CondensedBrain

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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
It depends on the subreddits you subscribe to. Communities with a single place to interact will vary depending on time of day and topic. One day you get upvotes, the next you get downvotes for the same kind of thing. Hacker News is Hacker
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
What would an objective view look like?
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
How about an OPML import? Doing them one by one will get old fast.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Nothing happens when I press enter in the search box. (Firefox 67.0.2) Edit: It turns out I just type faster than your popout script can execute. Nothing comes up for most things I type in. Even podcasts I actually listen to and enjoy.
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
You are free to risk your own mental health and safety [1]. Otherwise, you have no place calling anyone a coward. I tried. Zero progress. This is not safe or easy work and it's already tiring enough surviving in a place like this while
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Doesn't work. I'm not going to change the mind of a 60+ Baptist who's devoted their whole life to getting into heaven. They believe my soul is at stake and that accepting that part of me is itself a sin. They bolster their
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Remember the good old days when a few people on your street maxing out their connections could saturate the cable node? Even better if they figured out how to uncap their connection temporarily. They still could, but usage limits with charg
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
I think it depends a lot on where you are. Older strangers here mostly want to talk about sports, religion, the latest reality TV show, how much they hate The Gays and trans people, and how much better things used to be when they were kids
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
They probably think of it in terms of control. One of their big upsells is controlling access to shares. They don't see it as a problem that you have to save it to the device then share from that because it's not for you from th
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Paper is one of the best writing experiences I've ever had, and the export option is solid, but that's about it. It's trying to operate in the space already taken by OneNote. The web-based tools in Office already output to re
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
Water companies do charge different rates depending on type of usage. Look up your local company's page to see the commercial rate. It could be higher or lower. They all seem to have different priorities based on a quick search of diff
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
The angst usually centers around management being paid enough to hold on to the laid off people so they can develop their skills and work on 20% type projects. As things are, they leave the industry after a few rounds of it. It's short
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
I'm only adjacent to the VFX and game studio worlds, but there's a meme: "Our movie/game did great! Time to announce layoffs."
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by CondensedBrain 7y ago
I got Vegas Pro Edit from a Humble Bundle recently. Almost everything seems to be GPU accelerated.
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
The Enterprise theme started playing in my head.
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
The one I misremembered and that apparently never happened.
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
Netflix and its (ongoing?) transition from AWS to its own systems might provide some guidance if they ever decide to do the same.
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
Then they slowly turn into a datacenter company and lose sight of being a ride sharing company. That's the same reason billion dollar companies rent buildings instead of owning them.
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
I think investors are mostly betting on self-driving cars being closer than anyone thinks. The first company to get rid of its drivers wins.
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
Some useful numbers from the filing: 1 billion+ cumulative rides. $8.1 billion in bookings in 2018 $2.2 billion revenue in 2018 From risks: >> "We have incurred net losses each year since our inception and we may not be able to
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
>> "Even when people thought our roles would drop off, whoosh suddenly everybody wanted to convert all their stuff to Javascript apps and everything took off again." Prediction: the next one will snap back on people lookin
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
You might like this presentation on the Curiosity rover's computer that goes into the OS, code (C++), and system design. https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9783-the_mars_rover_on-board_com...
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
Someone on a long trip with no reliable high speed internet could shoot in raw and never worry about space.
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
I'm put off going in a place if there are people hanging around outside. I guess it's the subconscious thought that I also have to meet them going out and face their silent judgement. It's not rational, but little is in non-B
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Who picks the music you hear at the mall? (2012)(npr.org)
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by CondensedBrain 8y ago
They don't stop at putting gates up. They also have more police patrols, surveillance, and awareness of people who are out of place.