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by biztos 3y ago
For a good long while it seemed like one side was definitely going to use power, if it got power, to stay in power forever -- look at Hungary for a good example -- but lately it seems like the younger generation of the other side wants the
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by biztos 3y ago
I worked for a few years in the full-height kind, and a few years in the lipstick kind. The full-height cube was awesome, I had as much privacy as I really needed but the barrier to interruption was just low enough that people weren’t afra
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by biztos 3y ago
Is anyone trying to hire only introverted, spectrumy, possibly older developers for their startup? Seems like it could be a big competitive advantage if you have smart managers and don’t do foot-guns like open-plan and pairing.
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Couldn’t they just add one at the end?
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If by “market power” you mean a desire to invade Taiwan, debt-trap diplomacy, the open pursuit of totalitarian norms replacing Western ones globally, and territorial acquisitiveness in opposition to international law (just to name a few thi
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by biztos 3y ago
Given Apple’s profit margin I doubt the costs per se are much of a factor. But I think there have been two administrations in a row that probably (hopefully?) reached out to “Tim Apple” and suggested he imagine a future in which stuff does
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by biztos 3y ago
> Better coffee than Italy/France/etc I get a macchiato at %[0] about once a week and it’s ridiculously next-level. But for hanging out, I’d still prefer an Italian coffee bar in Italy. Does Japan have that kind of coffee cult
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by biztos 3y ago
Looks nice! My best friend had a restaurant in Budapest called Kafana but sadly it closed due mostly to a poor choice of location: it was close to the Serbian church but far from the bar scene. Any idea what is “Orange Wine?” https:/&
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by biztos 3y ago
A country with an interesting VAT/sales tax is Thailand, where large shops and chains and places in malls will add tax to the final price (and service charge sometimes) while smaller places will not. (I’m talking restaurants, VAT is i
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by biztos 3y ago
I was at a burger place in Bangkok recently and when the bill came, every item was shown in Thai and English except the service charge, which was only in Thai (ค่าบริการ). I thought that was rather sneaky but clever, because the overlap of
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by biztos 3y ago
Great job! Suggestion: make the Pac-Man have a fill color, yellow by default in color mode.
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by biztos 3y ago
Why not just have a core set of sounds pre-downloaded?
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by biztos 3y ago
I was in Singapore some years ago with a smoker, and discovered that there were indeed smoking areas (at least near many bars) but they were so few and small that they would always be full of smokers, the ashtrays would be overflowing, etc.
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by biztos 3y ago
I recently started using Todoist (Pro account) and never heard of these limits, but indeed here they are: https://todoist.com/help/articles/todoists-limits-for-tasks,... I haven’t got my projects fully populated y
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by biztos 3y ago
I have met people who can’t really code outside an IDE. If someone has a full JetBrains setup at work, and never worked any other way, it might be really hard for them to change code on demand without it. I expect there is a similar, but w
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by biztos 3y ago
I agree it’s awful, but I very much disagree that people are doing it “less” — think of the chat apps. I think more text passes between more humans on iOS/Android than ever before in the history of humanity. It’s probably a pain, but
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by biztos 3y ago
A fun thing about Thailand is that if your name is David Jones you will often be addressed as Mr. David. (Aka Khun David.) Takes a minute to realize this is not a mistake. [edit:] Also if you use a nickname, say Bunny Colvin, you will be Mr
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by biztos 3y ago
I'm not ready to predict, but based on what I saw in Europe in 2015[0] and how things[1] are developing[2] lately[3], I see this as a very plausible outcome. The US and EU countries get more migrants than they can handle; resentment gr
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by biztos 3y ago
In Bangkok I sometimes grab a Boss Coffee[0] from the 7-11 and I'm inevitably surprised by how not-bad it is. (I was thrilled to find a serious coffee culture in Thailand that rivals anything outside of Portland or Italy, but coffee at
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by biztos 3y ago
Not everyone rides the FAANG train.
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by biztos 3y ago
I have, on numerous occasions, come in to work to find that a colleague was laid off without anybody giving advance notice to them or anyone on the team. Just, poof they're gone, hey team let's pick up Jimmy's tickets now! I
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by biztos 3y ago
I don’t mean the spelling, I mean that the “r” in that case is not spoken, presumably because saying it as “l” would be inconvenient. But really, are any of them “grapao” with the r on the first syllable? I always thought that was just a m
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by biztos 3y ago
It’s not countries, but these market share numbers are higher than I thought: Agriculture - 83% in the Netherlands, 79% in Finland, 55% in Italy and 50% in France Forestry - 60% in Sweden and 31% in Finland Banking - 50% in France, 37% in C
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by biztos 3y ago
Where I’m from (in California) the garbage collection is done by a private company, and it looks like a pretty nice job if you’re physically fit. And it’s not looked down on at all, people there know what hauling their own garbage is like.
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by biztos 3y ago
Also, the “r” in that position is silent colloquially, so enjoy your pad gapao!
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One interesting variation I’ve tried is with Japanese rice: https://maps.app.goo.gl/A1RX1yzx4nPBM6dt9 (Also serving craft beers and small burgers.) In the Muslim South you often find it made with chopped beef, never ground
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by biztos 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | US + Remote | Golang preferred On-site or remote for shorter gigs, remote-first for longer. I’m open to most things that would fall under “creative problem solving with technology” — especially if it involves AI integration.
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by biztos 3y ago
I don’t get how this is supposed to be enforced. Say your license says “no hate speech” and I have a bunch of models and code and I make, I dunno, a rewrite of the Old Testament[0]. You see it and somehow connect the dots and you think I u
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by biztos 3y ago
Just today I had an idea for a funny T-shirt design, for some print on demand stuff I want to do. I will probably never do it because it requires a parody of a trade mark — think Zeitgeist[0] if you know SF — and I’m afraid the algos would
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by biztos 3y ago
For art of the digital drawing/painting sort, the iPad absolutely dominates the scene now and has for a while, mostly thanks to the Procreate app in combination with the Apple Pencil. A Mac with a touch screen would be worse than usele

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