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by shaftway 2y ago
+1 for using protobufs. I'll go a step further and suggest using textprotos for configuration files. You get validation out of the box for free (making it hard to mis-type your keys), along with a strict contract for your configuration
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by shaftway 2y ago
Another +1. I've found that it takes a lot of scans to get a solid representation of the tree, but I love the way they show you the quality of the scan (LEDs with well known positions are green, poorly are red, and mid is yellow). I
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by shaftway 2y ago
While I was at Google I was loaned out to the Android team to work on contact synchronizing. There was a problem that I was running into, but it was an extremely rare situation. I pulled aggregated data from production, and it looked like i
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by shaftway 2y ago
I suspect that D.J. Bernstein's preferred apples are of the silicon variety, but I could be mistaken. He is from New York, one of the early states where Honeycrisps were grown, but Long Island, which doesn't have much agriculture.
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by shaftway 2y ago
I'd love to see Bazel added to the comparison.
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by shaftway 2y ago
The Babylon Bee is a pretty right wing version of The Onion with articles titled things like "Satan Devastated After Kamala Loses Election". https://babylonbee.com/
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by shaftway 2y ago
I don't know that I believe that it does disadvantage one party. After all, the "other" party did just get a majority in the popular vote.
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by shaftway 2y ago
Neat writeup. I did a very similar thing in Rust, but to solve a different problem. I wanted to be able to easily make nice rich command line arguments for bash scripts without cluttering up the script too much. My minimal demo is: $
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by shaftway 2y ago
I'll throw my hat in the ring. I don't think that this is truly the primary mechanism. Maybe a contributing one, but definitely not the predominant cause. Let's say that the average woman wants to have children every 3 years.
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by shaftway 2y ago
I was hoping the article was about using a Docker container * as* your development environment. Talk about easily compartmentalizing and standardizing your projects across machines. Imagine if you got to a new job and your setup instructio
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by shaftway 2y ago
> but to other engineers they just look like simple build targets. I forgot to mention, this is by design. It is uncommon at Google for a BUILD file to be more than 3 or 4 build targets. Maybe someone will add a for loop to the build so
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by shaftway 2y ago
Most Google engineers don't do anything more complicated than the hello world examples. Probably far less complicated because they don't need to do any repo setup, it all just works out of the box. Most engineers just make simple
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by shaftway 2y ago
Ah, mis-remembered that part. Maybe I was under that impression because the clean zoom wasn't something that was exposed to the end-user. Early SVG plugins made zoom and pan part of their UI so it was a little more obvious.
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by shaftway 2y ago
As someone with ADHD, this article format is literally the worst. - Text is broken up into tiny little chunks that I can't really get into flow - Images are taller than my screen - Images don't have anything to do with the story,
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by shaftway 2y ago
I was on the Adobe SVG implementation QA team, focused on the javascript testing. I think that comment got some stuff wrong. Critically, SVG became a W3C recommendation in 2001, but Macromedia wasn't acquired by Adobe until 2005. W3C w
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by shaftway 2y ago
PMI is brutal, but it does change a down payment from 20% to 3.5%. >A home costs ~25% of the down payment on the day you buy it. I think this is related to the conventional wisdom that you shouldn't buy a house unless you expect to
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by shaftway 2y ago
I was a team lead on the Play Store frontend, and I was a developer on the internal meme platform Memegen. Both platforms suffered from the same thought process: "If we tell people exactly how they broke the rules, they'll use tha
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by shaftway 2y ago
I think the amazing part was that those seven different websites were delivered via Wi-Fi in most cities in the country. Your rich friends may have paid for a wired upgrade that gave them like 40 more websites, but the WiFi version was free
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by shaftway 2y ago
Strong Towns does a lot of discussion in this area. But here's a video that breaks it down well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
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by shaftway 2y ago
I've bounced in and out of advertising tech, and I can tell you that this isn't unique to that business space. No matter what space you land in, try to establish yourself as someone who is self-driven and can define and tackle you
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by shaftway 2y ago
I'm working on a cutting board as a wedding gift. The couple is Irish, and needed some design elements to suit. The edge will be three ribbons of darker wood (walnut, padauk, and walnut again) and the main cutting board area is light (
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by shaftway 2y ago
Higher res and earlier shot where the slot machines are focused on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcYbYhjdUb4&t=69s&ab_channel... Bonus for phrases on them like "Play while you wait" and "Win free m
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by shaftway 2y ago
I know this is a tangent, but that was a painful video to watch. It's clear their product is the AI, and maybe a bit of special sauce in being able to hook it up to existing networks / backplanes / equipment. But half of that
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by shaftway 2y ago
The usual plan of attack looks like this: 1. Get a raw dump of a database from 2. Take the usernames and passwords 3. Try logging into eTrade with those usernames and passwords This takes advantage of the fact that a third of people use the
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by shaftway 2y ago
Not sure what you mean by a text box (An input box? What's even the point? Who would type in it?), but adding an arrow takes all of 15 seconds.
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by shaftway 2y ago
This. I'm currently the originator and lead on a project that will have huge impact on our bottom line. The team is mostly junior people, so when I presented the plan the response I got wasn't "I didn't think we could do
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by shaftway 2y ago
I used to defend the death penalty. If we could wave a magic wand that told us definitely the guilt or innocence of a defendant, I would still. But we don't. And our jury trials are a poor substitute. Wikipedia claims that since 1972 t
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by shaftway 2y ago
Metformin is almost always the first medication that you primary physician will prescribe, along with dietary restrictions. There's a reason it's first on almost every single list of diabetes medications. The side-effects are supe
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by shaftway 2y ago
We're talking about somebody who hasn't had the means to be a "gamer". No experience with a first person 3d shooter with traditional controls. He plays better than my 12 year old would; no running along looking at the sk
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by shaftway 2y ago
Neat. Now do wood for how often it gives you splinters. Make sure you include Wenge. /me wanders off, muttering swear words, and in search of a pair of tweezers

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