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by tibbon 7y ago
While motorcycles and cars aren't the same; I've found tires for them are really expensive. I can get about 3000-10000 miles on a set, and the sets are $450 installed. There's cheaper tires out there, but good tires are a saf
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by tibbon 7y ago
There's no accountability. Executives never see jailtime for gross negligence. They just push profits at the sake of all else, and don't give a shit about the PII of their users.
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by tibbon 7y ago
This isn't premature optimization however. It's having some reasonable SLOs that must be measured throughout development and met. To say that the average button response has to be within 20ms, and the 99% slowest within 50ms is pr
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by tibbon 7y ago
I saw this myself in an ambulance in the Boston area. The PCR system they were using was on some Toughbook-style computer, and I could tell that it was lagging and slow to input basic stuff on. Apparently whoever had put it together cared m
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by tibbon 7y ago
I've often wondered, "Is it just me, or everyone and everything seems to be kinda awful right now?". This points to at least some validity to this idea, or at least as much as the real world reflects onto Twitter. Is the meas
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by tibbon 7y ago
Agreed entirely. The guidelines help add some transparency, but still are far from perfect. I do believe without them many of these organizations would be far less transparent on their own, or the numbers would be even harder to compare. I
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by tibbon 7y ago
I'd like to know more about that. It sounds like a great idea!
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by tibbon 7y ago
Oh wow, I could talk for hours about this. From what I've heard at a lot of schools, the teachers would like to "fail" people or have higher standards for entry - but management and sales (I mean, admissions) push back hard.
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by tibbon 7y ago
This definitely isn't a slap at Lambda School. From what I've heard they are fine, and their response on this thread shows they care and are working on things. At this point I'm far less familiar with the market than I was se
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by tibbon 7y ago
Doesn't shock me one bit. I worked for General Assembly ~5 years ago, and they were really serious about getting and staying on top of all the state guidelines. I got the sense that we were the only school taking that seriously at the
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by tibbon 7y ago
Sure enough (and I've wondered how much of this is just getting older), over time I find fewer and fewer games to be worth my time. BotW has indeed been an exception; but I still can't get into it quite as deeply as some of my fri
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by tibbon 7y ago
I am floored at how cheap games are these days. Ultima IV had a street price of $50-55; in 1985. That's ~$130 in 2019. Teams were far far smaller then. Of course a "successful" game was also a far different standard; as withi
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by tibbon 7y ago
I grew up surrounded by computers, but took relatively few classes. I took AP Computer Science in high school, but had to teach myself the “B” part of the class because the other students couldn’t keep up and our AB class just reverted to j
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by tibbon 7y ago
The software documentation for people new to it is awful. The hardware is probably great, but I've had such a hard time with mine. It's not newbie friendly at all, and the people in HAM and SDRs don't know how to teach. It&#x
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by tibbon 7y ago
Stripe gets the front page because they are popular with developers, but I've dealt with so many other more-corporate payment processors that are absolutely awful for reliability. Rampant downtime, terrible support, terrible concurre
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by tibbon 7y ago
Yea, I've gotten at least two jobs that way - one fulltime, and another part time consulting. And a few interviews, which went well. When I'm looking it, I just normally search for Ruby or Rails and see what pops up. I almost neve
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by tibbon 7y ago
What I will agree with here is that we have made devices so thin and fragile that you instantly have to wrap them in thick cases to protect them. Or carry around a pound of adapters to shave off a few grams in having more than one port. The
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by tibbon 7y ago
Heh; the rather nice gear in the racks below isn't helping costs either :) Nice setup!
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by tibbon 7y ago
With the amount of object allocation in standard Rails behavior, it seems to currently perform worse in most applications. But it's a stepping stone for the future. Basically, it's there - but few/no people are using it.
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by tibbon 7y ago
When the JIT really gets rolling mainstream, it could help quite a bit. Performance (3x over v2) is a primary goal of Ruby 3. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/03/22/ruby-3x3-perfo...
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by tibbon 7y ago
Another way of thinking about it; when you've been on the highway and see gas, and pull off the highway, and there's a sign "1 gas station left" and "3 gas stations right", you almost always go right. You proba
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by tibbon 7y ago
Maybe ordering for burning man this year won’t be so backordered!
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by tibbon 8y ago
Expiry dates also aren't always as accurate as you might imagine. You'd think that a card that expires April 2019 wouldn't work in May, yet sometimes (but not always) they will for a month or two, or longer.
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by tibbon 8y ago
What are the biggest differences between a C64 and NES really? They both use a 6502 right? What prevents you from just overclocking the C64 to match the speed of the NES? Different memory layout?
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by tibbon 8y ago
I've been considering a Tesla. Buying the base model with zero options just never really crossed my mind. Seems that's the case for a lot of Tesla buyers. For me it's like buying a base laptop. For my personal one, I'll
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by tibbon 8y ago
I personally miss personal sites, and "under construction" signs.
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by tibbon 8y ago
I'm imagining Jason Scott/textfiles on an Indiana Jones-like mission, where he finds a hard drive containing all of this, but then has to run to escape, including running from a boulder and jumping over snakes.
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by tibbon 8y ago
This happens all of the time in Boston, especially with the bigger bus lines. No number 1 bus for 30 minutes, then 3 or 4 of them. Regardless of the cause, it's very frustrating as a passenger from a UX standpoint.
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by tibbon 8y ago
I encountered similar in Wyoming in 2014 when driving through. I was on motorcycle and needed a place for the night. The one city (name I can't recall) where I was ending up at sunset looked ok; but I was shocked that I could barely fi
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by tibbon 8y ago
Were I evil, I'd be looking at anyone who has upvoted or commented on such SO posts, and then looking at what companies they work for, and trying to run attacks against every site/repo/app they are linked to to see if they us

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