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by athenot 3y ago
This is changing with FedNow, where payments settle fast enough for synchronous applications. https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow
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by athenot 3y ago
Mine does that too. Took off the back, found the drain where the condensation is supposed to go to. It's made of rusted steel. It's supposed to lead to the compressor where the heat makes it evaporate back into the room. But since
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by athenot 3y ago
Yes the play area has an interactive renderer and an editor, with lots of fun builtins that one can modify in real time. Very cool stuff! https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/sdf/balls
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by athenot 3y ago
Having lived in both Europe and the US, yes you are correct that owning a vehicle does make many things more practical. On the flip side, being required to drive everywhere because there is no transit option is a negative impact on qual
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by athenot 3y ago
Since moving is not an easy proposition, taking the problem from the opposite end can be useful too: Make friends with people who live near you. Even though neighbors (or people in the neighborhood) may not be the "perfect friends&quot
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by athenot 3y ago
It can breed a culture of micromanagement. "Employee can only work X hours, we need to extract as much value as possible." Yes, micromanagement will go against actual performance, but that's not how many managers are tempted
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by athenot 3y ago
Not OP but multiple code bases may refer to the same flag by a different constant. Having a single string that can be searched accross all repos in an organization is quite handy to find all places where it's referenced.
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by athenot 3y ago
The shop I go to offers a 50¢ discount to people who bring their own coffee cup. It's not that hard from a hygiene perspective: they have the cashier (who is already handling "dirty" money) walk over and fill the cup. (I drin
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by athenot 3y ago
Thanks for posting this; I have Georgia granite under my feet in random and unpredictable quantities. I've noticed most of the "success stories" in the submitted article happen to be in sandy areas, or with softer ground.
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by athenot 3y ago
This is a very perceptive way to watch time pass when watching nature—and definitely useful when life revolved around things growing in the groud. I wonder how much drift there is on the dates given, or if local climate yields highly predic
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by athenot 3y ago
Humidity is one difference that comes to mind. In most of Texas, the air outside is humid, you need a moisture barrier between your structural wall and your rainscreen/siding. In Calgary, cold winters will have very dry air, so the hum
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by athenot 3y ago
> which was the threshold to qualify for your bonus This is the problem: tying OKRs to bonuses. It sounds so logical from a naive standpoint and yet it has so many detrimental side-effects. Where I'm at, we have a hybrid system that
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by athenot 3y ago
They wear 30lb lead aprons. On a practical note, it's back strain from having that thing on 10-12h a day.
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by athenot 3y ago
Interestingly, the total amount of rail is about the same for EU and US, however in the EU, 55% of it is electrified, and only 1% in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tran...
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by athenot 3y ago
I had the same question. From the docs, it looks pretty elegant: from employees join side:left positions (employees.id==positions.employee_id) which translates to SELECT employees.*, positions.* FROM
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by athenot 3y ago
It's also the materials used in modern furniture, which catch fire faster. https://fsri.org/research/new-comparison-natural-and-synthet...
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by athenot 3y ago
This touches on Narrative Therapy. Events happened, yes. Facts are immutable and can't be changed or wished away simply because they are inconvenient. Rather, how we make sense of them—and internalize them—affects our lives in signif
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by athenot 3y ago
10 years ago the specialty bulbs were all metal halide and CFLs but nowadays, they are LED and much better; some are even dimmable. Sites like 1000bulbs let you search by type, brightness (in lumens), color rendering index (CRI; over 90 is
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by athenot 3y ago
Point 1 is very important, I can confirm with also a decade of doing this. One note I'd like to add is pay attention to your lighting, have a special "work-mode" set of lights that you turn on when you work and then turn off
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by athenot 3y ago
It's used medically, for example for nurses and doctors who work with radioactive tracers; they wear big aprons with lead in it which absorb any radiation that would be ok once in a while but that you don't want exposed to every s
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by athenot 3y ago
The article mentions using the Number constructor, which is even more elegant: > ["1","2","3"].map(Number) [ 1, 2, 3 ]
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by athenot 3y ago
This is similar to hospitals sometimes billing $300 for a simple saline IV bag. Creative accounting where the cost of highly scrutinized items is reduced, so other items are inflated to essentially make up for the difference.
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by athenot 3y ago
Productive scientific debating is usually done in writing, or over long periods of time, not in entertainment-driven TV shows. It's unfortunate both are called "debating" but mean something very different.
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by athenot 3y ago
Many of the comments here are about procrastination (and are all very good contributions to the topic). However the article is more about expanding our thinking and challenging limitations that are self-imposed, which then prevent us from t
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by athenot 3y ago
This is true. Though the electric batteries do have the advantage of having already paid the "thermodynamics tax". Some of the energy in gas will go towards heat losses; energy that cannot be converted to movement.
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by athenot 3y ago
Maybe not control but the ability to have an advance warning would be a huge gain in terms of public safety.
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by athenot 3y ago
Indeed, these are 2 different skill sets. But wouldn't that be a Chief Operating Officer then, instead of a CEO?
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by athenot 3y ago
Both can be true. On the one hand, I welcome the ability to leverage machines to automate work that I find boring, with ever-increasing complexity and cleverness. This frees me up to remain in the creative thinking headspace, and interperso
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by athenot 3y ago
Another option would be to mail a physical letter to their billing department stating that you are cancelling your subscription 30 days from now and any subsequent charges to the credit card will be disputed.
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by athenot 4y ago
Part of this is an interesting side effect that interacting with people 1:1 is different than when the interaction is intermediated by a group or an ideology or a commercial platform. I find that when I strip away group dynamics, people all

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