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by raducu 5y ago
It's not fair for yourself and you'd do a huge disservice to yourself, but perhaps someone who said "I've seen this before" and got positive results can contradict me, but let me explain: 99% of people (as a person
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by raducu 5y ago
I really like your number of partitions with nice divisors, I thought of it myself and enthusiastically raved about it to an architect (which I really respect for a lot of reasons) but he insisted on some formula about throughput and I drop
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by raducu 5y ago
I was really shocked myself. I guess I got to my senses when I started studying for radio license and made a very expensive list of radio equipment that I couldn't otherwise use because I live in an apartment building (antennas and a
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by raducu 5y ago
Funny because a while ago I had some problems with a somewhat noisy neighbor listening to dubious music at odd hours -- not enough to even record his music on my phone, but I live in an old apartment building and it was enough to keep me up
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by raducu 5y ago
You mean pre-commit to the maximum parallelism by setting the number of partitions or am I missing something? In that case, sure, theoretically with JMS you can spawn as many parallel consumers as you want and with kafka you're limited
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by raducu 5y ago
Doesn't confluent offer a JMS client for kafka? So certainly you can use kafka as a queue.
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by raducu 5y ago
Because with kafka you can do (almost? exactly once delivery? transactions?) everything you can do with RabbitMq and a lot more, and everybody wants a piece of the action, but not everybody is prepared to pay the costs.
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by raducu 5y ago
There were talks that people with certain SNPs don't feel modafinil.
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by raducu 5y ago
I'm sure at some point there were soldiers who could have used a sword or bayonet, but eventually those were not needed anymore. The same with cannons in fighter planes.
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by raducu 5y ago
We could go a step further and think robot infantry soldiers, but airplanes are easier to automate. I'm sure that if the same effort was put into self-driving self-shooting tanks as in teslas, the result would be more than adequate vs
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by raducu 5y ago
Modafinil especially with coffee absolutely feels like a clasic stimulant IF I've taken a long enough tollerance break. I see only benefits -- maybe I'm a little bit too talkative and too many things seem interesting/worth ex
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by raducu 5y ago
Earth will be completely unhospitable in the next billion years, at least for aerobic life. That I find fascinating! 200-500 million years after Earth formed, life was there. We witness it now and 1 billion years from now it will all be g
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by raducu 5y ago
Mosquito biomass is not negligible I think. Surely some critters will suffer if we remove mosquitos.
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by raducu 5y ago
New variants are much more contagious, people don't wear masks all the time.
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by raducu 5y ago
The interview is about interpersonal skills as well, even in the case of "technical" tests. I've given specially crafted answers based on what I could tell about the interviewer and what he wanted to hear. Your solution m
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by raducu 5y ago
3D graphics is not a good moat, I agree. There are much better moats -- such as recursion, there's no way I'd let someone in my team if the don't get recursion, even though we almost never use it :)
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by raducu 5y ago
I used to interview for a big company, and I could tell some candidates already knew the questions, but I'm a bad interviewer myself as I tend to rate most candidates as 7+/10, I very rarely found coding-illiterate candidates. Whe
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by raducu 5y ago
Life's not fair, but I would also tend to discriminate against a candidate that doesn't "get" 3D graphics. Is there any programmer that started coding in his teenage years that didn't at some point try to do 2D draw
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by raducu 5y ago
Or tyrants gatekeeping future tyrants, or mature bears killing/eating younger bears to make their own life easier in the future (food and access to sex).
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by raducu 5y ago
> is there some way to reconcile deep Buddhist meditations with the platform theory? Isn't Buddhism the most non-dogmatic religions out there? > Are they using different definitions of "effort" and "manipulation&q
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by raducu 5y ago
What would be so dirty asking for speed? I did strong stimulants, and while I 100% agree there are even regular people who can get addicted, and people who should not be taking stimulants period (schizophrenia), and that I may be an excepti
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by raducu 5y ago
It was a long journey and my ADHD is not that severe so perhaps that's why it took so long. I took hard stimulants before I even contemplated I had ADHD, I treated them just like brain steroids (which I don't advice anybody does).
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by raducu 5y ago
I used to work about 4 hours a day, sometimes not at all and felt terrible inside about myself. Then I got diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Concerta. The focus is not what I want, but the reduction of impulsivity is doing wonders. I sta
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by raducu 5y ago
Some places can thrive with lots of overtime -- if they can attract the right kind of people, like Space X can. Other places can do great if their employees have no alternatives -- like Amazon. Some can do extremely well if they use sl
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by raducu 5y ago
Groups can get a life of their own, like a virus. Those who do admit fault can be replaced with others who are vocal about not admitting fault. The more polarizing, non falsifiable the beliefs of the group, the harder the change.
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by raducu 5y ago
If a civilization is capable of simulating universes, most likely it know if FTL is actually possible or not in their own universe. But it could also be that even the original universe has too many free/independent parameters and the o
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by raducu 5y ago
Well, yeah, but those men could be really healthy if at an advanced age they don't need viagra? My grandpa whom I've never caught lying, told me that in WW2 Romania, as a very young conscript, he was given a medical examination...
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by raducu 5y ago
I'd love/hate getting erections that I cannot control. Sex/touch just felt incredible as a teenager, when I could not control neither erections nor orgasm. I remember dancing with this girl in 8th grade, she had a green silk
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by raducu 5y ago
That could be very easy to prove right or wrong: if it's the sex, then the wives of men taking viagra should be less likely to develop alzheimer's themselves.
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by raducu 5y ago
I wonder if we could discover new physics/applications or build a warp drive just by brute-forcing/mass experimentation or simulation. What if our universe is simulation by an "alien" species who wants to achieve FTL tra

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