Joe Barrett
@BarrettJ
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Husband, Father, & Coder. I like games, security, running, and lifting weights. Technical Director at Epic Games | Former US Gov Posts are my own opinions.
North Carolina, USA
Joined March 2007
Very proud of the team for building this feature, excited to see it ship. It's a great balance of privacy and safety and has been a lot of fun to engineer. Don't be toxic 😅.
onlineservices.epicgames.com
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It took me multiple tries to pass linear algebra, because I took it before I hit the point of my CS degree when we used it. I struggled my way through, but then when I got to Algorithms and Data Structures that everything aligned in my head and suddenly linear algebra made a LOT.
Human brains are neural nets and neural nets work by context. Mathematicians don't understand this, and it's why they are terrible math teachers. They do not understand that "What is this used for?" does not mean "Tell me vehemently that it's important.". It means "Give me a.
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It sure would be nice if grocery stores had a convenient table next to the egg section, so I could set down the carton of eggs and make sure that I'm not buying broken ones more easily. Instead I'm forced to do an awkward one-handed hold trying to open a carton and sort through.
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She knows me well enough to know that it was a total accident, however.
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1. Hah, I am so bad at lattes, just a giant blob of foam. Better not spill it as I walk the coffee over to the bedroom. 2. Wife: "Is that a heart? For me? That's so cute!".Me: "Uh, yea. Totally meant to do that."
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That's a surprisingly positive way to look at it. .
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Doing hard things, even when life is hard, builds a discipline that will carry you far in life. This article is excellent.
When You Have Nothing Left – Hold the Line | Steve Ross.
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The eternal struggle. So good.
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You don't have a choice about getting older. But you can absolutely get better with age. 40 was better than 30, which was better than 20. I'm happier, my family has continued to expand, I'm in better shape, my career is stronger, I've seen more of the world. Don't fear age.
This type of person believes everything is supposed to get worse as you age. “Just wait till you’re 30, 40, 50, etc. wait till you have a “real job,” wait till you have kids. ”. Ignore their opinions. If you do it right, most things will get better as you age.
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Anyone else make sweat angels on the concrete after a long run in the summer humidity, or just me?.
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Me trying to use Gemini to search my emails:. "I can only access emails and attachments from May 2021 to February 2022. I cannot access emails from the last six months. Therefore, I cannot provide you with the most current upcoming dates.". Well that's just absolutely worthless.
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That sinking feeling when you're half an hour into a workout and you realized you forgot to start your watch to track it. Oh well, at least the weights still went up and down.
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I hate running on the sand. It's terrible, just no good at all. Barefoot or in shoes, do not recommend. I'll run on dirt or pavement, but sand isn't worth doing.
“I can’t wait to run on the beach!”. —Someone who has never run on the beach.
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In person job interviews had so many interesting curve balls that you just can't replicate with Zoom interviews.
@RocketPulpHack It's a tactile hobby popular with security professionals. 🤷. I'm not great at it, but it is fun in a sort of meditative way to pick a lock while thinking about how to solve other issues. Helps me disassociate and focus on the problem. Best anecdote though was I was interviewing.
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This is very true. The Claude MAX fixed-price subscription is nice, but when playing around with Gemini, I accidentally burnt $150 in a day. As the models get more capable (and thus expensive), it's going to be clear that skill with prompt engineering matters as opposed to "just.
This is somewhat of a new phenomenon with the latest AI models, but if you’re an AI-first engineer and you’re not even thinking about compute costs and running everything through Opus or Max or similar, you can easily run up a compute bill higher than your salary.
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When the reverse sear gets a little out of control. It ended up more medium than rare, but still tasty.
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I guess maybe it's a more fundamental failing with the Pixel's digital wellbeing / screen time tracking capabilities?. It makes sense that it told Family Link there was no usage, because it didn't think it was being used. Still very annoying.
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Google's Family Link is such an annoyingly inconsistent piece of tech. When it works, it's great. When it doesn't. 🤬. I have a strict 1hr limit set on how much my kids can use devices. My son has used it for over an hour today (NOT in airplane mode), and Google thinks he's
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Actually now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure @ImposeCost posted an article about this at some point, so definitely not an original thought on my part.
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