CinchWrench

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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I've instructed kids roughly this age. My context was the American Boy Scouts (remember when that still existed?), so I'm sure it was similar to your experience in the ACF. There are a lot of psychological techniques you pick up o
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Everything _is_ for sale at the right price. So the only problem here is that they're being honest about it. There are several precedents that come to mind though, prostitution is one.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Slightly Meta: I wish HN had a parallel community for these kind of silly posts. I use it as a worksafe site to take a break at work and sometimes jokes like this, while not being in the spirit of HN, are things I very much appreciate.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Don't forget the SAS institute! Same business model!
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
The 4-Hour Life problem.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I have fantasies about a homestead in the shadow of Cavanal Hill. If I could raise chickens and goats, and maybe a family, all while working remote, I'd truly have the best our age has to offer. There are a lot of us out here in the m
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Consistency space.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I work at an f500, and I have worked in other data science groups at companies in the same industry. It's no huge thing for a large consultancy to be thrown 500k-3M for a 6 month "predictive" project whose deliverables are so
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
This is so cool. VBA is a gateway drug, for sure. It was my first foray into programming, specifically to solve a problem I knew I could formulate as a shortest path problem. That's led me on quite a journey. The only thing I wish t
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
Is spyder still super slow? I gave it up back in 2018 because of the (perceived) performance problems.
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
Indeed, I have ancestors involved in this genocide and they don't seem to be the type that would have any loyalty to London. So who exactly is it coming after the irish and why?
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
The dirty secret about staying in smaller markets through your 20s and 30s is that your pay never catches up. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for you, but I'm swallowing some pretty bitter pills here having just crossed the 30
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
2012 mbp. Still mostly self serviceable, and I'm on my second display, third hard drive, and second set of RAM. I'm gonna ride this heavy machine until the wheels fall off.
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
Wealth taxes are just going to be another way for the top 0.1% to fleece the rest of the top 10% or top 50%, because the rich and powerful will always change the rules to benefit them and to hide their assets.
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
>I do think that we as a society have a responsibility for baseline care of everyone. If you give people a floor like that, you have to keep them doped up enough to be content with it. Or engineer a more complacent human.
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
But your toaster is open to the internet and now it mines bitcoins for some shady character in Moldova.
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
*Cries in fortune 500 wage slave
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
Not all pensions are public employee pensions! There are a lot of machinists and truckers out there who are already feeling this pinch.
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
Just watch AvE BOLTR videos instead. At least you'll be able to laugh about it.
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
Too real.
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
In the future, you will search for your mate the same way you order pizza. Oh wait, I mean present. Not future, present.
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by CinchWrench 7y ago
Not everyone shares your value system. (I do, but that's beside the point.) You never know when the person you're responding to might be Pentti Linkola.