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by rzimmerman 4y ago
Yes anything that dynamic is super confusing. I honestly usually don’t bother type checking unit tests. There’s definitely some value but it’s really hard to justify on existing codebases. One thing I love about type hints (rather than comp
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by rzimmerman 4y ago
> Mypy catches bugs 100% yes. It’s much better than the examples would lead you to believe. Mypy catches stuff like: def f(arg: Optional[Object]): arg.method() # type error if arg is not None: arg.method
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by rzimmerman 4y ago
My family has two cars - a 5 year-old Subaru and a relatively new Tesla. The Subaru has great physical controls for pretty much everything. It has a slightly janky touch-screen for changing audio sources (with nice physical buttons on the w
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by rzimmerman 4y ago
Definitely - it is a total chore to get a threaded Python program to handle Ctrl-C/SIGINT properly. Single-threaded Python handles it well - as long as you don't register a custom signal handler, Ctrl-C raises a KeyboardInterrupt
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by rzimmerman 4y ago
Honestly the only reason I was so early in the beta is that I used to do a lot of freeway driving for work. Miles on autopilot counted as a perfect score, so I'd just try to leave autopilot on the whole time.
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by rzimmerman 4y ago
I've had a great experience with Autopilot. It does what's advertised - maintain speed, follow the car in front of me, stay in the lane and stop if necessary. It can even do more than that, like change lanes and follow exits. It&#
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by rzimmerman 4y ago
Carbon Mapper is a really great mission that will help crack down on a lot of accidental and negligent releases of methane and CO2. I used to work on this project and there are some really amazing people making it happen: https:/&#x2
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by rzimmerman 4y ago
“Unpacking” (on Switch - not sure where else) is a really beautiful game where you unpack a young woman’s things into her new living space at different points in her life (moving in to college, with roommates, a boyfriend, etc) and learn he
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by rzimmerman 4y ago
“How did you say YOLO in the 90s?”
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by rzimmerman 4y ago
There are two forms of "summon". There's regular summon, where you have to hold down a button to make the car go forward or back. It does turn to avoid obstacles, but with a very nervous energy. Regular summon is super slow,
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
I have found a lot of value from putting up real code from our code base (maybe simplified with some parts removed) and asking the candidate to explain what a function does. It’s very fair, low stress, and you can ask open-ended questions a
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
I’d go with an always lit “HAM BISCUITS” and two signs below that say “AVAILABLE” and “SOLD OUT”, one lit and one dark, to be super explicit. The problem with a green sign is that it might not stand out against a properly painted bike shed…
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
When I put together Kal (a compile to JavaScript language, now defunct), I was particular about this and used the sleep syntax: pause for 3 seconds With some other options for units. https://github.com/rzimmerman&
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
Or like a VC I once spoke with listening to a rideshare pitch: “I’m not your target market. I drive alone in my Bentley in the carpool lane. I don’t care if I get a $400 ticket.”
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
I’m in California where toll roads are more rare. I also dislike tolls on roads, though I understand the pragmatism.
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
I guess I just like the idea that whether or not you have a nice car/experience, it still takes just as long to get there. Not advocating anything - I just appreciate the abstract equalizer of the road.
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
Sorry - just speaking about my own experience and implying that an important “American value” to me is classlessness, which seems to erode over time. Thanks for calling me out on that. I don’t think this is different anywhere in the world.
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
One thing I love about driving in America is that (in a sense) everyone is equal. Whether you drive a brand new Ferrari or a 1990 Toyota, you still wait in the same traffic. HOV/carpool lanes are an understandable conceit to incentiviz
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
I also think it will be important for any future teenager of mine to learn to drive without the regenerative braking that Teslas default to. It’s a much better driving experience IMO, but I worry a new driver won’t learn the “oh no hit the
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
I don't think the answer is simple. I can give you a couple of observations, having worked at tech startups and adjacent industries that are MS heavy. Mostly anecdotal and opinions/personal taste: When companies are small and the
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
Quitting caffeine cold-turkey is very unpleasant. It can take a full two weeks of withdrawal (bad headaches, general tiredness). I’ve had more success reducing the amount (3/4 caf -> 1/2 caf) over time. Anything more that 4 cup
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
Rocket Lab | Satellite Operations Software Developer (Full Stack) | Full-time | Long Beach, CA | ONSITE/FLEX Rocket Lab is seeking a full stack Software Developer to support the development of Photon spacecraft operations software. In
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
I don’t know - yeah technically correlation doesn’t imply causation. But they are correlated…
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
Prohibition has clearly been worse in the case of alcohol and marijuana. You might be right, but I’m not convinced a prohibition on production and sale would produce the same black market for tobacco. Maybe it’s my own bias, but I like to t
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
It would be interesting to set up a server/PC that throttled The CPUs/GPUs by power use rather than thermal readings. It’s analogous to the burst credit system used on some EC2 instances, but it would be a cool kernel or hardware
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
Also hiring SREs: Rocket Lab | Satellite Operations Software Developer (Full Stack) | Full-time | Long Beach, CA | ONSITE/FLEX Rocket Lab is seeking Site Reliability Engineers to support development of infrastructure systems and servic
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
Rocket Lab | Satellite Operations Software Developer (Full Stack) | Full-time | Long Beach, CA | ONSITE/FLEX Rocket Lab is seeking a full stack Software Developer to support the development of Photon spacecraft operations software. In
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
I’d add that for most people, you should go higher than 1080p regardless of screen size. UHD/4k/Retina are all a huge improvement just when looking at text and it’s hard to go back.
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by rzimmerman 5y ago
Objective C does (explicit) reference counting, though I suppose that's a pretty limited use case these days.

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