jeanvalmarc

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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
> These folks halfway across the world aren't bothering, nor do they actually threaten my freedom in any way shape or form. As a counterargument, you can't know that. It seems like this argument could be restated as "I don
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
Yeach, we're seeing `Authentication Expired` for our firebase auth calls. Firebase static hosting still looks up.
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
It's hilarious and probably terrible for society that you can sell your company but still control it. The most powerful companies become even less accountable to anyone . If you buy a share in an active business, sure the amount of
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
> There have been a total of six deaths related to Autopilot misuse over 3 billion Autopilot driven miles by the fleet. Humans are terrible at risk management. Or, humans rightly assessed that despite marketing to the contrary autopilot
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
Because he was a schmuck on a bicycle exploring a region more than twice the size of Texas, and not an actual journalist? Seriously, the OP was from freaking buzzfeed and it still listed the research team . These are not equally valuable a
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
I think treating it as a job where 75% of the salary is experience is probably the right attitude. FWIW I worked with a lot of grad students and anecdotally saw the best outcomes from people who within 2-3 months of showing up knew exactly
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
Narrator: they can't.
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
Vulkan for better or worse seems super targeted at AAA gamedevs, here's a probably unfair 1189 line example of how to show a triangle: https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan/blob/master/examples...
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
If they'd done this right at the PY3K transition and only allowed the function-call-without-parenthesis syntax for `print` calls it could have been a good idea. But now that the community paid the decade-long price to get print as a
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
Weird, as anecdotes go I've always thought the signal iOS app was very polished. I just checked three of those issues (camera access, shared links, search) on an iPhone 11 Pro Max and I wasn't able to reproduce. I suspect Signal m
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
Pay 10% more than other non-FAANG companies (who are on a different planet) and offer a real mission and opportunity to make a difference in the product/world/industry. Make sure there's free coffee, smart people, and no jerk
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
Amazon just lists it as a "subtotal," which I think is probably the best way to do it. I don't know about the "UX designer in a couple of hours" line: automatic shipping is a nightmarish bag of worms and isn't
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
> do you think our government is better than theirs? For how long? America has problems, but your order-of-magnitude calibration is way off if you think a concentration-camp operating (i.e. the real kind with over a million people who co
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
> failure of the LHC They detected the Higgs boson and incidentally invented the internet? https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cern-searches-for-1st-web...
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
Is it desirable for a distributed Python package to write files to a hardcoded absolute path? Wheels seem to respect the `package_data` setup key, which is definitely inside the library path and seems to work pretty well for library data.
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
It seems like a slightly bizarre system: have any of the "graduated" companies actually been successful by conventional (i.e. profitable) metrics?
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
> we shouldn't be eating as much meat as we do anyway. This is not universally agreed, and sounds a bit like a modernized version of "let them eat cake."
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by jeanvalmarc 6y ago
The number one rule of UX changes, people shit on everything no matter what you do. Counter-anecdote: it's a fine-to-good change.
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
K8 specifically might not be the future, but containers are the past (chroot) present (docker) and future. Sure, containers are a hacky shell script... but a hacky shell script that always runs the same way . I put in my time chasing down
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
I think an important angle of "consider the cost" is that materials in R&D are pretty much ALWAYS cheaper than a team and time. For example here if the whole rocket was a 4mm thick 9m X 118m cylinder, the actual stainless stee
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
I've set up automated welding cells, and the "settings" excuse sounds totally reasonable to me haha. There are indeed a million settings (weld weave pitch and amplitude, wire feed speed, linear feed speed, gas flow rate, ampe
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
GCP seems culturally a terrible fit for anything compliance-related. Azure and AWS both offer high-compliance regions (Azure Government / AWS GovCloud) that are absolutely necessary for many industries (medical, defense, etc). Slightly
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
Another similar sampling profiler which has decent performance is pyinstrument: https://github.com/joerick/pyinstrument
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
The Comet Lake stuff they just announced probably supports it (no details yet): https://www.macrumors.com/2020/01/06/intel-5ghz-comet-lake-c...
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
So in summary Wikipedia is a responsibly run nonprofit that spends slightly less than it takes in while providing a valuable service to millions (or billions) of users?
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
And clipper the polygon offsetting library!
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
They're talking about two different changes: "bunch of grad students"="patch MCAS to not auto-crash" "really complicated"="redesign entire compute architecture to be multi-master and failure tolerant&
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
Bonuses are something that’s easy to get outraged by, but look like an infinitesimal fraction of the business numbers. A judge approved a $235M bonus structure across 10,000 employees[1], while the wildfire liabilities are at least $18B [2]
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by jeanvalmarc 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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