latkin

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by latkin 4mo ago
Indeed, it appears that he's now deleted his social profiles. Good on him! That is exactly the right thing to do at this point to follow through, so kudos to him. TFA was published a day ago, the corresponding YT video was published 3
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by latkin 4mo ago
100%. I get it -- I'm _also_ burned out on social media, AI, screens, the treadmill of the tech industry, etc. But you can just stop doing those specific things. Delete your social media accounts. Put a screen time timer on your phone.
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by latkin 4mo ago
> He is not fucking around for clicks in any shallow sense. He is undeniably "fucking around for clicks." When you don't want clicks, you don't cross-post to YouTube, BlueSky, LinkedIn, your blog, etc. Clearly a lot o
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by latkin 4mo ago
> His BlueSky is professional. It's plainly not. https://bsky.app/profile/chadwhitacre.com/post/3mmvzmugfqk2g "my good friend Dana could really use some help paying for major dental work. <g
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by latkin 4mo ago
This whole thing is eye-searingly performative. Whether or not he follows through and goes dark after this, this farewell is just so ridiculous. Claims to have not used the internet or a phone since February, does all communication via USPS
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by latkin 5mo ago
This takes me back to my teenage juggling glory days. Truly the golden years in hindsight. I grew up in Silicon Valley in the late 80s/90s and learned to juggle, as many people did back then, from the book "Juggling for the Comple
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by latkin 5mo ago
I would agree that the proper next step after getting comfortable with 3 balls is to learn 3 clubs, not 4 balls. It's much easier to go 3 balls -> 3 clubs than 3 balls -> 4 balls. So many fun things to do with clubs, and of cours
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by latkin 6mo ago
And I spend a lot of my time at home on my computer. The article should have said LinkedIn is searching my house.
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by latkin 2y ago
> The only difference is that the ratio of fructose:sucrose is slightly (~5%) higher in corn syrup. I think this is a typo? Should be "fructose:glucose"
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by latkin 2y ago
Interesting challenge, and very impressive. But he isn't honestly accounting for the cost of the salmon, even by his own rules ("Food that I don't use needs to be factored into my costs.", "if it goes to waste, I ha
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by latkin 2y ago
In case others gave up, it took about 2.5 minutes to load my (midsize city) hometown from OpenStreetMap. So hang in there.
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by latkin 2y ago
It's the robot bath from Roujin Z, but in real life https://youtu.be/X5i0JU_NsZU?t=464
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by latkin 2y ago
Depends on the kid. Mine was a superstar sleeper from 2-6mo (8p-7a every night, predictable 90min-2h naps during the day), and then as he got older his napping took a nosedive -- shorter duration, lower quality, less predictable.
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by latkin 2y ago
It sounds like you are assuming work = solo work. My day is about 25% meetings, my wife's is about 90% meetings. We can't participate in meetings with a baby in the room (let alone strapped to our body!) who might start screaming
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by latkin 2y ago
What is there to "figure out"? Someone needs to look after the kid. If you as parents are unable due to full time work, you need to hire someone else to watch the kid (nanny, daycare, etc) or find a volunteer (extended family, fri
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by latkin 2y ago
Nothing in your description sounds difficult to do in powershell. You can certainly output "many-things" from a part of the pipeline that takes "single-things" as input. Crawling files is a single command, then you can d
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by latkin 2y ago
Unbelievable how meta the original comment is. Seems like many of the subsequent replies, too. Skim a few paragraphs and that's plenty, time to share your thoughts with the internet... This passage comes to mind: > we want so badly
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by latkin 2y ago
Did you read TFA? This exact phenomenon is discussed thoroughly in the post.
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by latkin 2y ago
I usually find this author's posts pretty insightful, but this one was a miss for me. Just a rambling mishmash of ranting and humblebragging. The main point (I think? Hard to extract a thesis from this one besides "algo interviews
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by latkin 3y ago
I don't have that one handy right this minute, but I just remembered that I did a different weather exploration with Mathematica about a year ago. I had a hunch that Ironman triathlon was advertising their races as having cooler weathe
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by latkin 3y ago
I use it for hobby tinkering, it's quite fun to play around with. Excellent documentation, best-in-class symbolic capabilities, great visualizations/charting, everything you need is in the box (no fussing with dependencies). And o
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by latkin 4y ago
Wear OS (Google) | Software engineers (platform/firmware/connectivity/power/UI/apps), solutions engineers, and more | Mountain View, San Diego, remote USA, London, Seoul | Full-time Open roles: https://ca
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by latkin 8y ago
They recently introduced a 1st-party CLI that supports Linux: https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/09/06/announcing-the-1passwo... https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/CLI Howeve
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by latkin 9y ago
Looks nice, but seems to be mostly focused on web dev. No Scala, Java, .NET/C#/F#/Powershell, Win32, Azure... Would be great to have JVM and/or Msft ecosystem in there.
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by latkin 9y ago
Agree completely. I'm a heavy Windows/Office/.NET/F#/Powershell user, overall a fan of MS ecosystem, but Edge is still just plain painful to actually use day to day. Chrome remains far ahead. I'd say "1000
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by latkin 9y ago
"$arrayOfObjects | ConvertTo-Csv" will create one row per object in the array, with a column for each public field of the object. That's exactly what happened, and it seems like a reasonable behavior to me. Do you have an alt
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by latkin 9y ago
> Their [sic] talking all the way up to about $70 per square foot. Peopleware says 100 sq ft per person, so that's up to about $700 per month per employee (or $8400). $7000 per month, not $700. $84k/year.
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by latkin 9y ago
1Password synced w/ Dropbox. Using Windows, MacOS + Android support. Very unhappy about the recent push toward subscription-based model, though, so I'm starting to look around for something new. Lots of good options in this thread
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by latkin 9y ago
https://1password.com/downloads/ still links to the 1Password v4 version for Windows, which supports local vaults. And shameless plug for my own cross-platform powershell-based 1Password client, which can read both for

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