Hacker News: Tao3300

New comment by Tao3300 in "How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?"

Tao3300 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:00:40 +0000

There are worse things we could be doing with our time. Personally I'd rather watch the synchronized swimming.

New comment by Tao3300 in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

Tao3300 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:56:58 +0000

If I did, then what?

In either case, "it's not racism, you don't know what they're like" completes my bingo card.

New comment by Tao3300 in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

Tao3300 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:37:22 +0000

I'm saying it was an anonymous story, lacking verifiable detail, spread in a public forum. Whether it's your personal truth or not is irrelevant to the fact that it's a rumor by definition.

Are you scared of definitions? Do you feel like dictionaries are written to gaslight you? Don't blow it out of proportion.

New comment by Tao3300 in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

Tao3300 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 02:24:16 +0000

That's a bad faith suggestion. You know very well that it's better to have Harris focused on the campaign in this situation.

New comment by Tao3300 in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

Tao3300 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 02:20:43 +0000

Yep. We've been a nation at peace since 1947.

New comment by Tao3300 in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

Tao3300 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 01:59:15 +0000

I haven't seen a single clip of Trump in months where he hasn't slurred his words several times. Apparently we're all supposed to be okay with that.

New comment by Tao3300 in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

Tao3300 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 01:54:10 +0000

> Who knows how old we can be in the future

Read as "who knows how much more entrenched future politicians will be able to be? who knows how many more favors they will owe, how many more donors will have their ear?"

New comment by Tao3300 in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

Tao3300 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:55:33 +0000

That's what we call racism. Even if the anecdotes are from your own experience, you're still drawing broad ethnic conclusions from them.

What do we call anonymous stories, lacking in detail, being circulated in a public forum? Yes, those are rumors.

New comment by Tao3300 in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

Tao3300 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 03:23:32 +0000

Crowdstrike? Is that you?

New comment by Tao3300 in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

Tao3300 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 03:15:42 +0000

It's a good band name

New comment by Tao3300 in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

Tao3300 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 02:37:17 +0000

And that's what we call racism.

> scholarly work stating that they were warmly welcomed 4 centuries ago

Yeah, that doesn't sound legit. Any general sentiment from that time period is lost, and the best your scholar can do is project the lens of the present onto sources from the past. To be fair, all histories are done that way.

New comment by Tao3300 in "Major Fire Breaks Out on Maersk Containership in Arabian Sea"

Tao3300 — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:50:33 +0000

This is going to mess up the arrival date for those compression sleeves I ordered on Prime Day, isn't it?

New comment by Tao3300 in "Panic at the Job Market"

Tao3300 — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:35:28 +0000

I noticed the third stonecutter wasn't doing jackshit.

New comment by Tao3300 in "Artificial neural network approach to finding the key length of Vigenère cipher"

Tao3300 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:46:02 +0000

Better switch everything over to Autokey

New comment by Tao3300 in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

Tao3300 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:28:05 +0000

I'd endorse this. That way when my hypothetical PHB wants to know why something is taking so long I can say "See this part? Someone could die if we don't refactor it."

New comment by Tao3300 in "NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock"

Tao3300 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:01:20 +0000

I'm wondering what that channel would have looked like when there was water flowing in it.

New comment by Tao3300 in "NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock"

Tao3300 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:58:13 +0000

That doesn't sound unique or interesting. Sulfur? So what. Not clicking.

Surprise? Well, I was already pretty sure if it was water or life they'd have said so, but now I'm intrigued. I clicked and now I know why the find is actually pretty interesting after all.

New comment by Tao3300 in "Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly"

Tao3300 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:34:49 +0000

Propaganda. The two major deficits stopping otherwise qualified people from being individually effective are (1) money and (2) time. If those are taken care of, any persisting problems are organizational.

New comment by Tao3300 in "Panic at the Job Market"

Tao3300 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:52:36 +0000

He's not wrong. 90% of coding interviews are completely unrelated to the job. Here are some experiments for you to try in your next one:

- if it's a super difficult problem, remark how fascinating it is and ask the interviewer how often they're doing this stuff

- if it's FizzBuzz or something else that is solved and has a known value, propose hardcoding the answer as a constant and printing it without doing any computation, and see how that goes over

- if it's not one of these, you might be in a 10% case

My favorite was when I applied at, let's call it "StoreJogger" at as entry level engineer. This guy comes in for the technical interview and asks me a question that basically boils down to "how would you make StoreJogger?" and I remember thinking that if I knew the answer, I sure as shit wouldn't be in there. Yeah I guess it was technically a relevant question.

New comment by Tao3300 in "Panic at the Job Market"

Tao3300 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:36:57 +0000

Lmao. That sort of simping for incompetence belongs on LinkedIn, not here.