rednum

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by rednum 4y ago
Genuine question: What in your opinion are the differences between a great and an average band leader? I've been making music as hobby for most of my life, and band leading is a topic I think about a lot - but it seems for many musicia
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by rednum 4y ago
Kinda. In this context I mean "response SLO" - how much time you have between receiving the page and starting debugging stuff. I think it's also important to clarify; I've been on rotations with response SLO ranging from
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by rednum 4y ago
Personally, I also ask more questions about on-call: - is there a SLO? - what is the schedule? 24h is no go for me. - is non-business hours on-call compensated (even when there are no pages)? In particular, I strongly believe we (as profess
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by rednum 4y ago
I used to really like Spotify when I first installed it long time ago, but over the years they worked really hard to make me hate them with passion. It feels like their motto is "Change for change's sake", they seem to remove
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by rednum 5y ago
Well, that's sad news. Wolt used to be the only food delivery company that had actually functional customer service. They replied swiftly, sometimes automatically even granted some promo codes when the delivery was really late. I supp
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by rednum 5y ago
I liked the concept when I first saw it but honestly it's more trouble than it's worth. On my old work laptop, it would sometimes bug out and stop registering touch. That's a problem when you are in the middle of a call and y
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by rednum 5y ago
> there's no great firewall of europe Not yet, but it seems someone is thinking about one, see: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...
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by rednum 5y ago
Perhaps he gambled on the options being worth more. I don't know about all the companies mentioned, but Sumo IPO'd last year.
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by rednum 5y ago
> What might interest you is all the psychedelics I did were technically legal. Shoutout to 4-AcO-DMT and 4-HO-DMT. They are both illegal where I live (Poland). The government maintains a huge list of forbidden substances (link only in p
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by rednum 5y ago
Not OP, but I've met people that seemed to sort of lost their agency and ambition, because their psychedelic insight was that the universe will sort everything out on its own. Though maybe the causality is the other way round here - th
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by rednum 5y ago
> to not want to appear dumb Few production incidents are enough to change this mentality. I'd rather write more verbose but "obvious" code than "clever one liners". I feel sorry for anyone who has to understand
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by rednum 5y ago
Yeah, good luck when someone with experimental temperament decides to implement some of your crucial functionality with semialgebras. (that's what happened in my previous job where we run Scala). I'm happy I didn't have to de
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by rednum 6y ago
Actually Rob Pike said that Go was supposed to be "easy to understand and adopt": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwajp0g-bY4
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by rednum 6y ago
> I suppose this is obvious but the traditional way of increasing prices is to lower the supply. I've been thinking about this recently and it feels like the current culture in software engineering is to increase the supply. I see
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by rednum 6y ago
Sidenote: I really like how this stops playing sounds when I change the tabs. It'd be nice to have browser setting that does it.
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by rednum 6y ago
Similar situation in Poland. Also my anecdotal experience is that Haskell classes are not considered to be the most difficult, rather they are somewhere in the middle.
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by rednum 6y ago
I had similar opinion to yours until around 2015, then things started to break randomly. To be fair, I discovered some good stuff via recommendation and I like other features you mentioned (though I don't really use podcasts). However
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by rednum 6y ago
Looking at title I thought it was rant about product quality. But it's not, so I'll provide mine. Since 2013 when I've started paying for Spotify it has turned from one of my favourite apps to one of those I hate most. On my
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by rednum 6y ago
> Don't worry about sanitizing inputs--extra effort slows you down. I feel like many people downplay how important this is. I've wasted way too much time because of this. Doing code archeology to understand why data persisted t
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by rednum 6y ago
I vaguely remember learning similar fact years ago, but it was phrased something like "There are as many floats in [0, 1] range as in [1, infty]". Leaving aside where exactly "midpoint" of floats lies (either in Ruby&#x2
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by rednum 6y ago
Another fun fact about this system: something changed in how the binaries are evaluated and one VST plugins I've downloaded months ago was marked as malware. The plugin is quite popular in community so I think it's unlikely it con
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by rednum 6y ago
> Git is one of those technologies where it's super important to get a good grasp of how to internals work. In my opinion relying too much on user understanding implementation is a mark of bad design. I don't care about more ad
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by rednum 6y ago
I haven't used Windows in long time, but it feels like "the gap" was closed by Apple, by letting their system degrade. The high end 2019 MacBookPro is in many regards less reliable for music production than my old 2012 MacBoo
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by rednum 6y ago
I don't think I will give this a shot anytime soon. I'm still unhappy about upgrading 2012 Macbook Air to 2019 Macboook Pro. The main reason for that is that audio setup seems much less stable; there are glitches when I play on ou
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by rednum 6y ago
This seems a bit similar to Melodics[1], except open source and it actually uses the standard notation. I know how to read music and started taking classical lessons as an adult. Some time last year a friend recommended me to check out Melo
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by rednum 6y ago
Eh, that's nothing, few friend of mine had issues where Android would sometimes not ring alerts. Why? Who knows, maybe some weird bug that manifested itself in some combination of system settings and phone firmware. I have multiple dev
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by rednum 6y ago
Probably there's no easy answer. I guess if you could think yourself into getting motivated you'd already do that. Some things that help me: - right environment. If you want a PhD it's probably good idea to join some kind of
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by rednum 6y ago
To rephrase what I mean: I disagree with the idea that we can explain all technical concepts in non-technical way, which OP seems to support. I don't think we can get much better with teaching monads than providing actual formal defini
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by rednum 6y ago
As someone who stopped following Haskell world few years ago, this was quite interesting read. I wonder what is the state of ecosystem (libraries) now: a few years ago one of my friends complained that for most basic tasks there is some lib
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by rednum 6y ago
I've tried that, recording is still broken sadly.

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