sigstoat

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by sigstoat 3y ago
> What you are not seeing is the piles of grounds that would be needed and the tangle of logistics to get the grounds from where they are produced to where they can be used. so many of these ideas seem to hand wave over “we’ll need to im
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by sigstoat 3y ago
considering the mass of a home, what’s the efficiency difference between letting the temperature stay in uncontrolled for 8+ hours and then trying to rein it in quickly vs just keeping it in place the whole time? remember to account for wea
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by sigstoat 3y ago
going to be a rather unenthusiastic army if it is stocked with folks who thought they were getting cushy office jobs.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
fly new hires some place and make them work in person with somebody for a week. i think remote work is great, but some early face to face can fix a bunch of problems imo.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
i did some contracting for a place that i think hired one of these guys. in his case i think he more or less knew what he was doing, and showed up on calls, but delegated the work to some other people. we’d hear people in the background of
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> May I just say, that the most ridiculous thing in this news really is selling a 15% stake in a company for $100? no kidding. i wouldn’t sell a 15% stake in a lemonade stand for $100. that doesn’t even cover the hassle of reviewing the
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> > I don't see how you can get away from having a defined serialisation format. > Yep, that's exactly it. Your TLS certificate is not sent as string, and neither are your TCP packets, nor the images contained in them. ..
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by sigstoat 3y ago
i’m sure it seems like “everyone” is on twitter when you’re permanently online, but even the peak MAU figures don’t look anything like “everyone” in the US let alone the rest of the world. any government messaging plan that revolves around
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> Then make an example and disband the company and all shareholders lose all equity. Have people realize they will lose money if they don't pay attention to details. do you not make mistakes, or do you not work with anything that ma
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> With that, Americans also don't accept the United States as someplace people are from. Nonsense. > Even if you're family has been here for 500 years, people still want to know where you're family came from originally.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
This is why jmkb referenced synchronization rights, which (as I recall) were invented when they seemed useful. jmkb is suggesting a new right might be created, not claiming that they already exist. (even if it wasn’t sync rights, there was
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by sigstoat 3y ago
will you be providing us with a list of acceptably cheap entertainments? > We can probably expand this to things like coffee, but you could argue that it provides value. why should anyone need coffee, when they can just take caffeine pil
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by sigstoat 3y ago
why read new books, we have plenty of old ones. those authors could be slaving away for the planet
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by sigstoat 3y ago
i can take something like Octave (very GPL) and do commercial things with it all day. the GPL would only be relevant if i start distributing Octave itself. (or, in your suggested world, if i started distributing the hypothetically GPL'
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by sigstoat 3y ago
i’ve had it come up with new function names, or prepend some prefix to the names of functions. i had to put some cleverness in on my end to run whatever function was close enough.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> anything assembler or C I have ever asked it has turned out to be at least somewhat wrong i've found that its quality is proportional to the amount of questions about the subject on the internet. if i ask it for help with popular
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by sigstoat 3y ago
do you ask all of your interviewers the same set of questions to ensure they’re all suitably impressed by you? if not how do you decide to allocate them?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> The superficial take on FDB is "waah, where are my features? it doesn't do indexing? waaah, just use Postgres!". i love fdb, but, most people _should_ just use postgres. you should have a very precise explanation for why
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by sigstoat 3y ago
this sounds like it was dreamt up by a bunch of lawyers trying to get themselves more work. there's a lot more paperwork and bullshit involved in going into bankruptcy than just being bought out.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
some newspaper translator had to figure out how to translate the novel(ish?) phrase 歯生え薬. what do you want? it's not like this is FDA-approved marketing materials for something that's actually available.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> Somehow it was decided to launch on an underdeveloped platform which strew debris and dust unless something comes out in discovery, they didn't know it was going to do that. and they had a reasonable basis for that belief, in the
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by sigstoat 3y ago
to the other commenters: there’s a difference between a week old wreck still being investigated and one a hundred years old. same way there is a difference between photos of dead bodies undergoing forensic investigation, and those undergoin
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> It is very common among people who organized or were very active in summer 2020 anti-police violence protests > ..., fraud, low level drug stuff... fraud has a specific victim, someone who was defrauded. plenty of folks are out ther
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by sigstoat 3y ago
look up "photorealism".
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> More surprisingly, we realized the time their current engineers and managers spent evaluating these takehomes just wasn't really a consideration for them. We tried to frame it in terms of "here's how much it costs you to
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> after a casual 30 minute chat. which you have to pay them for
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by sigstoat 3y ago
local legal communities have long memories. they’ll be griefed about it at their retirement parties.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> The point being made is about misallocation of resources, not news coverage. what resources? were US and canada supposed to ship deep sea ROVs over to the Mediterranean to help refugees? even if you wanted the US/Canada to help, i
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by sigstoat 3y ago
different countries of very different sizes and capabilities were near the incidents. the US and Canadian coast guards don't operate in the Mediterranean, and (presumably) couldn't have gotten ships there fast enough to do anythin
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by sigstoat 3y ago
oceangate seems like a clown show, were there hydrophones on site, in the first ~24 hours, that were not operated by them? at this point i expect it had imploded before the coast guard or anyone who knew what they were doing was on-site.

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