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by ptmcc 3y ago
> I can only imagine the fat paycheck a 20-year old mainframe programmer would get though, because your age in this case would be invaluable. It's funny, people frequently assume this would be true but reality doesn't really be
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by ptmcc 3y ago
A decade is still a really short lifespan for a TV
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Right, that is what the "Pro" moniker in Macbook Pro means
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Spot on. Front end is how I got started programming, both as a hobby and professionally. It has a certain tangible quality to it that makes it both approachable and satisfying, but that often gets misconstrued as "easy". It's
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Sure, regulators could have moved faster, but the crypto community was pushing out so much bullshit so quickly that even excellent regulators would be overwhelmed short of an all-out ban which would require enforcement to have any teeth any
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Socialization in the PNW is highly hobby/activity oriented. It's immediate common ground and usually a recreational context. Day to day is more much reserved and insular as we go about our business.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
This is the path to enlightenment. The best way to protect PII is to ruthlessly minimize it in your system. Better for compliance and better for customer security. And get to avoid whole sections of scrutiny and review when infosec comes kn
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by ptmcc 3y ago
The EU rule doesn't necessarily mean swappable like old 90s phones, just that it is "easily" replaceable without glues and specialty tools.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Yes, merely a 1.75 ton brick of batteries, among other parts Which is actually pretty inline with a typical midsize sedan. People really underestimate how much cars weigh. But EVs are indeed pushing it up even higher. A breakthrough on redu
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by ptmcc 3y ago
3500 pounds is one and a half (ok, one and three quarters) tons, which is inline with a typical gas-powered sedan I believe the commenter is referencing things like the Hummer EV at 9000 pounds, or 4.5 tons
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by ptmcc 3y ago
My experience as a staff-level IC is that I end up doing a lot of project management, scoping, resource allocation, interacting & negotiating with business stakeholders, and defining & delegating work items. I meet often with my act
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by ptmcc 3y ago
I just redid my 15 year old original builder-grade kitchen sink and cursed the quick-construction plumbing the whole way. It was all glued together ABS plastic pipes instead of threaded pieces and single-use plastic shutoff valves with non-
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Please stop with these sorts of posts, it's the 2023 equivalent of "let me google that for you"
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by ptmcc 3y ago
It's not exactly the same, but iOS has an accessibility feature where you can map double and triple tapping the back of the phone to things like turning the flashlight on and off. It's nearly like shaking and uses the gyros becaus
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by ptmcc 3y ago
For a long time it was common to get manufacturer-subsidized 0-1% financing on new cars. Then supply chain stuff exploded and rates went up but it'll come around again eventually.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
It'll be so easy to inject ads into things like ChatGPT, and it'll even look "natural" to most readers.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Well excuse me for wanting to know that my barber has availability before I walk in
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by ptmcc 3y ago
No doubt, but as always the best engineers and technical leaders will be the ones with the most alternative options. Calling their bluff is a bold move.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
My company is instituting a similar policy in July. Half my team, including my manager, do not live in a city with an office. Real curious how this will play out. I don't mind an occasional on-site day when there is a purpose, but LMFA
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by ptmcc 3y ago
That the iteration unit of scrum/agile is called a sprint is a huuuuge pet peeve of mine. Sprinting is definitionally an unsustainable pace. I know, I know, it's just a label applied to the cycle time of the process but labels mat
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by ptmcc 3y ago
I agree. In my experience that outside visibility is mostly a mirage. Velocity metrics, burndown charts, point estimations, and all of that have been at best aspirational white lies and at worst outright falsehoods on almost every scrum&#x2
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Oof that's dumb as hell I didn't realize it was such a recent deal
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by ptmcc 3y ago
You're completely right, and as a baseball fan myself I deeply sympathize, but it's not so much MLB that is the problem (today) but the patchwork of cable-based Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) that have contracts for exclusive bro
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by ptmcc 4y ago
More realistically, you'd have to pay fees and gain no interest.
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by ptmcc 4y ago
It seems like a neat idea but it really doesn't save money, though. The hard part, as in the vast majority of energy & fuel needed, is to get horizontal velocity not altitude. The complexity and cost of a 747 carrying a rocket up f
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by ptmcc 4y ago
> I wonder if those other manufacturers chains are also rated for the life of the engine or rather not. Mostly yes they are, which is wonderful compared to timing belts. It rubs my engineer brain intensely wrong to have such a critical e
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by ptmcc 4y ago
You are right that chains are superior to belts, but MB is hardly the only manufacturer using timing chains. Chains are actually becoming more popular, not less popular, especially as interference engines have also become more common. My 20
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by ptmcc 4y ago
SC 2013 was such a let down after so much hype, for so many reasons. As a lifelong Sim-anything fan it was crushing. Cities Skylines seems like the successor to SimCity, but even that has some deep-rooted flaws in traffic management and age
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by ptmcc 4y ago
My ductless house has a gas combi water heater/boiler and hot water circulation system to in-wall radiators with simple blower fans. The house also has an exhaust fan on a timer, paired with small vents on several windows around the ho
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by ptmcc 4y ago
This is just plain untrue and unhelpful. edit: parent removed part of their comment I was replying to

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