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by sevrinsky 3y ago
This is exactly the distinction that needs to be drawn: Relative time is only useful within the next or past few hours. For pretty much everything else, the absolute time is more informative and clear.
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by sevrinsky 3y ago
Utter futility! — said Koheleth — Utter futility! All is futile!
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by sevrinsky 4y ago
This is basically the premise of Robert Sheckley's short story "The Robot Who Looked Like Me".
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by sevrinsky 4y ago
I'm with you on this. I had the temerity to suggest there are benefits to face-to-face collaboration, and that meeting with colleagues was a valid reason for asking them to be on site in the office -- and I got raked over the coals as
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by sevrinsky 4y ago
Speaking as a senior dev who has interviewed dozens (if not hundreds) of candidates, I assure you that the bulk of the burden is firmly on the interviewers, not the candidates.
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by sevrinsky 4y ago
This. "Accept it" or "ignore it" are perfectly valid options, and perhaps the healthiest for one's mental and emotional state.
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by sevrinsky 4y ago
Israel here -- full-time employees generally don't file taxes on their own. Your employer will ask to fill out a single form for any changes in tax status (such as single parent or disability). On the other hand, self-employed individu
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
Completely agree: My eldest was born when I was 24, and my youngest when I was 30. Now at 49, we're approaching empty-nest-hood -- other than the copious time we spent with our 2-year-old grandson. But at least we get to sleep....
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
HN has a religion all its own, with its virtues and deadly sins.
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
Shabbat observance is a massive world unto itself. It originates in Biblical sources (i.e. "the word of God"), but has developed throughout the entire rabbinic tradition, from the time of the prophets through the Talumdic era, and
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
I've found that my remote work meetings neatly break down into 3 categories: - direct engagement -- 2-4 participants - broad forum -- 5-12 participants - fly-on-the-wall -- any number, but my contribution will be 0-4 sentences
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
Speaking as a long-time Perl monger (Perl5 has been 80%+ of my day job for most of the last 25 years): Perl6 was definitely a fiasco that contributed to Perl5's demise. The active support in the ecosystem was divided between the "
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
If it's relevant enough for Github/Gitlab to render Markdown for the browser, clearly there's a visibility and aesthetic value to rendering.
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
I typically compose all messages in Markdown and then convert that into rendered HTML. So if you believe in the expressiveness of Markdown (which I hope you do), then HTML rendering is absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, desktop Outlook is
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
Apologies to the general audience -- this is going to get very low-level in terms of Jewish technical practice: I agree that all historical attempts to associate electricity with particular melachot were not based on a full scientific under
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
The grounds for probihiting electricity usage on Shabbat have gone through something of a metamorphosis, as rabbinic scholarship on the nature of electricity has expanded and the mechanisms used by electrical devices have evolved. Given my
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
This is an excellent question, and one dealt with in Israel. Today, electricity is required for the normal functioning of modern civilization, including for hospitals and security. Once power generation is required for society, all are perm
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
Try to think of the Torah -- God's literal word, to Orthodox Jews -- as the Constitution, and rabbinical scholars throughout the generations as the Supreme Court. The Torah prohibits work on Shabbat, but only points out a few instances
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
I would phrase the Shabbat prohibitions as "creative work", modeled after the days of creation and the creative labor of building the Tabernacle. The 39 general categories of labor have been documented for millennia, and are appli
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
Many aspects of Orthodox Judaism observance focus on halacha , often translated as "ritual law", but probably better described as technical religious practice. This may confuse those who expect religion to be primarily concerned
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by sevrinsky 5y ago
Yes, I already run Emacs (Spacemacs, to be specific) under WSL2 with X410 as the X Server. Presumably, I'll be able to ditch X410 when this layer gets to my corporate-mandated Windows build.
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by sevrinsky 6y ago
Born-bred NY-expat Israeli here, working for a West Coast Big Tech company. New York (probably all US East) and Israeli cultures are fairly analogous. In just 3 extra timezones, West Coast workplace culture is light years away. Many of my I
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by sevrinsky 6y ago
I've also used Skype for Business (aka Lync) using the Pidgin plugin on Linux, which worked fine for chat and files.
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by sevrinsky 6y ago
I have often said that there are practically no C programming jobs. Rather, there are many job writing in the macros for a specific project (with the minimal associated C code).
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by sevrinsky 6y ago
Suggesting iMessage -- available only on Apple products -- as a alternative to avoid WhatsApp lock-in has to be the most ironic thing I've seen today.
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by sevrinsky 6y ago
To most people, email is something that you use for work, or if you're over 50.
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by sevrinsky 6y ago
That's an unbelievably poorly colored map -- 3 subtly different shades of green, 3 subtly different shades of blue. It's almost as though a colorblind designer set out to make everyone else suffer.
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by sevrinsky 6y ago
I've tried to convince my colleagues to use MS Teams channels instead of chat groups, to increase searchability and spontaneous joining (rather than needing to be invited). They've mostly resisted because they prefer the interface