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by brianpan 4y ago
In 1997, the company was at its lowest point. 70% of the products were cancelled, 3000 jobs were cut. Running a library was certainly an untenable luxury. If Jobs was short-sighted it was because Apple was literally weeks away from bankrupt
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by brianpan 4y ago
I'm no fan of Zuck, but what did he do in this case but create a company that provided a lot of jobs, then made some bad forecasting decisions that resulted in losing some of those jobs? Plenty of CEOs have blamed the economy, the pipe
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by brianpan 4y ago
We're all sitting in a curvature of space time, man. -_-
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by brianpan 4y ago
Denmark, I think. ;)
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by brianpan 4y ago
IP address is analogous to your house/apartment address. Which you "randomly" send out as your return address, whenever you mail a letter. You probably even put your real name above the return address. Which gets at the probl
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by brianpan 4y ago
The author contrasted their role with that of a union and implied that they had less influence (leading me to guess they were non-voting, but wondering the same thing you asked).
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by brianpan 4y ago
Math checks out. Computers never get the math wrong.
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by brianpan 4y ago
Maybe we are measuring happiness incorrectly. Instead of most people being happy, what if we made a small number of people REALLY happy? Maybe the 0.1% are so happy that it balances out the sadness of everyone else? /sarcasm
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by brianpan 4y ago
But cost cutting determines how long it takes for the software to pick up. :/
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by brianpan 4y ago
It's a joke. But I think you're underestimating how malleable it is. In the US, DST was changed in 2007. Many states have yearly discussions about it. The leap second was introduced in 1972 and many have been inserted since. In Ta
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by brianpan 4y ago
I just did a whole test because I missed the fact that you said 1Password 8. I'm still on 1Password 7: https://imgur.com/a/WpeffJE
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by brianpan 4y ago
Time is difficult. Reminds of me this post on mtime which recently resurfaced on HN: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113
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by brianpan 4y ago
Ah, an optimist! :D
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by brianpan 4y ago
REST API is available. Up to 500,000 API calls a month. https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/get-started/
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by brianpan 4y ago
It created compassion in the sense that you cannot be compassionate about something you don't know about. Having reproducible images means a greater awareness of far away events. In some cases (like the ones mentioned in the article),
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by brianpan 4y ago
If you're interested in how animals use their senses, how about a whole book about it: https://bookshop.org/books/an-immense-world-how-animal-sense... _An Immense World_ by Ed Yong, who wrote a lot of the great ea
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by brianpan 4y ago
Serious answer in the form of a question: What is good about humans or dogs or trees? What does good even mean- how do you define it? Good in what sense?
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by brianpan 4y ago
Thank you! I will be doing a lot less "<return><return><return>...wait for connection to timeout"!
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by brianpan 4y ago
A joke breaks expectations. Setup: "What kind of bear has no teeth?" Punchline: "A gummy bear" breaks the expectation you have trying to think of a type of animal bear. Non-jokes or meta-jokes break the expectation but i
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by brianpan 4y ago
You don't need an internet connection to use Apple Pay. Unless you mean you didn't use credit cards before, the situation has been the same for the last 20-30 years when we stopped using carbon paper imprints.
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by brianpan 4y ago
How you come up with a name is up to you and how you use it. Personally I would go with "July 2022 Shanghai National Police database leak" because I'm not having any conversation where a cute codename would be less confusing.
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by brianpan 4y ago
Speaking as an Asian American, no, let's not do that.
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by brianpan 4y ago
> You've worked hard to make something you're proud of but now how do you let people know about it? By developing and executing a marketing plan. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by brianpan 4y ago
Both use electromagnetic force to move something. They are much more similar to each other than combustion, which is a chemical reaction. https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/brushless-motor.htm
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by brianpan 4y ago
tldr is nice: https://tldr.ostera.io/dig
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by brianpan 4y ago
I re-read the parent comment and I see why you're confused. It was awkwardly worded. "Older" and "younger" are confusing ways to put it. The fact is, simultaneous observations don't necessarily mean simultaneou
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by brianpan 4y ago
It's similar to how every sound you hear is of an event in the near past. Every thunderclap is caused by a past and distant lightning event. As a child, we'd see lightning and then count seconds waiting to hear the thunder (sound
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by brianpan 4y ago
> That sounds to me more like a team failing to adjust to a good WFH setup than anything intrinsic to the difference between WFH/office work. The team failed to adjust to WFH because intrinsically team building, knowledge sharing,
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by brianpan 5y ago
Yes. It contains zero characters. An empty file actually contains zero of everything in the universe.
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by brianpan 5y ago
+1 Hearos for a good, cheap option. I upgraded to the slightly more expensive Loop earplugs which were more comfortable. Both give something like 12-15 db noise reduction. https://us.loopearplugs.com/

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