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by pipingdog 5y ago
> Financial nihilism Financialism is economic nihilism.
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by pipingdog 5y ago
I have personally owned an Aeron, my employer uses the Herman Miller Celle, which is also very nice. For COVID WFH, I bought a Secretlabs Titan, and am very happy with it. I am a tall person though. They make a smaller model as well.
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by pipingdog 5y ago
How many "come prepared" meetings have you had where everyone in attendance had prepared? This format gives the space to read and discuss. Everyone has the same opportunity (often, the people with the least time to prepare in adva
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by pipingdog 5y ago
Isn't 759 just a special case of 754?
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by pipingdog 5y ago
Elixir does not have a return keyword.
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by pipingdog 5y ago
44% of older millennials are _being treated_ for chronic health problems.
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by pipingdog 6y ago
There isn't really any sort of distinct boundary between "you" and the "rest" of the universe.
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by pipingdog 6y ago
The trick is to consider the key invalid for use in signing after it expires, but still valid for verification after that time. Signatures produced by that key can be considered valid well after the key itself has expired. For that to work,
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by pipingdog 6y ago
Trying to check into a hotel in Glasgow with bad jet lag put me nearly in tears.
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by pipingdog 6y ago
Fuckin' who the fuck do you fuckin' think you're fuckin' fuckin' with you fuckin' fuck? Fuck!
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by pipingdog 6y ago
You could build large towers out of this material that sway in the wind like trees and generate electricity.
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by pipingdog 6y ago
First of all, on-call without the latitude to prioritize operational improvements (making the cause of the pages go away) over feature work is a non-starter. To address the question in the post title, a team I was on was able to re-negotiat
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by pipingdog 6y ago
Neat. By the time I got to level 8, I decided it was time to implement turtle commands, which made the solution to level 8 neater, then advancing to level 9 failed to load the puzzle. Then again... perhaps the js errors on the page are the
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by pipingdog 6y ago
This is the format, but the content is unrecognizable as an Amazon PR/FAQ. The PR doesn't tell the story of what customer pain is being addressed, and what customers say about the newly released feature aside from "Customers
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by pipingdog 6y ago
> P99 Can confirm, eigen-vector is an Amazonian.
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by pipingdog 6y ago
Perhaps parent commenter was in the oil and gas industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_in_Mirrorshades
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by pipingdog 6y ago
Except that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho had the capacity to realize there was someone smarter than he was and appointed him to solve the problem at hand.
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by pipingdog 6y ago
This shows great promise. I've been looking for various ways to impose semantics on markdown for note taking, and they all turn out to be too complex. This is very simple, has goals which are distinct from markdown, and has the potenti
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by pipingdog 6y ago
They appear to have started on this in mid-March, according to https://dithering.fm/ , and the titles look to give a good sense of the subject matter. Other than that, it looks like it's about 15 minutes.
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by pipingdog 6y ago
That's generally not that person's only job in the market though. These same people generally have mild janitorial duties, keeping the front-end stocked with supplies, and act as general go-fers (helping people find things, puttin
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by pipingdog 6y ago
The pedestrian signal is a time set aside to meditate on one's humility and patience.
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by pipingdog 6y ago
The very first time I typed in a C program to accomplish a specific task and it worked without defects was over a 300 baud dialup connection. Name the part of the car that enables it to go fast: the brakes.
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by pipingdog 7y ago
Every external dependency you take is a chaos monkey.
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by pipingdog 7y ago
I remember the MBONE. I was working at a National Lab, and had an SGI Indy workstation with an IndyCam, so I spent some time setting it up. One day I forgot to close the app when I left for the day, and came back the following day to a Nast
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by pipingdog 7y ago
The Aeropress makes it so that I can take half the materials that go into a crap-ass urn of coffee and turn them into a kick-ass cup of coffee at work. Godsend. I have a 3rd party metal filter, so I don’t have to worry about running out of
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by pipingdog 7y ago
Exactly. Those are pitchers masks, not catchers masks. On the receiving end you want a resporator and goggles which both seal to the face.
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by pipingdog 7y ago
I went through a phase where I tried to curb my casual profanity and use “dag nab it” or “confound it” or the like. One day I stubbed my toe and came out with a “gosh fucking darn it!!!!”
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by pipingdog 7y ago
A Brainfuck tape can be thought of as two stacks and a register. ‘<‘ or move-left becomes push the register onto the right stack and pop the left stack into the register.
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by pipingdog 7y ago
> So what can I do as a manager to make it more “okay” to spend time at work learning? Be seen doing it yourself.
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by pipingdog 7y ago
The point of the question, I imagine (and am giving the interviewer the benefit of the doubt), was to see how the candidate negotiated technical compromises. Merely disagreeing without exploring the reasoning behind it and perhaps finding a

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