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by singron 4y ago
If this was insurance, where you accept a negative EV transaction to eliminate a catastrophic outcome, the you could make that argument. If your retirement fund was 20% smaller than you wanted, would you spend it all on lottery tickets so t
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by singron 4y ago
This is pretty cool. They are outside of the US, but even if they paid typically higher US salaries, they would still have many years of runway. It looks like there might be some funny business with MAU and Total Customers. MAU is only 3,50
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by singron 4y ago
If you want to do a rigorous job preventing these issues, you can try the skeleton algorithm from tr39. It provides a normal form where confusable characters are considered equivalent, which let's you easily find confusable identifiers
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by singron 4y ago
It's actually 3U since the 2U of 40 pis will need almost an entire 1U 48 port PoE switch instead of plugging into the TOR. The switch will use 35-100W for itself depending on features and conversion losses. If each pi uses more than 8-
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by singron 4y ago
Wow. I thought 60 was a lot. I don't think I did any. Honestly, if you spend that much effort practicing something, and it's not paying off, you might have the wrong strategy. E.g. maybe you are failing something besides coding, o
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by singron 4y ago
Assuming you didn't write too many zeroes on your W-4, you shouldn't have 100% withholding. AFAICT, this $0 paycheck thing comes from a single reddit post described in this article: https://www.newsweek.com/waitres
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by singron 4y ago
Everything makes sense to me until the Dual definitions: newtype Dual a = Dual {getDual :: a} instance Semigroup s => Dual s where (Dual a <> Dual b) = Dual (b <> a) instance Monoid m => Dual m where mempty
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by singron 4y ago
Are tech reporters just going to write the same article every week based on levels.fyi? I think they wrote basically the same thing two months ago.
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by singron 4y ago
https://archive.ph/LgL96
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by singron 4y ago
Unfortunately they've all had the mandatory corporate training to commit crimes over the phone and not email.
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by singron 4y ago
The military doesn't decide whether we go to war. That kind of policy is left to the other parts of government when things work properly. However, they constantly make kill/no-kill decisions. E.g. choosing bombing targets or drone
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by singron 4y ago
Every other driver uses GBM, which is well supported by all the various software related to gpu buffer management. Nvidia decided to not use GBM and instead use this EGLStreams thing, which meant it wasn't compatible. Politically, this
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by singron 4y ago
Assuming 250 million daily active users, that's $6/year/user. It seems a little high for an ad-supported business. Revenue was ~$20/year/user ($5 billion in 2021).
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by singron 4y ago
This article is still great and covers all these tricky ideas: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
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by singron 4y ago
You would owe capital gains tax if these were considered like breeding livestock. You would probably want to sell the pets again so you could offset your gain with loss. Otherwise, I think this sale would be considered ordinary income (othe
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by singron 4y ago
E.g. I'm in insert mode, then I press esc to go to normal mode and press j to go down one line. Instead, j is inserted. I can't be sure I didn't just make a typo, but this has happened much more often in Intellij than in vim
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by singron 4y ago
I use IdeaVim on a Mac and I'm 80% sure it reorders keystrokes sometimes when I go between normal and insert mode.
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by singron 4y ago
Imagine if the SaaS charged 100x the agreed price for the last month, refused to fix the charge, and when you issued a chargeback, they deleted all your lifetime data.
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by singron 4y ago
I thought it was from Peopleware. They claimed they found the result by performing coding wargames among professional programmers in the 80s. They claim that the best are 10x better than the worst but only 2.5x better than the median. Addit
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by singron 4y ago
I don't want to say anything too specific, but for our SaaS company, it's very common for larger clients to pay an effective price that's around 2x the intended "call us" sticker price even after negotiated discount
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by singron 4y ago
Check your library too. Mine has cheaper printing than Staples and a free allowance.
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by singron 4y ago
The title of this article should really be "Don’t promote your programmers into managers", which is the first sentence of a paragraph halfway through. The article doesn't say to stop promoting programmers among programming ro
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by singron 4y ago
If all these companies had a hiring freeze for 3 years, that would be newsworthy, although it might not be reported on due to a lack of a punctuating event.
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by singron 4y ago
Obviously there is a huge downturn, so lots of startups are slowing or freezing hiring. The article needs to address this before it can attempt to make a more nuanced point about a reduction in remote roles. E.g. what if remote roles are ac
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by singron 4y ago
This is not hard to believe even without any malicious intention. Each round might have several investors (hopefully some repeats from earlier rounds, but there are usually some new investors each time), and startups with significant spend
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by singron 4y ago
It looks like this only affects DES passwords. Glibc has supported other hashing algorithms for a very long time and most Linux distros have used them by default for years. I don't think there is a way for an unprivileged user to choos
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by singron 4y ago
Money is a surprisingly good proxy for energy and carbon impact. If it's cheaper to buy than rent, then it probably uses less energy too. When you rent a car, it has to sit in the rental car parking lot. They have to build the facility
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by singron 4y ago
Nitter is so much better. It successfully loads every time, is faster, and has less junk.
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by singron 4y ago
These are just backup generators. Cheap to buy and own but not cheap to run. A sufficiently large pv/battery array would probably be huge.
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by singron 4y ago
I've noticed that for some interviewers, praise during the interview is inversely correlated with the rating they give (I did a lot of pair interviews, which have similar tradeoffs to pair programming). Good candidates breeze through t

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