lambda_obrien

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   by lambda_obrien 6y ago

   Your job sounds horrible, look around more. The "respond within an hour to slack" sounds downright torturous.
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   by lambda_obrien 6y ago

   I wasn't being too serious, but you're correct, usually things age out for other reasons, like old WiFi access points becoming obsolete or shoes getting worn, and the occasional cheap electronic crap from some startup that outsour
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   by lambda_obrien 6y ago

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act Maybe things have changed in 10 years, but even the most racist southern farmer I knew in the officer cprps wouldn't have bombed am American city, for several re
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   by lambda_obrien 6y ago

   A few thousand people just had a big protest, I think it's easy enough. Also, covid-19 will end someday. The hot takes here are getting rediculous.
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   by lambda_obrien 6y ago

   Not really, you can still choose to have whatever views, you can walk into the town square and shout your views, you can pass out flyers, you can do a lot. You can still vote for whom you want, without telling everyone, you can run for offi
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   by lambda_obrien 6y ago

   Sure, there are a few bad apples in every bunch, but they're not gonna fucking bomb an American city. I'm not arguing with you, just trying to anchor you to reality.
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   by lambda_obrien 6y ago

   You would lose everytime, military officers aren't bloodthirsty villans.
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   by lambda_obrien 6y ago

   It took 24 months of effort to get a particular system to barely run every hour by some contractors. After 3 weeks, I rewrote most of it and still have a month left, but it runs in 5 seconds. I'm having trouble right now convincing my
9. 189.▲
   by lambda_obrien 6y ago

   I don't think I've lived in one place that long ever in my life. This is some amazing engineering, considering everything I own breaks after about 5 years.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    "No foreign nationals" And yes, "no-forn"
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    Thanks
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    I still don't understand which titan keys I have and whether this affects them.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    A hundred years ago, no one could own their own press, today I can print a thousand flyers in a few minutes. Technology evolves.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    I believe in free speech, I spent 10 years in the military trying to defend it, but I also believe that the President caused this invasion of Congress with his constant disinformation and lies, so this is fine with me. Next time, I may thin
15. 195.▲
    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    The newspaper doesn't have to publish your letters and neither does facebook or twitter. Feel free, as in free speech, to setup your own website.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    I spent 10 years in the US Navy and these rioters are a disgrace to my and every other veteran's service. I'm ashamed to be an American today in the face of these traitors.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    Luckily, your code is open source so those in Iran can run their own instance locally.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    This is why journalism is dying, it's not fact based, they write to get eyeballs.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    NFC is for phones usually.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    Thanks!
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    I would pay so much for a hackable watch like this with a 3 or 4 color epaper display, I'd almost pay as much as an apple watch if it was high quality hardware and had a great open API and toolchain.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    Even if they double in value, my total comp will be way, way below a similar salary level at a Google or Facebook, people don't realize just how lopsided the salary scales are at the giants. I work at a small startup that can sustain g
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    In America that's so rare it's nonexistent. A few rich white collar criminals might get home detention, but for most people who have the option, it's too expensive, with fees of hundreds of dollars a month or more. Country cl
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    Most prisoners don't want to escape, or cause harm, they just want to finish the term and go home and move on. I'd say you could have the honor system (unlocked doors) for 95 percent of prisoners, by letting them know if they esca
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    Form follows function, I agree.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    What's SV to you? Most people I know in the greater Bay Area don't have the huge options or rsu grants. I think you FAANG folks forget you're in the minority with those huge stock grants that are worth something. My current c
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    It's hilarious that you're voted down probably due to talking bad about Trump, but then you're actually from a place where a man like Trump was in charge for 2 decades, so maybe people here should listen to you about his ilk
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    It's so cool that we can send things into space like this, I loved the sense of wonder and excitement getting my rockets in KSP to launch into orbit, but thinking about real life space stuff is about a thousand thousand times cooler! E
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    I'm really excited to use linear types to try to speed up stream processing! I love Haskell but some of the fusion stuff that speeds up stream libraries can be slow to compile and not that fast anyways.
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    by lambda_obrien 6y ago

    I've been logging each install as a markdown document with directions, and manually symlinking my dotfiles, but tiny scripts that do both are a great idea!