rewma

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by rewma 5y ago
> You're moving the goalpost on this. For me, as someone else stated, the separation between home life and work life is a bit easier with a commute. The point is that separation from home and work life does not require or mandate a
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by rewma 5y ago
> Government regulation is different because it forces everyone (...) It really isn't. It just stops unscrupulous employers from abusing their employees. There are already plenty of tech companies that went full remote, and clearly
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by rewma 5y ago
> Ex (multi) FAANG engineer here. I personally agree that a 30 minute commute home is more effective for separating work and home than just the clock. The data published (by MSFT) shows employees are working more hours now than ever befo
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by rewma 5y ago
> If there are cons to the employer, that means I'm worth less and can demand less salary (...) During the industrial revolution, some employers saw that there were significant pros in employing children and working them 12 to 14 ho
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by rewma 5y ago
> why am I getting heavily down voted for discussing personal reasons why I enjoyed working in the office? My guess is that there has been chatter on how discussions on WFO, specially in tech forums, are brigaded by shills to sell the il
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by rewma 5y ago
> Ditto. I’ve been doing a lot of managery stuff during the pandemic and the main things I miss are the water cooler talk that greased a lot of wheels and filled in a lot of gaps (...) I'm sure mileages vary, but between wasting a s
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by rewma 5y ago
From the article's summary: > The central sticking point, and cause cited by many people who recently left, was Smith’s strong push this year for all Blue Origin employees to return to the office. This is without a doubt about Blu
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by rewma 5y ago
> Every time you commit, package-lock.json is different. And when it is not, then I have 26 new vulnerabilities to be fixed by “npm audit fix”. I have zero trust in my build being reproducible, or even working one year forward. In some
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by rewma 5y ago
> Differentiating DLL and SO hell is getting a bit beyond pedantic (...) It really isn't. Unlike linking problems, where the problem is focused on how you need to fight your dependencies to be able to resolve symbols, DLL Hell has b
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by rewma 5y ago
DLL Hell ceased to be a practical concern over a decade ago, particularly given that Windows provides tight control over its dynamic linking search order. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlls&#x
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by rewma 5y ago
I'm afraid that this is one of the expected outcomes of lowering and even outright eliminating preventative measures, such as mask mandates and social distancing, and placing all the chips on the current generation of Covid vaccines be
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by rewma 5y ago
> End user of a linker? I'd argue that if you're not packaging your software or testing your software's dependencies, either you're doing something extremely exotic that lies far outside anyone's happy path or &q
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by rewma 5y ago
> But that sleight-of-hand hides the fact that many (perhaps even most) security fixes do not break the ABI or API; they are completely contained to the implementation (one obvious exception would be if the security issue was caused by b
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by rewma 5y ago
> I think the issue comes when results are reported and consumers try to use those results to determine which behaviors are risky. Well, consumers are doing it completely wrong if they're looking up to papers as established and defi
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by rewma 5y ago
> to be fair though, it can be a hassle to get something on wikipedia - writing a well thought out addition to a page, only to have it immediately reversed out can be disheartening. It indeed can take work, but that's also the reaso
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by rewma 5y ago
> Unfortunately deletionists have won, at least in my limited experience, and Wikipedia subjectively feels now to be largely a kingdom of those who find it more satisfying/easier to delete information than to create. One of wikipedi
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by rewma 5y ago
> Went hunting for relevant pages, and it's surprising how weak Wikipedia is on this entire subject. That's how Wikipedia works: people like you and me search for a topic, and if something is missing then it's up to us to
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by rewma 5y ago
> And my grandfather used to say the longer you look at something the easier it gets to compress all the information of a complex world into a few dots. Basically these artists brains were running highly optimized compression algos. Chri
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by rewma 5y ago
> (...) what makes you think that a company with rapidly outdating chip designs and access only to domestic silicon fabs (...) Well, maybe the fact that not so long ago it had none of that and it clearly looks like both the company and t
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by rewma 5y ago
> If ARM china "steals" ARM ip, ARM is still capable of licensing to it's western clients; If the smartphone market is an indicator, too bad that this will just mean that the majority of OEMs will just buy their chips from
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by rewma 5y ago
> I don't know whether this is a truly serious paper or can be filed under "Spurious Correlations"[0] I don't understand what leads you to believe that a paper that can be filed under "spurious correlation"
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by rewma 5y ago
> can you name the sustainable sources of hydrogen, and their efficiency? Hydrogen is an energy store. It doesn't typically exist by itself in nature and must be produced. Thus the answer for your question is any and all renewable
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by rewma 5y ago
> I don't want to live in a region where my neighbors just watch me get robbed... What do you expect a neighbor to do regarding a violent gang that blows up a door, takes 5min to do its thing, and proceeds to vanish in the night? Pe
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by rewma 5y ago
> The result? No response. No company cared what skills I have gained during my studies. They see courses like hardware security as non-practical and a course on multithreading as mostly theoretical. I wouldn't take that personally,
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by rewma 5y ago
> QML spoiled me, as React in comparison is quite clunky, so I'm not really sure where your post is coming from. My post comes from my personal and professional experience developing Qt applications with C++, which unfortunately alr
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by rewma 5y ago
> This is true for values defined in code, but TypeScript cannot directly see data that comes in from eg. an API, and so can't infer types from it. No, that's not right at all. TypeScript allows you to determine the exact type
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by rewma 5y ago
> Energy efficiency is important relative to other distribution methods. The point is that energy efficiency is only one factor among all other. For example, it makes little difference if you blindly tag a 80% efficiency tag on a EV if a
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by rewma 5y ago
> Modern vehicle weigh multiple tons, what's a half-ton battery really matter? The Tesla Model S weights about 2100kg. The Tesla Model S battery weights about 540kg. This means that a 1500kg car is forced to pack an additional 540kg
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by rewma 5y ago
> So, they have "ground breaking tech" in a dead-end technology then? The energy losses required to power vehicles with hydrogen are much greater than losses with electric batteries (there was a recent article on HN that really
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by rewma 5y ago
> After the report about the video of their truck driving really being it rolling down a hill and the camera was tilted. Because a reference never hurts: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-p

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