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by w0mbat 1y ago
It's not a static situation. The questions have changed, to the point where solving them in interview conditions is a separate skill. When I interviewed people at Google, I asked interesting but quite simple questions and they gave me
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by w0mbat 1y ago
I can't code with somebody looking over my shoulder. I need to relax and think about the task. They expect me to code while being judged by one or more strangers, against the clock, with high stakes involved. If that was the actual job
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by w0mbat 2y ago
Tyson was fighting Jake Paul, not Logan Paul. That’s Jake’s brother.
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by w0mbat 2y ago
My Mac IIcx with Apple Portrait Display was a lovely system. Luckily most modern screens like my LG can be pivoted to vertical, and then the Mac lets you specify the rotation. There's no more need for vertical-only screens.
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by w0mbat 2y ago
Otherwise known as Linux.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
This is the area where I grew up. The Angel is not just that corner, it's that whole neighborhood, although it is named after The Angel pub (which no longer exists). The Angel extends from the corner pictured, north to Islington Green
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by w0mbat 3y ago
I wonder how long the "pair of" phrasing can stick to things that were once a pair of items and got redesigned to be one thing, like trousers, or scissors (originally a pair of knives). My wife always says "scissor" sing
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by w0mbat 3y ago
The ruling also ordered Hamas to release all hostages, and Hamas has previously claimed they would abide by any ruling of the court. I find it unlikely though that they will comply.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Apple should buy one of the local EV companies like Lucid or Rivian, it would save them years of R&D on the hardware, give them valuable automotive guidance on the software and how things work in the car world. Lucid's software R&a
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by w0mbat 3y ago
“Gladius” was also the common Roman slang word for “penis”, so much so that the accompanying Latin word for a sword holder or scabbard, “vagina”, became the standard English word for a body part, losing its original meaning.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
The Apple app store is a disaster for making a living as an indie. People can't find the apps so sales are low, market rate prices are also low. The only way to make a living is to rip-off users with misleading subscriptions, which I w
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by w0mbat 3y ago
The gene that causes sickle cell anaemia actually provides partial immunity to malaria, which is why this gene has not been bred out of the population over time.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
I missed the old Mac calculator desk accessory so much I wrote a new version of it for current Macs (you can buy it if you want at CalculatorDA.com but I wrote it for my own nostalgia purposes and use it every day). Like the version Chris
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by w0mbat 3y ago
“There are not a lot of photos of Icons of Filth. Apparently they encouraged people not to take them because there were animal products used in the processing of film.” LOL I suppose film is technically an animal product, as it contains gel
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Although the user should have been polite, I totally understand being annoyed that the manual was intercepted and thrown out. Users who actually read manuals are like gold. They want to learn and they want to solve their own problems if th
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by w0mbat 3y ago
I find this kind of domain name reuse unsettling: for years, Kagi.com was the address of a payment service for shareware authors. Man those were the days. Lots of people were perfectly willing to pay me $20 for a useful little utility app
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by w0mbat 3y ago
If you pull new ethernet, make it cat 6 or better. Times change. I'm not using ethernet beyond the switch room, I threw money at the problem and got a 3 pack of those wi-fi 6 Nest units which form a mesh network. Works fine, covers the
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by w0mbat 3y ago
It's really annoying as Japan has lots of wonderful vintage secondhand synthesizers for sale, but being domestic market models they often have non-switching power supplies that require 100 V.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Except people just hearing about Fig now can't sign up.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Acquihires generally get a better comp deal than hires, they just don't tend to make much off the acquisition deal unless they are high up. If their comp includes accelerated vesting rather than the terrible Amazon slowcoach vesting it
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Yeah, now I see it. Banning signups just when they get an inrush like this seems a boneheaded move. You never know who you can upsell on AWS later. brew remove fig
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by w0mbat 3y ago
I installed Fig just now and got "Something went wrong. Signups are currently disabled." when I tried to use it. Their servers have been overwhelmed by Hacker News traffic presumably.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
In those days I wrote exclusively system extensions, plug-ins and XCMDs, using a mix of 68k, C and Pascal. Each project was quite small, so compile time was never a problem and MPW was a paradise. My largest XCMD actually had bits in all 3
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Murphy’s Law of app stores applies here: Any crashing build will be approved instantly, and the next build won’t be approved for days.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
MODS It is “protobuf” with a T, not “profobuf”. I know the typo is in the headline on the original article, but it is bad to spread it, and it looks bad on the front page here.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
I am possibly confused, getting moreso the more I read the code. As it is ignoring the sign of the result of compare I don't even see how it would work at all. The sign is what tells you which half to throw away as you search.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Is that still lower_bound? Maybe I am misreading the code but it looks like this returns any match, not the earliest match (when there are dupes). It’s common to have multiple matches even in a unique list if the comparison function is say
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by w0mbat 3y ago
The battery pack does not have to be expensive, and they have in fact been getting cheaper and more energy dense year after year. Technology moves on.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
It doesn't just remove the need for an ICE engine, also the gearbox, fuel pump, fuel tank, radiator, exhaust system including catalytic convertor, etc. An ICE engine is intrinsically complex to make, has many moving parts that wear out
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by w0mbat 3y ago
I love that this article was posted 6 years late.

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