paxunix

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by paxunix 1y ago
Slack is dismantling what I've spent decades honing my email filters for and there's no analogue.
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by paxunix 2y ago
It's that the guy who won this time is a horrible human being and is the head of a party that seems barely interested in governing, but more in enriching themselves even if it means sacrificing rights and privileges of those they gover
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by paxunix 3y ago
I highly recommend using Fluid Film instead of WD-40. It will coat better and last a lot longer (you'll still have to put it on once a year).
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by paxunix 3y ago
Couple is two. Few is four. Several is at least five. There is nothing for three, except for very large values of two or very small values of four (these are so uncommon in practice that we just use three). > Then shalt thou count to
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by paxunix 4y ago
Jassy's answer to that question contained this tidbit about "how to build a strong team? ... go into the office ..." At that point I was certain the RTO message was coming and it was just a matter of time. Turns out that ti
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by paxunix 4y ago
If you're in a building at Amazon, sure, Amazonians. If you're out on the street in Seattle with regular people, it's often Amholes.
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by paxunix 4y ago
It's not that they necessarily need true reasoning. It would just be extremely beneficial, because that's what every human driver already has built-in (although exercised to varying degrees of success). What about an axe that fal
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by paxunix 4y ago
Some time ago I had asked one of my Indian friends (who manages a software team in India and the US and has travelled the world, so he has a varied perspective) what he thinks is the biggest barrier to India's advancement? He said &qu
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by paxunix 5y ago
lol You're on a website catering to people who dislike having others prove them wrong and will stretch "technically correct" as far as possible, in the face of all else. If computers didn't exist, they'd be lawyer
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by paxunix 5y ago
> Sorry, I forgot you did not specify. [...] I'm sorry for assuming. No it is not sorry, and no it did not forget. Why should I believe the computer forgot that I did (or didn't) tell it how to refer to me? It's a machin
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by paxunix 6y ago
I wanted this to be true, but "whalesalad" was the thread's top-post user.
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by paxunix 6y ago
I set up an AWS API Gateway that proxies to Reddit RSS URLs and then I just give the APIG endpoint URL to Feedly. Unless you have a lot of reddit feeds or high traffic ones, you probably won't even break out of the APIG free tier.
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by paxunix 6y ago
Engineers have an often-times pedantic fascination with debugging deeply detailed problems. Consider a legal trial to be a giant machine executing a huge set of detailed and arcane and sometimes arbitrary instructions. Either the machine d
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by paxunix 6y ago
Plenty of selfish/oblivious drivers, but don't overlook the selfish pedestrians causing intersection traffic backup too. There are plenty that are crossing right up until the light is red (even if they don't have a "wal
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by paxunix 7y ago
That's how you win elections. You tell (convince) people what to be afraid of, and who's to blame for it.
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by paxunix 7y ago
> Good use of manager time is to figure out what those people do differently and then have them teach their ways to the others. What if the greats do that, and the others just don't care enough to learn, like this is a blue collar j
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by paxunix 7y ago
Yes it does, but not for everything, and there's certainly less new work being done with it. It's impressive that much of that code just works and no one has touched it in a long time. A lot of breakage in that space is due to n
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by paxunix 7y ago
> More often, however, migraines are likely to be covered by FMLA (in the us) and the person gets time off for a certain amount of days. Almost always, you will be expected (rightly or wrongly) to use your PTO/sick days first (if yo
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by paxunix 7y ago
Yes (at least, on desktop there is). Right click on the map where you want to fix something and select "Report a data problem". The UI will walk you through the rest.
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by paxunix 8y ago
It's not useless at all. That the answer is simple does not imply the journey to fulfilling the answer is also simple. If a person lacks discipline, it is generally within their control to look at themselves and their choices and figu
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by paxunix 8y ago
You can almost always get a free consultation from a lawyer. In that, they will make a guess as to how likely the case is to be won by you (the plaintiff) and decide whether to take it on or not. It's possible to also have added to th
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by paxunix 8y ago
It is POSIX shell parsing behaviour that redirections can appear anywhere in the command (obviously, not in the same word as another parameter, nor inside a quoted string). They have to be stripped out by the shell before execution: http
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by paxunix 8y ago
The only options you usually need for comm are -1, -2, and -3. It takes two arguments, call them 1 and 2. Its job is to include lines from each and both files in output (by default, you get 3 columns of output), so we want to filter by
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by paxunix 8y ago
So when does the cottage industry of companies spring up that take data deletion requests in bulk from classes of EU citizens and batch them up for submission en masse to BigCo? And then also sell you a monitoring service to make sure that
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by paxunix 8y ago
One sometimes-unfortunate thing about the Internet and global accessibility to other peoples' opinions is that it's easy to find other people "just like you". This leads to a signal amplification that doesn't neces
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by paxunix 8y ago
To counter those objecting to your statement of "Of course, a lot is asked of engineers during crunch time, but that's the same way everywhere in the industry": Everyone likes to pick those nits. I also work in the retail or
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by paxunix 8y ago
Working for Amazon in India is almost like working for an entirely different company and is not a great comparison to working for Amazon in the US. Cultural norms in the US apply in the US; cultural norms in India apply in India. I've
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by paxunix 8y ago
It is often said that people don't leave jobs, they leave managers. I've seen it be true much more often than not.
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by paxunix 9y ago
Are you a white, casually-dressed male with an American-sounding name? If so, it is very unlikely your devices will be scrutinized at all. Outside of that, the probability increases (sometimes by a lot). Hacker News likes to see the long
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by paxunix 9y ago
You generally can't polyfill an operator or things that require changes to language parsing, but you can run it through a transpiler like Babel so it converts everything to an earlier version like ES5 with more widespread and stable fe

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