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by nython 18d ago
Vi doesn't require a visa but the trip is one way only. (Vis-a-vis)
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by nython 1mo ago
If you haven't tried it, Small Gods is frequently recommended as a standalone, and it's very far in subject matter from the early tolkien-parody rincewind/guards books.
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by nython 10mo ago
I thought that was maison d'errorier
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by nython 1y ago
> The plan called for the Navy to sneak a nuclear-powered submarine, nearly two football fields long, into the waters off North Korea and then deploy a small team of SEALs in two mini-subs, each about the size of a killer whale The lengt
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by nython 1y ago
Store your food in PLA containers and you can too
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by nython 2y ago
Coop portal2
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by nython 2y ago
Any tips or reading you would recommend about organizing the workspace to improve focus? I recently switched from a self-imposed 5 days in the office (obscenely short commute, homeschooled kids) to a mostly WFH arrangement (the commute to
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by nython 2y ago
The deconstruction of falling stars.. the jailbreak plot device was implausible to me when I was younger, somewhat plausible when I was introduced to VMs, and now with LLMs we're probably already there.
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by nython 2y ago
There were various internal Quality of Life modules during my time at amzn, but nothing public. I suspect that given enough time working with Lua, each team will create an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of ha
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by nython 2y ago
Sounds like doing inventory but with an extra step.
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by nython 2y ago
Well, a good opportunity to say that I don't post here much but I do enjoy your stories.
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by nython 2y ago
My reading of what laeri wrote is "you seem to be proud of the work you did on that project so I'm not sure what is hindering you from talking about it". Not "you seem to be proud of not talking about it".
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by nython 3y ago
Thank you dang. There is a lot to debug/refactor for me on a personal level now.
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by nython 3y ago
Thank you for the reply. I did learn a few new words such as "normative ethics" and consequentialism. I'll start with googling them and see where it leads me.
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by nython 3y ago
Slightly tangential to the discussion, but are there any readings you would recommend on moral decision making? Background: I am(was?) a left-leaning israeli jew, and Oct7 and the subsequent IDF response make me feel as if I can hang up my
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by nython 3y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this out. Where I am, rising interest rates have at best slowed the rate at which prices were increasing and dried up the market. I felt like there were other factors that will keep housing prices high
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by nython 3y ago
On aliexpress, there is an usbc adapter for the t420 power cable that will allow it to take charge from a 65w powerbank (maybe even 20w). No need to search for battery replacements anymore and can also throw away the original power brick.
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by nython 3y ago
That's the evolutionary leetcode portion of the interview.
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by nython 3y ago
It took me several frustrating years to figure it out, but eventually getting visibly fit and well groomed gave me enough leeway to bisect the bugs in my interpersonal communication protocols and algorithms.
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by nython 3y ago
Graduated into the 08 recession. Knowing what I know now , I would have drawn out my graduation date as much as possible until the market started to improve. See if there's a way you can work for/affiliate yourself with some lab
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Change three lines of code, save 760 server hours per month(blog.backslasher.net)
3 points by nython 3y ago|2 comments
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by nython 5y ago
Thisstory about ebay's attempted takeover of craigslist might interest you. Even before Omidyar stepped down from Craigslist’s board, his appointed agent, Garrett Price, started bullying Craigslist’s owners. In an email to Buckmaster,
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by nython 5y ago
If I remember correctly, 'The Halo effect' by Rosenzweig has a pretty critical retrospective on these two books.
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by nython 6y ago
Maybe he failed to breach the manager effort thermocline https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2015/02/22/theres-a-payof...
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by nython 6y ago
How do you decide which skills would look good on your resume?
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by nython 6y ago
> There were happy go lucky chemists that fell into projects that were smooth as butter If it makes you feel any better (I 'quit' at the start of my bioinformatics PhD), there's a high chance that their projects went smoot
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by nython 7y ago
Would you mind elaborating on the pain management techniques?
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by nython 7y ago
re: tribal knowledge - didn't mean the field as a whole, just that bus factor is pretty low at the place I'm currently at.
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by nython 7y ago
> As someone with lots of anti-anti-botting knowledge Any recommendations for books/other information sources? Currently doing some backend work for a company that mainly does scraping and a lot of this seems to be based on the trib
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by nython 9y ago
Could you give an example for the 'eliminating weaknesses is more important than growing strengths' part? I think I've encountered this before - where letting an incompetent developer go would have accelerated a project much

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