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811.
by twic 3y ago
I read "place you at the highest comp package they can" to mean "place you at the employer that will give you the highest comp package they can". So if they think you're good enough for clearlydoomed.io who pay 175k
812.
by twic 3y ago
To be able to test them, you need to be able enumerate them. Part of the problem here is that you don't always know what regularly occurring external thing is going to cause the problem.
813.
by twic 3y ago
I like working in the office too, for similar reasons. I do think that as years go by, more people will come to realise what they have lost by working from home. But i don't think the vigorous antipathy to working in an office is an HN
814.
by twic 3y ago
> Yet they built on them and around them none the less. A building is a building and a wall is a wall. A copper dodecahedron with knobs on the corners is, er ...
815.
by twic 3y ago
COronaVIrus Disease 2019.
816.
by twic 3y ago
I really want there to be a database-backed version for larger tasks called tbsp.
817.
by twic 3y ago
You missed a crucial bit of the abstract (my emphasis): > We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4-3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this
818.
by twic 3y ago
I go to https://www.goggles4u.co.uk/ There are frames advertised, with prices, before they have any idea what my prescription is. I add to cart, and give my prescription. The price is the same. So, they can't be adding
819.
by twic 3y ago
I have astigmatism (-3.75 diopters of it in one eye), and there has never been any extra charge for making my lenses. Where are you getting this idea that astigmatism-correcting lenses are quite a bit more expensive?
820.
by twic 3y ago
"Axis" is a term used with respect to astigmatism, but correcting for astigmatism is a basic part of lensmaking, and even the cheapest pair of glasses can do it, so this is either something else, or an astoundingly bare-faced rip-
821.
by twic 3y ago
For railways, there is a genre of "track diagrams" which are more like circuit diagrams for the railway, showing lines, crossovers, platforms, etc. The best ones for the UK are perhaps the Quail maps, which include all sorts of go
822.
by twic 3y ago
I feel like i have a sufficiently unstable IDE experience using the general availability releases!
823.
by twic 3y ago
It's a weird name, because it's a transliteration of the Greek word for "thread", which would conventionally be "nema" in English (as in nematode worms, nematocysts, Treponema, etc).
824.
by twic 3y ago
There are some weirdly hair-shirt beliefs about development practices in this industry.
825.
by twic 3y ago
It's entirely possible to write Java without an IDE. I've done it, and one of my colleagues has been using VSCode quite happily (we've bullied him into stopping because it doesn't have a formatter and he keeps checking i
826.
by twic 3y ago
Reactive APIs are horrible, and precisely what I'm trying to avoid.
827.
by twic 3y ago
You certainly could make the callRemote calls in parallel, and there are easy and safe ways to do that (good old CompletableFuture or the new structured concurrency stuff). But doing that or not is completely independent of using Nima, so I
828.
by twic 3y ago
If you can make carbon-neutral hydrogen, you can combine it with atmospheric CO2 to make synthetic hydrocarbons (or methanol) that are carbon-neutral. There's an energy cost to doing this, but I'm willing to bet it far outweighs t
829.
by twic 3y ago
Maybe not in service, but it's been done: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/rolls-roy...
830.
by twic 3y ago
I wonder if you could tilt everyone's seats forward during takeoff and landing. I've seen very high density seating in the far east where people are virtually standing. Maybe the seats could start off that way, stay that way throu
831.
by twic 3y ago
I am looking forwarding to trying Nima. The blocker for me is IntelliJ supporting Java 21, which i believe will be this winter [1]; i don't absolutely need IntelliJ, but i am very lazy. At the moment, my apps are using either the JDK H
832.
by twic 3y ago
Xitter, xeet, rexeet. As someone pointed out, the pinyin pronunciation of x as roughly "sh" is appropriate here.
833.
by twic 3y ago
Somewhat similarly, you can take a bicycle onto a UK train platform (and onto the train), but the lights have to be off, so a driver doesn't see your red light and slam on the brakes.
834.
by twic 3y ago
Rice paddies aren't flooded to "bring in topsoil", but rather to control weeds. Flooding them actually washes nutrients out of the soil, which is why yields improved when the farmers stopped doing it. You may, somehow, be con
835.
by twic 3y ago
Oh, that's also the sequence with the "peace / war" switch! That did make me laugh. Turns out it's a real thing, though - but they probably wouldn't have flipped it in this situation.
836.
by twic 3y ago
Because your firmware would put the jet into a spin.
837.
by twic 3y ago
I'm not sure how well "like to tinker with new paradigms/programming languages" correlates with "really good", though. Some of the best people i've worked with were quite conservative technically (some wer
838.
by twic 3y ago
In my experience, it's very rare that there is a self-imposed and pointless complication that prevents a real problem being reduced to an academically tractable one, and far more common that there is a second-rate programmer on the tea
839.
by twic 3y ago
> At the same time, the community identified that there were two groups with slightly different concerns about what R7RS Large would look like: some were concerned that the small language itself didn’t impose strict enough semantics for
840.
by twic 3y ago
> To move beyond R5RS, a Steering Committee was formed in 2004 which appointed editors to specify an R6RS. [...] A new Steering Committee was elected by those interested in Scheme in 2009 > All of the members of the Steering Committee

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