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by t8sr 3y ago
Around 2016 at Google, my entire reporting chain, from manager to CEO, changed. Literally not a single person was left. Laszlo, both Erics, Patrick and the rest of the L team all left in quick succession. I think the old Google of < 2015
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by t8sr 3y ago
This might not help you if you’re outside the country, but I believe the railway ticket office and the post office will also accept them. An anecdote: few months ago, my partner actually exchanged a 100 CHF note in the big SNB building on B
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by t8sr 3y ago
I don't think I am. You seem to disagree that things like where to branch are worth talking about, but you haven't given examples of what you mean by the big picture that is worth talking about. In this thread, you've told a
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I work in security, and get to interact with a lot of area tech lead and architect types (L7-L9 in FAANG terms). I have found that the people who most concern themselves with “proper design” are generally about 5-10 years into their career
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I feel like I live in a parallel universe. I have never, after two years managed to get Bluetooth audio working on my windows computer. Shit randomly breaks and I have to follow 2-hours of steps to reinstall some inane driver that should ha
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by t8sr 3y ago
Well, actually I think once you decide that any nilable type has to be so annotated (e.g. as an option type), that changes the language quite a bit. I’m not so sure there is any evidence that programs written in such languages are simpler.
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I think nil is in the language because it keeps the compiler simpler than if it had to support an extra construct that exhausts the variants of option and result. In principle, you could implement a check, e.g. in govet, that tries to prove
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by t8sr 3y ago
I think your criticism of Go as it is right now is basically: 1) nil handling is bad 2) Missing enum/variant/sum type 3) Non-specific dislike of interfaces and generics (care to expand?) 4) Some style decisions, like case-sensitiv
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by t8sr 3y ago
Related - Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy is probably what this name is a reference to, and that book does have gaps, but it’s also one of the best things I’ve ever read and I highly recommend it. Russell was opinionated an
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by t8sr 3y ago
And yet every time there’s a delay in one of those connections, it’s DB that’s at fault, and somehow never the rail companies it interconnects with. If what you say is true and Germany is uniquely more interconnected than other European cou
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by t8sr 3y ago
Your characterization of the Swiss situation is inaccurate - it’s much more complex than you say for three reasons: 1) There are actually many more corridors, of which Basel-Geneva is not really an important one. St Gallen - Zurich - Bern -
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by t8sr 3y ago
Huh? Ok, so what do you propose: should time keeping diverge from the day-night cycle, or should we have leap seconds? There is no third option - the Earth just doesn’t turn the way you want it to. It becomes your problem in a hurry once yo
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by t8sr 3y ago
This article is a sales pitch for a specific platform. OP seems to just be posting commercial content. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but don’t expect a balanced, technical article - this is an ad.
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Man, write drunk, but edit sober.
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Must have been nice.
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I think the VM has to be switched off, not just suspended for the arguments to be editable. There are also some flags that UTM insists on and won't let you remove, which actually seems kind of reasonable - QEMU is really low-level and
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I can't say enough nice things about UTM. Especially if you've ever tried using QEMU manually, you'll appreciate how much heavy lifting UTM is doing for you. (It's basically impossible to run QEMU "correctly" o
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by t8sr 3y ago
Hello, and thank you for talking about your work. Real stories from the industry like this are awesome to have. As a fellow infosec person, I also struggle with keeping things brief. (Especially since I started out in digital forensics, whe
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by t8sr 3y ago
Why? They make and export everything, fairly successfully. Most countries are only globally competitive in a handful of sectors.
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It’s not an attack on you, or a value judgement about California. The index ranks the state lower than the rest of the country. I read the definition and I’m speculating why that is. You’re saying “yeah, well, we’re awesome.” Sure? The stat
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by t8sr 3y ago
I'm not sure California would rank that highly - the index measures diversification AND sophistication. Isn't most of California's economy based around a few big companies in the tech and entertainment sectors? By contrast, J
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by t8sr 3y ago
That is a very interesting paper, and I like that people do cross-disciplinary comparative studies, but you can't expect a study like that to give you insights into orbital mechanics. Yes, there are surprising correspondences in physic
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by t8sr 3y ago
But you said orbital resonance between two planets will eject a third from its orbit. Just... no. A physicist would never make a claim like "an orbital resonance between Earth and Venus would disrupt Mercury" without a study to ba
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by t8sr 3y ago
Meta: a few years ago, HN was interested in on-topic discussion by informed people. Nowadays, the "informed" bit is irrelevant. It was inevitable that this place would become reddit, and now it has. Calling out incorrect informati
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by t8sr 3y ago
How would anyone even refute a vague statement like that? Secondly, the word "consonant" has many different definitions, so again, your statement could mean almost anything. The concept of consonance has no obvious connection to w
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by t8sr 3y ago
I mean… no? That makes no sense. You can’t just say “hypothesis: something random”, that’s not how anything works. :)
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Just to clarify the difference between "true" resonance and a coincidence: True resonance reinforces itself. For example, Pluto speeds up and slows down in its orbit as it passes Neptune and the exchange of energy between the two
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tl;dr: Consider the birthday paradox. In astronomy we call these resonances. Sometimes, two seemingly unrelated periodic events will occur together, synchronized by a ratio between some small integers. I think the most typical example is th
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Why is another web framework notable? I’m unhappy to see HN become a place where people just promote their projects, but it’s good if those projects are technical and novel. Another web framework isn’t, especially when the homepage clearly
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Anyone can sound confident on the internet, but you don't seem to have anything to back it up. In my experience, 1 million per SWE in the Bay Area is actually about right across the industry. You can look at public numbers to see that

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