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by shepting 2y ago
I was working there that fall as one of my co-op work terms! I recall the onboarding tour around the testing rooms which were essentially giant Faraday cages. There was a print-out on the door exhorting employees to CLOSE THE DOOR! when you
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by shepting 2y ago
I'm guessing that using some clip-on aero bars would make a big difference. Then you're not using your hands to support any weight so the typing would be a little easier. And if you're doing hours of Z2 training, you likely w
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by shepting 4y ago
Do you happen to have a link to the talk about Nix on macOS you heard about it from? Or event the title/details so I could search?
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by shepting 5y ago
I've purchased a 90W USB C car charger: https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Cigarette-Lighter-Adapter-Cha...
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by shepting 5y ago
I used to work at a company in the chip-design software space that built Linux-only software for $100k/user/year, so there's definitely money to be made for Linux (even if it happens to be niche software).
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by shepting 5y ago
This is the comment I came here for. I had a professor in college who was building self-driving tractors and would come in every other week complaining about John Deere this, or Case that, trying to steal his business with more expensive so
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by shepting 6y ago
Yes, and much of the non-livestock emissions from agriculture is from growing plants to feed to livestock !
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by shepting 6y ago
This is so great.
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by shepting 6y ago
This is bad.
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by shepting 6y ago
This was the key line that stood out to me as well. I've seen both situations where individuals are jealous of successful people in resource-limited environments and where employees appreciate working with and helping high performers w
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by shepting 7y ago
This is a decent sample project to start with: https://github.com/airbnb/BuckSample
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by shepting 7y ago
It would be great if this list would include Buck or Bazel and their associated HTTP caches. For us we lowered our clean CI build times from 22 minutes to 4.5 minutes (1 million lines of Swift)
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by shepting 8y ago
"Military testing calls for survivability of three hits from the round marked on the plate."
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by shepting 8y ago
It's just stunning how they have been able to achieve 7nm features. With a 193nm wavelength laser no less.
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by shepting 10y ago
Once people don't have to own their own vehicle, many roads will get an extra driving lane that used to be used for parking.
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by shepting 10y ago
There's another building that was built on friction piles: http://www.aboutcivil.org/burj-khalifa-design-construction-s...
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by shepting 11y ago
I went to school at the University of Regina, and did an engineering co-op 5 years ago. It was amazing to see how gradual it makes moving out from home if you go to school in the same city where you grew up. My work terms were Regina (home)
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by shepting 15y ago
Great stuff.
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by shepting 15y ago
However, saying "bullshit" with his disclaimer at the bottom, I'm also the original author of "High Performance MySQL" published by O'Reilly Media certainly lends more credibility to his statements than many other people (Bob Warfield for
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by shepting 15y ago
This is a big step to improving Android in general.
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by shepting 15y ago
His hope is that sites would only need to be indexed once. It would only be the 4.9GB for Google and he would save the 4.8GB used by Yahoo and the 11.27GB used by the other search engines.
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by shepting 15y ago
The HD video recordings within 24 hours is pretty exciting.
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by shepting 15y ago
It gets a little exciting when the time changes from 09 to 10.
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by shepting 16y ago
Actually, I think that was people not using code review tools professionally.
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by shepting 16y ago
Many times guards will bring in cell phones and sell them to inmates for upwards of $1000/each. It helps to supplement the (relatively) poor wages most guards receive.
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by shepting 16y ago
The reason that this is a big deal is that they've released/leaked some of the guidelines for the Mac App Store and it states that apps developed using "deprecated or optionally-installed technologies will not be accepted."