rockemsockem

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by rockemsockem 1mo ago
For sure there are great engineers that are from Europe, I've worked with a bunch in the US, but it's a numbers game, and there's no competition there. Partly because so many of those great European engineers come here.
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
Lots of things have lights on them though. I'm thinking every status light on every piece of hardware. Edit: also, I'm not exactly filled with knowledge on new lamp design/construction, but I have seen startups/kickstart
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
Yeah, that's what I figured you meant. It absolutely is usually the database, guess you're also saying it's not the server-side either lol
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
By "web-side" you mean the client side I assume?
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
I think architecture is overemphasized a lot. I am quite plainly talking about writing code that runs efficiently to support a wide-variety of tasks. To do that, one needs to write code that runs fast on your targeted platforms and is exten
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
I did not mean to imply that consensus, stakeholder buy-in, and strategic direction are easy, or even that they are easier than writing good code. My point is just that the code part is not easy either. I think the article's point that
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
One thing I wonder about is how applicable your statement about web apps is to something like lamps or lighting generally. How many electrical engineers have re-designed a circuit that turns on/off a light? Are EEs who wind up doing mu
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
Your comment brings ripgrep to mind. Grep is about as ubiquitous a software tool as you can get with a very clear contract on input-output and it has absolutely stood the test of time. Then ripgrep comes along, it has the same contract as g
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
I think civil engineering is the main field in the US that relies on certifications/tests for FE/PE, there's probably more I'm unaware of though. As I pointed out above though, aerospace engineers (working on rockets&#x2
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
European countries, historically known for their dominance in the field of software.
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
This is such a tired take. Aerospace engineers who build rockets do not have some certification body allowing them to be called engineers. Same with most electrical engineers working on almost everything. If you think a government deciding
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
I agree that all those pieces are important, for sure. But it can all be undercut by a few for-loops that don't consider string re-allocations. That covers the "don't understand good code in the slightest, make big mistakes&q
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by rockemsockem 2mo ago
IDK, a sufficiently complex consumer or enterprise app winds up having big performance problems if people don't know what they're doing w.r.t. the code they write and how they connect systems together with that code. Those perform
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by rockemsockem 3mo ago
Starlink satellites can provide anyone with Internet.
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by rockemsockem 4mo ago
I'm sure your $20 will make waves.
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by rockemsockem 4mo ago
If you're retired and that exposed to stocks then you deserve to lose the money you risked. Pretty sure most people just sit in the default requirement 20XX year funds, which heavily weight away from equities once people are retirement
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by rockemsockem 4mo ago
If your 401k is in QQQ then I'm not sure you're going for a low risk portfolio
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by rockemsockem 5mo ago
The aesthetics are literally vs code though .....
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
Wow that article made a hard right turn about halfway through. "Most organizations improperly account for engineering teams and incorrectly consider both code and team growth to be assets when in fact they increase complexity..... but
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
You actually should have a high bar to make grandiose claims like calling someone a Nazi. > I personally think it's enough to show that Elon has given a bullhorn to some of the loudest white supremacist voices out there and personal
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
Cool, one blip. https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/ai_timelines/hardware_and_ai_time...
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
>What if he supported a political party in Germany that wanted to ban immigrants based on their religion, and even deport naturalized citizens based on their religion? Oh wait, he already does! But again, you will pretend that this is no
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
Me doing other things to get that same information means that it is diminished.
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
> Referring to all "non-whites" as violent brutes who would indiscriminately kill all white people is white supremacist thinking. It's a necessary part of white people justifying control of, and violence against, people of
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
I think there's a few more than just 1 in this case
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
Yes. Are you actually being serious? Look at the last 60 years.
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
Sounds like a great idea
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
Except that's wrong because greater electricity demand stimulates greater investment and leads to lower prices.
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
That is idiotic.
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by rockemsockem 6mo ago
That's really useful context, thanks for sharing!

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