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by ben7799 4y ago
Amazing how many people are coming out of the woodwork cheerleading Erythritol and artificial sweeteners in general. It is by far the easiest thing to just avoid all of them completely. Use sugar sparingly and stay far away from anything
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I use Postman all the time for work and it is definitely useful. But it seems to be getting worse not better as they tack on more features and make it more complicated. It seems like it's been years since they added anything I need and
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The math in the article seems wonky and oversimplified to support the author's viewpoint. It seems the writer doesn't have enough perspective as the answer to the question of whether a house is a good investment has to do with w
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by ben7799 4y ago
Count me in. I was in college when this happened. I remember being a Freshman and Sgi had come to campus for recruiting with all these amazing demos on 6-figure hardware. Then my junior year I had scrounged enough money to get a 3Dfx
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If you read that article carefully you probably don't have PFAS in your system. It would have to have been replaced in the last 10 years to possibly have it. The older stuff had HFCs/CFCs but didn't have PFAS. I am in the sa
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I think why this rings false to many is that McConaughey is definitely extremely replaceable. If that is already sunk money and they paid it to him before the layoffs than the article is off base. But why is he at $10M not replaceable by so
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People are saying "that's not me!" and I think that points to the research being poor or over generalizing. I think most people who are actively engaged in music are not going to follow this pattern at all. Whether that&#x2
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The TV industry and Hollywood treat workers horribly so it would make sense.
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This is a very common tactic these companies typically use to discourage employees internally. Not that the company doesn't want to associate with a union but an attempt to convince workers that they shouldn't want to associate
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by ben7799 4y ago
Gotta love apple fans of the type that would post on apple insider being all upset about possibly having to pay more for certified cables. I don't know, I've had a lot of trouble with USB-C cables already. Even devices that came
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by ben7799 4y ago
Things in the US up till about 10 years ago were much more like the German way of doing things. The excessive positivity and no one being accountable for anything were conscious adaptations US management brought in around 2010 or so after t
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by ben7799 4y ago
My take away is that article says Warner Brothers has a killer lineup this year of blockbusters. Then when I look at the list in the article there are zero new movies in that list that aren't: - Sequels - Remakes - Adaptation of Existi
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by ben7799 4y ago
Soldiers are routinely expected to carry far more than this. They may be carrying it in a more effective pack and/or distributed over more of their body. Quick google search indicates plenty of US Troops were hauling 90+ pounds of ge
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by ben7799 4y ago
I've seen that thing in Pearl Harbor.. pretty amazing. Navy guys claimed it could track a baseball in orbit.
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I wasn't trying to make it about me.. I am not in embedded software, though I've dabbled in it and that would have been a nice path to take instead. But we all specialize in something and I don't really think I've gone d
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by ben7799 4y ago
You're thinking of recent Apple. You have to consider the first half of Apple's lifetime too. Especially in the second half of the 1990s Apple was in very very tough shape due to poor software and uncompetitive hardware. Their
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This is kind of a west coast SV/social/adtech type of startup mentality. Working east coast in more traditional tech companies this has never really been a thing. It's always been conservative, staying profitable, etc.. It
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I had the impression Google and Amazon use the same model as Meta. But in working in the field since the 1990s I have never encountered or worked at any company that used their model. I think their model is likely superior in terms of h
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by ben7799 4y ago
My experience with the backlog is somewhat different than the authors. Mostly my experience is QA opens bugs and engineering opens tickets for tech debt, refactoring, performance improvements, reliability improvements, etc.. The PM opens ne
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by ben7799 4y ago
That's the commodore 64 version, the one I shared is the PC version. It is the same game, but at least for me the C-64 version is running about 1/100th normal speed in Chrome so that doesn't work either. The PC version just h
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by ben7799 4y ago
Too bad, the online version of this is actually broken.
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Heh if it was for my kid how about a modern version of Rocky's boots. I learned this stuff around 10 playing that game and didn't even realize what I was learning cause it was fun. But it definitely worked.. I aced every class I e
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by ben7799 4y ago
Lots and lots of applications make the exact same mistakes with Json. Read the entire document into memory and let Jackson parse it out into a heavyweight object graph. Blech.
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Company loyalty was gone 20 years ago or more.
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One thing I see different is back then there were tons and tons of small startups that vaporized. Now we have a bunch of absolutely massive companies like Uber that have no way to make money, but the overall # of them is a lot smaller.
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This, think companies going out of business left and right. Not 5-15% layoffs after the company doubled or tripled in size over 2-3 years. Almost no one I knew worked right through it without being impacted, and some people had huge impact
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There's a secondary issue that in a lot of places the sky is a lot more crowded and the airports are very crowded. I wanted to be a pilot. I took lessons in the 1990s at a small field, relatively uncrowded, relatively low cost. I sto
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by ben7799 4y ago
If he actually got this V8 certified and Cessna switched to then it might be dirt cheap to run but the 172 with it preinstalled might be $1M because they will sell so few and have so much engineering & certification cost to amortize. Th
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He's in a cheap area or something. Instruction in a 172 is more like $250/hr at the nearest airport to me in Massachusetts, with the plane being at least $200/hr of that. The gotcha is I think they are modern 172s, which ar
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That's a funny one cause Lightyear was a really good movie. In some ways it was a much more mature sci-fi story than most of the big "sci fi" movie franchises.

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