JeremyNT

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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Whatever the parent is describing, it's an extreme outlier, or a loosey-goosey definition of "carpenter." My father came from a poor family and went to college on a scholarship, but after graduating and finding that he coul
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Well, think of it as a term of art and less a description of the ground truth. We can bike shed whether it's the best description, but it's what we have. Indeed, there are plenty of examples of similarly reductionist terms used th
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
I had this buying some weed derivative edibles (marketed as delta 8) in a state with full on prohibition. I've smoked weed, I've had edibles (both homemade and from fully legal dispensaries), and at most got kind of spaced out and
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
This is the way I still (occasionally) use perl. I used it back in the CGI days, but even to this day it's excellent for regex-type operations (even just called as a one-liner in a bash script). I learned enough awk to get by, but if y
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Isn't this such a low bar that almost anything could clear it (e.g. Goodhart's law)? To me, more interesting than how the company itself defines success would be how domain experts outside the company perceive it.
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
I agree it's totally perplexing. GM doesn't have a moat, all of their vehicles have competition. Could this just be a bluff/negotiation tactic or something? It seems so perplexing to remove these features, rather than giving
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
To quote Unforgiven: deserve's got nothing to do with it. However crummy Twitter was pre-acquisition, it was relatively stable with respect to its ad business, which steadily churned along. In that sense it was "trusted" desp
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
He did the "hard" part of this, which is getting investors. It didn't matter whether the business failed at that point. If he'd just failed without the deception he could have collected his golden parachute, then gone on
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
SF is safer than many of its peers, but some people seem to really want to paint the city as a failure. "Rampant crime" is one obvious way to do that. Over time the narrative leaks into the broader consciousness. Chicago deals wit
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
It continues to surprise me that Elon hasn't shut out Nitter yet. Maybe there's just not enough engineering talent left at Twitter to do it.
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
I ran Debian at the time, but I worked in PC repair, and I remember being really excited about Linux being installed on PCs you could buy at a store. It felt like there was a small "window" of opportunity where a competitor to MS
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
What this shows is that a concrete environmental problem that directly impacts constituents can actually bypass a lot of the partisanship. It's a lot easier to ignore climate change, since the impacts are far removed from any single di
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
The kind of nonsense described in this story is exactly what I'd expect from an early stage software startup back in the early '00s, when I was first getting started (not in SV, mind). It was common to mock people and create memes
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Looks like a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35468855
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
I've got a Lemur Pro and wouldn't recommend it. They rebadge (mostly) Clevo laptops, which isn't inherently a problem. The value add is supposed to be in the QA/software side of things to ensure the devices work well wit
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
I'm curious too, but my suspicion is that it's "the devil you know" at play here. If you work with a tech for long enough you get the tooling "figured out" and things can feel like second nature. Maybe some alt
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
We've come to expect tech companies to surveil us constantly, so the idea that some Tesla employees could access this footage is unsurprising. I think, however, when a customer buys something this expensive they must have some kind o
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
I never yet to read Gravity's Rainbow, but I did read Pynchon's first novel V as well as Infinite Jest . Infinite Jest is much more approachable in my estimation than V , which I understand is itself more approachable than G
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Of course you are right, I let my temper get the better of me for which I'd like to apologize. Sadly it is too late to edit my post.
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
> I don't think we have figured out if this was premeditated or not, but either way, SF is becoming incredibly dangerous. Jesus, the bubble the typical HN SV commenter must live in. I'm sure it's frustrating to see crime r
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Only millionaires can afford to live in SF now due to the tech money. This displaces the middle class and poor, and leads to homelessness and increased crime.
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Consider that larger vendors ship with Linux distributions pre-installed, and provide support for them. Being open to people installing Linux isn't exactly the same thing as shipping it, even if the "support" some of those la
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
I agree, I don't think the way they distill this to a single number and present it as an apples-to-apples comparison is very helpful. There's too much variability in what the "central city" is, and I think it's quit
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
> There are a lot of people who still believe that doing business with someone makes them come around to democracy eventually; this was also a reason given by President Clinton for normalizing trade with China (where it has also not work
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
> Having to balance domestic recruitment PR to be politically correct while also wanting to reach tough young men and entice them is an impossible task. Can you explain what you mean by this? I feel like you're referring to somethin
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Taxes on real estate are the obvious answer here. Every residential property you own after your first should increase your tax burden substantially, such that you are incentived to sell them rather than hoard them and rent them out.
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Link to the actual tool: https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
HN is such a bubble sometimes. Hearing the problems of 250k/yr+ programmers is so completely strange. I know there are a lot of us programmers and tech workers working in non profits, government, education, or in small but sustainable
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
I use Android and this move would lose me as a customer. I want the infotainment system to be a dumb terminal for my phone, not yet another soon-to-be obsolete Android device chock full of spyware. Android auto isn't great but it'
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
> For me, I've joined new teams and crushed it for a few weeks where it was at least expected performance, but then I quickly fall off a cliff for seemingly no reason. Anxiety compounds this, and I can identify why I've sometim

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