gifnamething

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by gifnamething 3y ago
Only if you're planning on telling the truth
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by gifnamething 3y ago
>Records weren't great back then and many very old people may not actually know their true birthdate. Exactly why they can't be trusted!
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by gifnamething 3y ago
You're just arguing in favour of birth dates being unreliable.
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by gifnamething 3y ago
>experts have poo-poo'ed the theory Because the experts are in a joke, pseudo-scientific field in which the most prominent person is the man who verified her age with laughably poor methods and has a vested interest in not being pro
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by gifnamething 4y ago
In other words, if I need those skills, the people doing most jobs are unsuitable.
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by gifnamething 4y ago
Are you confusing a binary tree with something else? Here's an example: https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/ It's an 'easy' question. The solution is <10 lines.
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by gifnamething 4y ago
The few skills that are transferable across the whole industry are a tiny part of what it takes to do many jobs, especially more senior IC roles. There is no certification that is possible.
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by gifnamething 4y ago
In the UK you can sack someone for being a poor fit without any of that within the first 2 years.
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by gifnamething 4y ago
I don't think this is as new as you're suggesting. Mythical Man Month, from 1975, mentions side-effects in functions as a problem. Even lambda calculus is functional programming. Recursion existed before loops. I'd say that i
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by gifnamething 4y ago
So how do you plan to get your own Graviton 3 computer?
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by gifnamething 4y ago
I do wonder if the people who wring their hands over big-tech employee class-systems have ever had a 'real' job or if they think they get fancy perks simply because their employers are kind.
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by gifnamething 4y ago
The lack of valuing their customers is what made me finally give up on Android. Android's biggest problem is the same as it was 5 years ago - the support doesn't last for long enough - and all they've done about it in that ti
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by gifnamething 4y ago
Google is similar! Google helpfully emailed me to let me know that my storage is 70% full. ...as it was when they emailed me two months ago, and four months ago, and six months ago... Essentially, they get to pass off an email advertising G
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by gifnamething 4y ago
There is the occasion where the manpage is useless compared to the help or the website docs. For example, the ironic 'man doxygen'.
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by gifnamething 4y ago
It's still in google's best interest that someone can use their phones without being spammed by porn ads or blocking Drive notifications.
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by gifnamething 4y ago
That's entirely compatible with the concept of girls being pushed away from STEM via social pressure
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by gifnamething 4y ago
Of course, the big monitor and quiet room that some of us get to enjoy were paid for by our salaries, net of tax. Yet if we try to convince the employers paying those salaries to give us computing equipment that we like and private offices,
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by gifnamething 5y ago
This isn't a constructive way of arguing, it's an irrefutable strawman
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by gifnamething 5y ago
Then we lose the conceit that we're doing it for the kids' benefit.
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by gifnamething 5y ago
Arm is about 90 minutes away from London
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by gifnamething 5y ago
Race cars are optimised for racing, not manoeuvring. Try applying their wheel geometry to you road car. You won't get far, though you will get there very fast and very sideways. Aftermarket steering wheels are widely available for road
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by gifnamething 5y ago
That was when it was still a growing business. Uber was cheaper when investors paid for it, too.
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by gifnamething 5y ago
That doesn't seem like emergent behaviour
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by gifnamething 5y ago
Driving for fun on public roads is safe, legal, and popular. You won't wish it away.
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by gifnamething 5y ago
Sounds OK to me. I could imagine 'gift cards are just interfaces', which is laconic, among other adjectives.
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by gifnamething 5y ago
That was the common view at the time, that you couldn't trust it because it wasn't from a trusted publisher. The inaccuracy was the implication that you could trust legacy media.
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by gifnamething 5y ago
That's barely enough for a negative revenue electric vehicle startup these days
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by gifnamething 5y ago
And users who pay for things are more valuable to advertise to.
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by gifnamething 5y ago
This idea has provenance with SponsorBlock
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by gifnamething 5y ago
I don't need to trust it, the rules for acquisition are much more strict than the rules for part ownership.

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