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by almost_usual 2y ago
Curious if you consumed alcohol or any other substance before and if you still do after?
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by almost_usual 2y ago
There’s a big difference between psychological addiction and physical dependency. At some point during addiction your body depends on these substances to operate and stopping becomes much more difficult. Alcoholics need to taper or take ben
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by almost_usual 2y ago
What’s wrong with their website? Seems fast and gives me the information I need. What’s mildly annoying to me is their domain only returns an A record.
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by almost_usual 2y ago
Nor was China when the US began offshoring.
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by almost_usual 2y ago
Late 30s, not sure if you’re a drinker but cutting out alcohol helped me.
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by almost_usual 2y ago
> As previously mentioned, there were hackers and programmers developing awesome tools that helped the scene, but also there were map makers which were essential in keeping the game balanced. Starcraft came out when I was a kid, the onli
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by almost_usual 2y ago
Went through a similar situation nearly a decade ago when a startup I worked for was acquired. My manager pretty much told me there was nothing to do and to enjoy it since it might be a rare opportunity. I spent all my free time basically p
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by almost_usual 2y ago
I can’t even imagine approaching a problem without some visual representation. I see functions I wrote hours ago, maybe not every line of code but pseudocode at least. There’s been plenty of times where I’ve solved bugs just visualizing cod
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by almost_usual 2y ago
As I said either advance or die. Reducing energy consumption isn’t an option, it will continue to grow unbound.
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by almost_usual 2y ago
> Note at offer time candidates do not know how many PPUs they will be receiving or how many exist in total. This is important because it’s not clear to candidates if they are receiving 1% or 0.001% of profits for instance. Even when giv
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by almost_usual 2y ago
You mean PPUs or smoke and mirrors compensation. RSUs are actually worth something.
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by almost_usual 2y ago
The only solution is technological advancement. If humanity doesn’t rise to the challenge (degrowth) this could happen. Fortunately there are smart people all over the world solving problems everyday and that is likely to continue.
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by almost_usual 2y ago
The idea of inheriting a ChatGPT code base no one understands now makes it worse.
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by almost_usual 2y ago
This is what a dying company does.
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by almost_usual 2y ago
> Note at offer time candidates do not know how many PPUs they will be receiving or how many exist in total. This is important because it’s not clear to candidates if they are receiving 1% or 0.001% of profits for instance. Even when giv
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by almost_usual 2y ago
Billionaire problems. The beach is south of Half Moon Bay.
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by almost_usual 2y ago
Spillover transmission risk is high for farm workers, the CDC released new guidance last week. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5/worker-protection-ppe.ht...
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by almost_usual 3y ago
By that definition any car with cruise control is “full self driving”.
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by almost_usual 3y ago
Well you can also die from withdrawals when your BAC is zero.
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by almost_usual 3y ago
Good payout but ~40% going to taxes. A nice down payment for a house in the Bay Area.
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by almost_usual 3y ago
> We use Fly.io in production and are satisfied with it.
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by almost_usual 3y ago
2x faster than Cloudflare Worker cold starts.
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by almost_usual 3y ago
I don’t hate my co-workers, however, commute time means less time for friends, family, and hobbies. When you have young kids time is very limited. If I were single and younger I’d likely want to be in office.
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by almost_usual 3y ago
Ha, nice. Might as well rattle can the whole thing with some Rustoleum Flat Black. Keep it on hand for scratches. I do this for the rock sliders on my Tacoma.
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Waymo driverless car vandalized, set on fire in San Francisco's Chinatown(nbcbayarea.com)
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by almost_usual 3y ago
> In the past, Tan has not been receptive to jokes about him: When commenting on San Francisco community organizer Julian La Rosa, who had said that “millionaires and landlords should be guillotined,” Tan seemed to take the jest deadly s
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by almost_usual 3y ago
Downvoted for stating the obvious? Did anyone read the article? > On Saturday morning, Tan apologized about the death wish in a subsequent post, saying he was simply referencing a lyric in Tupac’s “Hit ‘Em Up,” but that it “wasn’t a good
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by almost_usual 3y ago
I think the reference is to Office Space the movie not a television show?
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by almost_usual 3y ago
> On Saturday morning, Tan apologized about the death wish in a subsequent post, saying he was simply referencing a lyric in Tupac’s “Hit ‘Em Up,” but that it “wasn’t a good call” regardless. The notorious diss track famously added fuel
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by almost_usual 3y ago
I guess not many folks are getting the Office Space reference.

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