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by athenot 7y ago
The same issue happened to American Airlines and they eventually modified the uniforms. It sounds like testing in the lab didn't cover all the cases that ended up irritating a group of people.
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by athenot 7y ago
I have a similar rule of thumb: if it's not part of any culture's traditional cuisine, it's probably unhealthy. Long shelf life is not necessarily an issue; I've eaten home-made canned cherries & plums that were 10 y
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by athenot 7y ago
The slowness can also be because the channel you are trying to watch is not even there. I'm not sure who all is using it now but I used to work on the setup for Switched Digital Video. If nobody in your neighborhood was watching a cert
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by athenot 7y ago
Irrelevant ads are way easier to ignore. It's so off-target that your mind doesn't even loose a cycle trying to make sense of it. Then you get so used to not paying attention that the occasional relevant ad gets ignored too. In sh
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by athenot 7y ago
When working on digital settop boxes a decade or 2 ago, channel change latency was one of the toughest problems. Eventually we (collectively, the whole industry) gave up and settled for 1 second as acceptable. Channel surfing quietly went a
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by athenot 7y ago
Very close, yes. And yes to the parent comment. ;)
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by athenot 7y ago
> This actually might not be so nuts if it were clearly a way to evaluate how you handle unfamiliar problems and they made it clear they didn't really expect you to finish the whole thing in 50 minutes, I guess. This happened to me.
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by athenot 7y ago
I'm a big fan of Mattermost but industry’s most flexible and secure instant messaging capabilities might be a tad exaggerated. By way of comparison, I will indulge in a shameless plug for Webex Teams: our customers have the option of
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by athenot 7y ago
NNTP (newsgroups) and SMTP (email) both are federated systems. Long before domain names were convenience identifiers for just websites, you would be part of an organizational domain, be it your company, your university or your local ISP (be
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by athenot 7y ago
What is distasteful in corporate speak is its use of inflated words to hide the lack of honesty and humanity. What the GP points out is intentional phrasing to express no more and no less than what is desired. That it happens to sound formu
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by athenot 7y ago
They used to be supported until they were abused.
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by athenot 7y ago
This can be fixed by turning the light on. Most work areas are not lit well enough. For my own home office I have about 19,000 lumens of light in a relatively modest space. Same brightness as a cloudy day outside. In that environment, a whi
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by athenot 7y ago
> No more "hmm, this looks interesting" as I'm wasting my time walking up and down aisles specifically designed to make me spend more. When it comes to fresh produce, though, this is exactly how I shop. We've gotten a
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by athenot 7y ago
> Not responding immediately or within a day could label you rude or non-collaborative. Even if you didn’t want others to feel like that, the receiving end of a chat message couldn’t help it. They felt they needed to respond immediately.
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by athenot 7y ago
I don't use many Siri commands but a few come in handy: - "add milk to grocery list" — I have a reminder list called "Grocery" to make that happen. Makes it easy to add stuff as I realize I'm running low, then
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by athenot 7y ago
> Someone should make one language that transpiles down to Javascript AND Python AND Ruby AND Erlang even! Then you could code in ALL languages with just one language! While not hitting all these targets, you might be interested in Nim,
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by athenot 7y ago
The result of what's incinerated is often used for construction, like for road bases. So it's turned into a valuable material instead of being wasted.
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by athenot 7y ago
This is an impressive change you are making, congratulations! If you're not already doing this, I'd like to suggest journaling this effort in detail. This will be an amazing journey to look back on. And in the mean time, when thin
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by athenot 7y ago
It looks like a single-sign on (SSO) Identity Provider that's backed by just your email address. It's not the worst idea, especially for low risk stuff. I'm not sure I'd use it for ecommerce though.
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by athenot 7y ago
> I don’t think it’s immoral or particularly hazardous to democracy for individuals to amass a large amount of wealth in their life time. "Large" is hard to represent when it's multiple orders of magnitude more than the ri
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by athenot 7y ago
The trend for consumer is a push towards centralization, mostly for convenience reasons. So far it has been hard to reconcile an open communication model with saftety from the many forms of abuse—ranging from illegal actors to permissible (
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by athenot 7y ago
I generally like the direction y'all are going. Question: how does the new compression compare to TokuDB, and is it tuneable for performance/size tradeoff? https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.7&#
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by athenot 7y ago
I get that they want to hide the address to total strangers, but I'm sure it would be easy for Airbnb themselves to pull up the google streetview and have it as a static image on the listing.
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by athenot 7y ago
This seems like a major obstacle in the way of space elevators. I would imagine running what amounts to a short-circuit wire from the ionosphere to the ground might be a bit tricky…
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by athenot 7y ago
This is reminiscent of the (whimsical) RFC 3252: Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3252.txt
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by athenot 7y ago
Thanks for writing this. I think you've explained why I've always liked the ability to invoke functions without parentheses. I always thought it simply appealed to my sense of aesthetics, and I've had somewhat of a hard time
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by athenot 7y ago
As a general principle, my plea is PLEASE keep a check on the number of clicks to do something. The range picker used to be great where you had a text field allowing you to quickly type a time range in a single field; now it's: - 1 cli
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by athenot 7y ago
I used to do that. Because I'm a proud software engineer and why should this stuff be complicated? It's just numbers you add or subtract... wait, does the Transmogrifier Deduction for Frobnubilors apply when you claim to be Single
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by athenot 7y ago
There are a handful of languages that would be suitable for this. The "right one" to use depends on more than just the language features for that task: - What third party libraries do you need to use? Some languages have very good
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by athenot 7y ago
There are a few others in Europe, in particular the Mont Blanc. Though in practice, it doesn't affect day-to-day life. https://www.politico.eu/article/peak-of-discord-mont-blanc-e...

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