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by zwieback 4y ago
Not really what the article says - Amazon's enforced-churn policy leads to workers that want to continue working there being fired for no good reason.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Upvoted but disagree. VS Code and VS have totally different lineages and probably not much shared code under the hood. I've used VS for many years (best IDE bar none, in my opinion) and when I started playing with VS Code I couldn&#x27
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by zwieback 4y ago
I've been using PCs since before GUIs so some of my habits are probably too crusty at this point. However, I don't really mind so much how the graphical shell changes, the command shell in Windows 11 feels like the MS-DOS of my yo
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by zwieback 4y ago
Very true but I think what's also implied in the article is that new tools (VS Code) that look very different from old tools (vi/emacs) will probably not last. So, if A is very old and B is very different from A then B is less lik
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by zwieback 4y ago
I had chickens and also had deer constantly destroying anything I was trying to grow, I hate those bastards with a passion. I was always hoping the chickens would chase the deer but they just ignored them.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I'd say "all GUIs" are web software now. Outside of that there's still plenty of traditional development.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Bummer, I'm in my fifties now and used to love coffee but now I just don't really enjoy it that much. Mostly switched to tea, is there a study that tea is even better?
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by zwieback 4y ago
I still consider Word Magazine an early high point of online culture, nothing quite replaced it for me.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I was a dedicated archie and gopher user, thought web was going to be just for grandmas. EaasySabre was awesome, though, I switched from Delphi to CompuServe around then. Also really liked PointCast, that was a lifesaver when our whole comp
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by zwieback 4y ago
Is it eye contact or seeing the drummer, though? Or maybe even feeling the bass drum, not sure. I'm going to guess that seeing the drum sticks would be helpful too. Probably a separate skill set, I'm sure a good studio musician kn
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by zwieback 4y ago
Definitely true in the (school) orchestras I played in. However, a friend who plays in a orchestra where they bring in high-end soloists told me that they don't really rehearse together more than an hour or two. In those cases I imagin
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by zwieback 4y ago
That's me, sometimes it takes me many minutes to pick a starting word I haven't used yet, usually I look around the room until I spot something with five letters.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Yeah, those are the worst ones. Rare, though, for me. Maybe ran into this a couple times and cost me my only loss so far.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Fun, clever and hard! Failed miserably first attempt.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Mentioned in the article: Saleae logic analyzer. I love that thing, especially the newer mixed-signal version.
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by zwieback 4y ago
The best part of Sprout was the "turntable", which allows auto-positioning an object at various angles relative to the structured-light 3D camera. I was able to snag a couple and use them with our other 3D acquisition systems.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Back in the day at hp we had "knob boxes" for the then relatively new 3D CAD systems. Some MEs loved them, others did not. Here's what they looked like: http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=684
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by zwieback 4y ago
Yes, seems like Java generics are an argument against the "generics allow optimization" argument. Maybe I misunderstood what he was trying to say.
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by zwieback 4y ago
We went to Orkney on a whim and it was super interesting. In addition to the neolithic stuff there's the Italian Chapel and Highland Park, highly recommended.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Cool, I'll have to tell my dad about this before it's too late. His versions were many years before this but published in Germany so maybe totally independent.
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by zwieback 4y ago
My dad was a big crossword puzzler. I asked him if he thought that if you pick one of two possible answers to the first clue whether it would be possible to solve the entire puzzle one way or another way. He sat down and created a series of
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by zwieback 4y ago
we use "syringe pumps" a lot, basically a glass syringe with a stepper driving the plunger. If you replaced the stepper with a regular servo you could measure torque as a proxy for the chocolate properties
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by zwieback 4y ago
Same here, when my hours are up I'm done, work will be there for me in the morning. I'm surprised how many of my coworkers say they "feel" like they can't do that. I'm working in an engineering organization wit
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by zwieback 4y ago
What I mean is that Rust brings the ownership tracking of memory as a primary concept. With C++ that's more of an add-on. I should add that I'm an old time C++er and don't have Rust hands-on experience
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by zwieback 4y ago
I'm assuming "this domain" refers to scientific computing. My theory is that the typical scientist crunching data is just proficient enough to write specialized code for themselves but doesn't have time to develop a scal
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by zwieback 4y ago
Nice job on the wiring! I read that this is the second attempt and it shows. When I do wiring I always make a mess the first time and then get it a little better the second, third, ... time. Luckily at my job we get pros or panel vendors to
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by zwieback 4y ago
> Rust is essentially C/C++, but without their ugliness I'd rephrase that, folks coming primarily from a coding background would probably find this off-putting since Rust's contribution is something quite different from wh
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by zwieback 4y ago
That and the fact that the statistics don't seem very crisp says everything you need to know about cats. Anecdotally I can confirm that my cats know each others names, not sure if they would recognize on a monitor though.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I know there are a ton of examples like this but our kids were free to roam when they were like 8 or 10 and not a single thing happened, ever. There are probably many more cases like mine.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Pretty true for economics but not for much else. On pretty much anything cultural there are two very vocal poles and a bunch of people in the middle picking one pole or another as the lesser evil.

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