ye-olde-sysrq

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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
"with 0 connection to anything close to labor." Except for the part where if you get fired, a countdown starts for when you become homeless and then starve? Especially in the US? "professional managerial class" are sti
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Tbh a lot of it can be as simple as: - get computers. laptops, desktops, raspberry pis, custom-built ("whitebox") servers, old dell poweredges you got off ebay, etc etc. Install linux on them. - plug servers into switches, switche
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Don't drive class division. Even the highest paid engineer is closer to being homeless than being any of the people deciding these layoffs. If the primary economic force you have is the sale of your labor, you are labor, and need to ac
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I'm similar. My approach is "guidance and bumper guards, not rules and restrictions." I don't meter or numerically limit screen time, but I make sure my kids understand they should have a healthy balance between activiti
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
These other responses are great justification to always dig into what someone's threat model is. I've had so many "security" conversations get resolved something like this: other dev: this is insecure me: what's y
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
this is my favorite use of tcpdump, as a "just show me basic prints" live version of wireshark, which is like 90% of the time mostly what I want. Usually when I'm debugging stuff and am reaching for wireshark/tcpdump, I&
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
> gait recognition Luckily the British have been preparing for this via decades of funding for the Ministry of Silly Walks
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I know of at least 2 companies who will explicitly not hire ex-facebook engineers, with the rationale that anyone who would work for facebook is morally bankrupt, especially the more recent years.
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Is the lesson for native-chinese-speakers about speaking English? If so, interesting, I haven't actually seen this (presumably common?) oopsie before. It also hadn't occurred to me how crushing of an insult it is, but damn yeah it
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
You can already decrease entropy locally, but net for the entire universe, entropy (as far as we can tell...) always increases monotonically. And any action you take to decrease local entropy still actually increases it in total. So "T
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Similarly. I mean, I knew it would be $200 or so, and I ended up going ahead and doing it. So what I actually ended up doing was in line with your sentiment "$200 is cheap compared to getting fucked". And if presented with the sam
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Everyone else is making this sound like a dumb question but it's not. I once got asked to sign a stupid contact. I was pretty sure it was not enforceable, and if I didn't sign I'd be fired and make an annoying enemy. Me and 3
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I worked in a large python codebase with no types and no tests. It was.... barely ok. Honestly I found that the biggest problem with no types was less specifically about "oops you passed a dict in but it was expecting a string haha run
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
My personal favorite one is where under at-will employment, either party can end the relationship at any time, which generally translates to: At any time: the company is free to simply make do with one fewer person and the employee is free
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
"How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
This has been my experience too, and I've never even used Rails at scale. Puma will struggle to serve "lots" (tens on a single page) of (for example) static images (though the actual user experience varies across browsers - s
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Same but with Rails and traditional server rendering if it's feasible. I know React is becoming boring tech but imo it's just so much faster to bang out most of the boring pages server-side and then if you really need it, break ou
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
It varies significantly, as these things do. My first job out of college ~didn't accept people with below a 3.8, so they'd explicitly ask if you left it off (or worse, would assume it was <3.8 if you didn't bother to add i
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
The main problem of hobbies is that I typically don't think they matter enough to deserve space on the single page of your resume. I'm not even a decade into my career and I'm already considering cutting my college stuff down
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I think it's an interesting philosophical question, like how it's presented in Sapiens [1]. But concretely what I mainly mean is, if a company "fails" (and while there's lots of different definitions of failing, let
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I think the well is really poisoned here. Resumes either hardly matter, or are just for SEO. - If you're shooting resumes off into the void of companies "apply now!" pages, it's HIGHLY unusual for them to be looked at by
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
That's great. I heard a similar one: A man is concerned about his health and longevity, so he visits his doctor. Man: "Doctor, I am concerned about dying before my time. Am I okay?" Doctor: "Do you smoke?" Man: &quo
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I mainly meant that it's not a durable physical entity. It's fictitious in that it only exists as thought-stuff in all of our heads.
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I keep seeing this sentiment everywhere. I think it's just two continental plates continuing to rub together: 1. Employment is purely transactional. Time is exchanged for money and money-equivalents. Full stop. 2. Your work is an act o
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by ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
I'm similarly anti-koolaid and I agree. It seems pretty harmless (it's just a shared noun, it's not saying we're a family etc etc) and it's kind of easier than just randomly selecting one of friends/colleagues&