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by suzzer99 3y ago
I haven't logged in in years and I don't think I did much back then. Given everything I've read here, I think it might be safer just to let my account lie.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Also that the light and gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars can travel 100 million light years and arrive at earth within a second of each other. That's a mind-bogglingly small amount of drag.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
For me 6 months on and 6 months off would be incredible. But of course by the time 6 months goes by, someone has learned how to do my job and maintain all the shit I built, and I'm no longer valuable. Also I lose my health insurance an
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by suzzer99 3y ago
As a constant pedestrian, my main concern is people turning right at a light as I'm starting out in the crosswalk. In that case you can usually check their eyes from the side even at night. If I don't have confirmation they see me
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by suzzer99 3y ago
And before that the Big Data false gods, and before that the Web 2.0 false gods, and before that the microservices false gods.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Only cob nobblers thought this was real.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Mantis shrimps are show-offs. They hog all the records.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
But also with farming came specialization, like blacksmithing, being a priest, being a scribe, trade, etc. So at least some of the population was having their brains taxed on a regular basis.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Bonobos would probably be into it. They're horny little suckers.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
It's like how architect could mean anything from Powerpoint showman to principal developer.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
> It could help your hunting group not be ambushed by a surprise attack from a tiger or another hunting group. The original multi-tasking.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Agreed. Good tests are an order of magnitude harder than good code.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Yeah apparently it's not even allowed to talk about the hexagon at Saturn's pole, which makes me wonder if it's got some heuristic to determine potential conspiracy theories (rather than specific conspiracy theories being har
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by suzzer99 3y ago
In college creative writing, we all turned in our journals at the end of the year, leaving the professor less than a week to read and grade all of them. I buried "If you read this I'll buy you a six-pack" in the middle of my
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Here's ChatGPT refusing to talk about the hexagon on Saturn's pole. https://twitter.com/yugamald/status/1760170647161098362
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Here's some more. https://twitter.com/seanw_m/status/1760115118690509168 I really hope we get an interesting post mortem on this.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
> Big Pharma has a very powerful lobbying arm that is against Medicare negotiating down prices. I particularly liked how all the Congresspeople involved in writing that the government couldn't negotiate drug prices into Medicare Par
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by suzzer99 3y ago
That's not bad. I do everything I can to darken my room while I sleep. Just need an automatic light set to sunlight temperature that comes on when I want to get up.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Here's something I've always wondered. Could you get close enough to a neutron star to see it with the naked eye? Or would you be dead? If you could see it, what would it look like?
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by suzzer99 3y ago
iPod Shuffle is the same.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Agreed. I put the Chrysler Building up there with the Pantheon in Rome and El Castillo in Chichen Itza as buildings I could sit and stare at for hours.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I've had plenty of interviews that didn't involve high-pressure, time-sensitive whiteboards and still managed to draw out my knowledge and ability. The other possibility, which I don't know why shops don't offer more oft
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by suzzer99 3y ago
The problem with both IQ tests and leetcode interview questions is that in addition to aptitude, they also measure ability to perform under pressure and with a time constraint, skills which rarely come up in the actual job of software devel
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by suzzer99 3y ago
My first 3 or 4 tech jobs started with interviews like this, which seemed to work fine. Then everyone fell in love with coding questions. It's funny to think some hiring managers might be going back to interviewing like every other job
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I had a Commodore 64 and could dial long distance for free using hacked Sprint codes. For a brief moment in time, my BBS had the best collection of cracked C64 games in town. But then I slacked for a few months and the game passed me by.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I have no idea why or how, but lately FB has been showing me a ton of really interesting "suggested for you" content that actually gets me sucked in. Stuff like clips from nature docs, min-docs on extinct megafauna, time-lapse bui
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by suzzer99 3y ago
And after those 5 hours you spend another 5 hours beating your head against the wall until you finally realize the docs are out of date. Stale docs are worse than no docs. IME (at non-FAANG, non-tech darling companies) docs *always* go sta
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by suzzer99 3y ago
To build the Panama Canal, excavators removed enough spoil to fill a city block 19 miles high.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
This is what bothers me the most. Design the system so it doesn't rely on keepers remembering to lock doors. For one shift door to open, everything else must be locked down.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
The Quetzal and the Macaw: the Story of Costa Rica's rainforests. https://www.amazon.com/Quetzel-Macaw-Story-Costa-National/dp... Page 75: "Scientists estimate it takes from five to ten thousand years to comp

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