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by sweettea 4y ago
I struggle to see why supporting OpenStreetMap wouldnt be a better course of action. OSM already has lots of good data; is the only valueadd redefining the format to be more enterprisey andor gatekeep some data? Hard to tell from their pres
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by sweettea 4y ago
Absorb is amazing! Even if you don't take up Sapling, there's a 'git absorb' plugin which I have found absolutely invaluable: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
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by sweettea 4y ago
>See a human with dyed hair and a bunch of metal shit in their face? Different kind of poisonous but still there. Fascinating. Can you elaborate on why they're poisonous?
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by sweettea 4y ago
Which government?
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by sweettea 4y ago
Note, though, the prevalence of specifically traditional Catholics. Traditionalists tend to reject in whole or part modern Catholicism's ecumenical angles, and embrace the black and white they perceive Catholicism used to have. It&#x27
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by sweettea 4y ago
Not discussed: hot water in houses increases humidity. In modern well sealed houses, that can result in unfortunate mold growth.
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by sweettea 4y ago
But it is a long principle of academia to avoid being scooped by putting out priority-proving work. Consider US patents; or, further back, I read here yesterday that Galileo published anagrams of his results and Kepler took great delight in
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by sweettea 4y ago
Why? If a test is supposed to measure your mastery of material relative to others', and point out your areas of potential improvement, a test with a full range of scores from 0 to 100% seems most effective. A test with a range of 0-40
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by sweettea 4y ago
Personally my experience is opposite: I've always found success in expanding quickly and throwing up defense towers and later fortresses, thereby draining the enemy's strength when they launch a poorly-considered attack. To me, th
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by sweettea 4y ago
Fogbugz going pay-only with little notice was discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32874311 . A preposterous business practice, and incredibly frustrating. I don't know what can be done about com
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by sweettea 4y ago
How do monetary donations translate into votes? Whether I give a candidate $1 or $1million, I still get only one vote; the only merit of donating money is to help my candidate make their views better known to more people, each of whom can n
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by sweettea 4y ago
As a MIT alum, 'worked hard' understates the difficulty of that many classes. There are a few people per class who do such incredible feats, and it's entirely reasonable to believe Keith Yost is one of them.
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by sweettea 4y ago
It absolutely has been cited as evidence by my moon-landing-denying friends. "It's a struggle now, yet they claim they're using the same technology as they used back then when the field was young? Seems unlikely."
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by sweettea 4y ago
Indeed,for basically this reason the book was a large influence in my conversion to Catholicism, viewing it as more able to keep knowledge preserved than the Reformed Protestantism of my upbringing.
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by sweettea 4y ago
Among the traditional FAANG, Facebook is the most remote friendly of them, with a large proportion of the company being fulltime remote.
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by sweettea 4y ago
And let me tell you, I buy a case every year and they are the sweetest, most delicious onions I've ever had the pleasure of acquisitioning. Not only is the author a good salesperson, they also do a wonderful job of making their custome
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by sweettea 4y ago
Verily Serif Mono (plus a few modifications). I find serif fonts much easier to read, and this one is the most non-monospace-like font I've ever found. (I've modified it to have a visually heavier semicolon and a visually lighter
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by sweettea 4y ago
Clevo: though they work closely with them to ensure all the hardware is Linux-supported. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17039414
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by sweettea 4y ago
Have you tried a concierge medicine service? While I agree that health-insurance-based providers have a lot of service problems, concierge medicine services seem to have better experiences since they're entirely choice-based.
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by sweettea 4y ago
One Charles de Fleury catalogued pieces of the true cross in the 1800s and found them to sum to 2% of a plausibly sized cross, not the oft-repeated claim that they add up to a large ship, or a nice house: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by sweettea 4y ago
I'm proud that my employer has a specific program to help folks who have taken a break in their careers rejoin the workforce. While we are currently mostly only hiring production engineers, the author and others in this situation shoul
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by sweettea 4y ago
Not all Catholics: the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation (kolbecenter.org) attempts to convince others that Catholics ought believe in young earth creationism. (To be precise, they advocate that the church never said one could believe
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by sweettea 5y ago
I want to reiterate this: I live literally three hours from any Meta office, I have never heard anyone encourage me to go to an office, and my team even has no three people in the same state. There's certainly the freedom to live nea
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by sweettea 5y ago
I too interviewed at Google for a remote position; we got through team matching, and I'd found a great new potential manager, before one of his bosses nixed the idea of me being permanently remote. My recruiter ended up finding me anot
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by sweettea 5y ago
You and me both. Though, the older housing inventory often is 900-1200 sqft, which is a very suitable size for a starter home, but smaller than the modern homes...
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by sweettea 5y ago
There are both maintainers and lists listed in MAINTAINERS (L: entries) -- did you Cc the mailing list? It might be good to bump the mailing list email if it's been several weeks, asking if there's more information you could provi
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by sweettea 5y ago
Other ancient musicians: I have always been impressed by Sir Christopher Lee, who released his final metal album at age 91, and whose Christmas single Jingle Hell was a top-20 hit that year. But, as far as I know, he was not a child prodigy
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by sweettea 5y ago
Company vax mandate was enough of a shove to go interview (after 8.5 years with the same team since graduating). By the time my exemption was approved, I had offers for more money, and ended up taking one at a MANGA company for 225% of prio
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by sweettea 5y ago
The point of a leetcode style question is to test someones' ability to explain and adapt a tricky problem on the fly. Given most of a software engineer's day to day is about communication and adapting existing solutions to related
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by sweettea 5y ago
Meta usually doesn't even bother finding you a team before hiring you, at least at L5 (senior) level... they hire based on a standardized interview process, you start with a 6 week bootcamp to get familiar with their systems, and then

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