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by samhuk 3y ago
Thanks for your comment. Totally empathize with your experiences there.
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by samhuk 3y ago
I'll raise your spark for complete destruction. Here's an incomplete list that I keep around of the mechanisms that I've observed so far that have played a big part in the decline/destruction of an engineering team (and
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by samhuk 3y ago
TL;DR: Redux-like state container over Web Sockets for Javascript, allowing for distributed computing. This has been for some projects of mine where I have multiple Javascript processes that need to communicate with each other without the u
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Sock State – Redux-Like State Container over Web Sockets for JavaScript(github.com)
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by samhuk 3y ago
Regarding tech leadership: Perhaps I've just been unlucky, but a rather depressing proportion of tech leadership that I have been under in the past appear to have seeked the role in order to: 1. Hide lack of engineering aptitude. 2. Pu
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by samhuk 3y ago
I agree, "denying a bug" does not equal "lazy", but rather "denying a bug one has created " does at best equal "lazy", at worst malicious (e.g. rep protection).
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by samhuk 3y ago
> Deny that there is a problem. > Deny that it is your problem. > Ask for more information. > Complain. Oh my does this ever bring traumatic memories! This entire article reminds me of a previous company I used to work for. Ther
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by samhuk 3y ago
> The market never lies Whilst this can sometimes be true, e.g. Disney stock decline tied to "go woke go broke", in general this is demonstrably, incredibly false. The market is based on a mix of widely known facts, speculation
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by samhuk 3y ago
Due to two things: 1. I'm a bit of a klutz 2. I'm somewhat of a perfectionist-closeted-as-a-realist-for-money kind of person, so physical things that I make/do never scratch that "must be perfect" itch. ...I almost
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by samhuk 3y ago
It may be highly likely that I'm in some kind of out-of-touch techno bubble, but I don't see that much of a point of real physical hand-held calculators anymore. I feel like they got stuck between a rock and a hard place, i.e.: 1.
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by samhuk 3y ago
If you would like, could you explain why you need to use a calculator every day? I am probably in a massive techno bubble, right?
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by samhuk 3y ago
This is how I explained LK-99 to a friend a couple days ago :P
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by samhuk 3y ago
Indeed. The separation between "Chemistry" and "Physics" completely breaks down when you start dealing with electron behaviours. I've actually got a little tin-foil-hat pet theory that Chemistry is slowly dying as i
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by samhuk 3y ago
My ultimate take-away about LK-99 since the start has been that, even if it doesn't turn out to be a holy-grail or whatever, the novel ideas behind the material are incredibly interesting. The idea of causing tiny (~0.5%) crystal latti
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by samhuk 3y ago
I have to unfortunately agree with the sibling comment (although it was a little too verbose for its point). If, to you, the most interesting thing about LK99 and the developments thereof is tweets and internet forum drama about it, then th
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by samhuk 3y ago
No. 2 degrees error at such a large distance equals huge distance error. Also, empty space is huge and matter-things like Earth and the Sun are tiny compared to it.
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by samhuk 3y ago
TL;DR: 1. Voyager 2 has been pointing 2 degrees off from Earth 2. Been that way for a while and nobody noticed because very old computers. 3. Meaning that the probe has gone dark (ingress and egress comms are not possible) 4. However, both
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by samhuk 3y ago
Been almost solely a remote software engineer for ~5 years. The last couple of offices I've seen just have terrible equipment. This of course could just be my own anecdotal coincidental experience or just me being picky, but I do wonde
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by samhuk 3y ago
I'm too young to be any kind of oracle on IE and it's history, however I'm personally glad that IE was already fading away by the time I began my software engineering career. This is because, from the stories I've heard
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by samhuk 3y ago
> But how they have evolved! I'de disagree with that statement as some of their moves (such as purchasing GitHub) could be equally viewed as part of their typical EEE strategy that permeated the entire business. WSL could also be, a
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by samhuk 3y ago
Yes. It's a strange colloqialism indeed, but very common even in academia.
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by samhuk 3y ago
When I was finishing my internship at around 19 years old, on the last day a few colleagues did the whole card signing business. A close colleague - a team lead of a different team who I had worked with a lot, went to a couple dev conventio
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by samhuk 3y ago
Key result: "We conclude that Betelgeuse is in the late stage of core carbon burning, and a good candidate for the next Galactic supernova."
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by samhuk 3y ago
I whole-heartedly disagree, but on a more technical note: "echo chamber" is a pajorative that implies a bunch of people "sniffing their own farts and enjoying it" - more accurately, a group of people believing in a false
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by samhuk 3y ago
Minor correction: AMD CPUs do have something similar to efficiency cores, it's just that AMD doesn't clearly market it that way. They bin CCDs for performance (max attainable frequency, thermal efficiency, etc) and include a goo
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by samhuk 3y ago
This is HN, a reply that rewords "just don't be sad" into a turgid essay of meandering variables and equations will shoot to the top or close to it. I am sometimes surprised that so many fall into producing and consuming this
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by samhuk 3y ago
In my experience on HN, there have been plenty of unflagged/un-deranked posts regarding DEI. Remember when the harvard admissions scandal occurred? There is obviously "things to see here", in some cases. In this case, there
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by samhuk 3y ago
That would be great, in theory, but: 1) This rule is not applied consistently, as we all know. 2) Doesn't the post represent new phenomenon? Has this thing happened before? (government taking real, tangible action against DEI in educ
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by samhuk 3y ago
It's not exactly technical, so I get that it's not 100% "on-brand" for HN, however it is a little sad that the post has to be flagged. It feels like the community isn't trusted with a political topic like this.
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by samhuk 3y ago
Ah, Voat. Thinking back, I cringe at the fact that I was quite a prominent user in it's very early days, before it got took over by antisemitism etc. Before the FPH crowd and others who were banned from Reddit came over, it was a rea

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