asark

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by asark 7y ago
Hahaha, touché. I either missed or forgot that bit. Guess I fail the test :-)
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by asark 7y ago
What code of conduct? Who advises that? Expecting that to be followed seems like it would just disadvantage honest hard studiers and honest people who actually do figure out the solution on the spot, while rewarding dishonest talented perfo
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by asark 7y ago
I think most of the dislike comes from the tendency of typical whiteboard questions to favor someone who happens to have seen a very similar problem recently, the same way someone who comes up with the correct answer to a brain teaser very
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by asark 7y ago
> It doesn't seem that way, it is that way. If you have to muddy the definition to make it fit then it's not very practical. OK. I wrote a really long response attempting to get through, but frankly, at this point, you should w
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by asark 7y ago
> Being a central concept does not mean it's not esoteric. That might be fair. I wouldn't consider a term well understood by anyone with much exposure to the social sciences (any of them, just about, will run you into it, soone
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by asark 7y ago
> This thread was about the term, and that's the definition. If you have to change it to "you'll know it when you see it" then perhaps the definition is not so useful. The biggest companies have started from the small
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by asark 7y ago
> I don't think your point is going to get across. Oh, I'm used to Internet discussions with folks of a certain mindset (I here carefully avoid a convenient, self-selected label that I suspect applies in this case, as its int
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by asark 7y ago
> Also why does it have to be "large quantities"? Buy 1 share and you're a part owner. Many large companies have stock plans. It's not rare and if you're an employee then by definition you "have money"
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by asark 7y ago
> This is a fallacy. If you're going to talk about profit then you must also consider that the risk and loss also goes to owners while workers get paid either way. I think you're falling into a set pattern of argument rather th
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by asark 7y ago
> And yes, agree that it's a useless definition. I've never seen it used outside of esoteric political debates. Esoteric? It's a central concept for understanding how capitalist societies are structured. The central co
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by asark 7y ago
Owning a few shares isn't really what's meant. If your way of life still depends on earning wages for the bulk of your adult life, that's usually not what people mean by the term "capitalist" (or "capitalist cl
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by asark 7y ago
And they're pushing 8k now! I don't know who that's even for . The "actually benefits from 4K" slice of the market's already pretty damn small.
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by asark 7y ago
HDR and larger color gamut's nice. Deeper blacks are nice. Agree 4k's more useful for monitors than TVs, where it's bottom of the list of important modern upgrades to ordinary hi-def TV, IMO, unless you're rocking a legi
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by asark 7y ago
Some bad companies: no big deal, no one's making you stay, leave if you don't like it. Some bad unions: all unions are awful and the solution is to not have unions.
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by asark 7y ago
> Modern capitalist societies—marked by a universalization of money-based social relations, a consistently large and system-wide class of workers who must work for wages, and a capitalist class which owns the means of production [....]
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by asark 7y ago
> Also, why 4k? Small room, massive display? Many people can not even detect a difference between 1080p and 4k at normal couch distance. I've got a 55" 4K at a viewing distance of maybe 6', tops, if you're leaning waa
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by asark 7y ago
Apple needs another of their performance-focused releases, like that one where one of the biggest features was reducing memory use. For MacOS and for iOS, focused on reducing system latency in both cases. Both are a lot laggier than they
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by asark 7y ago
I'm probably still easily in the 80s WPM, and could practice back up into the 100s in a day or two. Input lag doesn't so much throw off my typing as it makes computing feel kinda remote and gummy rather than real and crisp
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by asark 7y ago
75x... factor in the inverse cube law... yeah I'm gonna say unless it's somehow a directed effect it's still won't even be close to mattering a little bit, even if there is some sub-light "wave" of some kind co
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by asark 7y ago
Pick a job that offers actual maternal leave (teaching's probably the best—time it right and you get the Summer, too, plus your daily schedule will be close to that of your kid so you'll have lower daycare costs) or otherwise is e
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by asark 7y ago
Recent college grads couch surfing and trying to make a career of blogging/youtubing? Are we counting the beach/ski bum sort? Migrant farm workers? About 3% of the US workforce seems way high not to be including a bunch of stuff
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by asark 7y ago
That won't hold up when a million other people also want to go sit on a rock and listen to the wind at the same time. At least the experience, and place, will be... quite different. There are requirements for infrastructure and unavoid
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by asark 7y ago
It's all the shoving, mostly, for me. Their group leader banners/umbrellas are a sight to be feared and avoided. Not behavior I see from others, (relatively) few of whom form so many large travel groups of that sort anyway.
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by asark 7y ago
I hate Node's model of async concurrency. I need one thing to happen, then another depending on the result of the first, and so on, way more often than I can let several things happen at once or in any order. Probably something like
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by asark 7y ago
The file managers for Gnome and KDE are both really crashy for me, too. I don't know which graphical file manager to use in Linux without going back to MC or something. Linux is the only desktop OS I use where application crashes and m
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by asark 7y ago
> I didn't have time to nail the cause but it could have very well been me tweaking config. I've had a couple failed Ubuntu upgrades recently, with similar behavior ("oops, you can't boot anymore, sorry!"). And
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by asark 7y ago
Part of why I like Double Dash best. It's simpler, just enough more complicated than N64 for me. The ability to let a second player take the "gunner" role lets me play it with my kids who are too young to drive well—if they
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by asark 7y ago
Also lets you jump in front of people in the concession line. With the result that I (a non-A-List-member) will never buy concessions from them again. Which is kind of a good thing for me all around, actually, since I probably shouldn'
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by asark 7y ago
Huh? Double Dash came out in 2003.
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by asark 7y ago
The two newer Deus Exen are worth a go if you like the first one. Infamously and accurately, you may as well skip 2 and go to 3 & 4. Also both Dishonored games—best of the more recent descendants of the Thief/Deus Ex games. Improve

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