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by bityard 1y ago
I noticed years ago that I start to tune out of any meeting that lasts longer than 45 minutes. So whenever I was the one running a meeting, I would always timebox it to 45 minutes. Never could tell if anyone appreciated or resented that. Bu
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by bityard 1y ago
TFA's author is ascribing malice to the team booking the room during the last 10-minute slice of the hour, but I think there is a simpler and more charitable explanation based on having been in a similar situation: The team might prefe
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by bityard 1y ago
I think this falls into the category of learning how to be a good mentor. In my case, this happened a few times. My solution to that is: whenever I get the impression that I'm becoming a critical path for someone else's day-to-day
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by bityard 1y ago
The ONLY accounts I have that require SMS and offer no other 2FA are financial institutions. They already have more information on their customers than most other businesses I can think of. Heck, I WANT my bank to have my phone number so th
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by bityard 1y ago
Call it "inauthentic" if you want but the reality is that the people who are interviewing you know they are going to have to work with you, and 99% of people prefer working alongside those who might boost their morale by demonstra
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by bityard 1y ago
In companies with highly compartmentalized roles, too much work to do, and annoying co-workers, it's easy to say, "that's not my problem, go away." (With a bit more diplomacy, I'd hope.) I have always prioritized tr
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by bityard 1y ago
Bad: Writing a nonsensical personality test that ostensibly attempts to select for individuals with a certain background, while actually doing no such thing. Worse: Making it a pass/no-pass test where if you get any "wrong" a
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by bityard 1y ago
I wonder if they vary in quality by location? I've stopped into ours at least a half-dozen times and never found anything interesting. We _used_ to have a warehouse-sized second-chance store for home items and building materials. It wa
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by bityard 1y ago
Hah. There was an estate sale in my neighborhood last summer. Quite a few tools in the garage that I was interested in but the prices were crazy. 30-50 year-old tools priced the same as brand-new. Even asking 50% off would be been too much
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by bityard 1y ago
Danny Butterman: Hey, why can't we say "accident," again? Nicholas Angel: Because "accident" implies there's nobody to blame.
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by bityard 1y ago
That sucks. I've been selling things on eBay for... longer than I care say out loud but I've read enough horror stories that I don't think I could get the nerve to sell anything high-priced for fear that I would get scammed b
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by bityard 1y ago
By "this kind of thing" I specifically meant the subject of the video: tool stores. Used clothing stores are all over and account for 90% or more of the floor space of most thrift shops. In my area, there are even facebook groups
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by bityard 1y ago
Man, I would love it if this kind of thing existed in the US. Unfortunately, shopping for used or refurbished products is increasingly seen less as something smart people do and more as something "poor people" do. I've heard
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by bityard 1y ago
It could also just be plain old overengineering. Like using Django and leaning on all of the magic contained within it just to implement a simple API that could instead be a very small Flask or FastAPI app.
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by bityard 1y ago
Thanks!
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by bityard 1y ago
There's no such thing as "consensus" in any hobby, but the general trends are: 1. ABS on motorbikes has been proven to prevent lock-ups and therefore accidents, especially among newer riders who are more likely to grab all th
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by bityard 1y ago
I ride both regularly and I don't really have a problem switching between them. For me, the overall experience is so entirely different between the two, that my brain knows to treat them differently. Just like people who own riding law
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by bityard 1y ago
Do you by any chance have your documented anywhere? I want to build my own. (Eventually. One of these days. When I get some spare time, of course. Perhaps in retirement...)
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by bityard 1y ago
Yes! On my long list of things to do when I get the elusive "round tuit" is to build an open-source touchscreen thermostat using cheap ubiquitous off-the-shelf parts. Probably something like a CYD (cheap yellow display, as they ar
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by bityard 1y ago
IME, the vast majority of those horror stories end up being from people who stay in the "trial" tier and don't sign up for pay-as-you-go (one extra, easy step) and Oracle's ToS make it clear that trial accounts an resour
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by bityard 1y ago
Simple answer: because they were told to do that. Longer answer: A main use case (perhaps the most useful/popular one) for LLMs is distilling and summarizing large bodies of information. Bullet points bring visual separation and organi
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by bityard 1y ago
Doom-scrolling and short-form videos seem to not discriminate by age. I know lots of middle-aged to elderly people who can sit on their phones and scroll for hours on end every day.
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by bityard 1y ago
Could very well have been Slackware. Slackware was my first Linux distribution, it came as a set of like at least 20 floppies. All of mine were repurposed AOL disks. After spending about a solid week or so downloading the whole set of disk
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by bityard 1y ago
Courts deal with serious life-changing issues and everyone involved in a court case is expected behave seriously. In fact, that is literally the primary role of the judge. And why judges are famously strict on procedure, demeanor, and the o
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by bityard 1y ago
YMMV but in my house, with a commercial-grade wifi AP, I found that devices on 5 GHz get much better speed and range due to all the local noise on 2.4 GHz.
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by bityard 1y ago
Whether or not to compress data before transfer is VERY situationally dependent. I have seen it go both ways and the real-world results do not not always match intuition. At the end of the day, if you care about performance, you still have
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by bityard 1y ago
If you work mainly in text (reading, writing, programming), then e-ink makes a ton of sense over LCD. Low power, easier to read. For those who use their computers mainly to watch movies and play video games, e-ink would not be ideal.
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by bityard 1y ago
Yes, exactly! I keep telling my kids that literally just consistently showing up and doing the work you are asked to do will put you far ahead of most of your peers. I'm not sure they believe me now, but eventually they will.
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by bityard 1y ago
How about I try a metaphor: Imagine you work in a building. Inside the building, there are multiple rooms. Each room has a different project going on inside it. In one room, you are building a canoe. In another, you are restoring a motorcyc
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by bityard 1y ago
It's worth remembering that Firefox HAD tab groups before, just under a different name and then killed it because "nobody used it": https://medium.com/@twidi/how-i-survived-the-removal-of-pano... The imp

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