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by brantonb 4y ago
I was just looking at the Garmin inReach on REI’s sale a few minutes ago. $350 for the device ($50 off right now), $30 activation fee, and $12/month for two years is $668. Upgrading my 3 year old phone is $800. Kind of a no-brainer to
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by brantonb 4y ago
The alt text on that XKCD has aged so well.
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by brantonb 4y ago
I always wondered why we weren’t allowed to use the STL in the Windows division in the 00’s. This probably explains it.
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by brantonb 4y ago
My company switched from PTO to “unlimited time away” to avoid paying out accrued PTO upon departure. Their original home state didn’t require it, so they didn’t. But then they acquired some companies in states that did require it and also
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by brantonb 5y ago
LGPL-3.0 https://github.com/dzavalishin/phantomuserland/blob/master/L...
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by brantonb 5y ago
>Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidel
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by brantonb 5y ago
My guess is the data is stored in Celsius but displayed in Fahrenheit. 15C = 59F 16C = 60.8F
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by brantonb 5y ago
While I agree, this Planet Money episode from 2012 goes into the details of why. The thing that jumps out to me as the dumbest is that it uses raw share price instead of market capitalization. https://www.npr.org/sections&#x
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by brantonb 5y ago
This is from the show Planet Money. While they might not have talked about it in this particular episode, they do talk about both the Fed’s inflation target and also inflation itself quite a bit. As does their sibling show, The Indicator by
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by brantonb 5y ago
Here’s a post on the topic from a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153244
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by brantonb 5y ago
I think an important part you might’ve missed is that the tag has to be away from its owner to be considered stalking you. If two strangers ride a train together, their air tags won’t be considered stalking each other.
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by brantonb 6y ago
Have you seen Apple's comparison page? It's useful for this sort of decision making: https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/
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by brantonb 6y ago
I remember a former-NSA penetration tester telling me, a naive college hire, that for us to be successful developing BitLocker Drive Encryption, we’d have to make it good enough for terrorists to be willing to use it. It was a few years aft
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by brantonb 6y ago
Apple Watch SE: $279 AirPods: $159 Total: $438 I’m sure there are cheaper headphone options available. You might already own some, even.
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by brantonb 6y ago
We’re looking to rewrite a legacy C++ shared component that had become unmaintainable and are considering Kotlin native, mostly because it will be easier to hire for a mobile component written in one of the four primary mobile languages. Ho
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by brantonb 6y ago
This was an excellent Planet Money episode about how a guy bought AMZN stock to hold but it got escheated because he didn’t log into his brokerage account. Needless to say, what should’ve been a small fortune… wasn’t. https://www
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by brantonb 6y ago
A wallet is really just a public/private key pair. To prove you have access, you can just sign a message of someone else’s choosing with the private key. No need to transfer any value. It’s why any claims to be Satoshi are laughable. I
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by brantonb 6y ago
I wrote a toy app when learning iOS that took the items in a todo list and showed you two at a time. You’d swipe the less important one off the screen. It built a hierarchy and you’d end up with the “most important” item to focus on. It rem
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by brantonb 6y ago
Explained here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
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by brantonb 7y ago
April 1 is an annual holiday for me. I unplug from the internet* and try to avoid hearing of these jokes completely. They used to be funny, but now companies are just trying too hard. It’s a great excuse for a detox. * I still use the Inter
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by brantonb 7y ago
The head of Windows and Office used to joke at the all hands meetings about making 120% of the company’s profits.
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by brantonb 7y ago
I ran a trail 100K last fall and my Watch survived the almost 13.5 hours. Granted, I was carrying my iPhone with me and wearing a chest strap HRM, so a lot of the work was offloaded. But still — I was impressed. I’ve also run a road maratho
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by brantonb 7y ago
For the first year, you get one million requests per month for free. After that, it’s $0.20 per million requests. There’s also a component based on time & memory usage, but it appears to be small, too. https://aws.amazon.com&
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by brantonb 7y ago
You do then link to the GitHub repo which has a PDF of your resume with all of your contact info.
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by brantonb 7y ago
When I worked at Microsoft, Windows took far, far longer than an hour to build from scratch. I remember walking a few buildings over to the burn lab to pick up DVDs of the latest build. I don’t have any hard data, but running a full build o
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by brantonb 7y ago
You can option+tap a link in Safari to download to Files. Hold down the command key to see available shortcuts.
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by brantonb 7y ago
I started last year using Swift Playgrounds. I was lazy and just pasted the input into a multi-line string. I had to switch away from Playgrounds after a couple of days because it would crash due to memory issues. It traces every line of ex
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by brantonb 7y ago
Years ago, Microsoft built an internal site that showed Bing side-by-side with Google. Employees were encouraged to use it and report when Microsoft’s results were worse than Google’s. It got employees to actually use Bing, sent feedback to
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by brantonb 7y ago
It’s even more specific than that: it’s deliberate practice. Going to the driving range, getting a bucket, and hitting a bunch of balls likely doesn’t count. You need to be focusing on improving a specific thing. Are you working on your swi
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by brantonb 7y ago
Pacers in ultras largely serve a different purpose. They’re there for safety, especially once it gets dark. In events 50 miles and shorter, pacers usually aren’t allowed. Sure, the elite runners could get some actual pacing at the end but t

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