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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> If we were making a list of "kinds of people who are likely to talk lots about their personal lives in a work environment", then bi trans poly folks would not be at the top of it. Correct. The #1 position for people who talk
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
It is absolutely a valid point that user experience, helpful error messages, ease of use are extremely important and historically neglected in programming language design, as contrasted with technical excellence. It is absolutely an invalid
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
She was on a tourist visa. I do not know whether the sausage was genetically modified - the customs agent confiscated it, so I did not get to meet it. Yes, she deliberately tried to conceal the sausage and lied that she had nothing to decla
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
Some number of years ago, my old grandmother attempted to smuggle a delicious salami into the US in her luggage. A police dog found it, the sausage was confiscated, she was fined something like $100, and once she paid the fine, she was allo
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> Kalzumeus had to show his bride’s mother his revenue sheet before asking her hand, because startup creator is second to homeless in the humiliation ranking. That's how marrying into an elite family worked in most of the world for
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
The machine from the article - a 2012 MBP Retina with 16 GB memory and 2.6 GHz i7 - had cost $2999 in the US (and significantly more in most of the rest of the world) at release. That's around $4200 today adjusting for inflation. You w
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
My understanding is that cheaters aren't necessarily a minority. In some classes they can be a large majority. The more they get away with it and see others get away with it, the more numerous and bold they get.
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> I honestly don't understand the use case for it You have 2 toddlers. You frequently wish to take them to visit friends / parks / supermarkets / libraries / doctors / coffee shops / whatever other plac
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> As someone with children, I can not imagine the bliss of living in Manhattan and being able to do things without needing a car. Lifting a 2 toddler stroller up and down narrow, crowded NYC subway stairs is the exact opposite of bliss.
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
Indeed. Everything is earmarked, occasionally even earmarked in a way that the university cannot use the at all (e.g. something like a donation "to pay for an earnest white Christian man to teach phrenology").
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
This is honestly a pretty skillful try at extremist propaganda. Long form vaguely neutral text with a vaguely plausible message. Gets your guard down, draws you in. Explicit right-wing politics in footnotes. And links (with the implication
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> contract-to-hire I suspect that in California (and probably much of the rest of the US), a person on the contract phase of contract-to-hire could make a good legal case that they are actually an employee.
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
Because, for one thing, the purpose of Netflix is to display movies and TV shows. Almost every movie or TV show ever made has some children in it somewhere, at least in the background. When your entire content is full of triggers for those
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
Performance of Java in general and Bazel in particular tends to be not CPU-limited but memory-limited. There was a time when MacBooks maxed out at 16 GB, and running Chrome + an IDE + large Bazel build on a machine with <16 GB memory was
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
50 lines in a single .cc source file which is only compiled once to produce the final artifact - sure, easy to handle. Now consider that you are editing 50 lines of source for a tool which will then need to be executed on some particular pl
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
You'll be happy to know that the Starlark team has recently started working on adding static typing! See https://github.com/orgs/bazelbuild/projects/21 and https://bazel.build/rules/
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
I had done a few remote coding interviews in recent months where I suspect the candidate was cheating using AI. It's a bizarre experience: each individual answer is produced confidently and quickly, makes sense in isolation, occasional
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
> [...] essentially conspire to destroy OpenAI itself Where in the article did you see any suggestion that any member of the board wished to destroy OpenAI itself?
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
> I have yet to see a free speech absolutist express concern ... Hi there. You are seeing one right now. Well, seeing the words of one. I am a free speech absolutist. What this administration is doing is abominable. I have always seen an
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
Empirically, banks which get involved with crypto tend to blow up: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunki... How should one keep track of whether one's banks have non-negligible crypto exposu
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
This may be the correct attitude towards school-age kids, but is plainly wrong when dealing with toddlers. For one thing, very young children are usually unable to empathize. So they are unable to understand why it's bad to seize the
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
My guess is because for the median HN reader (an ordinary techie who doesn't talk much on video, and when he/she does, it's mostly to other ordinary techies), your setup appears to be expensive overkill.
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
Lack of public defenders is the least of the problems pointed out in the article. The presence of a public defender should not be the only thing keeping the system from losing track of who has been imprisoned, why, and for how long. The pre
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
Where did you see signs of control by Russia or China? The project's github repo states that the project currently has one maintainer, and that maintainer has a very Dutch name and a .nl website.
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
I have never understood that attitude. Isn't the ability to deal with broken pipes literally part of your job as a landlord? It's like buying a restaurant when you don't like to cook and don't like to process orders - wh
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
She was a Democrat until 2022.
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
Obviously vandalism. He was putting stickers on random people's vehicles, damaging their paint.
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
> your recent years of peak lifetime earning potential overlapped with an industry massively overpaying its workforce Only if the following conditions are true: 1. You spent your entire career in the US, ideally on the West Coast 2. You
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
But then you will still get short-sighted layoff decisions getting made, only by directors instead of C-suite.
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by tetromino_ 2y ago
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