smilekzs

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by smilekzs 4y ago
If all you do is board-level integration of relatively low-speed stuff, then yes, SWE is more demanding. But that's not even the tip of the iceberg in the EE world. To name a few: high speed digital (Gbps+), ASIC (digital vs. mixed sig
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by smilekzs 4y ago
Basically Discord then? You have a human-readable handle that is not guaranteed to be unique, and disambiguated by the last 4 digits (?) of your actual UID (which is a number)?
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by smilekzs 4y ago
On surface this sounds like refrigerator vs fridge ;)
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by smilekzs 4y ago
I have driven the X1 and various other BMWs. The X1 is indeed horrible, and there is a reason: For handling / lateral dynamics: The X1 is derived from essentially a MINI platform which is FWD-based (transverse engine), compared to the
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by smilekzs 4y ago
Fortunately, G20 onwards have returned to a mechanically latching turning signal stalk design. Unfortunately, ZN8/ZD8 Toyota GR86 / Subaru BRZ (the new ones!) have regressed to the dreaded mechanically momentary (non-latching) tur
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by smilekzs 4y ago
Reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubari_King .
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by smilekzs 4y ago
They probably mean "they have already paid Google for things other than Google Drive anyway".
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by smilekzs 4y ago
Not only is it basic, it's included in the C++ standard library (since '17): https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/nth_element
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by smilekzs 4y ago
FTFY: thousands of GREEN threads
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by smilekzs 4y ago
For tabs, IMHO the one world-changing plugin is Tree Style Tab [1]. The auto-grouping is already quite useful; on top, a little manual dragging and/or customization can go a long way. The lack of parity in the Chrome world pushed me fu
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by smilekzs 4y ago
A covert reference was hidden in a link in the "Numeric operations" section ;)
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by smilekzs 4y ago
My biggest gripe with wired mice is that the wire never seem to cooperate --- it would drag on the table, be too stiff, tangle, etc. Plus, latency for at least the dongled mice (not the bluetooth ones) is low enough for me to notice.
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by smilekzs 4y ago
Risking pointing out the obvious: Did you mean: RC racing?
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by smilekzs 5y ago
unpaid yet enforced by company leadership overtime burnout culture
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by smilekzs 5y ago
I respectfully disagree. Any decent interviewer spends the same man-hour as the candidate does.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
10 mins per problem sounds extreme except for something that can be answered in no more than 5 lines of python (no code golf of course). Even then its signal-to-noise ratio (from an interviewer's perspective) can't possibly be too
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by smilekzs 5y ago
And it has become SOP for the Firefox team to eventually remove these flags later and hope you don't notice.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Paying Mozilla is mostly a donation, not a purchase. It is reasonable to scrutinize on the accountability when it comes to donations, even for normal donors. I do have a regular donation to the Mozilla Foundation but I too wish I could chip
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by smilekzs 5y ago
I think they meant "regardless of what method of braking you use, the tire still has to do the same amount of work, therefore produce the same amount of tire emissions".
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by smilekzs 5y ago
This description is not wrong, but not the complete picture either. It is true that trucks have to ferry between LGB (~ Port of Long Beach) and ONT (~ Ontario - San Bernardino corridor along I-10). However, ONT is the very place you have ac
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by smilekzs 5y ago
IMHO the barrier of entry really came down because with PEG-styled parser libs they put you back in the comfortable "declarative land" where you specify what you want using roughly the same mental model as RegEx without having to
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Meanwhile in the Silicon Valley, I am stuck with DOCSIS3.1 at 800Mbps down and ~35Mbps up (Comcast Gigabit) and zero fiber options...
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by smilekzs 5y ago
> If I want a pair of shoes I like, I go to the shop that sells them. > If I don't know those shoes exist, I will live happily, because I have no fabricated need to fulfill (and most probably if I'll know about them it'
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by smilekzs 5y ago
The reason passenger cars have gotten bigger and heavier so far can be mainly attributed to 2 reasons: (1) more room for passengers and luggage (2) safety requirements. I think they are both starting to hit the "diminishing returns&quo
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by smilekzs 5y ago
I like how this still does jQuery, if not only for nostalgia's sake...
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by smilekzs 5y ago
The PR backlash costs worth way more than what this would have saved.
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by smilekzs 5y ago
> I should search my todo app and my notes app. > What magic character did I have to type again? > I should press F1 to figure out. > What was the thought again?
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by smilekzs 5y ago
I use an existing product for this exact purpose: Google Keep. ($insert_your_favorite_hate_for_google_products_here /s)
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by smilekzs 5y ago
e.g. to develop software that works well on servers that do support them?
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by smilekzs 5y ago
Survivor bias alert: These people have all passed the interviews. I wonder if this is an intended side-effect, namely also filtering out people who would have passed if only they did rote memorization instead of actually mastering the CS fu

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