throwiforgtnlzy

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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
While I nuked my LinkedIn about 8 years ago because I was 1-2 from 96% of Silicon Valley and spammed by un-targeted recruiters incessantly... more importantly, my contacts and I didn't talk so keeping it was meaningless performative bu
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Around 1981-1985, smog was quite bad in the SF Bay Area. It was a horrible brown-yellow. I don't think most people appreciate how far away it is to reach Mt. Hamilton or how precarious the road up it is. Took a couple of gfs on drives
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Seems aligned with early Netflix culture of hiring and treating employees like adults rather than like children. They still appeared to be hiring remote employees as of September of 2023. [0] 0. https://www.teamblind.com/pos
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Yep. While startup salaries are, and have always been, a joke, it's corporate cost of living adjustments (COLAs) that are a worsening joke when they fail to account for true COL differences. If a megacorp insists on relocating you from
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Update for 2024: Step 0. Don't bother with obsolete Cat 6 or lower cable because it's just not worth the effort over Wi-Fi. If you're going to do it, buy a 1000' spool of CMP Cat 8 UPoE-rated premise wire (~$1000-$1500 U
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Sorry, I'm not your VAR rep. https://letmegoogleforyou.com/?q=buy%20windows%2011%20enterp...
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
C. 2003-2011 between contracts, I used to offer high priced on-site datacenter hardware, OS (incl virtualization), and software support on Craigslist for anywhere from SF to San Jose, Newark, and Fremont. Some interesting incidents and prof
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
C. 1990, Turbo Pascal IDE, trial and error. Around 1994, I managed to get to a Computer Literacy bookstore.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
A retail Windows license isn't the same as an enterprise Windows license. Retails Windows licenses started with ads for OneDrive and Office in Settings, but now that they're reverting to their old, shameless ways, they're put
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
It depends. It's better than nothing that can be ^C'ed. Here's a naive, partial implementation that runs in <500 ms so long as there's an existing dnf cache: command_not_found_handle() { local pkgs readar
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
FYI: Meta is de-facto insisting on RTO and not offering a remote option for new employees. This trend has nothing to do with productivity and is all about the egos of control-freak managers "maintaining control" over employees in
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Platform-based, such as Squeak and Etoys (not eToys) or like with VMs such as JVM or BEAM. The problem you describe is solved by introducing capabilities such as in seL4. Without beginning with a capability, something cannot do something el
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Yes, that would be a good idea™ but I don't think that's conflict. Apple had uses all sorts of excuses and technical limitations to prevent repairs including parts pairing. The solution is there need to be parts available for reas
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Begs the Q: Why is someone using Google when DDG and Startpage exist? Can't someone !w piratebay and click the link?
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Yes. 15+ year zsh user here. When dealing with bash, try to sneak in PackageKit-command-not-found and bash-completion. And when running a shell, do it like this: docker run user/image:tag -it --rm bash -li Also, zshdb, bashdb,
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
While I don't use the ecosystem, I like the way Go approaches it with interfaces by being minimal, expressive, and flexible. It something works like something else according to a minimal specification, it's the same. There's
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
That's probably it. Thanks for easing my perpetual forgetfulness!
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Waves across I-35 to Reality Labs. Sounds like something Numba should include perhaps. I retired from HPC around the era of iPython, Open MPI, Infiniband, OFED, GPFS/Panasas/Lustre, Rocks Cluster, and Condor/PBS/SGE.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
IIRC, there was a WAV-era audio format that used PCM delta compression by recording differences rather than absolute values.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Alexa's platform is really, really bad in 4 dimensions: it's antiquated with limited fixed action patterns, it just doesn't work correctly, its skills aren't adequately maintained, and it's developer hostile. On the
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Q: So will they "recalibrate" my iPad Pro to restore FaceID working with a third-party display repair? A: No, of course not. Apple still says "We don't offer such a service but you buy a new one."
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Sorry, it's a been feature in a number of languages for decades. Perl has it at least as early as 5.005 in 1998. So naturally, Ruby had it since at least before 1.6 / 2002. Java added it in 2011. It didn't work with Python 2.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Well, there's Idris which is eager fp like OCaml but looks like Haskell and has dependent typing.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Tried crystal several times over the years. Each time, I encountered Crystal bugs, surprises, oddities, and missing pieces such that there was no viable path forward to adopt it for anything serious. Elixir + Rust with rustler is pretty com
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
The 3-part documentary Do You Speak American? (2005) is also interesting on the evolution of English (and non-English) accents.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
* Unless they happen to be scholarship students. Scholarship students traditionally have to work harder than everyone else because they can't afford to buy homework or tests, or to pay people to take tests for them. One potential mark
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Stanford, for many years, was allowed to run a similar brand of narrow width imported trucks that fit between bollards around campus because they are/were their own municipality (and own ZIP code) on their own property. As such, I don&
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
It's no longer an assured impossibility that if certain populist political-religious extremists attained power, they wouldn't impose censorship and mandate requiring licenses and identity verification to use the internet.
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
The US is a corrupt, dysfunctional civilization that won't even do anything to stop mass shootings, so it certainly won't stop speeding or ensure corners don't get cut in the design or manufacturing of passenger transportatio
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by throwiforgtnlzy 2y ago
Don't worry, reality and time will find a way to make reality worse than anything a fiction writer could've conceived in the past. Even Brave New World seems quaint now.

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