C++ nerd.
@OpenAI
, formerly
@RocksetCloud
. Not Rolex's little brother, not Tudor Dixon (she's horrible). Married to the amazing
@liddybird
. All opinions mine.
@FakeUnicode
Romanian passports are printed using the wrong character on the cover.
It says “PAŞAPORT” — that character is S with cedilla (Ş, U+015E) but the correct character is S with comma below (Ș, U+0219) (“PAȘAPORT”).
I expect passports to be free of typos, even if minor.
@britshaniece
Kids absolutely don’t care.
We’re great friends with a gay couple; when my daughter first met them (she was 6 at the time), I told her that they’re together and love each other, just like me and my partner (her stepmom).
Her answer? “Cool!” And that was all there was to it.
@triketora
@KentBeck
“Push the hardcore button or be fired” might also be discriminatory against people with certain disabilities. It may also be discriminatory (or at least unwise) against people with families, but I imagine this is a harder case to prove.
@rakyll
@inerati
“Immigrant” is from the point of view of the destination country. “Expat” is from the point of view of the origin country.
If I move to France and decide to stay, I’ll be an American expat and a French immigrant.
@GeorgeTakei
Thunder was heard at the exact moment when the tomb was opened, and a thick purple mist floated out of it and quickly dissipated.
I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about.
@svembu
But claim that, for example, women are inferior to men, or women shouldn’t have certain jobs, or that women are primarily sexual objects, even in the workplace? That’s unacceptable. How would you trust someone like that to work fairly with women? 2/2
@krisnova
I’m the “chief architect” at
@RocksetCloud
, I’ve been doing systems and database programming for 22 years, and I still do oncall shifts. Why is this controversial? You need to be down in the trenches.
I was talking to a friend about how Singapore can make public service be something that people are proud of, instead of, traditionally, a job seen as lesser than private sector.
His answer: we pay them! Look at top earners in private sector equivalent jobs, and pay accordingly.
Hot take: CS students should be introduced to concurrent programming via actors and message passing, not via threads and mutexes and shared memory. Java’s “synchronized” keyword damaged junior engineers’ understanding of concurrency.
@caillemillner
@kimmaicutler
I can believe this. Say you spend $150/day on commuting, 5x/week, that’s $3k/month. With a big house/family, the difference in rent/mortgage can easily be more than that between AZ and SF. And other factors— proximity to family, opportunities for her partner, etc.
@triketora
@KentBeck
I think my good friend
@keithmadams
said this: most of us who argue for work-life balance (myself included) now in our 40s burned the midnight oil when we were in our 20s, and it helped our careers immensely.
I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong.
@svembu
Ok so I agree with this in principle. But the detail that is easily overlooked (usually on purpose) is the definition of what counts as “political”.
Disagree on the best way to allocate funding to schools? Sure. Tax policies? Of course. 1/2
For comparison, the US Digital Service says “Salaries at USDS vary, but don’t exceed $170,800, determined by your experience and skills.”
A highly experienced engineer or, even more so, an executive in the technology sector can make significantly more than $171k/year.
@park_slope_slut
@avbelow
@dajobe
AFAIK, it is quite simple for Plus subscribers (which I assume Twitter is) -- admins can dump the entire workspace into an archive, including private channels and DMs, and this does not notify the affected employees.
@martinvars
@elonmusk
I own two Teslas (and I owned two more before these) and I will never buy another one again. Looking at the Hyundai Ioniq 6 when it comes out to replace the 3, and hoping that Mercedes improves the range on the EQB next year.
@tylerjones66
@KoparaFallsKid
@kenvogel
Even in countries with compulsory voting, you don’t have to choose a candidate from the ballot. You may turn in an empty ballot, for example. There is always a “I don’t want to express an opinion in this election” choice, but the point is that the choice should be explicit.
We're growing here at
@RocksetCloud
!
Building a fast, feature-rich real-time analytics engine— full SQL on loosely structured data.
LMK if you have a background in high-performance C++ systems work, compilers, DB engines, search engines, compression, low-level optimizations...
@SCOTUSPlaces
So the good thing about the California Highway Patrol is that they don’t do this any more. It’s “sir, I pulled you over for your speed, my radar clocked you at 78 and the speed limit is 65mph”
@BettyJunod
@rakyll
It’s containers running in VMs! (Everyone running docker in EC2 instances, or docker on Mac, or docker in WSL2 on your Windows PC...)
@maybekatz
Whiteboard + photo. Paper. And , which is one of the best free things on the entire Internet. (Really free; the only thing they charge for is Atlassian integration.)
@Outriders
I want to play, but, as a software engineer who has had his share of hotfixes over the weekend, y'all take your time and fix this. Empathy for the people currently in the hot seat. Good luck.
@tylerjones66
@KoparaFallsKid
@kenvogel
The thesis is that people would be more likely to take an interest in the workings of their country if voting was the default choice. If, after paying attention, you still decide that you want no part of it, that’s fine.
@smsunarto
Yes, same in Romania. Sequences, series, limits, and derivatives are taught in 11th grade. Real Riemann integrals and antiderivatives (including fun epsilon-delta proofs) are taught in 12th grade.
My mother passed away from COVID 2 days ago. If I hear even one inkling of “I don’t want to wear a mask because it’s uncomfortable” then you can go and absolutely fuck yourself.
Unlike other tech companies that mostly (obviously, with exceptions) laid off junior and/or lower performing employees (or eliminated whole departments), Google seems to have done a cost/benefit analysis and went straight for the very highly paid mid/high level employees. 1/2
@Historian_Steve
And there’s a good reason for it: regardless of their professed policies, elected officials, by and large, personally benefit from Republican policies.
There is a path for politicians to become well-off, via lobbying jobs, book/lecture circuits, think tanks...
@aloria
I’ve also been coding for over two decades professionally (and maybe another decade before that, mostly for fun and school), most of it in C++. I use daily.
@shaft
@triketora
@KentBeck
@keithmadams
And the reason I’m advocating for good WLB now is that I also saw the negative impact it had on my mental health and personal life. But if I hadn’t done it I might not be a position to be able to talk about WLB and have people listen. It’s ugly.
@paulg
I wonder how much of the drop happened just in 2020 because of the pandemic. I would have liked to see 2019 and 2021 numbers compared side by side.
@rondoftw
Agreed. Three years ago,
@liddybird
and I bought two Peking ducks and roasted a goose instead of the traditional turkey. We called it the “duck, duck, goose” thanksgiving, aka
#honksgiving
.
@jeanqasaur
“Hours worked” is such a weird metric. Successful people in our line of work tend to be obsessive. Do you count the sleepless nights where you worry about how to implement a feature / fix a bug / woo a large customer or an investor as “work”
@matthew_d_green
I'd forgotten it exists. Just did, though, and it's... not bad? The front page has actual good, relevant news that aren't entirely obvious reposts? Was Slashdot around all this time and maintained a not-terrible community? Whaaa?
@matthew_d_green
Especially the last one— I’ve had a few instances where 1Password didn’t save the password when I changed it, and the extra login step made me fix it before it was too late.
PSA: Services are fine; microservices were born from a confusion between APIs and RPCs.
APIs are good! Modularization keeps code clean and maintainable.
@vBenArmstrong
I hope the Border Patrol don’t find out who the employee is from this post. I would have held this until they were safely back in the US.
@sweetanita
So the EU has scolded Romania for not doing enough to combat sex trafficking. The Tate case would be great for PR, so I expect they’ll handle it by the books, while allowing local small-time traffickers to bribe their way out of prosecution.
@bernhardsson
Not that different. Cell-probe methods for similarity search are perfectly compatible with standard inverted indexes. (see, for instance, "IndexIVF" on )
@janwilmans
@horenmar_ctu
They are not available *in the initialization of that particular member*, they are perfectly available in the initialization of other members. `Foo(int x) : y(x), z(y)` is perfectly fine.
So yes it is confusing, `x` has different meanings when initializing `this->x` vs `this->y`
@jcoplien
Yes, it does feel that way sometimes. Maybe 10% of the time. But if someone said this to me in an interview, I’d be worried that they don’t want to do the hard work for the remaining 90%— debugging, writing glue code, cleaning up, testing, etc.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the focus on diversity and inclusion is not about “dismantling meritocracy”.
It’s about undoing centuries of hatred and bias so that disadvantaged groups have a chance to compete on merit at the same level as the privileged.
@paultoo
The answer changes on a case-by-case basis.
I'm not qualified to analyze bits and pieces of intelligence about the origin of Covid. I probably have access to 1% of what intelligence services know. Based on that, I cannot form an opinion, so I'll default to the experts' view.
Prediction: companies that say they switched to “permanent WFH” will renege within 18 months of vaccines being universally available. No legacy status either— move to an office or quit, exceptions on a case by case basis only.
@AstroKatie
@RoyalAstroSoc
I love this. If the data holds up, we’re definitely learning something new. Alien microbes, yet-unknown facts about the atmosphere or Venus, or yet-unknown facts about the chemistry of PH3. Either way, this is cool!
@SpideyAtLaw
@phessler
When my daughter was born in 2010, I was working at a company that offered 4 months of paternity leave. I indicated that I meant to take all 4 months, spread out over the course of a year, as per policy. I was told “you know, most men take 2 weeks or less, isn’t that enough?”
@BaronDestructo
#teamyara
forever. She’ll come back in the final scene after everyone’s dead, shrug, sit on the Iron Throne. Fade to black, end credits.
@tiffani
@liddybird
and I ate at 5 different venues this weekend (and also attended
@broadwaysf
’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar, which was great) and we were vax-carded every time. That was great to see.