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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> My current setup is 3x monitors + a laptop screen to the side at the office and 3x monitor + a wall-mounted television in my home office. Well, that only leaves one question: Why so few monitors? More seriously, I'd be really inte
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Yeah, that's my point though -- that's a common belief, and it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Consider some common scenarios: If you have a tech lead who's cooking up some new architecture, some new idea, whatever -- it&#x
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
This is an interesting perspective. Out of curiosity, are you describing some profession other than software engineering? At least in the context of SWE, I think all of those points are exactly the opposite: > Top performers need less ma
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Someone should start a SaaS that just automates this process. Thinking about it, the only moderately difficult part would be compiling a list of small-claims courts and understanding the different paperwork each one requires. After that, th
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Can you share more about how you got accurate measurements on this? I've got some moderately interesting graphs from my fitness tracker, and I'm broadly aware that my sleep cycle is not the "usual" 90 minutes that the st
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> We are far from AGI Do you mind expanding on this? What do you see as the biggest things that make that milestone > 5 years away? Not trolling, just genuinely curious -- I'm a distributed systems engineer (read: dinosaur) who&#
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Speaking of the greatness of the 90s, does anyone have a good version of the classic "Under Construction" GIF? You know the one — it was in the style of a yellow road sign, and on it was a pixelated silhouette of a construction wo
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Whoa, that was delightful to watch, especially after learning about the diagonal stripes from your comment. But do the diagonal stripes actually work ? If you dropped the deck and then re-assembled it with a single pair of cards swapped, w
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Interesting that it looks like just a regular "Senior Engineer" type job from the numbers; that looks like the pay band they'd put up for any ol' software-engineering job, regardless of specialization. (EDIT: Removed a l
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> I actually think this hyper-granular realtime collaboration like in Google docs is slightly overrated. Disagree, with the caveat that I understand how it can feel overrated if you're not using the new ways of remote collaboration
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> it's that, if there's no story, we often cannot understand what is being said. There's an interesting corollary here to the mundane art of stakeholder management: One of the first things you learn in this art form is tha
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> My friend has lost all her Gmail emails since May 2023 until Tuesday 21 November. > I did have gmail fail to deliver a bunch of email from Thursday - Friday. I'm honestly just stunned to be reading stuff like this. I'm onl
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
I know you're (partly?) joking, but I'd gladly pay $20/mo for this kind of "cloud insurance policy" (on top of whatever trivial storage costs there are with each service). I really wish a service like this existed.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
The amount is already being spent — but it's spent in the much more valuable currency of time right now. Buying a car is a nightmarish process of emailing/calling dealers, making the rounds (often in person) to see what variatio
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Do you mind sharing where you got the titanium keyrings and carabiners? I've been searching forever for decent keyrings. There's a few carabiners (though the titanium ones are hard to find there too, and usually covered in obnoxio
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
That's fascinating that the total size is so tiny — only 2.4 TB‽ I assume this must be only the text portion, and heavily compressed?
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
The phases of the moon cycle every ~29.5 days [1], so you could use those to make an argument that a ~7-day week is pretty "natural." One could imagine early humans being much more aware of the phase of the moon (whereas I haven&#
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
This sounds nice — but is it really necessary to treat our good friend, the decimal point, so badly? Calling today 44.7 means that we're effectively using base 7 after the decimal point (but it's 1 through 7 instead of the usual 0
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Long ago, when I was young(er), I made the trek to YC's Startup School one year. I was sitting in the audience when someone asked Marc Andreessen how they should go about deciding when to break up with their cofounder. I still remember
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Yeah, but then you'd have to work in consulting. ;) A related idea is to just take the 400 bucks and spend it on AWS playing around. Spin up a few Kubernetes clusters, try out their various database offerings, maybe see if you can run
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
This is actually a brilliant bit of insight/tinfoil that I'd totally missed, largely because all the things that FAANGs have been saying to justify RTO have been so daft. You're totally right, though. If the data shows that
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
The reason it affects all of us is because those firms have been defining the high-end of market compensation. And, for clarity, compensation isn't just the money — which they generally do max out — but it's also all the intangi
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
In America, salads are much more difficult to find — let alone good ones. They're also priced accordingly, thanks to the magic of supply and demand. So, even after an epic lunchtime quest of hunting/gathering, you might end up o
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> Easy, it's just an internal transfer! At most BlubCo-type companies these days, an internal transfer often involves all the fun of the interview loop, while getting to skip all the hassle of negotiating a higher salary.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> Yet almost every CS major at Stanford still stays up all night doing leetcode or whatever stupid thing they're doing to try to get a place there. It's about the money. Work at a startup, and get paid meager table scraps to &q
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> However, if the timezone in question has some changes you didn't anticipate (new law voted, no more summer time), then you will either be triggering your event 1h before (e.g. 9am instead of 10am) which is probably not what your u
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Edited a few words and punctuation marks to make my intent clearer; hope that helps. The idea is to deal with the timezone at render-time, not to pass it around.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Dates should be integer seconds since epoch. Timezones are essentially a UI concept. The date value should always be stored and passed around as an int — and then only transformed into a user-readable string on the client-side at render-tim
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Fascinating. This isn't a space I follow, but the data is eye-opening. To contextualize it for myself a bit more, I checked out annual earnings [1] instead of lifetime and compared it to the overall global list [2] of athletes across
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> the dig against MBAs is unnecessary You're right. Ironically, I've seriously considered getting an MBA myself. I changed it to "management-consultant thinking," which feels much more fair, given we are ripping on a

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