cbanek

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by cbanek 1y ago
This is absolutely true. If anything, interactive debuggers are a crutch and actual logging is the real way of debugging. You really can't debug all sorts of things in an interactive debugger, things like timing issues, thread proble
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by cbanek 1y ago
Maybe you can sell it to the people that bought the Enron trademark and they can sell it as a gag gift.
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by cbanek 1y ago
Sir we are at launch, TURN YOUR KEY.
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by cbanek 1y ago
Who'd want to steal from that cesspool anyway? Same for reddit, I can't imagine getting reddit memes spit at me from ChatGPT. But yeah, I bet both of them are being used quite liberally.
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by cbanek 1y ago
I'm a huge fan of theaters. There's a local art theater (non-profit) that had a tier of support that allowed for free tickets to any movie. The price was $1500/yr, and you could write off a fair amount of that as a charitab
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by cbanek 1y ago
"Musk, who has been engaged in a high-profile feud with US President Donald Trump, on Thursday threatened to decommission the Dragon before later saying the spacecraft would stay in operation." Interesting timing.
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by cbanek 1y ago
The difference is just a minus sign!
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by cbanek 1y ago
And the classic accelerometer installed backward which doomed the Genesis mission sample return, although some bits were successfully recovered, the parachute never deployed.
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by cbanek 2y ago
All about that bass, all about that bass.
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by cbanek 2y ago
This is why I never let my "smart" TVs contact the internet anymore.
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by cbanek 2y ago
Even that isn't really true, since you don't pay taxes on Roth IRAs, and a normal IRA is taxed based on the total amount distributed (since you didn't pay taxes on the amount put in), rather than cost basis. It's pretty
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by cbanek 2y ago
It'd be hard to figure out. A lot of hedge funds run on mark-to-market accounting, which basically taxes the unrealized gains as gains every year, as opposed to keeping track of the cost basis when bought and taxed upon selling. Ther
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by cbanek 2y ago
Having a single developer allows fewer offices with their windows completely covered with newspaper. Plus, there's one person doing everything, which can be a lot better than two with people who have different ideas of how to make the
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by cbanek 2y ago
Small world! I worked on Yellow Door / Golden Gate automation for releasing 360 titles and patches to prod, and the beta group / KDC service code.
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by cbanek 2y ago
Instead of using AI to summarize body cameras, why not just release the body camera footage along with the police report? This is almost never done, usually you have to wait for discovery and the trial process to get access to the body cam
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by cbanek 2y ago
Between not wanting to be seen and sun protection, I'm tempted to go full Burka (even though I'm not religious).
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by cbanek 2y ago
What's funny is the metallic confetti would inevitably have a serial number on it that they could trace to who bought it. Taser rounds already have this built in.
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by cbanek 2y ago
I'm always amazed how we think a plant or animal has gone extinct, only to find it decades or centuries later. Life finds a way, and we're terrible at seeing it!
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by cbanek 2y ago
As someone with optic nerve degeneration, if anyone who works here is looking for a CS person to help, let me know. I'll be watching this (pun intended) with great interest.
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by cbanek 2y ago
https://fincen.gov/boi you go here and follow the instructions. One of the easiest things to do, I did it myself.
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by cbanek 2y ago
Yeah just watched the Rock a few nights ago (on my new giant TV) and the movie holds up, but the VX gas does not make you blister up like they show in the movie, nor does it just naturally vaporize into a deadly gas. One of its strong poin
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by cbanek 2y ago
I had the pleasure of interviewing with Sphinx a few weeks ago, and I just want to say these guys are the real deal, would highly recommend interviewing with them if you are interested in space technology and can get a US security clearance
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by cbanek 2y ago
I've always loved that scene in particular, I know exactly the one you're talking about.
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by cbanek 2y ago
I was doing this style of interviewing more than 10 years ago. I didn't think it was cool enough to invent some kind of name though. It's just a way to get people started on the talking though. It's been proven that junior
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by cbanek 2y ago
As someone who worked for MSFT a long time ago, I feel like Microsoft picks the right technologies and pumps huge sums of money into it but their understanding of use cases and UX is really poor (compare to say, Apple, who REALLY understand
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by cbanek 2y ago
If you use elastic block storage in the cloud, many times they will let you do snapshots and backups of that. If you can't do that, make a script to make a .tgz backup and have cron do it every day and copy it up to an s3 bucket. Have
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by cbanek 2y ago
I've been on a lot of oncall lists... 4-5 per week seems extremely high to me. Have you gathered up and classified what the issues were? Are there any patterns or areas of the code that seem to be problematic? Are you actually fixing
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by cbanek 2y ago
I wish they had a picture of this fig tree they mention.
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by cbanek 2y ago
Also, for those of us with vision issues (or just want to zoom in a lot on a webpage), these popups look horrible at 150%-200%, and often get misrendered in strange ways, sometimes hiding the button. Then if you actually try to reject it,
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by cbanek 2y ago
ACE score of 7. I kept my head down at home with abusive parents and did everything I could to leave that environment as soon as possible. Got admitted into a state school for the gifted where you lived on campus. I've been diagnosed

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