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by theamk 2y ago
Looking at SAG benefits [0], I can imagine they would be very nice for Waitress #2. But what does Tom Cruise get out of it? He certainly does not need a union to get his wage, pension and benefits. Is this a solidarity with other, less know
812.
by theamk 2y ago
That's pretty bad... When calculating the efficiency, transitional effects and non-ideality of parts are critical. And what does the author choose? A generic mosfet, unnamed diode, constant duty cycle.. this is not realistic at all. An
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by theamk 2y ago
For people who are thinking about getting into electronics: that project is very complex for what it does. Nothing wrong with it as long as your goal is to learn advanced fabrication techniques, but most people don't need any of this s
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by theamk 2y ago
That oilfield is pretty useless without drilling equipment. And ground is useless without seeds, fertilizers, farm equipment and spare parts.
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by theamk 2y ago
TL/DR: "a 40-minute technical pair programming assessment providing a dummy codebase mirroring a section of your production code, complete with incomplete functions, faulty implementation, and failing tests. The candidate is sent
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by theamk 2y ago
One way to look at the problem is to try to determine _why_ is that you can't find the documentation. I assume you used your wiki's search function - then why couldn't you find it? Are you not familiar with keywords, so your
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by theamk 2y ago
I was reading this and thinking: "Hey, this person is describing LiveJournal!" and yep... at the very end there Dreamwidth (LJ's spiritual successor)
818.
by theamk 2y ago
You sure it was "perfect"? Or was it just like that advice - realstic looking but actually not the best...
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by theamk 2y ago
Don't you trade battery-every-5-years to "adjust time weekly"? In the other comment, someone mention Vacheron Constantin watches can be off by as much as a minute per week! This is bad enough that I'd call a watch like t
820.
by theamk 2y ago
The mechanical watches are not open source at all - most (all?) of them do not come with engineering drawings nor with list of materials. Even if you have a watch in front of you, it does not mean you can create a copy of it without a lot o
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by theamk 2y ago
Offices don't only spend money "to be able to function" - there are all sort of expenses which are entirely optional. Workers' morale, manager's morale, "prestige", etc.. Have you ever heard about manageme
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by theamk 2y ago
but it is. What do you think the difference between MIT, GPL, AGPL and BSL is? It's explicitly what you call "morality". It is super easy to release things under AGPL today. If people don't, it is an explicit decision.
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by theamk 2y ago
Corporate money - if all you have is software engineers getting $250_000/year , the company likely pays ~$250/hour with all the overhead. So you are not paying "$500", you are paying 2 FTE hours. This is pretty small, co
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by theamk 2y ago
Easy. Think specialist equipment: a nice high-speed factory machine to put caps on bottles may be more than $100K new, but I doubt you can give it away for free on craigslist. It is huge, heavy, and has no practical value outside of soft dr
825.
by theamk 2y ago
Technically correct, but you are being pedantic. It was pretty clear to me that the 3rd sense of "digital" pertains to modern-ish electronic digital computers. I would not call mechanical calculator, human or hydraulic logic &quot
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by theamk 2y ago
Self-driving car senses objects and must make difficult decisions: Is this radar reflection from stationary light pole or from a moving object? Is this a parked car or a moving car? Will this pedestrain/biker jump on the roadway? What
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by theamk 2y ago
What a confusing article about a trivial thing. I am surprised it has not been deleted yet. Summary (because I've wasted my time on it, so might as well spare others pain): 1. Let's say you want to get unique IDs from database _be
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by theamk 2y ago
direct link to pdf slides: https://people.osmocom.org/steve-m/hsdaoh_slides/rendered/os...
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Low Cost, High Speed Data Acquisition over HDMI(github.com)
4 points by theamk 2y ago|1 comments
830.
by theamk 2y ago
you only think until you have to extract some information from it. "Here is a dir full of CI job definitions, find all the ones which require extra permissions" - trivial in yaml or json or toml, could be hard to impossible for Py
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by theamk 2y ago
Sure, this is possible. Also Chegg is an "innovative learning tool", not a way to cheat. I agree that it's not that different than asking a tutor though, assuming it's a personal tutor whom are you paying so they won&#x2
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by theamk 2y ago
Sadly, ChatGPT is like a spotter that takes over at the smallest hint of struggle. Yes, you are not going to get crushed, but you won't get any workout done either. You really want start with a smaller weight, and increment it in steps
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by theamk 2y ago
if you are willing to break backwards compatibility, why even bother with Windows anymore? As you correctly say, Windows is all about backwards compatibility. It would be unreasonable to expect any innovations from it, expect innovations in
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by theamk 2y ago
this should have been titled "When Matlab is Better than numpy", and the arguments are: syntax, standard library (if you bought all the extra toolboxes), documentation, 1-based indexing (sic!). Author does not mention anything abo
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by theamk 2y ago
Recent enough Androids have this "Work Profile" feature. You get two app stores, and work apps get little "work" overlay. There are separate lock settings and sound/notification settings for work profiles too - I th
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by theamk 2y ago
that has zero information about prices or where to buy though?
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by theamk 2y ago
Wait, so if you go to python.org and the doc page says, "Added in version 3.11", you double-check this? What do you even use for double-check? Some random low-quality content farm? A glitchy LLM? An dodgy mirror of official docs f
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by theamk 2y ago
Could never understand that obsession with summmarization. Sure, it may be be useful for long-form articles or for low-quality content farms, but most of the time you are not reading those. And if you are reading technical docs, especially
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by theamk 2y ago
Author has two main problems with smartphones: (1) they don't like that smartphones do convenient things (take pictures, play games, read email, show spreadsheets, replace credit cards). Their proposed solution is to don't use tha
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by theamk 2y ago
The pagination was chosen because it was prominently featured in the candidate's resume, and was something that interviewer was familiar with - it's not about "cool experience", but rather conversation starter. When perf

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