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by seanc 4y ago
I did much the same thing when the kids were about the same age. I would also put a kitchen timer _in the room_ set to 3:10. So at 3 minutes I got the reminder to stop what I'm doing and go to the room. Then at 3:10 their timer goes
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by seanc 4y ago
Back in the 80's few machines had hard drives, and often only one floppy. So if you put your disk in the drive and fired up the machine then bang, you were infected. Also, lots of machines with hard drives were configured to boot from
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by seanc 4y ago
Not true! Floppies had viruses too. Even back in the 80's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_(computer_virus)
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by seanc 4y ago
One small point on which I'm sure the author would agree is that an executive meeting can shift around between the three. Especially a pre-scheduled skip-level. It can start with some Mentoring, the executive might hear something inte
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by seanc 4y ago
Hmmm, it seems to me that if an executive is reaching across the organization for that kind of thing, that's a bad sign. It means the executive doesn't trust their leadership team (in the case of a skip-level) or their peer organ
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by seanc 4y ago
For sure! My least favourite type of bug is the converse though. "How is this possibly working?" When you're pulling on a thread and come across a function that looks completely broken and yet somehow is not.
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by seanc 4y ago
This talk, "Debugging with the Scientific Method" changed how I debug problems. I try to watch it once every year or two. tl;dr, when debugging people naturally form a hypothesis about what is going wrong and then set about gathe
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by seanc 4y ago
"Suppose every organization is able to clearly define their data and model quality SLOs." I laughed out loud. The rest of the essay is so on point I'm attributing the author full marks for a classic example of the dark, laco
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by seanc 4y ago
Somewhere I read a quote from some cranky business analyst complaining about how the low prices, quality products and high wages impact profits. "It's better to be a Costco customer or Costco employee than it is to be a Costco sha
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by seanc 4y ago
Take heart! Plenty of very smart and capable people bounce off this sort of thing. I think it's a matter of temperament; some folks are wired for strict typing and struggle to see the value of dynamic typing, other folks vice versa.
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by seanc 4y ago
Veterinarians as well: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-private-equ...
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by seanc 4y ago
I'm confused about the breezy way in which they distribute partitions and consumers. Since the producer computes the partition key and the consumer chooses which partitions to bind, how does the central kafka team enforce balance? One
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by seanc 4y ago
Be that as it may, I agree with the spirit of the grand-parent comment, which is that if you stick to straightforward Pub/Sub Kafka works great.
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by seanc 5y ago
In exchange we get population mobility; without this tax break homeowners would be very reluctant to ever sell their house and move someplace else. Also, housing capital gain isn't completely tax free; we all pay increasing amounts of
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by seanc 5y ago
In the FAQ they say they heat the frame to a temperature which "harms the varroa but does not harm the brood". IANABK, but color me skeptical.
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by seanc 5y ago
Humour is generally discouraged on hacker news, but this is too spot-on to resist: https://xkcd.com/1905/
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by seanc 5y ago
Well as a physics grad who struggled with first year LA and a parent of a current university student I can fill in some blanks. Linear Algebra specifically is a superpower these days and I was very excited to do the best I could to help by
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by seanc 5y ago
You might be surprised. My daughter took first year university linear algebra last year and graded assignments and tests were often returned weeks later, in some cases well into the exam preparation period. I told her this was unacceptabl
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by seanc 5y ago
I bought an MP3 Springboard module. Friend of mine asked "Where is the 'stop' button on that thing?" "There isn't one. There's nothing to stop."
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by seanc 5y ago
Any time one is consuming "lifestyle media" where a person is advocating a way of living you have to ask these questions: 1) Are they making a non-trivial amount of money just from the advocacy? Are the living off the farm or off
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by seanc 5y ago
It's a 10 bit number so I think you mean 1023, but yeah.
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by seanc 5y ago
WASD is a pretty good place to start. They don't try to be fancy, just good. https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/
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by seanc 5y ago
My guess would be so their algorithm can ID my face. Same reason I can't wear glasses in my passport photo.
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by seanc 5y ago
I invite candidates to "error out" to internet resources and use their own professional judgement about what is and is not okay. To set people at ease I tell them up front that only one candidate has crossed the line (googled the
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by seanc 5y ago
Yes, that's shocking. Many, many people are simply incapable of using a computer without glasses.
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by seanc 5y ago
Yep, for most people (like my Dad) cancer takes one inch at a time. So when it takes an inch you have to give it that inch, but you don't have to give it two.
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by seanc 5y ago
Yes, for sure, in the end you should call people what they want to be called. I know lots of Chinese people who chose an English name rather than put up with hearing their Chinese name horribly mangled all the time, and I know other Chines
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by seanc 5y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/327
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by seanc 5y ago
Believe it or not a good source of those is the Bible. Every language knows what do with them, either pronounce natively or a direct analogue; Ivan/John and so on.
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by seanc 5y ago
I used to run more strict 15 minute SCRUM standups, but when the pandemic hit and we all left the office I changed to this kind of standup on purpose. Those chit-chat conversations are important and since they weren't happening by acci

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