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rxhernandez··on The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019)
As someone who has lived on the West Coast of the US for decades, I have never heard any American call (), brackets.
rxhernandez··on Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux
Me; it's far superior to anything outside of a mouse.

And yes, I have a MacBook M1 (I didn't realize how poor the support was for Linux by the time the return window closed).

rxhernandez··on Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux
Not having good linux support is a deal breaker for me.
rxhernandez··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
Many people are very worried about Elon censoring others. He has already done that before.
rxhernandez··on Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31094361#31098178
rxhernandez··on Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?
It doesn't run linux anywhere near as well as a X1 Carbon. I get daily crashes on a fresh install on a M1 Mac after only a couple weeks of having it. My X1 Carbon has been running strong for nearly a year with no memorable crashes during that time period.

There's software I can't even install because there aren't arm versions of it available.

rxhernandez··on StarBook 14-inch
> In practice, that can lag behind by months or even years and the only way to get necessary updates to get security fixes or get certain hardware working is many times to boot from Windows.

I feel like I get updates fairly often with my p50 on Ubuntu which is 5 or 6 years old at this point.

My gen 9 x1 carbon is the best Linux machine (which includes desktops) I've ever owned.

rxhernandez··on Reduced-hours software development engineer position at Amazon
FWIW, it's incredibly rare for someone to bug me on a Friday in my 5+ years of remote work across 3 companies (medical devices, scientific devices, and blockchain) in 3 completely separate stages of their life (early startup, mature startup, and 60+ year old established company).
rxhernandez··on Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
> if you compare the Galaxy S20 to the even older iPhone 11, the iPhone 11 will likely receive 5 years of OS updates compared to 1 year for Samsung

My galaxy note 10 (purchased 2 years ago) is still receiving updates.

In fact Samsung is saying they'll support most phones for 4 years while others are supported for 5:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295639/samsung-galaxy-d...

rxhernandez··on Leadership as a Type B Introvert (2018)
> Kind of like when women say they want men with a sensitive side, in touch with emotions, but in reality most women want a strong man who doesn't show any emotions.

Frankly, almost no grown adult wants an emotionally stunted partner who got that way because they never came to grips with their emotions; few people want to deal with childish coping mechanisms from a grown adult.

rxhernandez··on Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant
Cal == Berkeley
rxhernandez··on Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant
You think UCLA, USC, and UCSD are second tier? Last I checked, UCSD is #9 for engineering in the nation, which is above UIUC at #10. USC is #12 and UCLA is #16 relative to Columbia at #15, John Hopkins at #17, Harvard at #21, Princeton at #22, and UW at #22.

What on earth do you mean by second tier?

rxhernandez··on Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant
I'm sure there's more great ones in California but I can count 14 off the top of my head; I think all of them are nearly within 300 miles of LA too.

1. Caltech

2. Stanford

3. Cal

4. UCLA

5. Harvey Mudd

6. USC

7. UCSD

8. UCD

9. UCSB

10. CPSLO

11. UCI

12. CPP

13. UCSC

14. UCR

rxhernandez··on When my wife developed Alzheimer’s, the story of our marriage kept us connected
I think the divorce rate starkly points in a different direction.
rxhernandez··on Leave Scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done (2020)
It's not a big burden to update people, I've just seen the process abused so much that it becomes a colossal waste of time. Why can't I just post an asynchronous update to some group page at the end of the day?

> If you don't remember something the next day, it's probably not important enough to report anyway.

It can be a big enough deal and still take A LOT of effort to have all the abstractions ready in my mind for that meeting.

rxhernandez··on Leave Scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done (2020)
I don't know about you but I can and do jump on a call with the product managers and my peers the second I run into any issues when it's fresh in my mind; I don't do well at remembering the problem the next morning, an hour after I just woke up.

I'm not saying there aren't benefits to scrum but the ones you are stating are poorly done if they are mostly done via scrum.

rxhernandez··on California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide
> Half of what I learned isn't even true anymore or were partial truths/mostly lies

This is true of most levels of education. What you learn in elementary turns out to be bullshit because of what you learn in high school which turns out to be bullshit because of what you learn in undergrad which turns out to be bullshit because of graduate school which turns out to be bullshit because of the work of an army of scientists.

rxhernandez··on California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide
That means nothing. I have met plenty of people that did calculus in high school and got pushed back into remedial classes in college. Exposure to a concept does not mean proficiency in it.
rxhernandez··on 10 years of whatever this has been
> We have our gods (founding fathers, dead presidents) and demigods (American folk heros, war heros).

> We have our sacred texts (Constitution, Declaration, etc) and our genesis story (War for Independence).

> We have our temples (capitals, court houses).

> We have our core beliefs (representative democracy is good, all men are created equal).

I'd be willing to bet a month's worth of my income that a majority of the population doesn't view it this way. The only people I know who view things this way are very far to the right (and this group is not the majority on the far right by any means).

The only part I'd be willing to bet is shared by more than 50% of the population is that all men are created equal (in theory at least; there are plenty of people with disabilities who would disagree that they are viewed as equals in practice; you needn't think too far beyond who would be sacrificed on a deserted island first and without much conflict).

rxhernandez··on In ‘learning trap’ experiment, adults leap to conclusions while children explore
It seems it was only more effective in the short term. If the children had learned the rules better, they would ostensibly win in a longer session.
rxhernandez··on It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code
As someone who regularly inherits functions that are 300 lines long, I'll take 20 clean small functions over that any day.
rxhernandez··on What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
Having done both frontend and embedded professionally for years, they're about equivalent in difficulty for a moderately complex system.

For self-learning, frontend is orders of magnitude more accessible.

rxhernandez··on Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed
I ended up just buying a new battery for my t540p. I was reluctant to because I didn't think it could possibly last much longer with the abuse it's been subjected to, but, it's still going strong a year later.
rxhernandez··on Nelua Programming Language
It can definitely create problems when translating an algorithm from one to the other. I know it was a frustration when I translated algorithms from Matlab to C++.
rxhernandez··on Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story
I don't think anyone should be in solitary confinement so I don't think you disagree with me. I'm merely stating that the article wasn't wrong.
rxhernandez··on Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story
40 people for the whole country? That doesn't sound "routine." The article mentions that there are 80,000 in any given day for the US.
rxhernandez··on Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story
> Society does not have an answer to the more extrem cases of deviants, sadly.

This society does have an answer and it's the same lazy answer it gives to every problem that it can't empathize with, lock it up and keep it out of sight for as long as possible. It has never cared to seek another answer.

Frankly, things only change when enough people do research and be obnoxious and cantankerous about the answer. I doubt there is much funding for that research as it takes no effort to see how little this society cares about those that need the most compassion.

rxhernandez··on I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it
I wish I knew. Besides generic praise (like saying I'm a rockstar at my job) a few of my managers said that they loved how they could drop me into a situation with little to no information and have me come out successful. Other than that I really don't know how to measure myself. Sometimes I've pulled off things that other engineers said (to the product manager) were impossible; a couple times I've had humiliating failures that still make me sad to think about; most of the time I get my work done.
rxhernandez··on I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it
On my second job, I made 2.5x what I made at my first engineering job (which ended 3.5 years ago). At my 3rd job I jumped my salary by 10s of thousands of dollars over what I was making at my 2nd job. At my 4th job, I now make 8x my first job. I am now consulting (with way too many clients) and have the choice of making six figures by working less than 4 months a year.

Technical skills almost solely put me in the 1%. Although, I am sure that if I stayed at my 1st job I would have gone nowhere due to my lacking interpersonal skills. I also sincerely doubt that I would have made millions if I had mediocre technical skills and mediocre interpersonal skills instead of my pretty good technical skills and subpar interpersonal skills.

rxhernandez··on How to Learn Stuff Quickly
To be fair, I've skimmed a lot of tech books that were absolute trash. I would say the level of quality on blog posts and books are about the same; it's just easier to filter out trash books by reading reviews (unfortunately, I've worked in a lot of niche areas where it didn't matter what the review score was for a book, I just needed some resource to push me further).
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