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by andrewem 6y ago
I knew someone who was on prednisone for 3 days. They got 6 days worth of things done in those 3 days, then spent the next 3 days of withdrawal in bed unable to do anything. Also: this is wildly off topic, but did your 8 hours of sanding of
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by andrewem 6y ago
I used to work with an engineer who would have a loud negative emotional reaction the first time they were told about some new thing that would be happening at our company, and after a little bit would be totally fine with it. After one or
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by andrewem 6y ago
I read a bunch of John Muir’s writings last year. In his book “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf”, about his journey south in the late 1860s, it was pretty hard to ignore how he never missed an opportunity to demean the people he met who had
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by andrewem 6y ago
FYI, the first listed author of this post has the job title Principal Software Developer, which I assume makes that person is one of the people who write the code. Edit: added missing “is”
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by andrewem 6y ago
It’s wideband Delphi, which predates planning poker by several decades. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_delphi Edit: as I recall from doing estimating using wideband Delphi circa 2004, the main differences wit
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by andrewem 6y ago
The United States Navy had serious problems with work demands causing sleep deprivation. Here’s a news story about a policy update they made: “The “Comprehensive Crew Endurance Management Policy,” signed off Dec. 11 by Naval Surface Force P
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by andrewem 6y ago
“Solve your child’s sleep problems” by Richard Ferber, M.D. is the book which includes this. It also includes a lot more, including an overview of sleep physiology including phases, as well as lots more like details about night terrors and
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by andrewem 6y ago
Wikipedia has a lot more detail about him. Basically a Fry’s VP arranged for $65 million in kickbacks from companies that wanted to see at Fry’s, and then gambled away even more than that, and ended up $137 million in debt: https:/&#x
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by andrewem 6y ago
I’ve read that essay before and I re-read it just now and I still don’t understand what is meant by “avatars walking around on top of our company home page”. So I guess the essay proved its point.
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by andrewem 6y ago
I found the Wikipedia article for that airport, which says it has one runway of 2,623 meters and serves as a diversion airport on polar routes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqaluit_Airport And here’s a list of diver
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by andrewem 6y ago
Here’s a link to a description of ULID, for those like me who had never heard of it: https://github.com/ulid/spec
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by andrewem 6y ago
I had to look up why not to put diodes in parallel, and here’s an answer: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/6151/is-para...
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by andrewem 6y ago
Aside from the ethical questions, if I could help it I wouldn’t want my job to be spending all day getting into enclosed spaces only recently vacated by a series of probably unmasked people, as a valet job likely consists of. (Sure you can
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by andrewem 6y ago
On revival efforts of the Hawaiian language: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/06/22/452551172... (There is both a textual and an audio version on that page.)
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by andrewem 6y ago
Addendum: my favorite part was Berkeley Breathed showing a letter he received from Watterson, which has a drawing of Breathed fueling his motorboat by pouring dollar bills into the gas tank. Breathed notes that it’s meant to be commentary o
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by andrewem 6y ago
Fans of Calvin and Hobbes might like the documentary “Dear Mr. Watterson”, which includes a lot of his art work and interviews with several cartoonists, (though not Watterson).
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by andrewem 6y ago
I hesitate to ask, but what’s the copyright status of the material written by people other than you which you’re publishing and charging money for? Did your web site forum terms say the user assigned their copyright to you?
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by andrewem 6y ago
Having not written Python in a long time until recently, I discovered fstrings. Are they the best choice for (nearly all) string formatting at least in new code? They seem to work pretty similarly to eg Ruby’s string interpolation.
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by andrewem 6y ago
There was an arcade game many years ago where that was part of the game play, and this “test” could probably be manipulated in the same way: “ Because the game responded to repeatedly pressing the "run" buttons at high frequency,
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by andrewem 6y ago
I’m glad it’s working well for your use case, especially with the final expert evaluation. What it makes me think of is genealogy, part of which can be thought of as the process of assigning records (birth, marriage, death, census, etc) to
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by andrewem 6y ago
Have you (or anyone else here) done that and succeeded at it? I can see why one would assume it could somehow be useful, but in the absence of someone accomplishing it I’m skeptical.
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by andrewem 6y ago
andrewem having learned of them submitted this article so you could read a clerihew (or two)
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by andrewem 6y ago
Re-reading this, I again liked this part I recalled from when it came out: “By entering the storefront two hours earlier, by taking an avalanche-safety course, we had statistically increased our chances of being killed in an avalanche. We w
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by andrewem 6y ago
“Opiod work was bad though, let's not avoid that.” Great, so let’s not avoid that - with your insider perspective: In what ways do you see McKinsey’s actions with Purdue Pharma as being bad? In what ways were they typical of McKinsey’s
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by andrewem 6y ago
I’ve seen people (entirely in computing contexts) say “used in anger” but never knew the derivation. See eg https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fire_in_anger#Verb
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by andrewem 6y ago
An interesting normalization of amounts for baking bread and similar foods is called “baker’s percentage”. The total weight (or mass) of flour in the recipe is 100%, and all ingredients are measured in terms of that. You do end up with very
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by andrewem 6y ago
Thanks for mentioning that! I took your example and was able to find myself - there was only one record which matched the combination of birth day and state, parents’ ages, and mother’s birth state (which is different than mine). Add in bir
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by andrewem 6y ago
Your comment made me think of this essay “How to Survive as a Woman at a Chinese Banquet” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/opinion/sunday/women-chin...
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by andrewem 6y ago
They say “NAMER-based employees will be eligible for up to six months of COBRA”. Note that by law, a former employee is eligible to pay for up to 18 months of continuation health coverage under COBRA. So perhaps they mean that Dropbox will

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