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Drive failure rate versus age is a U-shaped curve. I wouldn't distrust a used drive with healthy performance and SMART parameters. And you should use some form of redundancy/backup…

All the cold data is on spinning rust, and most of the data at large scales is cold. Much of the warm data is still on HDDs too, fronted by a flash or RAM cache. The storage densit…

A good pair of binoculars will be sufficient. You didn't need a ton of light gathering capability for casual planet viewing like this. Telescopes are a bit of a rabbit hole. Many c…

My opinion is about the SF Bay area. Yes we have easy access to nature, year round good weather, and tech jobs are more plentiful compared to many other locations in the US (that's…

I can't be the only one who finds this kind of feedback technique odd. It's in vogue like the SBI model but never sits right with me.

I enjoy face to face discussions and whiteboarding sessions on tough technical topics. And I'm a fairly introverted person. You get 2-3 competent engineers in the same room with no…

There is no hope for the software industry to mature if we cannot agree on some basic coding practices. Like the judicious use of comments to improve maintainability.

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That is correct. One of Krishna's names is Shyam which literally means dark (skinned).

I wish that were the case. I would have loved to have a more diverse pool of candidates apply. This was a mid-sized tech company (1500 employees) that is very well known in its ver…

Unconscionable. You're picking an employee, not a life partner. Hiring should not be a months long emotional roller coaster like you describe. It should be quick and professional.

Short of unionization, the labor class (software engineers) are powerless indeed. And I say this as someone who usually leans right :-)

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There is also no incentive for the human in the loop to question the computer. If the computer was right and a human thinks it's a false positive, then the human will be blamed lat…

I'm genuinely surprised to see this article in NYT, although even now they couldn't resist taking a dig at "toxic masculinity". For too long we have been happy to ignore the challe…

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I agree.. I am sorry about the flippant comparison. It was probably unfair to scratch. My frustration with Scratch stems from watching kids (including my own) being taught it in sc…

Yes you can make sufficiently complex programs in scratch. You do so in Brainfuck too. That doesn't make either a great choice to teach kids.

Victory has many fathers. Defeat is an orphan. I guess that explains the number of people being touted as "The Godfather" of AI.

Definitely untrue. Like everywhere else it's a wide spectrum. You'd be surprised how many Indians come to the US from modest means. Parents sunk their savings into educating their …

These are shockingly bad. Please try to stay grounded and resist the temptation to generate any more.

> Others don't like you? Grow a pair. Stop being depressed.

I recently switched to vscode after using vim for over 2 decades. Perhaps I am just getting older, however I now find that hitting 5j or 12k as in the article steals some cognitive…

Not sure whether distracting is the right word however the internet is likely involved. Constant connectivity and engagement maximizing algorithms ensure they are exposed to the ho…

Zappos, I believe. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zappos-quietly-backed-away-ho...