tomc1985

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by tomc1985 4y ago
> What're you going to do? Form a union? Start a company? Vote? Quit and work elsewhere? Quit and work for myself. Personally I'm sick of the capped upside with working in tech (among myriad other issues) and the kinda shit you
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Why not? I don't have an EV but in the US I've heard of people outfitting their homes with 240V sockets for higher-speed charging
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> so long as temperature is well controlled There are a lot (vast majority?) of climates for which this would be really hard to do.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
If you're doing tech stuff to replace some kind of human, manual labor then I think this applies regardless of your sector or growth rating. Tech enables companies to do more with less -- at lesat, that's the dream -- and I suspec
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by tomc1985 4y ago
The money we make pales in comparison with the size of our contributions to the company. Especially so if you are in a value-adding position and not something like internal tooling. Management and executives are DEFINITELY underpaying us re
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Can it do this consistently without destroying the lifetime of the battery?
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Please don't do this, email login is sooooo annoying
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Standard isn't so much a 'league' as it is a dumping ground for all the stuff you did in past leagues
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Have you even played Path of Exile? People LOVE that shit. Endgame bosses hit you for integer multiple of your HP, the only way you survive is through theorycrafting how to mitigate it (or be one of those losers who has to follow a guide) H
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Wonderful movie, but good god is it long and hard to watch at times
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Curious as to how frequently bitrot shows up? Has anyone modeled this in terms of bits flipped per gigabyte per year or something like this? I have about half a terabyte of media, including some original music I made a long time ago and los
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Still a bit unreasonable if you ask me. Nothing wrong with putting the responsibility for googling on the user.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
For some reason, my time shaving with cartridges gave me the worst acne of my life by far -- including one zit that somehow festered into a massive welt that continuously refilled with fluid and wouldn't go away for several years. (I s
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Funny, I tend to avoid packaged fruit because it feels like they just stuff it full of duds and stuff that wouldn't sell on their own
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Japan also has a cultural habit of demolishing old homes to build new ones, and not building said new homes to last more than 30 years or so. Here, the only time I see old homes getting demolished is to make way for a new apartment block. H
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Maybe there should be? Maybe not single-family detached homes, but people need to own something
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Graphics code tends to be imperative and have lots of magic numbers. I suppose it's the math-intensive nature of it. Personally I'm not a fan of the magic numbers either but as I study more and more of it, it's everywhere
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by tomc1985 4y ago
What's with the name calling? Are we five years old? And you call me a jerk?
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by tomc1985 4y ago
You didn't say it, I did. Pot, meet kettle. This "obnoxious jerk" has an axe to grind.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> Also perhaps ironically, this style of mixing code and HTML has generally come to be regarded as an antipattern. Tell that to the React world :P
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Because it is repeating theme on these boards: someone expresses a nonconventional or old-school way of doing things, and someone else always jumps on with why overcomplicated cloud shit should be the solution to everything. Most busines
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Part of the fun of regex is learning to make sense of what looks like black magic I imagine asm programmers feel the same way fwiw I think this world needs less "it's too hard for me" and more "let me roll up my sleeves
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Pretty sure there's a way to load perl as a webserver module like PHP, then you can do that embedded stuff too
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by tomc1985 4y ago
At this employer it seems most of the stuff in their datacenter was purchased.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
MBAs ruin everything change_my_mind.jpg
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by tomc1985 4y ago
God I am sick of these apologetics every time someone expresses skepticism. > Get it wrong another way and you end up overwhelmed by traffic, unable to scale in response and forever fighting fires. To nitpick this specifically, over my 1
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by tomc1985 4y ago
There's a finance angle behind cloud stuff too that's irrestible for the bean counters: cloud stuff is operations expense, on-prem is a capital expense. Unfortunately these folks are heavily incentivized to favor OpEx I'm not
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by tomc1985 4y ago
When my last company grafted yet another version of React onto our aging Rails app (making it the THIRD such front-end framework present in that codebase) to make a SPA loan application form, where the only externally fancy thing it does
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Another day, another overly hyperbolic press rele.... er, blog post Le sigh... Let's make tech boring and demure again!
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by tomc1985 4y ago
It's a little quirky (ok, very quirky) but one of my favorite games ever!

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