rxhernandez

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by rxhernandez 4y ago
As someone who has lived on the West Coast of the US for decades, I have never heard any American call (), brackets.
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by rxhernandez 4y ago
Me; it's far superior to anything outside of a mouse. And yes, I have a MacBook M1 (I didn't realize how poor the support was for Linux by the time the return window closed).
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by rxhernandez 4y ago
Not having good linux support is a deal breaker for me.
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by rxhernandez 4y ago
Many people are very worried about Elon censoring others. He has already done that before.
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by rxhernandez 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31094361#31098178
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by rxhernandez 4y ago
It doesn't run linux anywhere near as well as a X1 Carbon. I get daily crashes on a fresh install on a M1 Mac after only a couple weeks of having it. My X1 Carbon has been running strong for nearly a year with no memorable crashes duri
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by rxhernandez 4y ago
> In practice, that can lag behind by months or even years and the only way to get necessary updates to get security fixes or get certain hardware working is many times to boot from Windows. I feel like I get updates fairly often with my
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
FWIW, it's incredibly rare for someone to bug me on a Friday in my 5+ years of remote work across 3 companies (medical devices, scientific devices, and blockchain) in 3 completely separate stages of their life (early startup, mature st
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
> if you compare the Galaxy S20 to the even older iPhone 11, the iPhone 11 will likely receive 5 years of OS updates compared to 1 year for Samsung My galaxy note 10 (purchased 2 years ago) is still receiving updates. In fact Samsung is
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
> Kind of like when women say they want men with a sensitive side, in touch with emotions, but in reality most women want a strong man who doesn't show any emotions. Frankly, almost no grown adult wants an emotionally stunted partne
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
Cal == Berkeley
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
You think UCLA, USC, and UCSD are second tier? Last I checked, UCSD is #9 for engineering in the nation, which is above UIUC at #10. USC is #12 and UCLA is #16 relative to Columbia at #15, John Hopkins at #17, Harvard at #21, Princeton at #
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
I'm sure there's more great ones in California but I can count 14 off the top of my head; I think all of them are nearly within 300 miles of LA too. 1. Caltech 2. Stanford 3. Cal 4. UCLA 5. Harvey Mudd 6. USC 7. UCSD 8. UCD 9. UCS
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
I think the divorce rate starkly points in a different direction.
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
It's not a big burden to update people, I've just seen the process abused so much that it becomes a colossal waste of time. Why can't I just post an asynchronous update to some group page at the end of the day? > If you do
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
I don't know about you but I can and do jump on a call with the product managers and my peers the second I run into any issues when it's fresh in my mind; I don't do well at remembering the problem the next morning, an hour a
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
> Half of what I learned isn't even true anymore or were partial truths/mostly lies This is true of most levels of education. What you learn in elementary turns out to be bullshit because of what you learn in high school which
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
That means nothing. I have met plenty of people that did calculus in high school and got pushed back into remedial classes in college. Exposure to a concept does not mean proficiency in it.
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
> We have our gods (founding fathers, dead presidents) and demigods (American folk heros, war heros). > We have our sacred texts (Constitution, Declaration, etc) and our genesis story (War for Independence). > We have our temples (
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
It seems it was only more effective in the short term. If the children had learned the rules better, they would ostensibly win in a longer session.
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
As someone who regularly inherits functions that are 300 lines long, I'll take 20 clean small functions over that any day.
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
Having done both frontend and embedded professionally for years, they're about equivalent in difficulty for a moderately complex system. For self-learning, frontend is orders of magnitude more accessible.
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
I ended up just buying a new battery for my t540p. I was reluctant to because I didn't think it could possibly last much longer with the abuse it's been subjected to, but, it's still going strong a year later.
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
It can definitely create problems when translating an algorithm from one to the other. I know it was a frustration when I translated algorithms from Matlab to C++.
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
I don't think anyone should be in solitary confinement so I don't think you disagree with me. I'm merely stating that the article wasn't wrong.
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
40 people for the whole country? That doesn't sound "routine." The article mentions that there are 80,000 in any given day for the US.
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
> Society does not have an answer to the more extrem cases of deviants, sadly. This society does have an answer and it's the same lazy answer it gives to every problem that it can't empathize with, lock it up and keep it out of
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
I wish I knew. Besides generic praise (like saying I'm a rockstar at my job) a few of my managers said that they loved how they could drop me into a situation with little to no information and have me come out successful. Other than th
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
On my second job, I made 2.5x what I made at my first engineering job (which ended 3.5 years ago). At my 3rd job I jumped my salary by 10s of thousands of dollars over what I was making at my 2nd job. At my 4th job, I now make 8x my first j
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by rxhernandez 5y ago
To be fair, I've skimmed a lot of tech books that were absolute trash. I would say the level of quality on blog posts and books are about the same; it's just easier to filter out trash books by reading reviews (unfortunately, I&#x

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