Aqua_Geek

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by Aqua_Geek 2y ago
Anecdata, for sure, but my experience working at several big companies in tech is that they won’t significantly bump your pay (and especially not your stock grant!) when they promote you. If anything, they will move you to the minimum of th
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by Aqua_Geek 2y ago
America has a long history of promoting “rugged individualism.” Community is hardly ever part of the conversation, unfortunately.
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by Aqua_Geek 2y ago
Warcraft 2 definitely used IPX for multiplayer. I remember struggling to get an IPX driver installed on our family computers so we could play.
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by Aqua_Geek 2y ago
I doubt much has changed. The Bay is lagging in terms of infrastructure — it’s hilariously sad. My only options currently are Comcast or DSL. I’m anxiously waiting for Sonic to become available.
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by Aqua_Geek 2y ago
Block (fka Square) pays them for the redirect, IIRC.
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Apple announces WWDC24 dates(developer.apple.com)
3 points by Aqua_Geek 2y ago|1 comments
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
Honest question: what do you (in the general sense, not specifically asking the parent) use Siri for? I think my main (only?) use case is setting a timer. Maybe I find conversational UIs awkward, or maybe I just got jaded REALLY quickly fro
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
The sensor typically goes on the back of your upper arm (your tricep). You can accidentally bump into things with it, but it was infrequent enough that it didn’t bother me. The needle is only used in the application of the sensor. It’s spri
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
I imagine a not-insignificant number of those who preordered will return it. Anecdotally, everyone I know who bought one plans on doing just that. Sales numbers have been higher than expected, but I do wonder where they net out after return
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
Do airlines that have a “bare metal” livery still coat the planes with something, then? (I assume there’s a clear coat.) Does that weigh less than white paint?
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
Yep. Absolutely this. I get the frustration of people building fragile junk and bouncing before the house of cards falls, but I wouldn’t hold switching jobs every couple of years against a candidate when a significant difference in salary
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
> What's interesting to me is that in emergencies, apparently many people don't brake hard enough. I did the Mini Stunt Driving Course the other week in Palm Springs. One of the first things they cover is emergency braking. Eve
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
Whenever I grade take-home assignments, the first thing I do is open the Xcode project file in vim and look for shady stuff. Admittedly, I don’t think most of my colleagues do the same due diligence.
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
There are several unions in film/TV. Writers are usually part of the WGA. Directors have their own, as do editors, producers, cinematographers, etc.
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
What Ubiquiti equipment are you using? Doesn’t their router top out at 3.5Gbps?
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by Aqua_Geek 3y ago
What kind of fiber? Did you run it in conduit? If so, what kind? I’m about to start construction on my own outbuilding office and want to not screw this up.
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
I would second this recommendation. This book is how I originally learned Objective-C and macOS development 20 years ago. It walks you through the fundamentals and provides a very good foundation for digesting the (archived) documentation f
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
Remember when Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco took some stock business photos to promote their movie? I think Uber even used some of those to promote Uber for Business when that first launched.
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
Good point. I forgot about that.
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
That’s a LONG time (in total) for employees to wait for liquidity. Yes, they likely provided some opportunities for early employees to liquidate some of their holdings, but it’s got to suck to sit on that much funny money for so long.
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
They’re options that are set to expire, not RSUs. Yes, the employees could exercise them to prevent them from expiring, but then Uncle Sam comes to collect his dues. And that’s where illiquidity burns you.
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
This was a huge problem with Apple’s laptop chargers several years ago. They would fray at the junction between the power adapter and the cable, resulting in another $129 out of your pocket and more e-waste. Granted, the power brick for a p
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
I’ve just been going through and cloning the repos via their command line tool: heroku git:clone --a <app name> If you have really old apps (e.g. on the bamboo stack or older), there is a plug-in that allows you to download t
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
And for what benefit? A higher salary? Stock options in case Twitter somehow survives and goes public again?
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
Stock is getting hammered after-hours. Down 11% currently.
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
There’s the ElixirConf 2022 chat app: https://github.com/liveviewnative/elixirconf_chat
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
You can have a look at the code: https://GitHub.com/livebook-dev/livebook/tree/main/app_bundl...
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
My laptop somehow overwrote its primary disk encryption keys (i.e. It basically crypto-shredded all my data). I filed an issue with Apple and was met with radio silence for a year. The response that came back was effectively, “do you still
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
SparkFun has some great tutorials to get you started. Read through their intro to embedded electronics: https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/category/1
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by Aqua_Geek 4y ago
http://spaceisdisorienting.com/ I mostly blog about iOS development.

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