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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
I agree, the guys clearly legit. I was just indulging some recreational morning pedantry before actually getting some work done.
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
I mean it, he's a more accomplished engineer and mentor than I'll ever be. That's why I added the edit.
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
One thing I sometimes point out to software engineers Im tasked with mentoring at work is the importance of showing other engineers that you care about the code and the questions you're asking via slack etc by proof reading what you wr
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
(Incomplete) Summary > Personal pride in home properties, tradition of businesses volunteering some of their employees to regularly clean their neighborhoods in organized / shared groups, more regulation generally for garbage with
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Spoiler alert, it thinks I should.
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Does a morality AI think I should watch more anime?(delphi.allenai.org)
2 points by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago|1 comments
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Couldn't agree more, anything and everything by Liu Cixin. Although now that I think about it Three Body / Dark Forest / Deaths End are the only works of his Ive read where theres any serious amount of quasi time travel. But
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Deeper origins / info: https://www.google.com/amp/s/hekint.org/2017/01/25/the-model...
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Those praying hands you've been seeing everywhere your whole life?(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago|1 comments
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Is there any career overlap between software engineering / data science and fighting climate change? Was hoping the article would touch on it.
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Is there any career overlap between software engineering and fighting climate change? New to the field and not sure where to start.
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
This might be a dumb question but curious what the issues are with discord? Im a little concerned since I just finally got convinced to start using it.
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
its down :( anyone got a link?
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Japanese Morning Radio Exercise(youtube.com)
1 points by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago|0 comments
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
I agree he makes a couple important points and misses a couple important points as always but Im more struck by his general affect. I used to find Chomsky refreshing and motivating but something seems to have changed in the last couple year
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Thanks for the considered responses, this was all super illuminating! And thanks for the hot tip on Firefox containers too :~I
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Im just curious, what are the motivations for a company to make this move? It seems like a death sentence to me but I cant think of any examples off-hand.
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
I love the founders inspirational story beginning of "When my wife and I bought our second home in lake tahoe..." (paraphrase)
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Well, Im a shameless imposter masquerading as an employed software engineer. Thats one. Or two maybe assuming you are?
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Interesting (also funny), I never thought of HN from that angle. Does this feel true to HN users or is it more a joke? While I was transitioning to a software job I found myself checking HN a lot because it seemed like a raw discussion foru
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
There are some great points being made here and Im really glad to see the generational issue come up. Wondering what role people think California boomers are playing in these problems as a distinct subset from Californias population as it w
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Just to be clear this is referring to Amazon Game Studios employees, not all Amazon devs. Interesting regardless tho.
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
They're gonna feel so silly when they get all the way here to kill us and realize we solved their silly little problem and they have to turn right back around and go home. The looks on their translucent non-existent face things...
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Seems like there might be but wondering if theres any overlap here with the frozen brain solar sail nuclear bomb space detonation acceleration idea from Liu Cixins Dark Forest romance novel?
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Thats an excellent point. The subtext there is borderline positive. Or at least borderline actionable. Anyway Im reading the Ministry for the Future and its August so I need to either kill myself or join the Children of Kali or something...
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Sci-fi carbon coins could save our planet(popsci.com)
1 points by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago|0 comments
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
I taught this stuff for years and never came across this. Excellent post. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruniquel_Cave
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
> archaeologists of a traditional bent tend to have a particular thought structure called essentialism, which means that they do everything they can to come up with a coherent story according to a progressive view of social change. They
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by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago
Just for anyone else scanning for the TLDR reminder of what I probably should have remembered from 8th grade science... Im totally going to take the author's advice and buy my kid some plastic plankton toys :^p > But if fossil fuel
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Making an NES Game in 2020(matthughson.com)
3 points by pkdpic_y9k 5y ago|0 comments

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