IneffablePigeon

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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
There’s a mix of both approaches. I suspect most are the latter at least for customer facing roles.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Not wanting to live in the United States, I would venture.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Honeycomb. For shorter traces (most of them), a waterfall view is great. For those long ones, we try to split them up if it makes sense but you can also just run queries scoped to that trace to answer questions about it (how many of the spa
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
This is just not true. We have traces with hundreds of thousands of spans. Those are not very readable but that’s another problem.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Feels like a better solution is to buy when it’s in season and find something else to enjoy at other times
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Leisure is already more than half of the trips on UK rail. It’s mostly people living their lives. Reducing demand seems mostly a dead end to me except perhaps along very busy commuting corridors, of which there aren’t that many and of which
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
One could say the same about a combustion engine, really. Battery packs last way, way longer than most people think because they analogise it to phone batteries which are quite different. The resale value of a degraded pack is also going to
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
The booster needs lift points anyway for manufacturing and moving it to the launch mount. You can’t engineer those out, really.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
In Cambridge we have recently had both our first Dutch roundabout and our first few Cyclops [0] junctions and I have to say I actually prefer the cyclops. Yes, you lose momentum if you want to turn and the throughput doesn’t match a roundab
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Wireless buds also don’t pull out of my ears when the wire gets caught, or need replacing when the moving parts wear down (I’ve had my current earbuds for several years, I can’t remember ever having wired headphones that lasted more than on
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
I’m not sure I’d bet much on that “before” long part. At least not as far as Cambridge, the other end seems more certain.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
What nonsense. Are you worried about physical spam mail? That ship has already sailed. I genuinely can’t think of any other abuse vector for a dataset like this.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Yes. What you ask is just as important as whether you’re talking to your customers. The Mom Test is the best book on this.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
> they tend to make decisions that maximize worker welfare rather than profit Oh no
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Owning a lot of stock in the company you work for is another good reason not to concentrate more of your portfolio in the same industry.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Live video or audio chat is basically the only time you do want this. Granted, that’s a big chunk of microphone usage in practice, but any time you are doing higher fidelity audio recording and you have set up the inputs accordingly you abs
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Is it not already illegal to deliberately mislead a courtroom? Many of the same concerns apply, and yet thankfully the solution is not generally to throw our hands in the air and say it’s impossible to deal with the nuance.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
I think electric cars could change this equation. The savings are high enough and the inconvenience low enough.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
With heat pumps (like AC) and condensing boilers, it is often more efficient to run for longer and slower as long as that makes your appliance run more efficiently (lower flow temperatures for heating, higher for cooling). Requires the syst
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
It’s often better not to compost under a new plant because it encourages it not to spread its roots. Instead mulch with it and the rain and worms will bring the nutrients down.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
I own an electric car and no home charger. I charge at work, mostly. It works well for me. The solution will involve a range of options for a range of circumstances- what I do wouldn’t work for everyone but that’s ok.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Not quite seaside -> inland, but the area around Ely is still called the Isle of Ely because Ely used to be an island surrounded by marshy fenland, often flooded by the wash from the North Sea. The fens were drained in the 17th century o
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
My (UK) house is worth 3x the total rebuild value my mortgage provider wanted me to insure it for. This implies the land it’s built on (and the planning permission to build the house) is worth twice what the structure is worth.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
If you’re in b2b 5000 customers can be a lot more revenue than that. 10-100x, depending hugely on industry and product.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
I would be surprised if any aren’t hand coded. You have to be extremely economical with shapes with this technique - generally (unless I’m out of date on css art techniques) you have your original element, a before and an after element, and
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
Me too - no experience of it in NYC but I swear by it in London and it’s also been fantastic in other European cities. Far more reliable and accurate than Google Maps.
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by IneffablePigeon 2y ago
> If your app is constrained by CPU or RAM, then the business metrics will reflect that, and then you can turn on collection of those metrics to identify the problem. …but why incur that round trip on my feedback loop? Having those metri
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
Exactly. It also makes sure you don’t pattern match the product as “inferior quality”. You assume “average quality”, and in fact (at least in the UK) many Aldi versions of products now have a reputation for being surprisingly high quality -
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
Did it focus on it? Most efficiency measures are cash positive after a few years. My LED bulbs paid for themselves 3 times over at least by now. That’s before you even get to the positive externalities.
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
I think I agree to some extent. I like parts of all 3 definitions presented here, and I feel the new definition loses some of the clarity by omitting the fact that we’re interested in a particular system at a time. But I really like this bl

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