DowagerDave

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by DowagerDave 2y ago
This is one of the most point-less / awesomest things I've seen on the internet this week. I can't imagine how much work went into building it, and how much time I will now be spending to incorporate into something that defin
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by DowagerDave 2y ago
Snowflake has a pretty good story in this space: "Your data is already in our cloud, so governance and use is a solved problem. Now use our AI (and burn credits)". This is a huge pain-point if you're thinking about ML with yo
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by DowagerDave 2y ago
he's so much better as "billionaire sports team owner & rabid fan" than "tech company executive"
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
funny enough this was the killer feature of CDNow: human curation before Amazon bought them and destroyed the product.
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
Also note that all products, especially successful ones, change (anyone used Excel lately?) and the cofounders are all long gone. They built something that was temporally valuable, (rightfully) cashed in and moved on.
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
or they're not immune to the same urge all SW devs have to rewrite - it's a lot easier to start from scratch than (a) figure out how an existing system works, (b) figure out how to upgrade or modernize
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
"Core" gear like helmets and knee/wrist pads seems totally acceptable now. "Extreme" biking/skateboarding (outside of street bmx & skating) has largely adopted safety gear too.
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
I think you demonstrate a common human scenario where we over-estimate the risk in notable activities and far under-estimate the boring ones. Motorcycle fatalities are about 25x higher than car, but car deaths are pretty low. Meanwhile smok
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
Probably not a sympathetic audience here, but if you look back more than the relatively short timeframe of 20 years things are far more cyclical. I grew up with double-digit interest rates, so while everything was cheaper, financing was far
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
very few companies sign an agreement with "Apple". You sell a good or service to a single person, small group or maybe a department. There are countless customers this size, the difference is do they treat you like they are the em
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
most of them are not repairable. They are manufactured using one-way techniques like fusing plastics vs. screws or clips, or the discrete parts are amalgamated into a single component, or you need special tools (or software) to do anything.
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
I used to do screen printing and one of my "themes" was to start with vintage technical diagrams and remix them with more organic elements - example human hands & the exploded diagram of the original gameboy. They were popular
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
What's super interesting about Lyme disease is that the cycle is larval and nymphal ticks get infected from (typically) a rodent, then if they feed on a deer, not only does the deer not get infected, it appears to cure the tick. Also f
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
You don't usually get bitten by mosquitoes on your neck though, how would this help with the bites you DO get all over your legs and arms? Or are you suggesting something so potent it absorbs into your bloodstream and then prevents bug
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
trying to spot ticks in heavy brush as you are walking seems like a inefficient approach. They take a while to attach so if you do a thorough review after your activity you should be good. It's also a lot easier to strip down to your b
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
I assume all that experience climbing the rigging up to the crowsnest paid off even on land, working with a different service!
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by DowagerDave 3y ago
There's a similar scenario described in "How To" by Randall Munroe, where he asks astronaut Chris Hadfield if you "could land a plane by rolling it on it's side and catching the arrest hook on the cable hanging from