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by romanows 2y ago
This is a great comment. Firefox used to _stand_ for things that internet savvy folks cared about, and at least some of that would trickle down to make even the non-savvy user's browsing experience better.
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by romanows 2y ago
Seems like this is in support of "Firefox Suggest", which seems to show sponsored links. I really don't like advertising so I really don't like going down that road. Can't they just take Google's yearly $600,00
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by romanows 2y ago
My fault, I shouldn't have mentioned that because it's not my key point. Given animals that come in to be spayed, say in a large US city, how risky is spaying? Is it worth everyone paying $300 more to reduce it by a very small a
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by romanows 2y ago
50% survivability increase, but is that going from 2/10000 to 1/10000 deaths? My impression is that spaying is relatively safe, so how much are we willing to spend to get more 9's? Edit: deleted distracting details that the
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by romanows 2y ago
DJs have timecoded vinyl records that do something like this, even allowing the DJ to scratch the mp3 that is being played.
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by romanows 2y ago
Reading quick, it's because the tab is used to indicate nested tabular data in a column. I wonder why not just have a zsv in the zsv?
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by romanows 2y ago
Glassdoor didn't make a reviewer's name public, that seems to be a persistent misconception, although there are still things to fault them for. This link is claiming that OpenTable is going to publicly associate first names and
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by romanows 2y ago
As a counterpoint, I really like that the whole puzzle is just a text file. It's simple, and as I mention in another comment, it reminds me of learning to program in my early days. This may not have any other real purpose than to be a
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by romanows 2y ago
Happy to see this, I used to love coding adventure books as a kid, where you'd type in a BASIC listing and try to "hack the door" or play a simple video game. I love that this forces the reader to actually solve the problem b
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by romanows 3y ago
I have aphantasia and wasn't seeing how it'd have a particular effect on FPS games, at least the ones I've played. Crosshair placement for things like leading shots? Or more for building a mental map of where the enemy is li
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by romanows 3y ago
Spatial imagery (map knowledge) is unaffected, so I can't see what effect aphantasia would have here?
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by romanows 3y ago
"It's based on the source code of Pixel Dungeon, by Watabou." I also played the original Pixel Dungeon, great game and bonus points for being free and open source!
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by romanows 3y ago
I think the parent comment's fix is to not use btrfs and warn others about how risky they estimate it is.
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by romanows 3y ago
Yep, although if we're worried about an adversarial Glassdoor, then the OP screwed up their opsec by sending their real name in the first place. Even for regular Glassdoor, it's in their email logs which might get leaked alongside
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by romanows 3y ago
It sounds like they aren't doing that, from what the glassdoor rep wrote. It sounds like the author is concerned that, in the event of a data leak , that their name can now be associated with their reviews, instead of just their email
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by romanows 3y ago
It's possible that different sets of people hold different opinions. I'm in the "build the people's browser" camp. I don't care where the $500 million comes from, but it doesn't seem to mostly go into Fire
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by romanows 3y ago
I would think you could have a company focused on one thing; e.g., "making the people's browser" (with more explanation so the goal is clear). Hire people who believe in that goal. Make it relatively easy for people to leav
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by romanows 3y ago
Ah, totally fair, I was thinking more about hardware than the OS stuff. On my side, I prefered the rear fingerprint sensor and plastic (lighter, less slippery) on some earlier pixels. Nexus 5 was my favorite, I think I'd be happy with
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by romanows 3y ago
What do you hate about the Pixel 8? I have one and find it pretty good, although I'm a very casual mobile phone user (USA-based, on Google Fi). I like that it's at least slightly smaller than the Pixel 7.
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by romanows 3y ago
I really like using Slurm, the documentation is great ( https://slurm.schedmd.com ) and the model is pretty straightforward, at least for the mostly-single-node jobs I used it for. You can launch a job(s) via command-line, config
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by romanows 3y ago
Could your manager have helped figure this out? Even if they can't change anything, it can be helpful to loop your manager in so they aren't surprised if a simmering conflict erupts down the road.
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by romanows 3y ago
Agile isn't meant to imply speed in the sense of LoC/s, though right? The speed in Agile is about getting customer feedback sooner rather than later (so maybe a kind of latency?). I don't think sprints are mentioned in the
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by romanows 3y ago
Are you sure json is faster than pickle in recent python versions? That's not intuitive to me and search result blurbs seem to indicate the opposite.
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by romanows 3y ago
http://squabbles.io
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by romanows 3y ago
Same, been paying for it for years. I'll be canceling it when RIF dies though, this just feels too much like the beginning of the end.
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by romanows 4y ago
I feel that this could be dramatized in the style of The Cuckoo's Egg, but with that IT dept playing the roll of the Russians. Maybe take a little literary license and make them a literal Cold War, Soviet-era KGB cell.
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by romanows 4y ago
It seems nearly impossible to determine how a company or team operates from the outside. An independent organization that could categorize approaches to software development along different axes (and also share true salary/TC info) wou
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by romanows 4y ago
I don't know if it's a well-written makefile, but Python builds are straightforward, even with stuff like LTO enabled. Also sqlite.
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by romanows 4y ago
Probably worth $50 when time is money but all I got were results I could have duplicated in GIMP, as someone who doesn't have a lot of experience with GIMP. It looks it just picks a font and an icon?
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by romanows 4y ago
The author also mentioned that there is a cost to selecting an alternative firm and managing them. Also, I'm not sure the author would have learned the same lessons outlined in this blog post had they not seen the process through to t

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