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by unoti 6y ago
Political institutions are part of it, but probably not the most important part. The excellent book Guns, Germs, and Steel [1] lays out very well researched reasons for the disparities we see today. Highly recommended reading! Spoiler:
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by unoti 6y ago
> What? Setting up a load balancer or nginx is considered complex now? It's not complex to set up a load balancer in a given specific environment. But it's another kind of ask to say "set up a load balancer, but also make
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by unoti 7y ago
I worked hard on y2k issues in 1998-1999. It was a real thing for my company at the time. It was a crisis averted. In the 80’s and 90’s I worked on many systems where the equivalent of “max date” or “end of time” was expressed as 12/31
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by unoti 7y ago
Microsoft has about 150k employees and recommended all work from home if they can. Google is around 100k. I don't know who's bigger than Microsoft that also did this.
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by unoti 7y ago
Here’s the source code (or at least comments about the assembled op codes) to the example program: https://github.com/trebonian/visual6502/blob/master/testprog... It looks like that subroutine they call
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by unoti 7y ago
Remember that the programming is the easy part. Planning and collaboration doesn’t come as naturally for most engineers, and becomes increasingly important the higher level that you go. This is because large software isn’t built by one per
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by unoti 7y ago
An idea of how to solve that problem: connect a user to the closest person if there is nobody in their radius. Use Disjoint Sets to sort of glom people together like pieces of cereal in milk. Everybody in the same glob can hear each other.
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by unoti 7y ago
> That sounds more like from a game business perspective. From a game design perspective... Yes, certainly. I've made some games from a pure game design perspective without regard for business model, and it didn't work out wel
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by unoti 7y ago
I want to share a trick with you all. > Because the monster battles are statistically independent, we can make a rough guess that about 1 in 9 players still won’t have a special item after 20 battles. From a game design perspective, for
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by unoti 7y ago
I was 47 when I joined Microsoft and am currently a principal engineer working as an individual contributor doing engineering work. Before that I was running my own startup for several years. There are jobs available in everything imaginab
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by unoti 7y ago
Lex has a distinctive style of interviewing. He's intentionally laid back and talks slowly, and gives his guests lots of room to be the star. But he's actually a dynamic and interesting speaker and quite knowledgeable; you can t
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by unoti 7y ago
Zachtronics games never give you 128 bytes! You get the 2 registers in your processor. They don’t give you ram!
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by unoti 7y ago
> Is it a Zachtronics-style technical challenge? Actually, I did a lot of assembly coding on 6809 and 6502 back in the day, and also played a lot of the Zachtronics games. It's not really the same at all! Zachtronics games are all
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by unoti 7y ago
> The only thing that would make this hard is the thing that makes it hard for a human player which is knowing you’re on the diamond level without using the xyz debugging info. Something else that makes this much harder than it is for a
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by unoti 7y ago
> Title is misleading. Traditional AI with subroutines for each subtask would have no problem with this. The easiest way to code this with traditional methods would be to still use deep learning for the image recognition part of it. The
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by unoti 7y ago
Understood! My system started with franklin covey from back in the day, but I need graph paper for my notes for various reasons.
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by unoti 7y ago
Agreed, icons is the way to go here for meeting note-taking. I use a box for things I want to make sure get covered during the meeting, and I check it off after I bring it up or someone else does. And I use a triangle next to a box for thi
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by unoti 7y ago
> Can someone provide some good example of this? Not having used it much trying to understand what the advantages are... Sure! Here are some ways I use notebooks: Imagine any scenario in which you'd rather make a video to demonstrat
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by unoti 7y ago
Instead of having a Regex that searches for error|critical|except it’s a good thing to have a log level in your logging infrastructure, so that you can query for example log level=2 and get all the bad things. It takes a bit to work this in
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by unoti 7y ago
For years I've been thinking about building a game involving 6502 programming. Something along the lines of you're stranded on a spaceship, all the critical systems have failed, and you have a pile of 6502 processors. You need t
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by unoti 7y ago
It does exist! There are lots of answers to what you’re asking for. But here’s the best answer: https://course.fast.ai/ This course uses python and pytorch and will have you building something that can tell 30+ breeds of c
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by unoti 7y ago
> manual data entry and things of this sort can't be redeemed by attitude Actually, this is false. I've been programming for 30 years straight, except for a brief 1 year stint as a data entry operator. I made it my goal to be
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by unoti 7y ago
Banks do sometimes verify funds manually, but keep in mind that verifying a balance still isn't a guarantee that a check will clear. The balance can change between the time of balance verification and check clearing. What's neede
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by unoti 7y ago
> When I think of businesses I think of the local auto repair shop, the restaurant around the corner, the paving company working on the roads, the local HVAC company around the corner from me, and the local gyms. That makes sense that yo
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by unoti 7y ago
Article says: > They can’t organize labor strikes if they have no labor. The idea of UBI isn’t to make it so that the masses never work again. The idea is so they don’t starve and die when between jobs. It’s to give people a real chance
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by unoti 7y ago
At my company, we use Azure Keyvault to hold certificates and other secrets used between applications. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/key-vault/
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by unoti 7y ago
I understand fully; that’s also how I thought of it for years and why I couldn’t ever remember it. But if you think about it like copying a file it’s easier to remember. And it is like copying a file— it’s copying a reference to a file.
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by unoti 7y ago
> how to create a symbolic link under Linux. I just can't figure out a way to remember what comes first Remember it like this: It's the same syntax as "cp". To copy a file you use "cp source dest". It&#x27
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by unoti 7y ago
> the whole interview process is based on the idea of doing stuff for the company that you wouldn't actually do The process for successful interviewing at places that use whiteboard testing for interviewing involves digging in and p
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by unoti 7y ago
There's a basic truth about being a knowledge worker that most people don't think about. This truth holds for young, old, programmer and non-programmer alike. If you want to stay relevant and fresh long term, you need to be conti

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