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> How would you write your code today if you knew it would of been your last commit and still in use in 30 years ? Generally: minimize dependencies. External library or API depende…

FWIW I've given up on trying to gauge my own performance. I've plainly been disappointing people when feeling like I'm working about has hard as I could. I've (over, and over, and …

Right—that significant amounts of labor (=human life) go into this kind of waste that everyone involved knows is a joke, and that the non-joke variety is rarely treated much differ…

I'd put the desirability hierarchy something like this, best to worst: 1) mixed labor (mental, physical) 2) moderate, varied physical labor 3) jobs that are mostly just being prese…

Good work if you can get it, but all the interview questions plumbing the obscurest depths of Newtonian physics are pretty tough.

> In other words, while I considered what the accountant guy did to be a rather low-effort incomplete job, he did exactly what was expected of him by the bank and what I needed to …

Aldrin gets mentioned in the same breath as Armstrong often enough I bet quite a few people could pull that one out. You'd lose a bunch with "who's the guy who stayed in orbit?" an…

Guessing there were drugs in one or more pockets.

If there’s a real downturn we’ll see the big boys cut jobs—maybe a lot. Or even just some regulatory changes (especially reigning in spying and fruits-of-spying monetization) witho…

I eat mostly vegetarian (I'm not a principled vegetarian so I'll eat meat in some circumstances, just way less than most people) and that's pretty easy, but milk is really cheap & …

This is kind of what I'm talking about WRT the cloud being more trouble than it's worth if you app sits somewhere in between "trivial enough you can copy-paste some cloud configs t…

> Just.... just... no. First of all, nobody's got good backups. Nobody uses tape robots, and whatever alternative they have is poor in comparison, but even if they did have tape, t…

In practice I see a lot of breakage (=downtime), velocity loss, and terrible "bus factor" from complex Cloud setups where they're really not needed—one beefy server and some basic …

An awful lot of server systems can tolerate a hardware failure on their one server every couple years given 1) good backups, 2) "shit's broken" alerts, and 3) reliable push-button …

> But even Apple has started using USB-C ports to charge their laptops and tablets now “Even”? I still hadn’t seen a usb-c anything in the wild when Apple switched their MacBooks t…

> it's hard to shake the impression that the majority of our bloated military budget is a federal make-work jobs program The majority of it is precisely that. It's the only jobs & …

Decent (read: donated to by people with money) thrift stores are a great place to find one's sizing. Go in with a few brands in mind and an understanding of how their sizing works …

It takes some combination of time and money. On the high end of the money side you know nothing about fashion and pay someone to dress you well. On the low end you have to learn a …

> Men's fashion is truly horrible compared to women's fashion. Men basically have the choice of either a stuffy suit that look like it hasn't changed in a century and is completely…

Could work like an electric typewriter. Keep the little LCD for the current line (or maybe 3-5) and let the E-ink be your “paper”.

Could be either, really. 21st century and all that. (Making some assumptions about a screen name beginning with “jimmy”) [edit] oh missed the “she” so you’re right. Probably?

I’ve had three, one allegedly from somewhere pretty good, and all were way too sweet for my taste. Only had a couple bites of each, just found them really unpleasant. And I’m Ameri…

Yeah. Up at 7:00, kid morning routine and transport for 2hrs, log in (WFH). And no, I’m not gonna get up earlier, 7’s already inhumanely-early for about half the year.

Since he’s up-front that he’s gonna be including opinion, and about his own limitations when it comes to presenting certain philosophies (IIRC for Bergson he was like “look I can’t…

It’s a how-bad-you-want-it filter. Plus a bit of an IQ test (to recognize which solution applies—of course even more studying can help here, too). It’s working as intended.