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by umvi 4y ago
Is it actually possible to hire someone without some level of discrimination involved? Seems like this ideal world where candidates are hired purely on technical ability or merits without regard to any other aspects of their life is impossi
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by umvi 4y ago
The game requires you to have stayed at the same homeless shelter many days in a row before you are able to get an address and open a bank account iirc
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by umvi 4y ago
Yeah it's a pretty depressing and challenging game. I beat this game with all the different scenarios. If you play long enough though, you can find a pretty simple formula to win: - Find the nearest homeless shelter that is near a job
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by umvi 4y ago
I feel like a lot of leetcode grinders don't actually understand big O. Sure, they will produce the correct answers to your questions like a well-oiled Chinese Room, but they lack true understanding. It's almost mechanical: "
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Museum rigs up multi-screen N64 Goldeneye with CRT processing(arstechnica.com)
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by umvi 4y ago
If centuries ago your ancestors stole from a country that no longer exists in the modern day, then yeah it's woke to return it to a different country occupying the same geographic space.
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by umvi 4y ago
Seems like a Python-based alternative to something like Google Apps Scripts
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by umvi 5y ago
> I believe it’s much more likely that the leaker is someone who supports the opinion rather than an opponent > If [the majority bloc in favor of the opinion has held together], there’s no reason for a supporter or an opponent to lea
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by umvi 5y ago
Even if Roe v Wade is appealed, that does not mean abortion will automatically be illegal. It means it will be left up to state governments to decide. California, for example, will almost certainly have legal abortion. > I have always wo
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by umvi 5y ago
People keep mentioning interracial marriage as being in danger by this SCOTUS, but is there any evidence anyone wants this? With abortion it is obvious a huge chunk of the population is against abortion as a practice. With LGBTQ rights it&#
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by umvi 5y ago
I never beat the original Stanley Parable but the baby ending is hilarious. It's far too tedious for me (you literally have to push a button for 4 hours to prevent a baby from crawling into flames) but it was still worth watching someo
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by umvi 5y ago
gofmt is a huge positive for me as well. Not having to think about formatting frees up more cognitive load than you would think
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by umvi 5y ago
Quick googling reveals JAG = Judge Advocate General aka a military lawyer
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by umvi 5y ago
> There's no objective way to agree on whether a number is high or low But emotional responses to absolute numbers aren't a good mechanism to inform policy making either. That's why absolute numbers are usually normalized
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by umvi 5y ago
You would think cold hard data would be lead everyone to the same truth of a situation, but the problem is that in reality, data can be tortured to confess to anything. Data is constantly weaponized by everyone to push the narrative they wa
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by umvi 5y ago
Toxic, yes, but also probably highly useful too otherwise there would be no reason to use them in the first place. For example: > Chemical category groups like PVC plastics, flame retardants and bisphenols are included in the EU's p
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by umvi 5y ago
> * I strongly believe that only physicians should be running hospitals. Strong disagree. This same attitude pervades the military ("only pilots should run the air force") and really all it does is that lower representation of
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by umvi 5y ago
Just my opinion but... is Calculus an important high school goal? I took AP Calc in high school, got a 4 on the exam. I did Electrical Engineering in college and took college level math through differential equations. And yet... a) I'v
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by umvi 5y ago
Nix as in the Linux distro or package manager?
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by umvi 5y ago
I don't mind "main" for the main branch but for existing projects... > costs nothing to remove something someone might offensive It might break scripts, aliases, and any general automation (CI, etc) with a baked in main b
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by umvi 5y ago
> This may seem unbelievable, but the word "motherboard" is literally banned within Google and you are required to use "mainboard" instead. You are not allowed to use this word in documentation or code, and you'r
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by umvi 5y ago
Can confirm, my last company's HR department was 100% women, but it still didn't offset the 90%+ male engineering department enough to satisfy DEI targets
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by umvi 5y ago
I remember when I was in ROTC I had to do training one summer. It wasn't particularly difficult, though as a part of training there's a lot of artificial stress placed on you. One source of artificial stress was timed meals. You h
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by umvi 5y ago
> Not much but I heard earlier in the year people were making $50 a week. Soon: "California introduces new bill to force company of Gods Unchained to give full health benefits and pay a living wage to its players who make less than
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by umvi 5y ago
I hope this tool isn't going to be wielded politically but knowing SV I assume this tool will trend towards helping people optimize speech for political correctness/equity/inclusiveness/etc.
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by umvi 5y ago
Just to play devil's advocate though, there's a difference in the information conveyed between declaring you owe $0 and not making a declaration at all. Or to put it into computer terms, IRS doesn't interpret "no return&
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by umvi 5y ago
Why are these articles so popular with HN? Any article about treating mental illnesses (including depression) with LSD/shrooms/cannabis/[drug] immediately shoots to the top, and I see articles like this every other day at the
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by umvi 5y ago
It's understandable why warnings are used instead of undos though. Warnings are dirt simple to implement - probably a single line of code in most languages. Undo is very complex by comparison. You have to flag something for deletion an
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by umvi 5y ago
Possibly an unpopular answer, but have you tried exploring or investigating any religions? I'm in my mid-30s and I've found religion has given me a profound sense of purpose and identity and community compared to a lot of my peers
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by umvi 5y ago
It turns out that people don't just want a "mountain of tasks" to help them "pretend that they have a goal"... that just fuels the feelings of purposelessness. They want their existence and life itself to have meani

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