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by Jakob 3y ago
Delivery cost increases logarithmically (one package more in the same truck) while revenue increases linearly when more people order / people order more. Increase in revenue outpaces delivery cost even for low margin items. Amazon make
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by Jakob 3y ago
Amazon Prime is a good counter-example that delivery does not need to be subsidised as the pro rata delivery cost decreases if 1. more people order, or 2. people order more items Both, 1 and 2 can be influenced by marketing and delivery can
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by Jakob 3y ago
+1 for his tip of "Search The Internet Archive". The other day I searched for the Tom & Jerry full episodes on the web to no avail (streaming platforms and video platforms like youtube only have rubbish cuts). The internet arc
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by Jakob 3y ago
If you are on macOS, download the .mid file and open it in Garageband and listen for how much (free!) MIDI synthesis has improved.
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On the cruelty of teaching computing science (1988) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
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by Jakob 3y ago
> A number of these phenomena have been bundled under the name "Software Engineering". As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "The Doomed Discipline", doome
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by Jakob 3y ago
Except for the Apple Watch I had all these products. They were some of the best of their time and even hold up today in terms of design and usability. Your definition of success seems extraordinarily high, if these products were failures. M
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by Jakob 3y ago
The default behaviour for multiple languages is bad, but the settings page for both region, and search results language work well. In case you haven’t seen the settings, yet.
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by Jakob 4y ago
> set a formula for the entire column Spreadsheet power users on both excel and sheets do exactly that. It’s called array formula. Press cmd-shift-enter on the cell with the formula and it’s valid for the entire column and can be changed
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by Jakob 4y ago
I used this incantation in the past to get the hottest file paths $ sudo fs_usage -w -t 5 -f filesys | tee fs_usage.log | egrep -o '(/.+?) {3}' | sed -e 's/\/dev\/disk[^ ]+ //' | sort |
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by Jakob 4y ago
I asked myself the same thing last week and published a how to, like the sibling post says, the czds is the way: https://www.jakobstoeck.de/2023/download-and-query-all-domai...
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by Jakob 4y ago
As someone points out in the comments, it is unfortunate that quotes are the only delimiter which doesn’t differentiate between opening and closing, leading to all the parsing woes, unlike (), <>, {}, [], … I wonder why the def
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by Jakob 4y ago
I use uBlock origin with JavaScript disabled by default. You can set a shortcut to enable JavaScript (“Relax blocking mode”, cmd-J for me. I don’t remember whether that was the default.) You can persist enabled JavaScript for the current do
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by Jakob 4y ago
I thought that was unnecessary, too, until I saw many women that had lasting issues due to natural births where things broke that do not fully heal anymore and permanently reduce their quality of life. In some countries, an involuntary C-se
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by Jakob 4y ago
That is a translation artifact. The German original cites 37-37.5 degrees Celsius on average: https://archive.org/details/dasverhaltender00wundgoog/page/n...
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by Jakob 4y ago
Through my work I got to know this crowdsourcing solution to improve OpenStreetMap street views: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KartaView Operated now by Grab: https://engineering.grab.com/kartacam-pow
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by Jakob 4y ago
Agreed, while I prefer deep work in solitude, there is a lot of literature which suggests that collaboration enhances outcomes. Random example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221
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by Jakob 4y ago
Depends on the local tax laws. You pay income tax on vesting of RSU. In the US and Europe, RSUs are difficult to get wrong because of share withholding. In other countries, they are risky if you don’t watch out: 1. RSU vest at $10 2. You ha
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by Jakob 5y ago
In Singapore, music in the public is largely forbidden until further notice. Especially in restaurants, so people do not need to raise their voice to understand each other. It was eerie at first but I enjoy the calmness in the city now, e.g
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In Google docs, you can assign _one_ comment to _multiple_ disjoint strings(twitter.com)
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by Jakob 5y ago
You can turn it on globally by selecting: Preferences > Websites > Reader > When visiting other websites: On
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by Jakob 5y ago
Macos sources /etc/paths.d/ instead.
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by Jakob 5y ago
That is /etc/paths.d/ on macos.
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by Jakob 5y ago
> Repeatedly doing it right I have a funny story about that: When my sister struggled with Math at school, I let her solve equations she struggled with. Unbeknownst to her, every test equation I gave her was identical to the previous one
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by Jakob 5y ago
Most writing drills are about reading critically: http://www.criticalreading.com/ Look into universities and approaches from Professors: Jordan Peterson’s writing approach is based a lot on drill: https://docs.go
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by Jakob 5y ago
I liked this way to contact your subscribers, I received the other day. No tracking necessary and either engagement or pruning: You signed up for my private email list at https://sive.rs/ ... but since you've never rep
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by Jakob 5y ago
Microsoft’s Inclusive Design Manual gives an excellent high-level view of context-dependent disability: “Disability is not just a health problem. It is a complex phenomenon, reflecting the interaction between features of a person’s
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by Jakob 6y ago
> there is SO MUCH to learn to get started with a "simple" react app... It's not necessary. One line of HTML: https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html#add-rea... > Have you never wished
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by Jakob 6y ago
I searched for the same on iOS and now use Brave as browser with JS deactivated by default, since it has the functionality to quickly switch on JS for the current site only.
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by Jakob 6y ago
I would export the DB and use that for your diff/version control: sqlite3 yourdb.sqlite .dump If you really want to track the binary e.g. inside git, but still see textual diffs you would put that into your .gitconfig: [diff

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