lambda_obrien

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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
A company that would allow that in the first place should not be trusted later on, claiming they "fixed it". It's such a clear violation of ethics and morals. I don't get how a corporation can literally steal money from
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Yup, when I do programming, I imagine the data inputs to be some "shape" and, in my mind, that shape transforms as I apply operations to it, like `filter`, `map`, `take N`, etc. I just visualize what I want the data to do, then st
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Sounds like my current job.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
If I run more than two "browsers" my laptop slows to a crawl (I am in the USA, but I don't have the money for fancy stuff), so I have to decide to run Firefox (main browser), Chromium (test browser), VSCODE (IDE "browser
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I would pay/donate up to $20 once, or $1 a month or something, if you created a (very easy) containerized deployment I could deploy on my home server and limit to only the phones I choose to allow access, that way only my wife and I (a
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
It was settings. I had a combo of AMD ryzen 2, nvme drive, windows 10, and couldn't for the life of me get windows to discover the drive and install, whether using uefi or bios. I haven't ever dealt with Windows without it just wo
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
> Perhaps he was trying to install Windows 10 using a USB stick I was, yes, but even switching to legacy didn't help at all. I spent weeks trying to get it working, I looked at everything I could and tried every combination of setti
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Fuzzing: give a program structured random garbage as input and see what happens, then fix the resulting bugs.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
HN isn't exactly the most positive of places sometimes, in the comments, and I've been downvoted for comments that don't make sense to be downvoted unless you had something against me as a poster (like my recent 0 voted post
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Rdr2? Fuck, I'm in. I built a PC that i couldn't get windows running on due to some stupid uefi or something, i can't figure it out so it's sitting in the corner and I'm using a PlayStation now. I'll try puttin
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
You can for sure, but part of the appeal is that they've fixed some driver issues and daily usability stuff with pop os. Overall, though, the laptops are fine hardware and support Linux out of the box.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Yes, it just works better. I have a tpad X1 with pop os and a lemur and the lemur is easy easier day to day, I'm always rebooting the x1. I do recommend maxing it out, i got a cheaper spec and it can be sluggish for multiple heavy load
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
We have services which run a "notebook as a service" so it's not too far fetched to think of Microsoft doing this with Excel spreadsheets. I bet it would take the business world by storm and would be a good move.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Wow, I'm not sure why this was unpopular, does someone want to fill me in?
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Do you have an example of a truly exotic programming concept? I'm really interested in weird PL stuff.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'm really enjoying this series, mostly because it's by the same person responsible for the best Haskell reference ever, in my opinion: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/index.html
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
If I had a billion pounds of rice, and millions of people were starving, would it be immoral for me to stockpile that so 50 generations of my family would be taken care of before the millions of starving people now? Edit: because i can&#x27
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Yes, it's not 1:1, but the comparison is apt, IMO. I worked in a factory that had a semi-technical assembly line, in other words we had to train the workers to some level of technical competence (medical devices) and I see parallels in
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I, for one, normally run my 15" laptop in 1600x900 mode when using on my lap (when using as a "desktop" I have two 32" screens at my desk), because of my old eyes, most of the Retina-lovers here must be the younger folks
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
They do a lot more work to make the rebranded laptops work well with Linux than just putting a sticker on the case. The reason I purchased one wasn't for "lifestyle" but because even my Dell XPS or Toshiba X1 for work, which
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
That is factually incorrect, as he had millions less than each of his opponents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_pre
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I love your comment, thanks, it gave me a bit of hope, which is more valuable than most other things in the world (my son gave me the hope needed to get out of depression, maybe you will give me the spark to make my company better?).
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I am not expert enough to weigh in heavily on what's the best way to do that, but I feel like "software engineer" is just a title to make us feel great while we assemble our components much like the workers on an auto manufac
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I agree and also don't get it: I barely write real code in my day job as the only coder on a project I own. I mostly go in, make notes on what looks bad, then fix it later, but the majority of the work isn't writing code and somet
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
When i used Mint at first, they'd just ask you to go to the page with the caphcha or whatever and go through it when you'd update your accounts with the auth scraper method. This was like maybe a decade ago? You could do a similar
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Sometimes you want that email address to forward somewhere because you used it for years. Maybe Google should consider allowing a permanent email forward and then more people could delete that gmail account they don't use.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
for sure yes; treating people like people not robots or cattle or employees, just other humans who have needs, wants, and emotions.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'm aware of that practice, and that's why I would hope that we could build something like the often talked about USPS bank, or whatever, so everyone can have equal access to real banking with no predatory practices. Not that any
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
One thing I learn each day on HN is that software practitioners need more ethics lessons, it's sad that it's so hard for some folks to open their mind enough to understand why this isn't just some "rabble rouser" ca
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
It's kind of a slippery slope to start letting employers hold pay in an account they control... reminds me of the union busting articles on the top right now, with Facebook building employee housing now, the idea you brought up is the

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