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by sk0g 3y ago
Is some sort of volume "equalisation" or compression being applied maybe? Could also be reacting to the change in ambient volume conditions otherwise.
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by sk0g 3y ago
That's surprising to me, almost everyone I know will leave voicemail. Recruiters especially, which tends to be myst of my legitimate phone calls TBH! Though with people of my age "cold calling" isn't all that common, typ
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by sk0g 3y ago
Honestly pre-COVID I got spam calls maybe once a quarter. After giving out my number every second time I left the house, that number is more like a few times a week. I would say I am pretty privacy conscious (when possible), so this may not
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by sk0g 3y ago
YouTube ads have no ability to interrupt my day-to-day life out of the blue, and also don't poison a legitimately useful communication medium for personal relationships. Phone spam is much more harmful than ads you kinda-sorta opt into
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by sk0g 3y ago
Who would bear that cost though? My prediction would be the customers again, because they would make the phone support harder to reach than it already is as a "solution" to the increased demand for phone support.
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by sk0g 3y ago
Oh nice, the more you know! Kvira probably refers to the same word meaning "week", but seems like there's theories it could derive from Greek mythology as well. Lots of influence from Greek culture in Georgia for sure. For a
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by sk0g 3y ago
Similar for Georgian, Monday through to Thursday are named roughly "two-Sabbath" to "five-Sabbath", with Saturday being Sabbath of course. Not sure why those numbers, but I assumed it was because it was the number of day
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by sk0g 3y ago
C# does not transpile to C++, so no. You are still left with the .net runtime, garbage collection, etc.
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by sk0g 3y ago
(On average), for a walk to the stop of 100-200 feet the bus would need to stop every 200-400 feet. 300 ft seems to be roughly 100m, which is probably much too short a distance still. 250m or ~800 ft aligns better to my experience with citi
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by sk0g 3y ago
I wish :) I feel like I use BitBucket more than they do; JIRA has dark mode while BB doesn't...
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by sk0g 3y ago
It's about as common here (AU) as referring to dates as sprints since epoch. So not very.
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by sk0g 3y ago
Sure. FB could set the baseline visibility level of each post and comment to 0, and selectively boost specific ones to be seen by people other than the poster. Not boosting, is not censorship after all.
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by sk0g 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
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by sk0g 3y ago
Most CXOs have extensive experience in their relevant fields. Your retort seems needlessly defensive.
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by sk0g 3y ago
FYI the edit might have made it more confusing, since there's a double negative now. "don't believe you can't actually own code" reads as "believe you can actually own code", which I'm not sure is wha
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by sk0g 3y ago
See my other comment for a more expanded take, but let's go with Intel for example. If they had to do all work out in the open, and share all progress they make, all they could compete on would be timing and pricing. Pricing isn't
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by sk0g 3y ago
I was responding to an obvious exaggeration in kind, which was a bad move on my part. Yes people can and will still continue to do stuff for the sake of it. Some of it will be amazing. The huge things like building the next 5 CPU generati
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by sk0g 3y ago
I would contribute to a lot of open source projects if it took a few minutes at a time. Working full-time hours over many years is a different question however.
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by sk0g 3y ago
With no copyright and intellectual property knowledge wouldn't be free, it simply would cease to be generated. If you can't profit (at least modestly) from your work, there's no incentive to perform that work. Lots of things
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by sk0g 3y ago
What's the questionable supplements allowed? Herbal stuff like ashwagandha or whatever, or not-technically-steroids-but-close-enough substances like SARMs?
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by sk0g 3y ago
To put it in programming terms, you're likely to improve more with the slow grind of an hour or so an evening side-project, rather than competing in a hackathon every 3 months. One observation I had was that people coming to the gym to
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by sk0g 3y ago
Have you heard of Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP)? I've tried implementing it from scratch and it's really easy to get interesting, emergent behaviour. It can also be difficult to debug however, or reason about why things ar
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by sk0g 3y ago
I guess there is no "strict separation" in C++, since that mechanism is, I believe, optional. Adding implementations to your header files might never pass PRs, but still. It does enable header-only libraries though.
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by sk0g 3y ago
So it's intuitive because you are familiar with those concepts. I don't see how that goes against what I said.
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by sk0g 3y ago
Goroutines and channels aren't intuitive either. You learn them and become familiar with them over time, at which point they become intuitive __for you__.
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by sk0g 3y ago
Financial and social constraints also prevent divorces, which may be less of an issue for people well off. Divorce rates are low in lots of poorer countries, but that doesn't mean the relationships there are perfect. From what I'v
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by sk0g 3y ago
Can you use something like Zod with the newtype pattern? I use DDD-style types for domain specific data over primitives.
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by sk0g 3y ago
Go is sane for some definitions of the word! If I got to choose a language to work with though, it would definitely be Kotlin or C#, but I prefer Go over Python because there are fewer ways to solve problems, leading to generally simpler co
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by sk0g 3y ago
Precisely, TypeScript only exists at compile time. Half their goals relate to this fact, which leads to constraints regarding what the language can achieve. > 3. Impose no runtime overhead on emitted programs. > 4. Emit clean, idiomat
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by sk0g 3y ago
Some quirks I've noticed are typed objects not performing any validations, like for building DTOs. Structural typing so the newtype pattern is not possible without some awkward hacks. A general "disconnect" between compile ti

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