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by tsm 5y ago
Counterpoint: I left a company where I was a Senior Software Engineer and among the most experienced devs of the ~25 they had and joined a company where I was clearly the least experienced dev of the ~10 they had. The CEO of the new company
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by tsm 5y ago
Hot-swappable batteries may be less relevant, but easily-user-replaceable batteries are sorely missed. I still do some work on a T60 (from 2006, I think) whose battery was obviously toast. It took $15 on eBay and ten seconds to pop the old
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by tsm 5y ago
I used OS X from 2013-2020 when my at-the-time companies gave me a top-end MBP and the very strong encouragement to use OS X. It was fine. But my most recent gig had a lot of Linux users anyway, so I returned to Linux, got a crappy System76
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by tsm 5y ago
> Google has decided to finally pull the rug out from under those of us who signed up for GSuite when it was free…and will start charging later this year. Do you have a citation for this? I heard last year they were going to start chargi
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by tsm 5y ago
I am also a native English speaker (American; living in the UK) and the GP's use of "He's" seemed absolutely fine to me. Not trying to discount your opinion, just adding another data point.
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by tsm 5y ago
Visiting my parents is great! It's just that in the 20 minutes I sometimes have to kill on their computer I went from playing commercial games from my childhood to good solitaire to…bad solitaire. So much for nostalgia.
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by tsm 5y ago
On every Windows computer I ever had, from 3 to XP, none of whose hardware was great even by the standards of the day, Solitaire opened instantly and was maximally responsive and crisply animated. They changed things in Vista, I think, wh
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by tsm 5y ago
It's not about clock time, it's about reducing the latency (and friction) between thinking about code and having it written. I might think for a couple minutes and then come up with ten lines of code, and once they're in my h
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by tsm 5y ago
Some of my friends sign emails/letters to me with YMHOS. But we all do research on the 18th century, which…ah…is an important factor.
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by tsm 5y ago
&c was widely (exclusively?) used in the 18th century. I happen to have been looking at this newspaper ad most recently: https://i.imgur.com/ALe5XeT.jpg The inference is that the second book (Airs &c &c) will
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by tsm 5y ago
Usually there are a few life events to anchor it to (school graduation, marriage, child birth, moving, changing jobs, etc.)
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by tsm 5y ago
I just moved to the New Town from Chicago and the difference in walkability and general "convenient access to convenient things in the city" is startling. I highly recommend it!
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by tsm 5y ago
> Amazon has no reason to crack down on fake reviews because they don't effect their bottom line either way. For various things (certain electronics/peripherals, certain tools) I deliberately avoid Amazon because I want somethi
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by tsm 5y ago
Clojure has an optional type system: https://github.com/clojure/core.typed (note that Lisp is flexible enough that a type system can be written as a library) There's also this for run-time checking (i.e., you won&
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by tsm 6y ago
Evergreen is the company name, Ever Given (which does appear on the ship in much smaller letters) is the ship's name.
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by tsm 6y ago
Interesting that he teaches putting fingers on the top row, not the home row. I'd also never heard that the ring finger, "anatomically considered, is different from the others" and that pianists had elective surgery ("do
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by tsm 6y ago
They've been booted from AWS, which is a significant infrastructure problem.
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by tsm 6y ago
I had the same issue and have been quite happy using an old Android phone connected to a dummy Google account with no extra apps.
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by tsm 6y ago
It's astounding to me that nobody is making modern 4:3 screens. I made my Thinkpad T60 last far longer than it should've just because I didn't want to give up the aspect ratio.
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by tsm 6y ago
Edit: I was wrong. 0123 is octal, not decimal [Incorrect original post: 0123 evaluates to the integer value 123]
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by tsm 6y ago
> I write for about three hours in the morning—from about 9:30 till 12:30—and I do another hour’s work between 6 and 7 in the evening. […] I never correct anything and I never go back to what I have written, except to the foot of the la
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by tsm 6y ago
You can google for more information, but British boys' schools (especially in the 20th century) are notorious for bullying and sexual abuse.
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by tsm 6y ago
Especially in the smartphone era, I actively enjoy having a couple hours to kill in an airport. I make sure that I have a range of activities to do depending on energy level (writing about my research / hacking on something / read
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by tsm 6y ago
I think I'm a little fired up about the Play Music -> YT Music migration, recent Google Photo storage restrictions, etc. What I see in TFA is another case of Google limiting choice in a user-hostile way. I happen to use Firefox and
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by tsm 6y ago
> Even if WebKit is not blocked, we can be confident January 4 will be a sad day for browser diversity This is true, I hate that this is true, and I hate that there's very little to be done about it. I use Firefox for ideological re
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by tsm 6y ago
Do you daily-drive Debian?
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by tsm 6y ago
Does anyone know of a good open source, self-hosted alternative?
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by tsm 6y ago
On the google side, "wake me up at 7" results in a 7AM alarm 95% of the time and a 7 PM alarm the other 5%. Just frequent enough to screw you over…
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by tsm 6y ago
I learned Common Lisp in high school and took a course called "Discrete Math and Functional Programming"[0] my freshman year of college (the prof wrote the textbook). To me it felt like a math course (covering predicate logic, set
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by tsm 6y ago
> Stainless steel frying pan instead of nonstick frying pans where the non stick coating wears off. Cast iron even better. They're called nonstick for a reason; stainless steel does not compare. You'll have more sticking proble

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