deodar

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by deodar 11mo ago
Drive failure rate versus age is a U-shaped curve. I wouldn't distrust a used drive with healthy performance and SMART parameters. And you should use some form of redundancy/backups anyway. It's also a good idea to not use al
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by deodar 1y ago
All the cold data is on spinning rust, and most of the data at large scales is cold. Much of the warm data is still on HDDs too, fronted by a flash or RAM cache. The storage densities are constantly increasing to keep costs low. SMR drives
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by deodar 2y ago
A good pair of binoculars will be sufficient. You didn't need a ton of light gathering capability for casual planet viewing like this. Telescopes are a bit of a rabbit hole. Many cheap mass market telescopes are also known as hobby kil
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by deodar 2y ago
My opinion is about the SF Bay area. Yes we have easy access to nature, year round good weather, and tech jobs are more plentiful compared to many other locations in the US (that's a lot of positives admittedly). However the Bay area i
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by deodar 2y ago
I can't be the only one who finds this kind of feedback technique odd. It's in vogue like the SBI model but never sits right with me.
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by deodar 2y ago
I enjoy face to face discussions and whiteboarding sessions on tough technical topics. And I'm a fairly introverted person. You get 2-3 competent engineers in the same room with no screens, just a whiteboard, and magic happens. No amou
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by deodar 2y ago
There is no hope for the software industry to mature if we cannot agree on some basic coding practices. Like the judicious use of comments to improve maintainability.
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by deodar 2y ago
https://archive.is/8CVyj
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by deodar 2y ago
That is correct. One of Krishna's names is Shyam which literally means dark (skinned).
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by deodar 2y ago
I wish that were the case. I would have loved to have a more diverse pool of candidates apply. This was a mid-sized tech company (1500 employees) that is very well known in its vertical. We'd post job openings on Twitter, LinkedIn and
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by deodar 2y ago
Unconscionable. You're picking an employee, not a life partner. Hiring should not be a months long emotional roller coaster like you describe. It should be quick and professional.
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by deodar 2y ago
Short of unionization, the labor class (software engineers) are powerless indeed. And I say this as someone who usually leans right :-)
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by deodar 2y ago
https://archive.is/jJsFG
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by deodar 2y ago
There is also no incentive for the human in the loop to question the computer. If the computer was right and a human thinks it's a false positive, then the human will be blamed later. Whereas if you just rubber stamp what the computer
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by deodar 2y ago
I'm genuinely surprised to see this article in NYT, although even now they couldn't resist taking a dig at "toxic masculinity". For too long we have been happy to ignore the challenges faced by young men.
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by deodar 2y ago
https://archive.is/y0cx4
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by deodar 2y ago
I agree.. I am sorry about the flippant comparison. It was probably unfair to scratch. My frustration with Scratch stems from watching kids (including my own) being taught it in school as the de-facto option and learning absolutely nothing
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by deodar 2y ago
Yes you can make sufficiently complex programs in scratch. You do so in Brainfuck too. That doesn't make either a great choice to teach kids.
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by deodar 2y ago
Victory has many fathers. Defeat is an orphan. I guess that explains the number of people being touted as "The Godfather" of AI.
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by deodar 2y ago
Definitely untrue. Like everywhere else it's a wide spectrum. You'd be surprised how many Indians come to the US from modest means. Parents sunk their savings into educating their kids and sending them abroad. It is not uncommon f
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by deodar 2y ago
These are shockingly bad. Please try to stay grounded and resist the temptation to generate any more.
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by deodar 2y ago
> Others don't like you? Grow a pair. Stop being depressed.
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by deodar 2y ago
I recently switched to vscode after using vim for over 2 decades. Perhaps I am just getting older, however I now find that hitting 5j or 12k as in the article steals some cognitive bandwidth. I still use vim for looking at log files and qui
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by deodar 2y ago
Not sure whether distracting is the right word however the internet is likely involved. Constant connectivity and engagement maximizing algorithms ensure they are exposed to the horrors of the world daily. It is difficult to imagine the exi
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by deodar 2y ago
Zappos, I believe. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zappos-quietly-backed-away-ho...
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by deodar 2y ago
https://archive.is/iYJHj
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by deodar 2y ago
https://archive.is/8HBdU
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by deodar 2y ago
Leaving aside the technical merits of Golang's error handling, this article is a straw man. The Python example can be rewritten with error handling. And arguably in this example the Python program is fine. There is no objectively &quot
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by deodar 3y ago
A rare exception to Betteridge's Law then?
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by deodar 3y ago
> “Everyone hits each other here so it’s cool” This leap of conclusion gave it away. I'd be happy to be wrong but honestly the racist intent feels obvious to me.

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