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Jargon is everywhere but office jargon is its own sub genre. For office jargon, it's maybe not a practical matter, but I could see a friend being a little put off by someone speaki…

Is "solves" used like that in the wild? Haven't heard that one.

This isn't meant to be taken too literally or objectively, but I view YAGNI as almost a meta principle with respect to the other popular ones. It's like an admission that you won't…

What's the background on doing a soft layoff (or w/e) and hiring at the same time? Many of us have seen one of these close-up, just wondering what the case is here.

I suppose people might be wondering what happens when this small number of big players finish their buildouts.

Funny comment about it being dark in Michigan. My feeling here in the summer is like, will the sun ever set (somewhat light out until almost 10pm depending on location)? I know wha…

> I had two EE roommates in college, their exams were HARD, but their home-projects were easy compared to CS (less projects overall as well). Maybe that's just a result of EE take-…

Can you explain the cuda-less stack a little more or provide a source?

I thought the number in the title seemed low, but this makes it seem closer

I agree. I'm not quite so shy, but on that same side of the spectrum for sure. The deal with me these days is that I've got a couple kids; one thing that comes along with that is q…

calc 2 was the hardest for me, and anecdotally many others. hang in there!

They can hear the tinnitus, but not real sounds at that freq. IANAD, is there any kind of "gain correction" theory for tinnitus? ie, the brain notices your ear can't hear this freq…

I can do more than 5 if I'm able to maintain discipline and work at a normal pace. Normally though, time pressure or "get shit done" pressure gets the better of me, and my brain go…

> So many engineers move to management, yet want to remain "hands on", and won't let go. It's obnoxious and frustrating, when they inevitably have their heads spinning from meeting…

I've definitely spent some time thinking about it, or did in college anyway. There's a lot going on with the typical bike population on a college campus. A fair amount of bikes get…

I have an 08 corolla that seems indestructible. I sorta want to replace it, because I don't really like driving my children around in it, but new cars seem incredibly complex. I'm …

FWIW, there was a near miss during a blue angels flyover a couple years ago. https://youtu.be/Wh3TIy2gtPs

Would there be any value in a GC'd language where you had the option to explicitly call do_gc_now()? Is this functionality already out there and just not popular? I haven't spent a…

First question is a bit subjective, but Hennessey and Patterson is a good place to start. It's thick but reads fairly easy in my recollection

What?

The F15 doesn't get a ton of fanfare, but it's an extremely capable aircraft.

Something feels a little off in this particular case. I feel like there is an implied increase in flexibility with WFH for many of us here, but I doubt call center employees get th…

Never considered the speedrun route, but I also had someone (a prof. in my case) tell me something that changed the way I viewed college/the curriculum. Paraphrasing, he said, "don…

Since the cause was multiple birdstrikes, I don't know how specific to being a test pilot this episode was. Maybe they do more stuff with higher risk of birdstrike in general, or m…

I can't really refute any of that, but I'm ok with Teams on balance. Our team used WebEx before, which was pretty bad, IMO, but some of that was probably due to it not being as tig…