Simon_ORourke

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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
There's a whole host of GTM shucksters hanging out on LinkedIn - anyone in that space from FAANG or ex-FAANG would tick a lot of boxes.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> Hydroponics already works. I read something on wired last year on why urban vertical farming never really took off, and one of the reasons was, if I remember, that these kind of environments increase the likelihood of plant disease and
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Doesn't that just mean they won't ever to subject to prosecution by the International Criminal Court?
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> the gifted and talented communities. As in gifted and talented individuals who form a community, or all these folks from this ethnic background you think are talented? Because if it's the former then I'm surprised they'v
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Replace "perfect" with "likely optimal" and you get the general thrust of it without the deus ex machina.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
An overall truthful statement to be fair to the authorities. Perhaps less fair to those at the other end though.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Ad hominem retorts are more the mark of stupidity, but I'd suspect you wouldn't know about that one way or the other. A base inability to argue facts also would likewise betray some lesser faculty or learning.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
How is this not open to corruption and worse too. Folks doing "favors" to supervisors who then get marked as doing a day's work. Or some other favorites getting preferred work over others. It's not that simple, and it&#x
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I've seen this a lot, especially with junior folks getting on their high horse publicly about some direction or decision. Whenever it happens I make a point of putting a reminder in my calendar to check their corp Slack handle after th
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> If you find yourself working under such people, don't bother giving feedback, start polishing your resume. Never a truer word said than this. It's incredibly naive to think that any unfiltered feedback upwards to senior manag
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
11AU is close enough thank you very much
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
100% agree, especially when you have to deal with distributed teams in the UK with all their "bank holidays" which all seem to land on Mondays.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Will Amazon leadership require it's new Gen AI to physically move itself to an office to perform valid work?
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
And I'd argue that AI drivers are probably better rated than human ones too
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I'm sure folks like myself living in a city townhouse without the luck of having a woodworking studio "out back" are cursing our lack of facilities for having this kind of fun.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Not putting too fine a point on it, but Gandhi's non-violent resistance worked in the India of his time, because the British wanted both the labor and the natural resources, and killing all the former would simply have cost them. In Ga
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Profit?! Commodore 64!! Sirs I duly doff my cap in your general direction.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I saw something recently that the Vikings practiced similar bone replacement for their guys who lost limbs in battle. One poor guy was emasculated with an axe and had to be buried with a replacement boar's tusk 'down there'.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> It's nice to see that for this author, three years in he did manage to find something that made money, but realistically most people don't have that much runway to keep at it without generating income. Precisely this, and whi
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
> Managers who are the sort of people who don't value helping your colleagues Helping, yes certainly one of the core requirements being a manager is unblocking direct reports from whatever they're doing. But it has limits, beca
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
"fully automated market-driven load balancing" more like.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
What's the matter with calling it out like it is, "fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement."
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
We need more of this - identification and clear instructions rather than any clickbaity "10 best plants to have in your home" nonsense. Would second the opinions in the comments that I'd need to know if this is going to be us
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Lazy Edwardian industrial workers demanding 8 hours sleep after 16 hours work! "Oooohh we used to dream of living in a corridor..." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
I hope those guys brought along some fava beans and a good chianti.
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
But but but.... Won't somebody please think of the hurt feelings amongst the commercial landlord community. Seriously though, any of those a-hole CEOs, like Amazon or Intercom may as well come out and say they don't trust their st
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
My ex-wife demanded that we store some awful, terrible wicker furniture after a house move, so I put these cheap monstrosities into a $40/month storage unit in a semi-desolate area of town. The unit was broken into three or four times
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Of course they are, anything for a quick buck but it must be hinted at somewhere in the terms and conditions
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by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Agreed - anything which drives the likes of TurboTax and Block towards a Chapter 11 bankruptcy is objectively a good thing.
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Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists(theguardian.com)
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