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841.
by tombert 7mo ago
Tangential, but I have sleep apnea. Fortunately I have it mild enough to get away with a mouthpiece instead of a CPAP (which is good anyway because I also have bruxism). The mouthpiece works great and I would recommend everyone get tested
842.
by tombert 7mo ago
I've definitely gotten it into contexts where it will never stop going into the wrong direction, even when I tell it to forget everything it did before, and told it a correct path forward. Usually restarting the entire session fixes it
843.
by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah. The more I learn about concurrency (which I think is a fair amount at this point), the more I respect Erlang. It was so ahead of its time with this stuff. As I said, I feel like when I reach for a lock, about 95% of the time it’s be
844.
by tombert 7mo ago
I think that the `sychronized` keyword in Java was a mistake. I've seen classes that are meant to be used by multiple threads where literally every method has `synchronized` because "that was the only way they could get it to work
845.
by tombert 7mo ago
I used Cockpit for years after I started having issues with my network card in FreeNAS. It's generally very good, though I never really figured out how to graphically swap out a hard disk in a RAID without trashing the data (which hap
846.
by tombert 7mo ago
I don't disagree with anything you said, and I expressed a sentiment not too dissimilar about a week ago [1]. People like the idea of being direct but not actual directness. When I was younger I was more accepting of regular corpo
847.
by tombert 7mo ago
I've actually applied and talked to a recruiter once, but never even got to a real interview. Finance is really hard to break into if you don't have a million degrees from an Ivy League, and probably not easy even then. I've
848.
by tombert 7mo ago
It's utterly maddening to me how much annoying doublespeak permeates through corporate American culture. Even when management does something that seems objectively awful, they always feel a need to try and spin it into something aggres
849.
by tombert 7mo ago
For what it's worth, I hated him well before he had anything to do with Trump. Most concretely when he called the cave diver a pedo for not wanting to use his stupid submarine, but I remember thinking that the Hyperloop thing he was pr
850.
by tombert 7mo ago
I agree with the sentiment but I am not sure the best way to go forward. Suppose I encounter a bug in a FOSS library I am using. Suppose then that I fix the bug using Claude or something. Suppose I then thoroughly test it and everything w
851.
by tombert 7mo ago
It’s kind of tough to say. I got into CS because programming is the only thing I have to ever been good enough at to be paid for. I don’t know if I can realistically do anything else. I think a lot of CS students get into it because for the
852.
by tombert 7mo ago
You know, I am actually having trouble substantiating that. I was just parroting what I heard but doing a search I found a bunch of posts claiming that subsidies don’t actually affect the price that much, and I cannot find a primary source
853.
by tombert 7mo ago
I know that there's a lot of reasons for this, but at least in my area, the Beyond Meat products are considerably more expensive than actual animal meat. I'm sure that's due to depressing subsidies or economies of scale, but
854.
by tombert 7mo ago
You might have a point with institutional investors, but regular consumers on Polymarket are absolutely just gambling.
855.
by tombert 7mo ago
I've hated the idea of Polymarket for about as long as I've known about it. It's one thing when people are betting on how long a speech will be or something, but I really hate the idea of gambling over things that involve the
856.
by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, I have decent speakers too. Should have clarified, the speakers on the TV are generally dogshit. Still, a decent soundbar can be had for less than $200 [1], and a very good sound system can be had for less than $500, especially if
857.
by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, no shade at all towards the theater, not their fault that one of their customers got really turned on watching The Purge. If I lived in Dallas still I'd probably still go there all the time.
858.
by tombert 7mo ago
I live in NYC and go to some form of Broadway production about once a year, primarily because my mom really likes it and so it's something to do when she comes to visit I don't dislike it, but it's also pretty expensive and i
859.
by tombert 7mo ago
I remember when I was watching Kick-Ass in the theater, there were some teenagers trying to be funny the entire time. I initially very politely asked them if they could stop talking because we're trying to watch the movie, but they did
860.
by tombert 7mo ago
I don't drink alcohol or coffee, so I can't really relate to the others. I will admit to having good experiences going to the theater with friends and/or family, but I don't really enjoy watching a movie with strangers.
861.
by tombert 7mo ago
Nope, this was in Dallas. Well, Garland actually. I don't live there anymore and haven't for about eleven years.
862.
by tombert 7mo ago
We were mostly afraid of substances landing anywhere near us.
863.
by tombert 7mo ago
When my wife and I first started dating, we went to one of those cheap second-run theaters. I liked that theater because it was super cheap (like seriously $1.50 for a ticket because it showed out of date movies). One time when she and I we
864.
by tombert 7mo ago
The reasoning doesn't particularly matter to me, honestly. Whether or not it they need to charge a second mortgage to cover the cost of the theater isn't really my problem; these are for-profit companies, I don't need to do
865.
by tombert 7mo ago
I have had hiring managers tell me that, almost verbatim actually, when I forgot about the interview and showed up significantly late. I was embarrassed and yeah I admit that it wasn’t exactly fun to be called out like that, but I would m
866.
by tombert 7mo ago
I mean, sure, but I didn’t really care. Why should him being busy matter to me? For all he knows I am equally or more busy than he is. For all he knows I am skipping my mother’s funeral, or taking the entire day off of work, or turned dow
867.
by tombert 7mo ago
I assumed it would the the Ministry of Trump. He likes putting his name on things.
868.
by tombert 7mo ago
Fucking Christ. I still don’t understand how anyone heard Trump bragging about how he’s going to “open up those libel laws”, in addition to all the other idiotic shit that he said, and still decided to vote for him. I am sure people had th
869.
by tombert 7mo ago
I dare say that you are an outlier. When I have shown up significantly late for interviews they often cut it short before it even really starts.
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by tombert 7mo ago
The fact that you only want to hire workers who won’t call you out when they feel like they have been disrespected is a great way to breed a team of people who resent you. Regardless, you kind of proved what I was trying to say. Most people

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