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by Breza 5y ago
Until recently, I worked for a company that published email newsletters and they still sent a text version along with HTML. It started back in the Blackberry days and continued because we thought it made our emails look more credible for co
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by Breza 5y ago
I like to use wheregoes.com to probe links. I'm surprised at how many redirects some of them have. I get that an ad link might go through an ad channel, but clicking one non-spam link from a reputable company can plant cookies from a w
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by Breza 5y ago
No need to store IPs, just embed PII in the URL for the background image. With email, IP addresses aren't very useful for tracking.
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by Breza 5y ago
These are great! This is the best introduction to grep I've ever seen: https://wizardzines.com/comics/grep/
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by Breza 5y ago
VRBO is another egregious example. My friend asked what I thought about a house she was thinking of renting for a trip. VRBO wouldn't let me view the link on my phone unless I downloaded their app. I had her copy and paste the house&#x
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by Breza 5y ago
Years before the pandemic, this is how our company met its needs for new hires. We went from "everybody must come to the office" to "you must be allowed to work in the United States" pretty quickly and it was great for o
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by Breza 5y ago
I'd be interested in seeing the company's pitch deck. I wouldn't be surprised if they used the word "subscription" somewhere in their list of what makes them different from the competition.
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by Breza 5y ago
Even in the United States where dishwashers are common, older buildings sometimes don't have them. I lived in a reasonably large apartment from the 1930s that was never upgraded to support a dishwasher. I would have loved a model like
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by Breza 5y ago
Not to mention the very real risk of a company going under (as the article notes) or simply ending support for your product. How many consumer IoT products are going to be bricked in the next decade?
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by Breza 5y ago
I was thinking about that the other day when reading about shortages of medical oxygen in India due to the COVID-19 crisis. That movie picked the plot device because it was so ridiculous and now it could be a real problem in some cases.
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by Breza 5y ago
I have a dumb question. How common are political chat rooms at companies? When I read books like Billion Dollar Loser, it sounds like lots of tech companies encourage employees to have semi-public discussions via Slack on company time about
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by Breza 5y ago
It's a truly amazing book. It's easy for authors to romanticize spaceflight or to write a dry technical manual. Carrying the Fire does an incredible job of splitting the difference between the two extremes.
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by Breza 5y ago
I totally agree that the niche subreddits often have the best discourse.
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Dating websites are the one category where either having an amazing site or a truly terrible site both lose you subscribers.
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by Breza 5y ago
Knowing some of the older people in my family, I'd be an hour into a phone call when they'd casually mention that their message box hasn't worked for the past month since it ran out of paper but they didn't want to be a
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by Breza 5y ago
That's on the grandchildren. They need to learn how to reply to Yaya. "kthnx" won't work, but this will: "Hi Yaya, I just listened to your message about my first day back in school. Yes, I'm a little nervous ab
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by Breza 5y ago
I was impressed when I bought a car for the first time and the dealership had a gigantic touchscreen for reviewing and signing all the paperwork. Took away the needless cycle of printing and scanning papers in an otherwise digital workflow.
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by Breza 5y ago
I feel the same way. I love its simplicity. Especially now that I found the setting to make my library the default view instead of the library/store combo screen. I have a baby, and the one-simplicity of my Kindle means I can read a bo
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by Breza 5y ago
My washer and dryer are as advanced as I want laundry equipment to be. Physical dials to choose settings and my phone dings when a cycle finishes. The next time I buy a washer (hopefully many years from now) I think it's going to have
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by Breza 5y ago
Plus I doubt anybody will get in trouble for having a lunchtime video chat with a coworker and talking politics.
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by Breza 5y ago
I'm more critical of SpaceX but I have to admit that they've managed to blow up a lot of hardware without killing any passengers. That suggests they know what they're doing.
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Imagine how many robots you could launch for the same money
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by Breza 5y ago
That's the central thesis of The Right Stuff. Collins was bumped from Apollo 8 and didn't feel that bad about bumping someone else from Apollo 11 as a result.
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Extra disappointing after going through helicopter pilot training to be certified to fly the lunar lander.
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by Breza 5y ago
Agreed, it's an amazing book.
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by Breza 5y ago
Reminds me of Collins on Gemini 10. He did an EVA from further from Earth than anyone had ever been before. He took pictures of the Gemini capsule with Earth in the background. And then his camera fell off and drifted until space.
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by Breza 5y ago
And they made him fly acrobatics in a jet shortly before the mission. ("Made" might be too strong a word since Collins thought it was fun.) NASA thought that might help train the inner ear to avoid the dreaded space sickness.
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by Breza 5y ago
If you want to see how disabling even a little loss of pressure can be, check it this video. https://youtu.be/7wT9-zaK3Zo
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Looking at other times when astronauts became ill, they tended to tough it out until too late to put on a space suit.
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Opening the hatch was a huge pain. They'd have to disassemble the rather phallic docking mechanism (as Collins described it). Not being able to disassemble it was one of the fears Collins had about Apollo 11.

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