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by shaftway 4y ago
Anecdote time. I was in Munich during the winter and had forgotten gloves. I was at an upscale hotel and everything there was paid for by work, so I got a pair of knitted gloves from their in-hotel store. The clerk made a point to tell me t
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by shaftway 4y ago
Why is it irrational to prefer a single battery platform? I try to keep all my tools Milwaukee because I know I have batteries for them, the tool-only package is cheaper, and I don't have to find the right charger. I got a few tools th
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by shaftway 4y ago
Maybe dang could structure the existing posts a little better. Maybe the top comment in each thread is the category (SWE / SRE / SET / Whatever) and jobs are posted under that. Maybe dang could even lock the top level of comm
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by shaftway 4y ago
Yeah, I'll try to get to it. Like I said it hasn't been a huge issue. I did read up on the forums about the hinges, since someone had the same complaint as me. IIRC the response was along the lines of "Adjustable tension on t
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by shaftway 4y ago
I agree with this. After spending 20 years in dev and several of them as a team lead, the vast majority of the project managers I've worked added very little value. Most of my interaction with them fell into three categories: - Asking
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by shaftway 4y ago
I've been using a Framework (11 gen, DIY edition) for the last year. I love the company, the idea, the repairability, almost all of it. But I've had 4 major issues: - Installing the WiFi card was crazy difficult. The antenna conne
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by shaftway 4y ago
I strongly suspect it's the extra services that third parties sell through them. Like the vacation packages, air conditioning installation, etc. We almost got a Puronics filter through them, but stopped short when we found out that it
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by shaftway 4y ago
But that means you'd need to be constantly building new smelting facilities as local wood resources were used up. Making charcoal needs relatively little infrastructure, so it'd be easier to make and transport. I suspect the optim
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by shaftway 4y ago
There's a stark difference between waist size and foot size. There's not a lot you can do to change the size of your feet, but diet and exercise affect your waist. I used to wear a 36 or 38 waist pants. I've managed to get th
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by shaftway 4y ago
A common justification is that you have to carry around large amounts of cash or other fungible valuables. If I dealt in gold or diamonds I wouldn't want my home address to be public either.
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by shaftway 4y ago
FWIW, the question I asked when I interviewed was whether a group of stones on a Go board had any liberties. I don't play Go, and I don't explain it that way; instead I describe stones as trapped or not, and define what trapped me
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by shaftway 4y ago
I see the whiteboard tests as similar to the skills test necessary to get a motorcycle license in California. To get your license you need to weave between a set of cones, go around a circle, and then come back through the set of cones, all
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by shaftway 4y ago
Anyone know how to contact a local chapter of the Satanic Temple? There's a "quiet and personal" ritual I want to conduct on my school's field right after a game involving a pentagram and salt.
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by shaftway 4y ago
There are at least two that I've seen in the bay area, so it checks out.
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by shaftway 4y ago
In Thomas' opinion he literally says that the supreme court should reconsider a number of cases including the one that prevents birth control bans. That makes me assume it'll come * before* the internment camps for brown people.
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by shaftway 4y ago
I think this is a by-product of some internal dynamics. A lot of teams push staff really hard to be interview trained because they see it as a funnel to get applicants for your team. I assume they think the interviewee will tell the recruit
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by shaftway 4y ago
Most fingerprint sensors that look for a pulse can be fooled by a gummy bear that has been sliced thin enough to allow the pulse to pass through, but thick enough for the ridges to be picked up. Think about something around a millimeter thi
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by shaftway 5y ago
It's a weird company-specific thing. I think part of it is that the company does a significant amount of traditional engineering under the same contracts.
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by shaftway 5y ago
Without being super cagey, let's just say I understand their rationale, and it's not entirely un-legit. I found the role via a Hacker News "Who's Hiring" post. My title is going to be "IT Consultant", and
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by shaftway 5y ago
I'm in the same boat as you (American, no degree), and I mostly agree (though I think that a debate around the value of college itself should be had, because I think there are too many cases where it isn't as high as people think
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by shaftway 5y ago
This was us 8 years ago. My wife has extra education for special needs kids, and after some bad deals with her school she opened her own business doing in-home services for kids. Now she's totally burnt out on that, and I'm advoca
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by shaftway 5y ago
This opinion piece has to be satire. It's not hard to pick the idea apart and the ideas presented are self-contradicting. > It might be difficult to vary the frequency of alternating electrical current. This would cause the old-fash
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by shaftway 5y ago
In the area they show in their video it doesn't look like it'd take much for the trees at the edge of the clearing to go up in flames, and pretty fast too.
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by shaftway 5y ago
I definitely feel trapped where I am. In my case it's because of the kids. They're half way through primary education, and I don't want to uproot them from a school that consistently gets high marks for its education to go to
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by shaftway 5y ago
I understand that feeling, and everyone has different interests. Personally I enjoy the mentoring part. I'm senior level and at this point there's only so much code I can write in a day. But mentoring someone up to a comparable le
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by shaftway 5y ago
I don't think this would even be able to put out a single tree catching fire. Generally the fire is too vertical and the extinguisher would land on the ground and not be activated by the heat, so it won't go off until flaming bran
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by shaftway 5y ago
> To be fair, if you don't live in the US, how would you know that a stick is a standardized measure? Cue the funny anecdote. We've been using au pairs to help with the kids. It took about 6 months for one of us to notice that
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by shaftway 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions
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by shaftway 5y ago
Maybe you're thinking of the "I'm So Meta Even This Acronym..." line?
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by shaftway 5y ago
> I don't call any youtubers who advertise a VPN or Skillshare a shill for the company, it's clear that money was exchanged. You don't? That's clearly shilling too.

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