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This is the WARN notice for the _previous_ layoff in October. Presumably they'll file another one for the next wave this week.

Beej's guide to network programming is an all-time classic, and I suspect this is the same (even before I've read it thoroughly).

this is a book for people who think the wizard on the cover of SICP is an actual wizard and get scared

Yes, it seems intuitively obvious, which is why mathematicians spent a long time trying to prove that the conjecture was true. It turns out The conjecture is false in a non-obvious…

In the US at least they're a state monopoly

they have a whole complex of particle accelerators; many of the old ones are feeders into LHC https://home.web.cern.ch/science/accelerators/accelerator-co...

It's floor(_) - as in, floor(1.999) = 0, but floor(2.001) = 2. If you look carefully the upper flange of the [] square brackets is missing, which makes it a floor. https://en.wikip…

I dunno, man. At least with guitar amps the solid state ones _try_, but even expensive ones kinda suck compared to a tube amp

> Maybe Amazon should also ensure employer safety while commuting/walking to the office. I've never looked into it myself, but they do advertise a service like this around the Seat…

It would be nice if that area was something more interesting than a corporate dormitory. Of course this change is ... not the way

That's a lovely photo

You have to eat something, but you don't have to drink. I've seen it described as: Imagine telling alcoholics to keep it under control, while still making them have 2-3 drinks a da…

That's what Blizzard's always done - they didn't invent RTS games, or MMOs, or collectible card games, or roguelikes, they just refined and productized them. I think it's fair to c…

Most people don't go to college, but if you did, you're likely to have a mostly college-educated bubble

1. Trial by fire; learning on the job 2. CS stuff is widely available for self-study if you've got good discipline. "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Skiena is my favorite textbook …

Ah, man, I get being anxious in interviews but it never occurred to me that newbies would be stressed out by their (lack of) Leetcode score. It's totally unnecessary of course - th…

I wish the article had more photos - from the one it looks like it could be an awesome rock climbing area

I'm curious what useful applications we have for black holes of any size

It's a meme, like "_____ Considered Harmful". That one started with "GOTO Considered Harmful". This one started with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness..…

This is, in fact, an existing product category: the one I'm most familiar with is https://www.beeminder.com/ , but it's got a few competitors. I've never found it particularly usef…

IF you enjoy this kind of thing, (and you aren't already an acoup fan), he wrote an entire article about the biker-gear-leather-fetish trope in Game of Thrones: https://acoup.blog/…

...which makes it a classic exercise for teaching memoization!

There's an explanation here: https://beepb00p.xyz/unnecessary-db.html (the link behind "Against unnecessary databases")

Cheers! Responding between dumbbell sets - I hope I may never stop being an animal ;)

I mean, you can also just let the data go. "nothing, chaos" is pretty simple . I don't believe being able to search my chatlogs from 2005 would make my life simpler, or better. Som…