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by elseweather 8mo ago
This is the WARN notice for the _previous_ layoff in October. Presumably they'll file another one for the next wave this week.
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by elseweather 10mo ago
Beej's guide to network programming is an all-time classic, and I suspect this is the same (even before I've read it thoroughly).
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by elseweather 2y ago
this is a book for people who think the wizard on the cover of SICP is an actual wizard and get scared
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by elseweather 2y ago
Yes, it seems intuitively obvious, which is why mathematicians spent a long time trying to prove that the conjecture was true. It turns out The conjecture is false in a non-obvious way. The result described in the blog post is a specific co
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by elseweather 2y ago
In the US at least they're a state monopoly
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by elseweather 3y ago
they have a whole complex of particle accelerators; many of the old ones are feeders into LHC https://home.web.cern.ch/science/accelerators/accelerator-co...
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by elseweather 3y ago
It's floor(_) - as in, floor(1.999) = 0, but floor(2.001) = 2. If you look carefully the upper flange of the [] square brackets is missing, which makes it a floor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_and_ceiling_fu
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by elseweather 3y ago
I dunno, man. At least with guitar amps the solid state ones _try_, but even expensive ones kinda suck compared to a tube amp
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by elseweather 4y ago
> Maybe Amazon should also ensure employer safety while commuting/walking to the office. I've never looked into it myself, but they do advertise a service like this around the Seattle offices
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by elseweather 4y ago
It would be nice if that area was something more interesting than a corporate dormitory. Of course this change is ... not the way
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by elseweather 4y ago
That's a lovely photo
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by elseweather 5y ago
You have to eat something, but you don't have to drink. I've seen it described as: Imagine telling alcoholics to keep it under control, while still making them have 2-3 drinks a day!
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by elseweather 5y ago
That's what Blizzard's always done - they didn't invent RTS games, or MMOs, or collectible card games, or roguelikes, they just refined and productized them. I think it's fair to call Overwatch a huge success if you&#x27
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by elseweather 5y ago
Most people don't go to college, but if you did, you're likely to have a mostly college-educated bubble
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by elseweather 5y ago
1. Trial by fire; learning on the job 2. CS stuff is widely available for self-study if you've got good discipline. "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Skiena is my favorite textbook on algorithm fundamentals. CLRS is a bigger b
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by elseweather 5y ago
Ah, man, I get being anxious in interviews but it never occurred to me that newbies would be stressed out by their (lack of) Leetcode score. It's totally unnecessary of course - the people who've racked 1500 problems are probably
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by elseweather 5y ago
I wish the article had more photos - from the one it looks like it could be an awesome rock climbing area
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by elseweather 5y ago
I'm curious what useful applications we have for black holes of any size
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by elseweather 5y ago
It's a meme, like "_____ Considered Harmful". That one started with "GOTO Considered Harmful". This one started with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
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by elseweather 5y ago
This is, in fact, an existing product category: the one I'm most familiar with is https://www.beeminder.com/ , but it's got a few competitors. I've never found it particularly useful, but then I'm also to
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by elseweather 5y ago
IF you enjoy this kind of thing, (and you aren't already an acoup fan), he wrote an entire article about the biker-gear-leather-fetish trope in Game of Thrones: https://acoup.blog/2020/12/04/collections-t
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by elseweather 6y ago
...which makes it a classic exercise for teaching memoization!
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by elseweather 6y ago
There's an explanation here: https://beepb00p.xyz/unnecessary-db.html (the link behind "Against unnecessary databases")
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by elseweather 6y ago
Cheers! Responding between dumbbell sets - I hope I may never stop being an animal ;)
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by elseweather 6y ago
I mean, you can also just let the data go. "nothing, chaos" is pretty simple . I don't believe being able to search my chatlogs from 2005 would make my life simpler, or better. Some people are natural archivists and love tha
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by elseweather 6y ago
What's wrong with it? I'd totally believe it's a mess, but I'm curious what kind of mess. Specifically I'm wondering if it's "bad Go code" or the underlying AWS APIs (or both!)
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by elseweather 6y ago
This is a fascinating article that winds through a whole raft of problems that feel super relevant in the software world today: end-to-end encryption, distributed messaging, what we would today call "containerization" (in 1984!)