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Ah I have "fond" memories about once spending a good week debugging this, because I was also spawning threads/sub-processes in the loop, making this a Heisenbug that caused the pro…

FWIW, some religious/cult people do donate their kidneys: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kidney-cult-en...

So true. This is one reason why I really miss my Pebble watch with its physical buttons, which allowed me to perform a lot of operations by touch without looking (e.g., play/pause/…

That would probably be a popular book given how well A.G. Martinez's Chaos Monkeys has sold.

My previous employer used something very similar: either adding small features or fixing known bugs of a past build of some open source software in 1-1.5hrs. We prepared one such i…

Agree. Not sure how much could be blamed on the poorly written dialogs. In contrast, for example, Witcher 3 was so engagingly written that I never minded the procedurally animated …

L.A. Noire from 2011(!)

The rules are more clearly depicted on page 4, with different variations depicted on the pages following that. Looks fairly straightforward to implement. Until this is more widely …

The article didn't shy away from the potential conflict of interest: > Adding fuel to the mistrust, though, is the role of the EcoHealth Alliance’s Daszak. His close ties with Shi’…

One method I've seen used to motivate people to move away from deprecated API is: after deprecation is announced, in addition to print a length warning message, also add a thread-s…

Totally agree. There's an inherent tension between protecting the freedom of speech and the potential harm that speech might cause. The current incentive structure motivates people…

> the one thing I appreciated about FB/Meta's recruiters is that they were always honest about the process and what was expected - 2-3 Leetcode mediums/hards in 45 minutes and they…

> China also don't care to understand the west one bit. China has zero cultural understand about anything beyond its borders Well, consider how many people in China have learned En…

I really hope they also do gaming laptops with Nvidia GPUs. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

> What's his endgame? Buy time until the the pandemic burns out (if it does)? Yep that's my understanding. Or if enough time has passed since vaccination to convince them that the …

Anecdotally, my unvaccinated roommate is Chinese, holds a PhD degree in a very difficult field, and works as a researcher in a FAANG company. I was very surprised to learn that the…