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by ThalesX 4y ago
> Employers are not pleased: Bell described it as a "new form of theft and deception, and not something in which an ethical, honest person would participate." Hmm, I hold his opinion on the ethical aspects of doing it without b
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Stainless steel straws was a solution we both agreed on! :)
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> My worry when I read your first paragraph is that you haven't stayed anywhere for long enough to see the consequences of your actions. This would be a valid concern, and truth be told I haven't, apart from on/off mainten
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I was just talking to a friend recently about these new straws. I understand they may be better for the environment but they literally dissolve as I drink from them, and a lot of what's in them, or on them (like coloring), ends up insi
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Having short tenures (is 2 - 3 years short?) allowed me to be an IC for cool projects, to be CTO at a bootstrapped company, to be CTO of a VC backed company, to work on amazing projects around the world with interesting people, consult in b
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> Now with family, it would be incredibly selfish from me to do this to them (although I know few parents who do it... not much respect there) Growing up, my dad would take me one month before school ended for the year, travel the world
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6'3", I buy the extra leg room.
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Having been passionate about this for awhile, I have a layman’s surface overview of the state of physics, or I like to believe so. It amused me to no end when my elderly aunt came to ask me for a tl;dr; on Quantum Physics. She stopped me sh
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> What’s the real story here? Why characterize them as “snake oil peddlers who like to hear themselves speak?” I’ve worked in government, academia and private. I’ve been an IC, a CTO and general manager. I’ve never heard a truly creative
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> Our data suggest that this physical difference in shared space compels virtual communicators to narrow their visual field by concentrating on the screen and filtering out peripheral visual stimuli that are not visible or relevant to th
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Hilarious. I live in Eastern Europe in an ex eastern block country, was born under communism and I can tell you there is not way you can convince me I don't know what I am talking about. Honestly this is a bit insulting lol.
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> It seems this can detect facial expressions from cameras This is doable for some years now. AWS, Azure & GCP + other smaller companies offer APIs for just such a thing and there are also Python models that do this detection. This i
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This is funny, I recently created a new Tinder profile and for lack of inspiration I didn't fill anything in except some pictures. I'm getting a lot more swipes than when I nerded up my profile. Unfortunately, I'm looking for
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> Central planning of housing created those lovely soviet style "housing" block developments while the beautiful inner cities of eastern europe rotted away. I can’t talk about the other points but as an East European I’d take t
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> I've noodled on your response overnight That's a high bar in today's social media climate; I'm afraid I'm responding without noodling on it. > [1] Working within a team to deliver on time, or effectively com
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> At the same time, I can't really bring myself to do bad work or generally shirk my responsibilities. Part of this is due to the relationships with my bosses and coworkers, knowing that they are largely trapped in the same circumst
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What a long winded article. I learned about how their office looks like, and how inspiring it is, in the age of remote. I learned about the genders of his team that makes investments. I heard about Klarna and Lilium... I'm going to go
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As an IC I don’t want to absorb that. It’s really not in my JD. I don’t go to my “higher ups” to absorb some tasks from me and get down and dirty, and I expect them to also not involve me in their orchestration. Ultimately they should mana
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We get the not enough “velocity” or not enough “productivity” talk from time to time. And it’s also defined against arbitrary deadlines with no consequences if missed. Ultimately, as a team, we end up producing lower quality code at higher
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Not GP but I did the same thing with trying to design a t-shirt… how is this not relevant? We’re trying to asses various tools to get our jobs done, not trying to create a peer reviewed scientific paper.
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I spent maybe over $100 on DALL-E trying to recreate a math t-shirt I used to have that I liked. Very much unsuccesful.
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<a little bit of an emotional rant> I don't know. I used to think that the wisdom of old people was something to aspire to. I come from a place in the world where family ties are very important and we're all very close toget
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I wanted to buy a VPN so I needed some crypto. Decided to make an account on Binance, three days ago. - They wouldn’t accept my email+binance@provider.com address; - They wanted to verify my ID and told me I’d take 10 days; - I decided to g
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> Just one of the ways people work to keep salaries up ;) I get a bigger paycheck by explaining tech to business in business terms so I'm not sure that's a valid approach after a particular level of salary.
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I’ve been wondering how TikTok knows to suggest me friends of friends of friends with me having the most basic profile with no connections and my friends not actually having Tik Tok. But now it makes sense, and apart from evil, it’s brillia
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I've also had the idea to add QR codes to Instagram pictures and when talking to potential customers, it fit none of their preferred flows. I've often heard what you say, "it's just a matter of educating people", es
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> It is generally accepted that Newton developed the concept of calculus in the mid-1660s. He wrote a few separate papers on it in 1669, 1671 and 1676 but didn’t publish any of them at the time – they were only published much later, in t
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I lucked out and started working in a team where most people were there 5+ years and the real senior ones were 10+ years in the team . It was a cross functional team, somewhat isolated from the large organization, working on 'special
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I just don’t see any future where I won’t be eating meat. My grandparents and cousins raise farm animals; I’ve helped raise farm animals: horses, oxen, cows, chickens, pigs, goats… What stops a family from raising their own hamburgers? In m
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After reading the 48 Laws of Power, and feeling somewhat inspired, I also started with the Art of Seduction. Some red flags started popping up, and upon doing some research I found he heavily puts his personal touch on historical events, wh

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