalize people publicly admitting that they made a mistake, and walking back that original Bad Tweet (or whatever).
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by pfooti 6y ago
I think we can distinguish apologies into two top-level categories: meaningful and meaningless. Meaningless apologies can be further subdivided ("I'm sorry you were offended", or "It's just my culture to be a jerk&q
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by pfooti 6y ago
I love getting figma files as mocks for things i need to implement. I love grabbing CSS from the figma, and I love that the design system allows the designer to not only export CSS, but export it in a way that has annotations (all the color
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by pfooti 7y ago
Keep in mind that the Netflix and Amazon prime apps on the TV work fine. Even the Plex app works well. Just the Hulu app that stinks. I don't disagree that it's likely a tough platform to develop for (and having a htpc is super us
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by pfooti 7y ago
yeah, the same happens for me - i have a relatively recent vizio tv, and the hulu app is terrible - video skips and freezes or the whole app crashes. I've taken to just using my mediapc to run hulu in a chrome tab instead. Both devices
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by pfooti 7y ago
that's not entirely true - it's possible for all the data of that nature to be in an audit-logged data store, and to require specific business cases for access to the data. So you can only see a user's private information if
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by pfooti 7y ago
25 years ago I didn't need to crack anyone's unix passwords- they were all broadcasting them in cleartext every few minutes because they were using eudora or some other mail client, and I had converted an old sun workstation I fou
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by pfooti 7y ago
Because that's the color of air.
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by pfooti 7y ago
There's a lot of neuroatypical people who don't defend pedophilia or harass people. Don't make it an excuse, it ends up making you sound like you're saying all autistic people are harassing assholes who can't help b
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by pfooti 7y ago
cool cool cool, facebook is abdicating responsibility for keeping factually incorrect and/or hate speech off of its platform, as long as that speech is coming from a politician. that can't possibly be a bad decision, i mean, they
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by pfooti 7y ago
In California, the picture is incomplete unless you include the effects of proposition 13. It has been in effect since 1978 and strongly encourages municipalities to prioritize commercial real estate over residential. Commercial real estate
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by pfooti 7y ago
This isn't about protecting the taxi industry- as you rightly point out, many taxi drivers are also contractors. Instead, this is about properly pricing labor. The gig economy works now because companies like Uber (and many others) ext
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by pfooti 7y ago
I did something similar quite often in my aikido classes. There was also a twist exercise - start with your fingers together palm parallel to the ground facing down, and rotate the forearm rapidly so the palm is facing up, and then back aga
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by pfooti 7y ago
This is true. I'm a swe at Google. My team uses scrum methodology, and is responsible for a customer facing but thoroughly "normal" product. My work doesn't involve building heretofore unknown planet scale computational

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