hobos_delight

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by hobos_delight 1y ago
Disagree here - I recently took delivery of a BYD Shark 6 and was especially impressed with the build quality and interior quality. I'd say on par with the BMW X5 we had, and slightly better than the Polestar 2 that we have. The softwa
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by hobos_delight 2y ago
And of course the Sydney Ice Berg https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_sydney_iceberg
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by hobos_delight 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand. I have had an Instinct, Tactix Delta, and Tactix 7 Pro and have always been able to see the data without a phone or any network present. I love these watches after moving from an Apple watch, primarily for tw
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by hobos_delight 2y ago
It appears to have that mode they call "Body Anchor" - limits the device to 72Hz with "minimal latency". https://www.xreal.com/air2/
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by hobos_delight 3y ago
Generally when they cross the international date line - for example when traveling from Sydney to San Francisco, I can take off at midday and land at ~7am on the same day local time.
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by hobos_delight 3y ago
Many years ago, I was writing Clojure for a job and took to finally learning emacs beyond just saving a file and closing the editor. It took about a week to finally get used to paredit-mode (and rainbow-parens, because…) but once I did it i
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by hobos_delight 3y ago
Yeah I see your point where it just doesn’t matter, especially back the the original point where it may not be at scale now, but you don’t want to go through the budget / approval process when you need it etc. I think my original point
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by hobos_delight 3y ago
I think it completely matters - yes these orgs are a lot more wasteful, but there is still an opportunity to save money here, especially is this economy, if not for the internal politics wins. I’ve spent time in some of the largest distribu
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by hobos_delight 3y ago
Scaling _if_ needed has been the death knell of many companies. Every engineer wants to assume that they will need to scale to millions of QPS, most of the time this is incorrect, and when it is not then the requirement have changed and it
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by hobos_delight 3y ago
I completely agree. I love the tech and have spent a lot of time in it - but come on people, let’s use the right tool for the right job!
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by hobos_delight 3y ago
…yes - processing 3.2G of data will be quicker on a single machine. This is not the scale of Hadoop or any other distributed compute platform. The reason we use these is for when we have a data set _larger_ than what can be done on a single
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by hobos_delight 3y ago
> Java from Oracle Oracle acquired Java with Sun Microsystems, it was originally designed for embedded systems and the dream of “write once, run everywhere”. The idea of a “hardware JVM” always fascinated me, I seem to recall some parall
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by hobos_delight 4y ago
I don't think you can do better than a binary search here, so log2(1000000) questions, which happens to come out to 20 with rounding. I tried thinking a bit outside the box for other questions that would break down the search space - b
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by hobos_delight 4y ago
This was winding down about 12 months ago, unsure of the current status of it. It's the same model they use for operating in China. From an operational perspective this makes things very hard - as you don't actually get access to
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by hobos_delight 4y ago
Oh completely agree regarding the survival bias - I think the over-arching plan was to make it more accessible to more than just dev teams, and it seems to have worked. "Like MS Word" was thrown around a bit.
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by hobos_delight 4y ago
It wasn't a point upgrade - Confluence 4.0 got rid of markdown in favour of an "XHTML" storage format, then a layer on the editor to autocomplete markdown into the rich-text as you typed. Personally I preferred the ability to
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
Congrats on the completion! I graduated from this program in May of 2021 after about a 15 year gap from my undergrad, coupled with two young kids, a job change, moving across the world, and military service in the middle of it! Agree some o
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
I remember there being a browser beta version, but I thought this was pulled. Has it come back? Because that would be wonderful!
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
All / most PDF forms used by the Australian Defence Force are like this - I suspect it’s because it’s all tied into the identity / ability to digitally sign the forms. It’s very frustrating when you send someone (externally) a PDF
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
There was when I was there. How does BeyondCorp work with ff?
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
I've happily used Firefox on Windows and Linux to access all of my Google services, without issue, for years. Can you expand on which services don't work with ff? At Google there is a requirement to use Chrome - due to certain bro
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
This is how you append query params to a url - nothing to do with the shell.
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
I joined MSFT as a manager 18 months ago, and honestly think their remote policy is one of the better ones out there. Up to 50% remote time with no approval, up to 100% with manager approval. This of course is modulo legal / right to w
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
He may not need a visa, if he is getting citizenship through investment [1]. [1] https://www.newzealand-migration.co.nz/dual-citizenship-serv...
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
I would love a feature in Teams that was "never, ever, ever, open a link in teams - use the default browser". Like you, I can't fucking stand it, and I make the same mistake at least once a day. Disclaimer: I work at msft etc
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
Ive been using the free plan and have been quite happy so far - I couldn’t get my 1Password vault exported (I think you need their desktop app to do that) so I had to manually move things. But all in all really happy with it.
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
I recently moved my passwords from an expired 1Password account to Bitwarden (right at the time they announced linux support actually, which was always the biggest thing I missed). Bitwarden has a FF extension and allows me to use it across
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
There's no need for a browser extension, you can enable it as a setting in your profile if you're logged in.
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
I left GOOG a year ago to join MSFT, both have excellent work-life balance. I also spent 5 years at a well known startup that went public - I think I averaged nearly 12 hours a day over the 5 years there. In my experience and from a lot of
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by hobos_delight 5y ago
Yes we’re only a small SWE office, working on Azure Infrastructure. Though we are hiring and growing :)

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