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by shaftway 3y ago
I carried one of these when I was at Google (needed it for my job there). When I was using it by myself casually I almost never unfolded it. But when I wanted to see more detail in a photo or wanted to show someone a YouTube video it was in
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by shaftway 3y ago
> In painting, electrostatic action pulls the pain onto the surface, ensuring an even coat and safe working conditions. See? It's safe. Because they said it's safe. I'm sure the electrostatic action will pull * all* of th
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by shaftway 3y ago
So, to be sure I have this straight.... Me: The workaround sucks. Gradle: But at least we gave you a workaround. And this way we don't have to support backwards compatibility when we capriciously change our minds about something. Me: T
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by shaftway 3y ago
Except that Gradle constantly releases new versions with breaking changes. You need to install your own trusted version for each version that you use, and know which one to use for each project.
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by shaftway 4y ago
Google uses blaze to build the vast majority of Android apps internally. Anything that's not checked into the AOSP repos.
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by shaftway 4y ago
This is the approach we take with our linter. And it sucks. Because sometimes you really do want to have a code approach. Our remote cache rules have a couple twists (developers can read from remote or read/write to local, presubmit se
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by shaftway 4y ago
> They are not mutable.. their configuration is. That's just a mutable task with more steps. If I create a task and then later can reconfigure that task, that's a mutable task. Arguing that it happens during the configuration p
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by shaftway 4y ago
I work on a large codebase that uses Gradle. We're occasionally held up as an example: "see? This corp uses Gradle for something this large, so it must be good." We have a regularly scheduled meeting with Gradle where we have
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by shaftway 4y ago
I only bring this up because the GP post is talking about furniture you build yourself, but when you design and build something you will likely want it for significantly longer. I'm sitting at a desk I designed and built last summer. I
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by shaftway 4y ago
I had an employee who lied about a diploma in ~2015. It was pretty bold, he even included a student ID number. Eventually we just called the school's registrar's office and asked if we could verify a diploma. They asked for the na
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by shaftway 4y ago
We can also assume that Tesla will remove the free unlimited supercharging from these models and then re-sell them on he market. If I wanted to trade in my Model S with unlimited supercharging, I'd sell it on the used market and use th
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by shaftway 4y ago
Sublingual drug administration is one of the most rapid uptake forms that exist. The list is basically: - Intravenous - Inhalation (for things easily aerosolized) - Sublingual - Everything else (including intramuscular and subcutaneous) Thi
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by shaftway 4y ago
This. Hiring committee's job is to take the interview feedback and provide a "Hire" or "No Hire" decision. 99% of the time this is done entirely based on the interviewers' feedback without any further interacti
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by shaftway 4y ago
Do volunteer work. I did work for New York Cares for a while and in addition to actually helping a good cause you inevitably meet single women who are also volunteering. I probably averaged about two leads and one actual date per event I vo
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by shaftway 4y ago
I love these pens, but my hobby lately has been pen turning. Here's a pen just finished today: https://ibb.co/59bhKP7 I'd love a source of reviews like this for the refills. This pen takes a Parker style refill (C
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by shaftway 4y ago
Back in the mid aughties (circa 2006) I was doing risk analysis at a big bank. The kind of international bank that you read about on a regular basis in the news. Our team supported synthetic bond-backed collateral debt obligations, and this
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by shaftway 4y ago
I use my monitors in portrait mode. Some tools aren't great with it, but when I'm editing a doc it's amazing to be able to see two whole sheets of paper-worth of text.
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by shaftway 4y ago
From another article: > In her June 27, 2022, letter to Silva, Long also pointed out that she had already been in contact with Dahle’s office about his bid, and that a representative told her the lawmaker was “okay with the alternative s
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by shaftway 4y ago
She sold livestock at auction. After sale she offered to buy it back from the buyer, who agreed. The auction house decided that regardless of their amicable agreement the goat needed to be killed. The auction house then utilized their conne
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by shaftway 4y ago
VESA 100mm x 100mm through-mounting would be so money. If I could bolt this to the back of my monitor sandwiched between the monitor and the stand I'd be so happy.
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by shaftway 4y ago
Personally I avoid Map fields in protos. I don't find a huge amount of value for a Map<int, Foo> over a repeated Foo with an int key. That tends to be more flexible over time (since you can use different key fields) and it sidest
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by shaftway 4y ago
Nice. =============== from: Shaftway <my@email.address> to: press@twitter.com date: Mar 20, 2023, 3:29 PM subject: Elon Musk What is Twitter's official opinion of Elon Musk? -------------------- from: Press <press+noreply@twit
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by shaftway 4y ago
I've always assumed that there was some argument parser available that just sets things as environment variables, and that my google-fu is just too weak to find it. Why ccouldn't I just go `source argbash _ARG_ --single option o -
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by shaftway 4y ago
I think there's a complicated answer to that, with a ton of potential reasons and side effects. I can boil my reasons down to 3: 1.) I was L5, and while there were a ton of great L6s, there were not an insignificant number of ones who
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by shaftway 4y ago
It wasn't killed in favor of Google+. It was killed because nobody wanted to work on it and nobody wanted to fund it. Reader had been running on a shoestring budget for years with only one or two engineers. It was beginning to show its
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by shaftway 4y ago
Not at Google. Most of those things are decided for your manager with no knowledge of the person they're for. Your peers can affect your total comp by about 3 figures. Your manager can directly affect your total comp by about 4 figures
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by shaftway 4y ago
I'm not fundamentally against them, and I don't think they're scams, but it was a poor choice in their case. I also don't think this one wasn't legit, but I think that an objective bystander would not have been able
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by shaftway 4y ago
Too true. We had to have the talk with them after they almost fell for the IRS gift card scam, basically verbatim
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by shaftway 4y ago
I spent a week staying at a place 10 minutes from Jaco in late 2022. Our hosts were invaluable in helping us get acclimated to the driving. Key takeaways: - Watch the car in front of you very carefully when on the main highway. If they swer
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by shaftway 4y ago
My in-laws fell victim to this. When they moved they sat us down and started to talk about this "407-B" (not the real name, but I don't remember what it was) and how it's not a reverse mortgage. Then they proceeded to de

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