PragmaticPulp

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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> You know what I haven’t seen? not once in 15 years? > A company going under. What a wild assertion: The OP hasn’t personally seen a company fail, and therefore software quality doesn’t matter? Bugs and slow delivery are fine? It’s t
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
The listing says it's compatible with Pololu pinout. That has become a common term in stepper motor control. It's little more than a standard IC on a simple board with a standard pinout.
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
As a counterpoint, my YouTube feed is great these days. When I open it up, I get more of what I want to watch. The hardest part is choosing which video to watch in my limited time. I think the key is that I subscribe to channels I want to w
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> I have never in my career had to do anything like designing a large scale system. Giving large scale system design interview questions for a role where someone never has to work with large scale systems would be a weird cargo cult choi
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
8K is four times the pixels and therefore four times the bandwidth as a 4K monitor. It took us a long time to go from 1080p to 4K. It has taken even longer for 4K at 120-144Hz to be practical. It’s more likely that you’ll end up with interm
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> I do not know how many developers use VS code, but all of them are using electron and it seems to be fast enough for them. At this point, I think the debate about slow apps is more ideological than reality. I also think a lot of people
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> Of course this is just a toy example. But suppose you had a different task that is I/O bound, like processing terabytes of jsonlines files. If this task was the bottleneck in a large scale system then it would definitely get ha
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
My best managers have been umbrellas, but with transparency. If something was happening in the company we would be informed, but could rest assured that our manager would do their best to work the issue for us while keeping us informed. The
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
It’s not really a significant safety difference. The visibility difference isn’t that big. It’s nowhere near on the level of removing airbags.
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> I tripled my salary in two years by starting off woefully underpaid, Unfortunately, this is how most "I tripled my salary in X years" stories look when you dig into the details. I've spent a lot of time coaching people o
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Because the value of accounts that browse extreme numbers of posts per day is near zero to advertisers. Someone who has seen thousands of ads per day for years on end is basically immune to ads (or has blocked them, or is a bot) One of the
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> Because legally, that's as meaningful as saying "they are quooquaquams". I don’t see how this is at all equivalent, given that “psychedelics” is a well-known term that can be found throughout decades of literature and th
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> But with the internet, you can find the absolute best book or video or tutorial in the whole world that blows your local teacher out of the water. I’ve done a lot of mentoring, including through some formal programs. One of my biggest
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> When did we move to a "do whatever you think you can get away with" model of society? If you judge society by the worst headlines and stories from social media then it’s going to seem very bad You have to consider that news a
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Rear view cameras are a safety feature. You’re not sticking it to anyone by refusing to look at it. I understand that you’re upset about data collection, but refusing to use a basic safety feature is a pointless protest. The only people who
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Is everyone on HN running their computers in some parallel universe where apps are running 10X slower than my computer?
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> AVX-512 is still not present in the chips with E-cores. Why would they put a dig at Intel’s consumer chips in a slide deck for their server parts? The Intel Xeons don’t have E-cores. This doesn’t make any sense unless I’m missing somet
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> Except, that they are not, What a weird claim. If the new apps aren’t doing anything more, then just use the old apps. Except you’ll quickly find that the old apps are quite simple and limited relative to what we have today.
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Tim Ferriss is very good at downplaying the effort and costs that go into businesses. Good for inspiring people to try, bad for actually being transparent. In this example, the (claimed) $200 production cost and $2.10 DVD cost are probably
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Fitness influencers and podcasters took the Vitamin D story and ran with it to extremes. The number of people who think more is better with vitamin D or assume that their levels are severely low without checking is scary. Taking a nominal a
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Could be true, but it's worth noting that Gergely has been wrong about his "confirmed internally" facts before. To his credit, he did issue a correction when it was discovered. However, take his "confirmed internally&quo
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> I feel like this is one of the things that Gergely has sensationalized recently to drive attention. It's important to remember that Gergely is in the business of clicks and views. While I've enjoyed some of his reporting, it&
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> This is a shockingly simple product to make "self driving". No, it’s quite an engineering challenge to develop any robust self driving code, especially in safety critical applications. Having human controls would still be nec
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> The longer Bitcoin survives, the more it will get adopted and integrated into the world's financial fabric, e.g., as a store of value. If this sounds far-fetched, consider that many smart and smart-sounding people have predicted
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> I've considered upgrading to a 12th or 13th Gen motherboard, and while I have no doubt they'd be great for me as a Gentoo developer with the greatly increased core counts, my hesitation is that the new CPUs have AVX-512 disab
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> The reason most foreign investors use Caymanian intermediaries is actually just that transparency, particularly when they’re being scrutinized by foreign regulatory bodies and don’t want their money to disappear into a Delaware numbere
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> Not every decision has to be done with maximum research. I’ve been at a couple companies that wouldn’t take any proposal seriously unless you showed up with a list of citations to blog posts, books, or even podcasts. The root cause was
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
This mod was done many years ago, before it was common to be able to find someone who could do proper frequency response measurement. Unless someone measured them in the thread, I wouldn’t assume the visual difference check identified 100%
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Unless someone has actually measured the frequency response, I wouldn’t assume this mod covered 100% of the differences anyway. Sennheiser has several models where the only difference appears to be a trivial piece of damping material, but t
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> Everywhere I went I was in a trance, forming arguments with people who only existed in Slack for me. The debates, the designs, the confrontation! Every time I closed my eyes I would start a stupid fight, until eventually a simple thing

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