salamanderman

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by salamanderman 4y ago
I intensely agree, one thousand percent.
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by salamanderman 4y ago
Additionally, at least in small-medium sized teams, I've seen teams become over reliant on the small number of people who prioritize and respond quickly to code review requests. A benefit of not prioritizing code review as an individ
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by salamanderman 4y ago
I've seen the transition from a Javascript codebase to a Typescript codebase with all strict checks in place to have a similar step change in dev velocity. The speed of debugging stupid mistakes, confidence in larger changes, and remov
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by salamanderman 5y ago
That was a fun set! Thank you for posting that.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
What I see when I open a terminal is this: The default interactive shell is now zsh. To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`. For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb&#x2
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by salamanderman 5y ago
I'm sure the spinning disks are encrypted by some 3rd party software as well. When my old job did that my laptop's bootup time suddenly went up to 30 minutes.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
And if you change your default back to bash, every new terminal you open complains that you should switch to zsh
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by salamanderman 5y ago
There were DARPA-funded projects back in 2004 to try to avoid doing it like this, while it was being built. They were funding investigations into assembling the satellite on orbit, e.g. send up the segments one at a time and dock them toget
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by salamanderman 5y ago
I think it's really creative that the Pilot FriXion Gel Pen basically just uses disappearing ink.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
The part I don't follow is that I thought multiplication used the same number of CPU cycles as addition, so I didn't get the the part where one multiplication replaced with many additions was obviously better. Could someone explai
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by salamanderman 5y ago
If you're willing to just believe that there's a derivation that it works, actually implementing a kalman filter is pretty straightforward. The proof is a pain, but you don't have to be able to derive it to use it.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
Here's a couple examples of what I experience. I apologize that one is a little gory. This morning I walked past my kid's room and they had a pencil in their hand and were jumping on the bed. I literally saw her falling and gettin
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by salamanderman 5y ago
This reminds me of a friend I had who was born with one eye, and would swear up and down that binocular depth perception basically doesn't actually exist. You don't have to feel like you've missed out in life, but you also do
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by salamanderman 5y ago
There's a thing called Flashbulb Memory, but I think you're talking about something else.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
That made my day. Wow.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
One of the unfortunate things that goes along with this, from my experience, is that those area can be absolutely filthy. There was no janitorial staff for the cube farm I was briefly in. Everything had a layer of old dust and grime on it,
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by salamanderman 5y ago
You're absolutely right.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
Except that "for white people" is the default. The minority representation in media is still generally token at best. And, while it may seem like a double standard, when you say something implying that there should be a "x fo
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by salamanderman 5y ago
Netflix was a distribution platform before it became a production company as well. If you have a revue stream from existing content then you have the money to make content. Also, if minorities have content that they want to be seen, they&#x
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by salamanderman 5y ago
They tried to sell my dad some machines. He was in the oil industry. The sale didn't work out. My dad later had a job interview with them. That didn't work out either. Both were probably for the best, but what a different life I w
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by salamanderman 5y ago
Adapting to the candidate is probably good most of the time, but don't work too hard to make that happen. Computational geometry is on my resume, and interviewers are always trying to show that they know that too by trying to bend thei
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by salamanderman 5y ago
I'm sure that's true, but I've interviewed there numerous times and I invariably get one or two shockingly arrogant and obnoxious interviewers. The fact that they usually have no idea why I'm being interviewed, and clear
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by salamanderman 5y ago
I like that some of them entered the language as negatives.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
If you're interested in a detailed case study of OLPC's rollout, I recommend "The Charisma Machine". https://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Machine-Legacy-Laptop-Infras...
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by salamanderman 5y ago
Rather than pushing in the cartridge from the front, you can put the cartridge in like a piece of toast.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
I wouldn't recommend it if your mailbox is in the sun. We had ours sent to work and we'd take it home from there.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
It's gone both ways for me. I had one interview where the interviewer got very mad at me, and another where the interviewer was very impressed and was pleased to learn something. I got an offer from the latter company, and accepted.
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by salamanderman 5y ago
My big two after my recent blitz of interviewing candidates are: 1) Don't read/write email or do other web browsing activities during the interview. Even if your eyes are never pointed at the camera, it's easy to recognize ey
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by salamanderman 5y ago
If you want to get a nice tour of different chocolates every month, I recommend Cococlectic ( https://cococlectic.com/ ). I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but have been receiving craft chocolate from them each
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by salamanderman 5y ago
El Rey is great. I've personally bought several hundred lbs of their chocolate over the years. They seemed to have a serious supply chain issue during 2020 that got me scared, but they have more choices at the moment, which makes me ha

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