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by sedachv 6y ago
"Cost-of-living adjustment" is the biggest wage fixing scheme since the 2005 Apple-Google wage fixing agreement. You are doing the same work, producing the same results, while the company is saving a ton of money on office rent, p
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by sedachv 6y ago
What argument? It is a salary negotiation. Do you not bother to negotiate your starting salary either?
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by sedachv 6y ago
> set a cost-of-living salary This is total nonsense, and you should never put up with this rationalization if HR tries to pull "cost of living" on you. Explain to them that it is called a "labor market" for a reason.
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by sedachv 6y ago
> Whenever I think about it I can't quite put my finger on exactly what Python would need to make it the same. It's something to do with the way imports and namespaces work, though. Python has a fundamentally broken module syst
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by sedachv 6y ago
> Most people avoid washing waterproof gear often (and particularly not at high temps), since it’s believed to damage the waterproofing. Which is completely wrong. The PTFE pores will get clogged with skin oil, leading to more internal c
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by sedachv 6y ago
It does.
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by sedachv 6y ago
> The last commit to this project was over 8 years ago. See Jiyuno Megami's repository: https://github.com/jiyunomegami/Vacietis > Any plans on getting this thing moving along again? Yes, sometime in the upc
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by sedachv 6y ago
I wanted a way for a Lisp operating system to be able to use OpenBSD or NetBSD hardware device drivers without modifying the driver source code. NetBSD hackers started writing their device drivers with well-specified interfaces between the
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by sedachv 6y ago
> As much as I love Docker for development, going all-in on containers for prod was a huge mistake. Containers are a great deployment mechanism for production. Unfortunately a lot of people seem to think that they are a substitute for pa
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by sedachv 6y ago
Gavin McInnes has described the Proud Boys as a "drinking club," one that happens to march around in specific colored shirts. McInnes literally modeled the Proud Boys on the early years of the Nazi party.
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by sedachv 6y ago
How much zinc oxide do the hexachloroethane grenades release? Zinc oxide is extremely toxic and results in symptoms known as "metal fume fever." You only need a tiny amount of exposure - I once got sick from not wearing a respirat
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by sedachv 6y ago
> I care about what Gates says because he's founded one of the world's largest charity organizations So your criteria for who is and is not worth listening to is "rich man who gives a lot of money to charity." Wealth
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by sedachv 6y ago
Jensen, in addition to being a prolific author, is one of today's leading environmental and social philosophers. The only reason you know or care about who Gates is, is because he became very wealthy from predatory business practices.
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by sedachv 6y ago
> Just intuitively it doesn't make sense that relatively small changes suddenly produce such disparate outcomes when they haven't to date. Average temperature by itself is a very misleading measure, because it does not tell you
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by sedachv 6y ago
> Imagine medieval peasant, which was most of the population ever. Maybe instead of using your imagination and whatever garbage you saw in a Hollywood movie, you can read accounts of how native people lived in places like North America u
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by sedachv 6y ago
> do any NNTP server software have email subscriptions? You do not really need to build that into an NNTP server; you can just have something like rss2email for NNTP running locally. There is a way to do it with CNews though: https:&#x2
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by sedachv 6y ago
> The real world has never been better Better for whom? And why do you think Bill Gates is any kind of authority on this subject? Read some of Derrick Jensen's writing instead.
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by sedachv 6y ago
> The Linux box I use as a router gets a single (i.e., /128) address from Spectrum Cable on its upstream interface, and it has to explicitly ask for a separate /64 prefix to advertise on the local interface Ask for a /56!
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by sedachv 6y ago
In the 35th anniversary talk on the 4004 at the Computer History Museum in 2006, Ted Hoff mentioned that one of the applications of the 4004 was for computerized cow collars for tracking feed and water ingestion: https://www.yout
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by sedachv 6y ago
> I think a LibreOffice-style hard fork will be necessary at some point with a nonprofit carrying Firefox forward. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
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by sedachv 6y ago
There is nothing in the GPL that prohibits you from selling games: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMon...
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Fortran Standard Library(github.com)
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by sedachv 6y ago
The good thing is you can have both: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer
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by sedachv 6y ago
> and you use testing tools and use virtualized systems and what not "what not" has been running in production since 1972: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/zvm
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by sedachv 7y ago
In Common Lisp, you can only transfer control up the stack. With continuations, you get multiple stacks that you can transfer control between.
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by sedachv 7y ago
The full APL grammar is not context-free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z0wzY9Oip4 The strict top-down, right-to-left evaluation makes parsing unnecessary for interpreters; you just need a tokenizer. Obviously this becam
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by sedachv 7y ago
The system functions and included workspaces are different, but I haven't had any surprises with the operators so far.
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by sedachv 7y ago
There are a lot of books, tutorials, and papers on APL and APL2, which are applicable to GNU APL.
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by sedachv 7y ago
https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/ Most likely available through your package manager.
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by sedachv 7y ago
Do you need to take phone calls and answer messages while riding your bike? When it became obvious to me that the scenario described in the article was going to be increasingly common, I started to carry my phone in airplane mode, in an ele

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