tracer4201

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by tracer4201 1y ago
Do you have a girlfriend or boyfriend? If not, get on that. Go have sex. This is not a suggestion, it’s a prescription. Have sex, get an emotional attachment, fall in love. Obviously there are risks associated with all this. I was insanely
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by tracer4201 2y ago
What is the downside? I was thinking it could compromise software security, although my layman understanding is we’re better off if the open source community finds and makes problems visible? Or there are other software secrets that we woul
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by tracer4201 2y ago
I think capitalism is a wonderful thing, having been born and lived half my life in communist rule. But in my older age I’m jaded maybe. If you have the means to control media and outright buy out influence and outcomes, of course you don’t
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by tracer4201 2y ago
Get a gym membership. Learn to squat, bench press, do some pulling motions. Drink plenty of water. Walk. You don’t have to do cardio exercise but try to walk every single day. At least 20-30 minutes. If you take a bus, get off earlier or la
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by tracer4201 2y ago
I’m in leadership ic role at a big tec company. We pride ourselves in engineering. hiring bar was dropped. expecting a mid level engineer to work with a byte buffer is considered “too complex” and non differentiated work. the literal goal i
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by tracer4201 2y ago
At my work, I have colleagues who speak English as a second language. Many of them are using LLMs to up their document and other writing. It’s actually quite awful. It’s obvious the text is LLM generated because of the verbose, generic writ
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by tracer4201 3y ago
Japanese notebooks and ball point pens. Dedicated notebook for individual projects. Daily planner. If I really want to focus and stay organized, nothing beats pen and paper. I’ve tried out note taking apps, writing on my iPad, using my husb
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by tracer4201 3y ago
Amazon is less of a storefront and more of a logistics business. If Temu or anyone else seriously offered competition to take Amazon’s sales, I imagine they’d just pivot to offering Temu delivery. Amazons core model is to try a million diff
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by tracer4201 3y ago
I don’t share your optimism. The US was historically the land of opportunity, though often at the expense of imperialism, violent coupes, and endless wars. With the rise of non traditional/mainstream medias, younger generations see the
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by tracer4201 3y ago
What problem are we trying to solve? When I think of holding in memory state, to me it’s less about class or OOP vs something else and more about race conditions, thread safety, possibly idempotency, and proper abstraction design. Abstracti
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by tracer4201 3y ago
> Has anyone ever been promoted to an engineering manager and decided it wasn't for them? Engineering manger and IC are different jobs. An EM title is never a promotion. It is a career or job role change. The skill sets and
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by tracer4201 3y ago
> It’s about the same as saying “kids just want to drink Tide pods nowadays.” There’s definitely something wrong with kids who do it Supporting Palestinians is like drinking Tide pod? WOW, what an incredibly inhumane and racist take.
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by tracer4201 3y ago
> Hope that we reign in spending in a drastic, unprecedented way (without impacting revenue as well...)? American politicians, deliberately or out of incompetence, use the crisis of the moment and conveniently forego this topic. I’m conv
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by tracer4201 3y ago
You used the word accident and called out an example of the US citizen killed. In fact, we had military and private contractors commit war crimes, and even the ethical folks did things that contributed to millions getting displaced. We rede
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by tracer4201 3y ago
> It doesn’t work so we keep doing it because we can’t try anything different because what we are doing doesn’t work. Saying it “doesn’t work” is a stretch, no? The large tech companies all give similar technical interviews for software
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by tracer4201 3y ago
I worked at a big tech company in a staff/principal engineering position. I always had coworkers who didn’t start coding until college, who were better engineers, communicators, and overall leaders than I was. I turned to them for ment
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by tracer4201 4y ago
> But elitism only becomes useful at a particular stage of development. Earning the white belt is almost purely knowledge and a bit of practice. Getting to the black belt requires not just skills, but a mindset: determination, resolution
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by tracer4201 5y ago
I’ve worked on everything from back end enterprise apps used by day traders to building information retrieval systems for kiosks at airports to embedded software running on a particular eink device. Everything was directly meaningful to me,
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by tracer4201 5y ago
I’m mostly interested because Israel is funded by tax dollars I pay, and heavily supported by racist religious people who believe we must support Israel because “they are Gods chosen people”. We don’t share such view for any other country o
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by tracer4201 5y ago
> it started going downhill for us developers on the macOS and ios platform; You didn’t answer the question. Was there a time you could develop and distribute on iOS without paying the license fee? > If you are fine with a corporate a
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by tracer4201 5y ago
I don’t think you answered the ops question. Was there ever a time that you could develop software for Mac or particularly iOS and distribute it without paying the developer license fee? To be fair - the Unix market is different than iOS ap
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by tracer4201 5y ago
Picking up Rust is not the same as picking up Python or even Java, in my opinion. I started learning Rust and C++ at the same time, coming from a world of Java, Python, and Ruby. If I need to solve a problem in C++, I would much rather writ
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by tracer4201 5y ago
>However, with Amazon’s own gaming streaming service, called Luna, in testing, it could help transform FireOS into a much more appealing gaming device to enable even more access to games that only require a controller and an internet con
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by tracer4201 5y ago
Google is often the default search engine across many operating systems and phones. There’s no apples to apples comparison with Amazon, and before you force this false analogy, let me clarify that you’re arguing a strawman.
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by tracer4201 5y ago
The irony is NYT ran an article chastising Amazon for the very thing they also engage in. I recently had to call NYT to cancel my membership. The person on the other side ran me through a script, and each time I told them I didn’t want thei
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by tracer4201 5y ago
Not selling on Amazon doesn’t mean you exit the industry. If this was the case, every retailer would have an Amazon presence, which isn’t true either. You’re merely repeating what was stated earlier.
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by tracer4201 5y ago
>The person who wins the lowest price box is not the lowest price. It is the lowest price who agreed not to sell on other sites for a lower price than one Amazon. You as the customer are being tricked. There's no dark pattern involv
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by tracer4201 5y ago
>You're also making the assumption that the buy box always offers the lowest price, which isn't true if Amazon are factoring non-price variables like is the manufacture undercutting Amazon on their own site. So as a seller you
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by tracer4201 5y ago
The crux of the article was that you lose winning the buy offer if you sell elsewhere cheaper. Okay - so who wins the buy box? Someone who is actually offering a cheaper price, one that’s more enticing for me as the shopper? How is that hur
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by tracer4201 5y ago
I work in a Principal role at a company whose products or services many people use every day. All of my work is done on on a Mac, which you’d have to pry from my dead cold hands before I’d be willing to go back to a PC (especially Windows).

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