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by tombert 7mo ago
Release the patent and specify a very strict "free usage for anyone not named Larry Ellison, and violators will be punished to the fullest extent of the law" clause. You'd probably get a few innocent people aren't the La
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by tombert 7mo ago
Just an FYI, if you're ok with not being in Manhattan or the cool parts of Brooklyn, it's really not that bad. I live pretty far east in Brooklyn. I'm still only a few blocks away from a train; apartments in this area, even
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by tombert 7mo ago
If I am bad at my job, I get fired. For better or worse, this is what happens. If a CEO is bad at his or her job (e.g. wasting billions of dollars on employees that they don't need), apparently he or she can fire 20% of the company an
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by tombert 7mo ago
I've noticed people are shockingly good at filtering out their empathy through bureaucracies. Instead of feeling bad about their personal decision that they made to lay someone off, they instead can tell themselves it was the only way
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by tombert 7mo ago
I guess I've never really used parallel for anything that was bound by the dispatch speed of parallel itself. I've always use parallel for running stuff like ffmpeg in a folder of 200+ videos, and the speed in which parallel decid
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by tombert 7mo ago
I feel that fatalism, especially when people treat it as some sort of personal philosophy, is kind of lazy. It requires no effort to say "fuck this, nothing matters anyway", and then justify doing literally nothing.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I'm not an economist, but I have heard that there's an argument to be made the easy firing also makes it so that it's easier to hire too, so it creates more jobs. That's one of those things that sounds like bullshit, so
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by tombert 7mo ago
The at-will firing is just how it is in the US, but I do find it odd how accepting we've become with these corporations massively overhiring. If they have to fire twenty percent of the company, shouldn't that be a signal to invest
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by tombert 7mo ago
The Ahead of Time compilation is pretty nice for some stuff. Generally startup time is significantly improved, so if you're writing command line tools in particular it can be cool.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, I wish they did more Clojure as well. As far as I could tell, it was kind of snuck in about ~12 years ago, and it kind of grew from there. To be fair, I know people hate on it, but I honestly do kind of think Objective C is kind of a
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by tombert 7mo ago
I worked for a drug discovery company doing Java [1] since we were using Kafka Streams very liberally, but everything was done with the OpenJDK Temurin distribution. It was drilled into our heads on the first day do not install anything
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by tombert 7mo ago
Apple used Java in a ton of backend stuff. At least the entire backend for iTunes (Jingle) was written in Java and very very small amount of Clojure.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I actually think he might just be an idiot. I think a lot of people respond to people who are extremely confident, and whether or not they are "right" about anything is secondary. I mean we have a president who has almost never ev
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by tombert 7mo ago
My blog is 100% written by me. You can tell because of all the typos. I don't really understand why people will create blogs that are generated by Claude or ChatGPT. You don't have to have a blog, isn't the point of someth
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, I don't understand Elon's plot armor, especially after the calling a cave diver a pedo. That's when I definitively stopped liking him, though I always thought that the Hyperloop seemed pretty dumb. I am not the first p
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by tombert 7mo ago
I don't know enough about this level of IT to rebut this. I use Linux for my router now because my server is NixOS, so I was able to consolidate my router into my server and turn off a machine (and thus save a little power), and I have
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by tombert 7mo ago
That's kind of how I feel about most pets. I've thought about getting a pet turtle or tortoise [1] because they are my favorite animal, but I found out that in order for them to be happy and healthy they need a lot more room tha
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by tombert 7mo ago
I use Mermaid too, but a lot of that comes down to the fact that it's easier to generate it with Claude. It can be exceedingly useful to do this if you have a big log file and you need to have a diagram of a trace, even if you're
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by tombert 7mo ago
I recommend Pfsense or OpnSense if your hardware works with a FreeBSD-based thing. They're super easy to set up and don't have many surprises. After I upgraded to a 10GbE ethernet card in my previous router, my card didn't wo
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by tombert 7mo ago
I've been running a custom router for about a decade, but I too have haven't tried handling the wifi on my own. It's always been easy to get an external access point and there's a bit of a guarantee that it's done
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by tombert 7mo ago
Do any of the workarounds ever result in interviews?
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by tombert 7mo ago
I don't even know why they do it. Everyone knows it's fake and performative, this couldn't possibly actually help their careers could it? AI has made it worse, but they were always horrible.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I got an email from Indeed for this today: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/doordashusa/jobs/7727512 About 2/3 of the way down you can see LinkedIn Profile, and it's a mandatory field. There are tons tho
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by tombert 7mo ago
You know, I read those slides when they were new, and I apparently just completely forgot about it. Not that it's not interesting, just that my brain is dumb sometimes.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I've thought about doing something like this but I am only very recently getting into low-level OS stuff. I can't remember who said this, but they called "Erlang an operating system for your code", and I think that'
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by tombert 7mo ago
Holy shit, they want three grand for a 3.84TB drive. That's absurd.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Huh, fair enough. I was looking at the network console in the browser and it said 89KB. Almost certainly my fault...sorry!
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah I have no idea the direct cause. I didn't think that the SATA controllers for a hard drive took that much. It could be a secondary effect; SSDs have gotten so expensive that people are willing to put up with spinners and thus the
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by tombert 7mo ago
As I said, they were used, so I knew that a drive breaking was kind of an inevitability. As far as I'm aware there's no warranty, I certainly didn't pay for an extended one. Good news though, since writing this I just starte
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by tombert 7mo ago
I have a giant storage RAID for my home server, with a bunch of 16TB drives. I bought each of the drives used about three years ago, and they cost about $120 each. They have been working fine until last night. One of them appears to be br

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