I highly doubt that Russia is just standing on the sidelines not stoking the fires via bots on social media

The ATF dude who showed off the haul didn’t know how to insert a magazine into those “rifles”

I’m far from an expert but from what I understand, it’s hard to really define the generic similarities since it’s not a contiguous chunk of DNA that’s the same. It’s piecemeal and fragmented. So it makes sense that even the experts in the field would have arguments about it. Nonetheless it does seem like the three of us are closest, but the specifics are still being researched.

https://www.science.org/content/article/bonobos-join-chimps-closest-human-relatives

Article from 2012:

Chimpanzees now have to share the distinction of being our closest living relative in the animal kingdom. An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the bonobo for the first time, confirming that it shares the same percentage of its DNA with us as chimps do. The team also found some small but tantalizing differences in the genomes of the three species—differences that may explain how bonobos and chimpanzees don’t look or act like us even though we share about 99% of our DNA.

Armenia is part of Russia?

It seems to vary. I had few issues with my 2080Ti but my friend had nothing but issues with his 3070. He switched to an AMD card and it worked without issue. Nvidia doesn’t put nearly as much emphasis on their Linux support as AMD does, but that doesn’t mean that Nvidia cards aren’t usable.

Considering that they paywalled changing your background in Windows 7, it wouldn’t surprise me.

Mint. I’ve been happy with it. I’m more familiar with debs/apt/Ubuntu so I wanted to stick with something familiar but didn’t want to use Ubuntu. It’s worked very well for me for gaming. I just upgraded my GPU from an Nvidia card to an AMD card which, aside from having to manually install the drivers from the terminal, has worked very well.

Super zero brain? PB&J sandwich. Or a deli meat sandwich.

AFAIK, cremains are inorganic and don’t nourish anything

You mean Stephen Hawking?

I switched full time to Linux last year and primarily use my computer for gaming. It’s been great. I play games through steam so YMMV with other systems. I haven’t had any issues playing a variety of games such as Factorio (built for Linux), GTFO, Horizon: Forbidden West, PEAK, Ready or Not, Plate Up… It’s been rare for me to have an issue. I remember an issue trying to play Plate Up via steam remote play.

It’s sort of like when you’re at work and see the “quick workaround” effectively become the standard process.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix

Blockchain is just a ledger. Most systems don’t need a ledger, they need a database. It was a solution looking for a problem in most cases and the marketing/business types don’t listen to the engineers if the engineers are even in the room.

When I interviewed at a company some years ago, the commute would have been ~an hour on a normal day (potentially longer if I did park-n-ride). I was very forward about wanting to only come into the office once or maybe twice a week. The manager I was talking with brushed off my commute time by basically saying that the commute wasn’t that long and he knew others that commuted much longer. That was a huge red flag for me and I did not proceed with them. I don’t care what others will tolerate. If management is going to ignore concerns like that, I don’t want to work there. It was really apparent that he wouldn’t let me work from home more than maybe once a week if I was lucky.

One of the things I’ve always remembered about Decent was when you put in cheat codes it would play a little sound effect of someone saying “cheater…”

How do you view yourself/your decision looking back? Do you have any regrets?

Is it a direction you would recommend for others?

What is something that the average person doesn’t know about stripping that you wish they did know?

Are there any particularly interesting or funny stories that you want to share?

My computer graphics/computer vision professor in college (two classes, same professor). He treated us as people, explained the logic behind his teaching style (and grading), was extremely knowledgeable and approachable. A lot of professors end up having a sort of air or mystique around them that can make them harder to approach 1-on-1. Usually it’s no fault of their own, they’re just in a position of power and authority over the students.

This professor really tried to bring his students in by making us feel like we belonged. He actually described his class as the same class they teach at MIT. The only difference was the students and their drive.

In the computer vision class, there were only about 8 of us and we all did terribly in one of his exams. The next class he asked us directly and openly what he did wrong and how to make things better going forward (tl;dr: more examples). I really respect teachers who admit their mistakes/failures and then try to correct them.

Putting question marks or exclamation points after “quotation marks”! I’ve never understood the point of putting the punctuation inside the quotation unless it’s part of the quotation itself.

It can vary a lot depending on the day and the company/job. Frequently there are meetings that are update/planning discussions, discussions with one or more other engineers on how to build a given feature, debugging existing code to figure out why it’s not doing the thing we want (which is a different but overlapping skill set with coding).

Ultimately there isn’t really a “typical” day because we wear a lot of different hats. My current job is more coding heavy because I’m at a small startup with only a couple of engineers. In a given week I’m probably doing 10% meetings, 50% coding/debugging/configuration, 20% code review (reviewing other people’s code), and 20% thinking/designing/experimenting with ideas. Those numbers vary a lot though. At a previous job I ended up spending an entire week just doing project management to alleviate my boss’ anxiety over a project (which was somewhat self defeating because it meant I wasn’t getting work done on said project). That job in particular had a lot of politicking and communication which was due to micromanagement.

A lot of what people don’t realize is that we aren’t just building a feature. We’re building a feature while thinking ahead to known or potential future features. How can we build feature A to enable making features B, C, and D easier/better/faster without also making feature E much more difficult or impossible? It’s about building flexibility into the system while also balancing against time and cost restrictions. We as engineers have things that we see as necessary while the business wants more features and it’s necessary to balance the two. At a healthy org that means that there’s a negotiation of priorities between the two forces. If you only focus on the technical stuff, you won’t ship features. If you only focus on the features, how fast you can deliver features will come to a grinding halt. Your system will also start breaking in unexpected ways which takes time away from building features.

It’s kinda a rambly response to your question but I hope it helps.