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by sly010 5y ago
Think about it the other way, if they reject a candidate for asking, it's their way of saying "The PTO situation is terrible here".
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by sly010 5y ago
Inspiring story if you don't already work "in cloud" but as someone with a decade of experience, it somehow has an opposite effect on me. This story highlights how un-glamorous our job can be: tracking down (memory) leaks, fi
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by sly010 5y ago
> “We have empowered inauthentic actors to accumulate huge followings for largely unknown purposes.” So, almost like a religion?
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by sly010 5y ago
Tesla is not that different from any consumer device company: Priority #1 is shareholder value and they have nothing to gain by making repair easy. In fact, by making things easy/cheap to fix they are going to loose a ton of revenue. B
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by sly010 5y ago
Fun fact: you can sous-vide in a dishwasher.
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by sly010 5y ago
I agree that good engineers can learn most tech fast, and that that is due to experience and not them being inherently smarter than others. If this is true though, how do you measure (non specific) experience? Maybe asking for 100 relativel
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by sly010 5y ago
Ok, I think I just understood the problem. The following would cause a problem: s0 := append([]string{}, "zoo") sa := append(s0, "foo") sb := append(s0, "bar") // overwrites sa[1] Go is
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by sly010 5y ago
> it does wrong thing without warning It's not without warning, it's a well documented behavior. Just think of slices as "immutable", "pass-by-value" data structures (with a relatively efficient implementati
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by sly010 5y ago
Go-s behavior is the ONLY sensible one in _any_ language that supports pointers. This is a faster and safe(er) way. You simply cannot modify (move or reallocate) a data-structure that has pointers pointing to it without invalidating all poi
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by sly010 5y ago
My takeaway from this article is "Big Oil" should have invested their billions in research on renewables, batteries, etc, instead of lawyers and fighting change. If you have a short-term-great, but long-term-dying business (which
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by sly010 5y ago
As a company, you don't have to report payments to a freelancer under $600 [0] [0] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... edit: added source
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by sly010 5y ago
> why Etcher in particular always attracts these 'i dont get it' comments when this exact microsm is the basis of our entire profession Because if you are creating some bootable media, it's not difficult to assume you are
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by sly010 5y ago
I never understood the market for Balena Etcher. You can use the standard unix 'dd' tool to copy images to sdcards and usb-drives. You can literally `dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/rdisk3` (or whatever your disk id is). I ha
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by sly010 5y ago
Or easier depending on what exactly you are doing. Rsync has a lot of switches, 'dd' has 'if' and 'of' :)
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by sly010 5y ago
> VS Code, whose remoting stuff is not FOSS Do you have more details on this? I thought VC Code just uses the language server protocol for remote editing, which supposed to be an open standard. What stops say neovim adding full LSP suppo
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by sly010 5y ago
No problem, we just have to improve our compilers until the above actually compiles to a single machine instruction... ;)
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by sly010 5y ago
This is not a 'static' optimization. It relies on knowledge that the compiler cannot decide by looking at the code (whether the linked list is _mostly_ laid out continuously). It might still be a very useful optimization in a JIT
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by sly010 5y ago
Totally off topic, but I found it funny that in the offical oracle cloud intro video the robot arm in the background misses the box, right as the narrator mentions the advantages of automation at 1:10: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by sly010 5y ago
I was just trying to make a point that scarsity and usefuleness are related. In the case of domains the scarcity comes from name recognition and the cost of registering not just in terms of money, but also in terms of process. Perhaps the p
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by sly010 5y ago
> When Google demands an E.164 number, they're not demanding it despite the fact that E.164 is a somewhat closed, opaque network, but because of it. Basically everything bad about the E.164 namespace and its constituent organization
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by sly010 5y ago
Have you heard about jesus nuts? [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut
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by sly010 5y ago
I would add "What color is your function?" (not a paper, more of a blogpost)
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by sly010 5y ago
Maybe I am just missing it, but I don't see how this factors in the fact that you could invest the same money in the market.
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by sly010 5y ago
AI has an issue that AI assistants tends towards mediocrity. In the mid-term this is great for sub-mediocre AI users who seemingly get a boost in performance/quality, etc, but people tend to not recognize that in the long term there is
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by sly010 5y ago
Eliyahu M. Goldratt has some great books explaining in great detail why this is the case: https://www.amazon.com/x/dp/0884272079 https://www.amazon.com/x/dp/0884271536
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by sly010 5y ago
If you wear a T-shirt with your home address on it, people will learn your home address. The correct technical solution seems to be to NOT wear a t-shirt with your home address on it. (Don't use a device that broadcasts your home SSID
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by sly010 5y ago
This is a bit like saying: Strangers looking for house #48 on my street are not allowed to look at my door and use my street number #42 on it to orient themselves. I am all for privacy, but this is a bit paranoid. Google is not distributing
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by sly010 5y ago
No manufacturing process is perfect, so you just sort, label and price the output accordingly. This is fairly normal practice. LEDs, vegetables, even eggs...
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by sly010 5y ago
This is how taxes work, so it makes total sense, perhaps with the exception that the baseline might be different for different "use cases" (ie. residential vs commercial).
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by sly010 5y ago
Also gives you something to do, while you are waiting. By the time you plugged in the 5th wire, the first 4 charged you halfway :D

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