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by xlii 2y ago
I find this comparison overly simplistic. You don’t get back to architect when you’re doing plumbing. You don’t get back to plumbing when doing electricity. And not only those are often highly isolated tasks but those domain have specialist
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by xlii 2y ago
It’s a great read and a great advice. There’s something I’ve noticed lately. The only thing that differentiates bad from great is time, and IMO talent is often mistaken with preference. E.g. it’s not like great engineers become great by wor
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by xlii 2y ago
A great advice. I also put emphasis on a fact that one doesn’t have to be good at something to enjoy it OR need to make money when they’re good at it. Both might be trap.
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by xlii 2y ago
> Unless you have id verification crminals can sign up with false identities. Having registration is enough to not be liable, that’s why everyone is doing that. You get subpoenaed, you give logs for user that you have, case closed. Data
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by xlii 2y ago
Because that way it’s easy to track both poster and visitor (one could say that every visitor of such URL was involved). Indirect communication shifts focus from channel to method. And if anyone can use channel and anyone can read message t
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by xlii 2y ago
Byte value is a count of flipped bits. Those bits aren’t even guaranteed to be correct (see cosmic bit flipping) and yet our computers work this out. IMO this is risky because it’s easy to distribute upload, e.g. I could have infected, semi
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by xlii 2y ago
You don’t need a upload a lot of data in order to have illegal data stash and there are creative criminals out there. E.g. for GPS coordinates you need only a 16 digits. Emojis are 8 bytes so by selecting specific ones and adding a control
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by xlii 2y ago
It seems nice but every single time I see service allowing anonymous uploads like such I’m thinking immediately: criminal use. How hard would it be write a protocol that uses relatively safe urls to encode messages, e.g. by ensuring that th
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by xlii 2y ago
This is why I avoid Python. I started doing Go after looking for few solutions written and Python and I couldn’t use it. Some magic values inside objects of recursive depth changing dynamically at the runtime. After working for some time wi
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by xlii 2y ago
FYI: They are very subtle. Usually it is about behavior shifts and/or emotions. E.g. if I’d be watching videos with cute penguins and then seen a politician „adopting” penguins at zoo, that’d be a political propaganda. Political ads ha
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by xlii 2y ago
IMO title should be edited. Original one is "Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, ADVOCACY GROUPS ARGUE” I get that it’s long but IMO HN title doesn’t represent source article content.
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by xlii 2y ago
This, in my opinion, proves that different people might need different things. And, in turn, many immensely able and skilled ones fail at standard route (e.g. successful writers fail at school). It’s fairy obvious but I like to keep this po
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Ask HN: Any (true) technical support line at Meta?
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by xlii 2y ago
> Since your mailing list is apparently the only place on Earth to find out if Platform A has added Feature X (because putting release notes somewhere accessible is apparently too hard), … Won’t work for every product, but I’m pushing th
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by xlii 2y ago
It really depends on the environment I suppose. Caffeine is a stimulant so it’s common for ADHD bearers to self-medicate in it (my former associate, later diagnosed, used to drink full - 300ml - of espresso brewed coffee in the morning). So
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by xlii 2y ago
Depending on how severe your nephews ADHD is (and it can go from borderline ADHD to severe mixed type) it might be worth doing sleep training, eating training, stimuli training etc. In all cases I would recommend multiple psychological educ
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by xlii 2y ago
This might not be solution for everyone but wouldn’t the best protection to use two separate password managers? One for passwords and the other for the TOTPs? I wonder why service providers don't have it already. They could even help e
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by xlii 2y ago
I’d recommend spinning story. It seems that while you’ve changed environments all jobs revolved about communication. That’s a great skill. So instead of „I had many different jobs” maybe use „I’m people person with experience in various set
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by xlii 2y ago
I don’t find article interesting at all. I agree with others that it’s full of gaps and „sound advice”. Subject is interesting though and I, as person that naturally is introvert I can attest that avoidance doesn’t help. Negative effects do
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by xlii 2y ago
Nope, we are working on beefy machines. Problem are circular dependencies that trigger recompilation multiple times and macros sprinkle on top. We’re refactoring it and get there eventually but without LSP and types (stack is dynamic) ther
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by xlii 2y ago
> I work with someone that navigates the tree structure of all our directories every time they need to look for something Counter example: I’m working with LSP dragging codebase where basic code lint takes 45s. My colleague takes a break
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by xlii 2y ago
As many others I do use fd/rg/ctags, custom scripts, some even Perl ones; Today I’m on Kakoune but had plenty of Emacs integrations when it was my daily driver (Kakoune taught me to pipe selection through a script that echoes cod
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by xlii 2y ago
An interesting point from a philosophical perspective! But if we'd take this into consideration would it mean that 1st world engineer is by definition less inteligent than 3rd world one? I think the (completely reasonable) knee jerk
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by xlii 2y ago
If SLAs are involved then I’d argue it’s not about optimization but about business goals, which unsurprisingly take precedence. But there is another case that is very similar: threshold passing (or how I like to call it - waterfalling). Sma
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by xlii 2y ago
Nit: 50ms vs 2000ms is 40x speed increase, i.e. ~1.5 order of magnitude. I still keep words of my database optimization lecturer who said that by his experience optimization below 1 OOM aren’t worth it and most „good ones” are 3+ > Absol
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by xlii 2y ago
IMO GP is about the labelling: Instead of a2-b2 use longer2-shorter2 (and on visual representation one side will always be longer, as per GPs explanation). Diagram doesn't show proof for "shorter2-longer2". I believe showing
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by xlii 2y ago
(…on Stripe API…) OCaml: 1 (last change was 8 years ago, so it’s more like zero) I’ve been using OCaml for some time, primarily for my pet project, but also and some minor at-work utilities. One such thing was interacting with
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by xlii 2y ago
So I’m completely new to the Go but I have very specific need and I couldn’t fit it anywhere else: I want to orchestrate asynchronous, highly fallible tasks. I could use Rust but I feel I would drown in correctness of handling various edge
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by xlii 2y ago
It depends on the context. In US I believe that might be true (same site reports around 35%). But those numbers are dropping by a half when you move out. In India 90%+ reported is Chrome. In Europe Safari is ~20% on average and where I resi
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by xlii 2y ago
Actually, quick search leads to [0] (not very reliable, but still better than nothing) shows that Chrome and derivatives take 72%. As other commenters mention, Safari is mostly locked to the Apple ecosystem, so IMO Chrome on non-Apple syste

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