shortoncash

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by shortoncash 3y ago
It took me 15+ years in the business to realize this. If someone gave you a time machine to go into the past and give me your exact comment AND punch me in the face, it still wouldn't have dawned on me because I was in pursuit of some
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by shortoncash 4y ago
I hope so. I used to crush whiteboards but I really dislike these modern quiz platforms. I suppose I just need practice, but I'm like this old guy now with less time to practice on modern quiz platforms. Bring back pure whiteboard an
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by shortoncash 6y ago
I worked at home for 9 years and then I had kids. (They are great kids but they make working at home hard.) That was enough for me to not want to work at home anymore. I then got a new job, and then covid-19 hit and I am working at home a
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by shortoncash 7y ago
I'm speaking strictly technical here, but there have been features that have been removed. Trigraphs (I think), and the register keyword. Moreover, there are objects that are very clearly marked deprecated, like auto_ptr. (Oh, and th
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by shortoncash 7y ago
Calendars and to-do lists matter, but the unpleasant aspect of these things is that I become a human scheduler, similar to an operating system scheduler. The scheduling function consumes so much time on its own, and it's psychological
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by shortoncash 7y ago
Your design above with the private type being returned could possibly be useful. Perhaps outsiders to the class will be prevented from instantiating the nested-type without using the class itself to generate the nested type. This could be
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by shortoncash 7y ago
I was able to get rid of multiple computers and convert from physical to virtual and save on power bills. Once your build is complete you will be incredibly happy. AMD is killing it with these processors. I've never been happier wit
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by shortoncash 7y ago
Worker pool for compile jobs and simulations. The cost to run this locally and with local storage (over 10g) is cheaper than to do it in the cloud.
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by shortoncash 7y ago
I bought a 3900X also. I, too, would like a 3950X, but the 3900X is so fantastic it's hard to be too upset. I also have 4 Threadripper systems and I just could not get work done without them. My build times for compiling software wo
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by shortoncash 7y ago
gcc
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by shortoncash 7y ago
So true. The rent forces you to be on the hamster wheel.
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by shortoncash 7y ago
I'm in the same boat (but vegan). I supplement B12 and iron out of caution, but I am not sure they are even necessary. Just copy what the Indians do; they get by without meat and their diets and classic recipes seem to have evolved r
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by shortoncash 7y ago
So true. Always takes a bit of a spark to free your mind from the way the educational system makes you do things. Once you get away from the comfort of routine and embrace the danger of thinking in ways that the machine likes to discourag
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by shortoncash 7y ago
I believe in the code dictator model also. However, the code dictator takes a lot of heat over style opinions. What I see is that, when the dictator emerges, he still has to build coalitions out of people with different skills and differe
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by shortoncash 7y ago
I work at a place where the culture is definitely "everybody should tidy this up" and it never changes, or it changes very slowly. What I'm finding though is that there's no real defense against this kind of culture oth
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by shortoncash 7y ago
I noticed years ago that I didn't have as much insight as other people who were much more close to the problems I was interested in. Even on non-technical topics, there was this realization I was just more noise in a sea of noise. So,
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by shortoncash 7y ago
I went to summer camp one year and another kid brought the TV tuner for the GameGear to camp. We were doing some wilderness survival thing where we had to sleep out in a makeshift structure. In the middle of the night, in the middle of no
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by shortoncash 7y ago
These days many languages are so expressive you can establish a dominant paradigm in the part of the code you work on. We have a kind of micro-level choice that even the most authoritarian code-reviews can't largely stamp out (provide
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by shortoncash 7y ago
A friend had one of these and his dad tried to convince my dad to buy one. I honestly don't know what my friend did with this thing other than play a few games. I wonder what kind of analysis of the stock market they could even do on
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by shortoncash 7y ago
Nowhere is this more evident than in the editor wars. I have been trying to convert vi users to emacs for years. They just go running right back into the arms of their abuser.
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by shortoncash 7y ago
That doesn't make them a target worthy of a lawsuit. You have to peel back the finances. Many times the cash flow from a rental is just there to minimize the monthly damage of having an asset do nothing useful for its owner at all. Y
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by shortoncash 7y ago
The larger operators can also be sued. How does it work with AirBnB hosts? How do you even know if they have the assets to be worth suing?
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by shortoncash 8y ago
People are hedging their answers. I'd go with the Bloomberg terminal and a lot of books.
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by shortoncash 8y ago
I don't think the mass media is any better. I remember the hard pushes for things like low fat diets, ignoring the dangers of sugar and sugary drinks, etc. I don't recall the pre-internet magazine covers being any better or wors
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by shortoncash 8y ago
Agreed. A lot of those people got to veganism through some kind of eating disorder or some other social problem. They started out looking at the world with a different lens than your typical western adolescent or young adult. Some of the
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by shortoncash 8y ago
I agree with you in principle. I'll add that we've been in a post-truth world since mass media, long before internet use became mainstream. We shouldn't act like this is a new problem just because people got comfortable wit
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by shortoncash 8y ago
Yeah, I always wondered why I couldn't just get my MacBook at the Apple store unboxed and then let them keep the packaging and re-use it for transport. It's not like their box has any utility to me after; I just put my laptop and
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by shortoncash 8y ago
Most ML jobs are sitting around scrubbing data. The fun math part is like 5% of the job, and usually there's some guy (or a small handful of guys) that's a PhD who is hired to do all of that because he was in the research area be
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by shortoncash 8y ago
I love posts like this because it makes me feel like we're all robots that came off the same factory line. Other people have given good advice, but I'll throw a random one out there: I noticed I feel like you do basically every D
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by shortoncash 8y ago
I think the market gave too much weight to crypto with regard to Nvidia. The growth story for the company is still there. The article is talking about other companies designing for their own custom needs, but I think the mindshare has larg

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