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While I nuked my LinkedIn about 8 years ago because I was 1-2 from 96% of Silicon Valley and spammed by un-targeted recruiters incessantly... more importantly, my contacts and I di…

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Around 1981-1985, smog was quite bad in the SF Bay Area. It was a horrible brown-yellow. I don't think most people appreciate how far away it is to reach Mt. Hamilton or how precar…

Seems aligned with early Netflix culture of hiring and treating employees like adults rather than like children. They still appeared to be hiring remote employees as of September o…

Yep. While startup salaries are, and have always been, a joke, it's corporate cost of living adjustments (COLAs) that are a worsening joke when they fail to account for true COL di…

Update for 2024: Step 0. Don't bother with obsolete Cat 6 or lower cable because it's just not worth the effort over Wi-Fi. If you're going to do it, buy a 1000' spool of CMP Cat 8…

Sorry, I'm not your VAR rep. https://letmegoogleforyou.com/?q=buy%20windows%2011%20enterp...

C. 2003-2011 between contracts, I used to offer high priced on-site datacenter hardware, OS (incl virtualization), and software support on Craigslist for anywhere from SF to San Jo…

C. 1990, Turbo Pascal IDE, trial and error. Around 1994, I managed to get to a Computer Literacy bookstore.

A retail Windows license isn't the same as an enterprise Windows license. Retails Windows licenses started with ads for OneDrive and Office in Settings, but now that they're revert…

It depends. It's better than nothing that can be ^C'ed. Here's a naive, partial implementation that runs in command_not_found_handle() { local pkgs readarray pkgs /dev/null | sed '…

FYI: Meta is de-facto insisting on RTO and not offering a remote option for new employees. This trend has nothing to do with productivity and is all about the egos of control-freak…

Platform-based, such as Squeak and Etoys (not eToys) or like with VMs such as JVM or BEAM. The problem you describe is solved by introducing capabilities such as in seL4. Without b…

Yes, that would be a good idea™ but I don't think that's conflict. Apple had uses all sorts of excuses and technical limitations to prevent repairs including parts pairing. The sol…

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Begs the Q: Why is someone using Google when DDG and Startpage exist? Can't someone !w piratebay and click the link?

Yes. 15+ year zsh user here. When dealing with bash, try to sneak in PackageKit-command-not-found and bash-completion. And when running a shell, do it like this: docker run user/im…

While I don't use the ecosystem, I like the way Go approaches it with interfaces by being minimal, expressive, and flexible. It something works like something else according to a m…

That's probably it. Thanks for easing my perpetual forgetfulness!

Waves across I-35 to Reality Labs. Sounds like something Numba should include perhaps. I retired from HPC around the era of iPython, Open MPI, Infiniband, OFED, GPFS/Panasas/Lustre…

IIRC, there was a WAV-era audio format that used PCM delta compression by recording differences rather than absolute values.

Alexa's platform is really, really bad in 4 dimensions: it's antiquated with limited fixed action patterns, it just doesn't work correctly, its skills aren't adequately maintained,…

Q: So will they "recalibrate" my iPad Pro to restore FaceID working with a third-party display repair? A: No, of course not. Apple still says "We don't offer such a service but you…

Sorry, it's a been feature in a number of languages for decades. Perl has it at least as early as 5.005 in 1998. So naturally, Ruby had it since at least before 1.6 / 2002. Java ad…

Well, there's Idris which is eager fp like OCaml but looks like Haskell and has dependent typing.