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by srj 3y ago
Your per person figures seem low to me, and you're calling it profitability but then taking expenses out of that. Is that an industry term? Where does that number come from? I would think at least before expenses it would be quite high
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by srj 3y ago
Valve released the server binary one day before the client launch, and you could use that to register with steam. I knew someone with a two digit steam id from that.
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by srj 3y ago
Yeah my in-laws were somewhat well off at one point but one of them lost their job two decades ago and emptied their 401k with penalties so they could maintain their standard of living. Last year we bought them a house so the working spouse
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by srj 3y ago
I vaguely remember that I could participate in the employee purchase program. This was during the financial crisis though and I was an undergrad intern with a paltry ability to invest. Even if I had hit received some great stock award in al
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by srj 3y ago
I interned at NVIDIA in 2009 on the kernel mode driver team. Was super fun there in terms of the project work and the people. If the code still exists, I created the main class that schedules work out to the GPU on Windows. That level of pr
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by srj 3y ago
I remember bringing a postgresql book to a sleepover when I was in high school around 2002. An IRC friend was on the pgsql advocacy mailing list and we were all obsessed. Now were we cool? I have my doubts. We sure thought pgsql was cool th
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by srj 3y ago
Yeah I've been using vim with just a custom theme and a fairly vanilla .vimrc for 20 years. I just copy it around with me. These posts always make me feel like I'm missing out.
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by srj 3y ago
The after party scene at the Psychedelic Science conference must be fun.
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by srj 3y ago
In general the news gives me a very superficial and sometimes factually inaccurate view of events. This is startlingly true in just about every situation where I've had first hand knowledge of the event in question. One alternative I&#
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by srj 3y ago
Honking your horn and getting the person to pull away is pretty fast. By comparison it takes several minutes to get through to 911 where I live. Not to mention most humans would know better than to park in front of a fire department drivewa
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by srj 3y ago
The time it would take to pull out a phone and call a Cruise support line is already too long.
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by srj 3y ago
Several tech companies send transparency data of take down requests to www.lumendatabase.org. You can get a sense of scale and pattern.
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by srj 3y ago
It may just be that they went looking for covid cases there and found them. If they looked around the institute they may have found clusters there too.
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by srj 3y ago
It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to clone the main elements of reddit. Hopefully someone is building one.
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by srj 3y ago
Not that there's any excuse but I can imagine this was a recruiter who had to fill a bay area position. There are plenty of higher ups in the NYC Google office.
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by srj 3y ago
That's true but the treasury will price their interest rates to get buyers. If it goes high enough buyers will emerge unless there is nobody with faith in the government paying it back.
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by srj 3y ago
Any loan getting repaid technically "destroys" the money unless new replacement lending is made. It's because the money was created when it was lent out, i.e. banks are allowed to lend money they don't have up to a point
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by srj 3y ago
If Netflix wasn't sharing costs in upgrading peering links I agree, but I never understood that to be the point of the debate. Instead it's that ISPs want to rate and charge differently for different providers / content types
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by srj 3y ago
There have been so many layoffs that there is a glut of software engineers looking for jobs. The company's leadership knows that now, with labor supply up, they don't need to pay people the compensation they're currently payi
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by srj 3y ago
I can't imagine how the polynesians discovered Hawaii. Sailing thousands of miles in a small wooden boat and finding a speck of land in the pacific ocean.
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by srj 3y ago
In megacap tech you can have VPs that are 4 levels down in the reporting hierarchy. What I meant though was around how headcount is requested. I've seen my share of empire builders and been told to file and pad out HC requests even whe
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by srj 3y ago
I've had my current phone for 3.5 years and if there are features on newer phones I'm missing I guess I'm happier to not know about them.
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by srj 3y ago
Our leadership had no vision beyond doubling down on VR and doing a complete copy and paste of TikTok. Meanwhile our middle managers hired as many people as possible to justify their own promotions, as everyone is too lazy to consider impac
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by srj 3y ago
libquic should support it, but I'm not sure about how widely this is supported on servers. It should be supported on nginx at least.
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by srj 3y ago
They also killed off larrabee right before the GPU market took off. Even if they were behind on it there was so much potential.
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by srj 3y ago
Since quic sessions can be tracked by the connection id rather than the srcip/dstip/sport/dport/ipproto 5-tuple you could switch networks and have your session survive. Not sure if this implementation achieves that or no
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by srj 3y ago
It says tech bosses but this seems to just be about twitter.
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by srj 3y ago
Me too! It was aol punters and vb proggies that were my first push into programming and here I am all these years later.
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by srj 3y ago
Google did reduce staffing levels, there was a layoff in January. One of the best engineers I've ever worked with was let go as part of it.
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by srj 4y ago
Are people really this afraid of what is essentially a fancy autocomplete? I read the letter but concretely what are the legitimate concerns? The main problem I see is this being a next gen spambot.

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