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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Same story here. Postman just got too feature-rich for my blood. curl + bloomRPC + graphiQL covers all my bases nowadays.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Fun fact, the very first explanation of Bluetooth tech I saw was by Leo Laporte on Tech TV sometime in the 90s. The name was the first thing they discussed iirc.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
They did? I am not disagreeing, just wondering if he disclosed that or how you found out.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
I think Destin of the Smarter Every Day YT channel had an interview a couple years ago with Dr. John Mather, the senior project scientist of the JWST, where he asked something like "will you be nervous during the launch and deployments
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
sure sure, but given the (potential) downsides of choosing wrong, what would be the trigger or reason for leaving IF things are still good? Or are you saying if you see signs of things going downhill but things are currently good?
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
> The typical employment lifecycle of an engineer is: Get frustrated by the current company culture and/or benefits, let this frustration sit for way too long, snap and choose a random company whose recruiter just happened to reach
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Yeah, none of that is true. Chariots were the deciding factor in many battles from the point they were invented by the people of the Sintashta culture until the last few centuries BCE and spread everywhere from Egypt to India to China. Cha
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
This is bit of a chicken-or-the-egg question - which came first, those customer preferences, or advertising insisting you 'need' the stainless steel washer to keep up with the Joneses which created the customer preferences.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
sure sure - it's unfair of me, but I call decision makers of all stripes - c-levels, etc - who are only motivated by short term numbers on a spreadsheet 'beancounters'
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Yeah, and I also forgot the 'let's make sure the thing is an unrepairable black box, so make sure all manuals, part numbers, and diagrams are locked behind copyright, let's sue anybody on You-tube showing people how to modify
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
I think Maytag is another example of what I think of as the attitude of profit margin >>> artisanry in modern companies. It goes something like this: Company A makes a thing, maybe it was founded by the inventor of the thing, maybe
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Ha, in the 2006-2010 timeframe I worked for an aerospace company working on experimental radar sensors and the like and I developed quite a few Cocoa desktop data analysis and visualization tools since we were a Mac shop. It was a good fit
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Sure maybe? but it's penetrated popular culture enough that I refuse to believe anybody would be surprised by 'No, I am your father'
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Yea, I don't get the appeal of watching someone pretend they haven't seen "The Empire Strikes Back" and are watching it for the first time and are agog at the the twist.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
It's hard to find much substantial or practical difference between a serf and a slave, but to add some nuance a serf definitely had some fairly substantial rights in England, at least theoretically that a slave in the modern sense does
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
I mean it depends on the application naturally, but flame graphs or no and especially when dealing with heap dump comparisons, sometimes very opaquely named symbols, etc, it can be an exercise in frustration.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
The only thing more tedious and brain-breaking than tracking down client-side JS memory leaks is tracking down server-side JS (Node) memory leaks.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Honestly, I think this has always been how most journalism has been, we're just noticing it more. But to be fair and I think to support your point, the bastions of so-called 'real' journalism do seem to have gotten fewer and
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Well the horses at least were quite intentionally traded, and I would be very surprised if chariots were not either, although admittedly, they spread mostly by some poor saps being pounded to dust by the folks in chariots and then those poo
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
I think there was a bunch of evidence already that also strongly indicated technology transfer throughout Eurasia in the last few millennia BCE, especially military technology. For example, two-wheeled light military chariots probably ori
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
>This is a symptom of tragedy of the commons + data driven decision making. Product Managers (of which I am one) are focused on advocating for changes that benefit the users. This is true of good product managers. Unfortunately there a
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Point 3 is the key one - soles, especially. Rubber soles weren't a thing - they were made of leather (or sometimes textiles) and they wore out in a matter of a couple months or even a few weeks with heavy usage, especially give point 1
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Anybody else find it very weird and off-putting that folks thought even talking about these issues would affect their careers? I mean, does that not speak volumes about the toxic professional atmosphere hollywood labors in?
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
as a senior IC, I've been asked to give technical peer interviews for candidates quite a few times. A LOT of the places I have worked there's no budget for sensible interview tools even for remote interviews (shared IDEs, etc), so
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Ugh, not to get on a grumpy-old-man tangent, but I recall when 'hacking' and 'hackathon' had fairly specific and nerdy meanings, and not 'let's try to knock something up we could do in Figma or another wirefram
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Commodore, later on, when they put a whole c64 in the c128, but I take your meaning.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
Fair enough, I stand corrected, but I guess I meant maintaining compatibility when you change architectures is stupid expensive.
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
ok, I stand corrected, but I will say that the Apple II line represented smaller iterations of the generally same architecture, right? i.e., Commodore I guess didn't iterate within the same architecture as much, breaking that compatibi
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
> Tramiel never understood or invested in growing a platform or growing, expanding, intercompatible product line. Each Commodore machine under his watch was a brand new machine, not compatible with the others except for maybe a few perip
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by sillyquiet 5y ago
This isn't related to shipbuilding, but it IS related to steam-bending and the recovery and preservation of lost artisanry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xj7OujbwU Channel of one of the last few remaining wainwrigh

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