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by sulam 4y ago
Glad it was a long time ago. Those kinds of questions are awful.
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by sulam 4y ago
I have a Steam Deck, and while it's playable, I'm not going to be setting any speed records with it. It's really kind of painfully difficult to things that I have down to muscle memory on a keyboard. Just as an example, copyi
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by sulam 4y ago
I would interpret it as an invitation to refine my search query, because that’s too many results for me to usefully filter.
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by sulam 4y ago
What was your signal that it was bumped by mods?
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by sulam 4y ago
I may be taking trips you’d be uncomfortable with, but the InReach is invaluable for two-way messaging and weather updates. I haven’t needed the emergency service (knock on wood), but I’ve used most of the other things it does. My phone is
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by sulam 4y ago
He specifically _didn't_ configure it in that way.
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by sulam 4y ago
There's not a ton of consistency across even relatively similar-looking tech companies in my experience, so you really should expect your mileage to vary. My N=3 large tech companies in my career is not so much better than your N=1 exa
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by sulam 4y ago
I can justify it quite easily. Take it away and see what happens.
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by sulam 4y ago
Not really. It comes down to the asymmetry in hiring outcomes. It is much more expensive to hire a bad employee than it is to hire a good employee. It’s gotten exceptionally hard to just fire people in corporate America, at-will employment
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by sulam 4y ago
Just like those art students you reference, engineers regularly find bits of code and regurgitate it in their projects. Stack Overflow gets its reputation for a reason. They especially do this earlier in their careers, before they develop t
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by sulam 4y ago
So, Google, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, etc should all shut down their scanning for CSAM? Do you realize the outcry this would produce? Google is not unique here, nor does it have unique power. This story would be just as plausible, and diffi
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by sulam 4y ago
I think it’s amusing that many commenters here are perfectly willing to defend DALL-E, but mention Copilot and the discussion looks radically different.
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by sulam 4y ago
His excitement is due to the unlikeliness of the result, more than its usefulness. All of the compounds discussed are amazingly reactive, and working with them, even in a lab, is incredibly difficult.
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by sulam 4y ago
I would add CRDTs to your list. They are a tool that, when they're applicable, are almost magical. Overview link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
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by sulam 4y ago
I’m in my 50s, have lived in the SF Bay Area since I was 23 because back then this was the place to be. If I was in your shoes today I’d probably fall prey to the paradox of choice. That said, you could do a lot worse than London.
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by sulam 4y ago
I seem to recall a phrase involving death and taxes. Be smart, pay your taxes and don’t have that hanging over your head the rest of your life.
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by sulam 4y ago
Not only has this been considered in California, it’s actively done in India.
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by sulam 4y ago
I suspect gp may have been referring to specific mountains and specific trees, not trees as a species.
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by sulam 4y ago
Many developers make commits that are “wip” with messages to match. Maybe you commit before you go to lunch, or when you go home for the day. These are useless commits and should be rebased or squashed, but many of these same devs won’t do
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by sulam 4y ago
An example is renaming a method that’s heavily used. It can be nice to have the first commit be the rename, and then the second commit be changing the usages. When you code review that, it makes your job easier. Trivial example but you can
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by sulam 4y ago
Large commits are an antipattern that should be reworked, in code review at worst.
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by sulam 4y ago
I’ve been a C suite exec at four different companies, and decline to consider more than that every month for at least the last four years. My taxes are more than the average American earns in their entire lifetime for over 10 years running.
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by sulam 4y ago
I’m going to go out on a very short limb and guess you’ve never actually worked closely with one of these people. I have, twice, and they work so hard they make me sad for them. Nonstop, there is no such thing as downtime. Yes they may go t
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by sulam 4y ago
I have root right now on my Linux and MacOS systems.
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by sulam 4y ago
Depends on the people. In the Stadia case there were people hired to build first party games in Montreal and some of the skills needed for that don’t have a natural place to go elsewhere inside of Google. I don’t know this for sure, but I e
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by sulam 4y ago
He is not Patrick Collison. https://www.kalzumeus.com/
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by sulam 4y ago
In addition to the other explanations it might be interesting to know that high net worth individuals tend to make heavy use of these. They have extensive collateral that is often less than fully liquid. They can borrow a relatively small a
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by sulam 4y ago
This is such a strange take. There's any number of more effective ways for Musk to justify selling some Tesla stock that aren't especially likely to tank it. On top of that, announcing his intent to buy Twitter did in fact get fac
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by sulam 4y ago
I was able to find this without much googling: https://www.geekwire.com/2013/duane-campbell/
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by sulam 4y ago
We deployed a system like this across hundreds of engineers in a reasonably sized monorepo and had zero complaints about system performance. While I don’t know the underlying architecture of inotify/etc, it seems to be very efficiently

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