asielen

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by asielen 3y ago
In addition to the meetups and finding some projects/work. Search linkedin for people doing work you are interested in and say you'd like to learn about what they do. Offer to buy them coffee or a drink. But be very clear you ar
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by asielen 3y ago
Yeah, it does seem that at least on a microscale things are getting better from where they were even 6 months ago. But that doesn't solve the large issue of not enough housing and a looming commercial real-estate bubble pop. However ex
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by asielen 3y ago
Individual tech employees are not to blame. Or even perhaps the companies themselves, they are all working in their self-interest as every company and individual is. The issue with tech is the massive salaries that tech employees get compar
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by asielen 3y ago
Is SF on a downturn? Absolutely. The biggest change for me has been the mission, specifically right around the BART stations, those couple blocks have gotten out of hand. Is it going to recover? Can't guarantee it, but the city has fac
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by asielen 3y ago
Interesting that the mocha pot that is common in Europe for making espresso is traditionally aluminum. I wonder if that has been studied.
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by asielen 3y ago
I wonder if silicone has any of the same issues. It seems that the "safe" trend.
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by asielen 3y ago
Can you provide a source on the cast iron dust issue. I've heard that cast iron is actually recommended for anemic people who are low in iron. Are there other chemicals besides iron in the "dust"? How's would this dusty
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by asielen 3y ago
This is exactly what I want. Basically a new evolution of RSS that is bidirectional for user engagement. Users can subscribe to whatever forum they want as long as it supports the new RSS standard. They can engage with the forums in their a
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by asielen 3y ago
The reason I take jobs in a centralized dense downtown is because I know I can find another job without changing my commute. It also makes socializing after work, or during work, so much easier. I've worked in 5 different offices withi
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by asielen 3y ago
Agreed, also college kids are trained to study old tests to get into college. SAT prep and AP test prep is basically all previous test review. I think it somewhat depends on how the test was presented on the site. Was it presented as a prev
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by asielen 4y ago
You can buy commercial displays. Most things marketed to businesses are still high quality. But you do lose features or design elements.
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by asielen 4y ago
As a manager that's all I ask. Give me an estimate of the knowns and an estimate on how's long you need to figure out what is realistic from the unknowns. Just let me know what your next move is. The problem is when we assume ever
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by asielen 4y ago
Also Oyster Point in South San Francisco (north of Silicon Valley) is a massive biotech hub. In some way hubs are even more important in biotech than in software because of the massive startup cost.
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by asielen 4y ago
Replying to myself with some thoughts. I want to be able to indicate what aspects of a date are real and which ones are estimated or calculated. Or which ones are just missing. Exiftool supports missing date elements, but only if you have t
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by asielen 4y ago
I've been looking for a standard way to store approximate dates in exif or xmp metadata. I've also read that ISO 8601 ( https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2020-02-12.html ) covers approx dates. I haven't s
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by asielen 4y ago
As someone who has gotten deep into genealogy, this is why I am of two minds of facial recognition in photos. I'd love a place to find photos of my ancestors that others upload or hell even photos of myself I just happen to be in. On t
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by asielen 4y ago
Turning my burner up to max my carbon steel wok has gotten up to 700. Before I knew better, I had an old non-stick wok and on the first use the coating came off at high temperatures. Never actually cooked in it, threw it out and went for th
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by asielen 4y ago
Bay Area here. No real hours however "business hours" are 9 to 5, that generally means any meetings need to be within that time frame (ideally actually more like 10 to 4). It is common courtesy to also not schedule 12-1 for lunch,
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by asielen 5y ago
Modern homes have less room to live and more room to store crap.
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by asielen 5y ago
Hierarchies vs tags has come up for me in my recent effort to scan and organize thousands of old family photos (100+ years old). My main goal is to make the data as future proof as possible, in my mind that means going with some standard fi