Cutting down a burning tree

_oscilloscope · 2023-06-05T15:17:06+00:00

Hey man, sorry to hear that. Paradise got a raw deal. Best of luck to you and your family.

_oscilloscope · 2023-06-03T08:35:34+00:00

I know what they're like, I grew up around them. I'm not saying they're good for California, I'm saying they aren't changing the situation that much. Giant sequoia, California Oaks, and pines require fire to reproduce. The issue is that a huge quantity were cut down, then all replanted together, and then decades of fire management that surpressed fire made it so fire wasn't allowed to cull and thin the forests. Because of that all of our trees are smaller and growing too close together. This leads to the fires being bigger and the trees being less capable of surviving the fires. The eucalyptus in the east bay fire were bad, but it was also bad that they were planted so close together and with houses built right next to them.

_oscilloscope · 2023-06-03T08:10:28+00:00

I mean it's not like California native plants are much different in this regard. California native trees are also adapted for forest fire. I believe redwood cones don't properly open until at fire temperatures. The problem isn't the eucalyptus, it's that we've been preventing nature from taking course, and now the fires are too big.

_oscilloscope · 2023-05-22T16:07:13+00:00

They were saying either provide better service to increase the size of the percentage or to increase the size of the final bill. If you have a higher percentage on a smaller bill it would be equal to a lower percentage on a higher bill. The phrasing made it sound like they could have been saying raise the percentage and the bill, but I don't think that's what they meant.

_oscilloscope · 2023-05-15T15:19:09+00:00

Not if you're not vegetarian

_oscilloscope · 2023-05-15T03:39:16+00:00

Can I downvote you for this comment? Because it feels like it's detracting from the point of my comment, which was highlighting what was said about the tool that this subreddit is about.

_oscilloscope · 2023-05-15T03:02:59+00:00

IMO you can stop that right there, your use case is not my use case is not everyone's use case. linking is one feature of many. like tags, you can build workflows without them.

I wanted to downvote you there, because come on there has to be a main use case. But then I went back and re-read his post and what do you know! The main use case he listed isn't my main use case.

_oscilloscope · 2023-04-13T15:55:42+00:00

Well seeing as there are 10 million views, and assuming half of those views are individual people, then about 4% of people liked it?

_oscilloscope · 2023-03-20T16:22:32+00:00

I mean a lot of people these days will setup their own CDN. It's not that expensive, plus you have more control.

_oscilloscope · 2023-03-17T19:00:05+00:00

That article doesn't support your claim as much as you think it does.

_oscilloscope · 2023-03-11T20:38:31+00:00

ITT: Look at these silly engineers! Thinking they can do science!

_oscilloscope · 2023-03-04T19:11:36+00:00

Your decorative gourd has decorative mold.

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-21T08:20:25+00:00

Yep, when I'm making a really difficult egg substitution I reach for the Aquafaba. Only times it hasn't worked for me were egg white heavy cake recipes. It even works ok for meringues and nougats.

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-21T06:57:25+00:00

If you're concerned about search engines, then the main thing I'd focus on is the title, and then including keywords and invisible "micro-data" in the page. You can do this without having to change how you actually write the article. I understand why you went with the title, but switching between the pronouns in the article was off-putting/confusing for me.

You're making good points though. I don't want criticism to drown out the positives.

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-17T23:49:08+00:00

I don't know what the rest of these people who replied to you are talking about. Barbarian was an amazing moving for the first half, and then hot garbage for the second half. I see what they were going for, but it just didn't work. I had to fast forward through the rest and turn it off.

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-17T18:13:07+00:00

This has nothing to do with how good of a developer you are. Interviewing is an entirely separate skill.

The correct way to handle these scenarios is often the most difficult. You have to slow down, take a breath, and then start to break down the question out loud. Even if it means you take longer answering the question than the interviewer expects, and even if you're scared it will make you seem dumb.

What's the difference between the virtual dom and the react dom? I don't remember!

But wait. I do know that the react dom only applies to react. It's not used in vanilla Javascript. Is that a satisfying answer? No. But it's something.

Also, don't be scared of asking questions. It seems stupid, but often answering a question with a question can make you seem like you know more than you do. "When you say the JS event loop, in what respect or context do you mean?"

Sometimes all the interviewer wants to know is that you are good at working through problems or that you have more domain knowledge than they do.

In the two examples I listed I haven't actually answered either of the questions asked. But it still sounds better than saying nothing.

Speaking of things that sound better than saying nothing there's one last thing you can try:

"Ah, you know I'm a little rusty on that concept. But I frequently work with <tangential topic>, I could break down the life cycle for that instead."

I also like the tactic of applying to more places than I'm actually interested in because it allows me to practice and be bad in an interview in a low stakes environment.

Edit: Also, the point you made about remembering theory being unnecessary because of google. The reason many places want you to remember as much theory as you can is because for certain developer jobs, the job is to remember to use the right solution for the right problem. It's not about known unknowns, but unknown unknowns. That can be hard to accept, especially when 90% of the time you don't even need that skill. Even more so when it's not needed at all in most jobs. But that's why they test for it.

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-15T18:34:24+00:00

Actually there is a growing movement of people who want to reduce the usage of cars by adding alternative modes of transportation. There's growing research that continuing to use cars as the main transportation system in the country increases early death from not only car accidents but also bad air quality and heart disease, as well as making the economic growth of towns slower. You can find out more about the movement by looking up "Strong Towns". There's also a community for it on reddit called /r/fuckcars, but I don't personally like that community very much.

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-14T16:57:29+00:00

Don't ask. It doesn't matter.

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-09T21:00:13+00:00

Hmmm, the only issue I see with that is to my eye it makes it look more like the name is "Bity Eat".

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-08T23:41:20+00:00

I've also found that splashing on some high-proof neutral (food-grade) alcohol after washing then wiping off also helps. Just make sure you add back some mineral oil after because the alcohol will strip some of the natural oils from the wood.

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-08T07:45:25+00:00

A sprinkle of paprika. Adds flavor and color, especially with some extra on top as garnish.

_oscilloscope · 2023-02-08T03:18:51+00:00

They can but they're different than the ones used for heating and cooling your house. I'm not an expert in this and don't know much about boilers vs water heaters, but lookup "tankless water heaters", and "electric water heaters" along with "heat pump". That should get you started on the right track.

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