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by bsimpson 2y ago
Isn't Observable also open source? https://github.com/observablehq/runtime
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Comp is higher at L6 and lower in London, so I don't know how that balances but… If you spent the last 9y at Google in SF/NYC (the top comp regions), you'd have a million dollars in stock alone. It doesn't go as far as
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's easy to be underleveled at a BigCo job, and to not even realize what that means because the leveling system is obtuse from the outside. You can spend many years fighting the bureaucracy just getting your title/comp to catch
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Same age as Steve Jobs when he died.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Google TV was also the name of their failed settop box strategy like a dozen years ago. I think they gave out one from Logitech (with a keyboard!) at an I/O one year.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I feel that way about casting in general. The prompt to login whenever you cast to an arbitrary TV feels like a footgun. I don't want whatever community I'm watching with to know what the algorithm thinks I like. The distance be
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Do you know of any easy ways to book an arbitrary itinerary across carriers?
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I believe Snowflake is one of Jake Hamilton's projects. He's trying to make Nix more approachable through GUI tools etc. Unfortunately, he's also part of the mob that chased the founder out of the Nix project and decided it
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm moving to NYC tomorrow, after spending my entire life on the West Coast. Thanks for teaching me about dew point (and to the commenters below you for letting me know there's a free Dark Sky clone - merrysky.net - and a dew poin
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by bsimpson 2y ago
This has always driven me nuts about Google Maps too. Contrary to what some PM apparently believes, nobody taught me kilometers on the plane.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Their current browser experience doesn't include transit or cycling, which makes it not terribly useful for NYC.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The citation doesn't DNS resolve: https://protected-users.twitter.okta.com/1721835914 This looks like ragebait.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm in the process of moving. I thought maybe I'd give Prime Day a try and send some soaps ahead to my new place. In my last apartment, I used Method's pump-dispenser laundry detergent and their basil-scented kitchen hand so
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The original colored Google emoji (known as flour sacks, blobs, or gumdrops) had personality! Something like 7 years ago, they were neutered in favor of something much more generic; presumably, to make them more closely connote the meaning
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by bsimpson 2y ago
If you think one of history's largest companies, inexorably woven into the fabric of the digital age, is going to "die" in any meaningful way soon, you need to reevaluate your model of the world. I have lots of criticisms abo
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I only looked at the repo home page. The license file was named LICENCE and the README used "colour." Looks like the author is Danish.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
There's also the Midnight Mystery Ride: similar, but in the middle of the night
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by bsimpson 2y ago
There's an organization called Bike Party in many of the Bay Area cities that does these rides monthly.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
There are many places where roads are too close together for GPS to be reliable (for instance, frontage roads or spaghetti bowl interchanges). If you're driving adjacent to or above/below a slower road, the technology needs to kno
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It might be time to take a break from the internet.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Part of this is abdication and dysfunction of the government overall. As I remember it, the argument was that Roe was based on faulty caselaw. If so, I have no problem with it being overruled, but I then expect Congress to pass the correc
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I have a difficult time reasoning about Trump in the age of constant hysteria. Trying to keep a clear head and an even keel has me discounting a lot of the "sky is falling" alarmism. It has me afraid that there are actual pieces
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by bsimpson 2y ago
New York has the most famous mafia, but it does seem like Americans have just accepted that all our urban infrastructure construction is rife with corruption. See also the Central Subway in SF, the Big Dig in Boston, and the general percep
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's about San Francisco to San Diego, or the length of Italy (Venice to Bari, where the "heel of the boot" starts).
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by bsimpson 2y ago
As someone just-barely-around for the 90s, I would have expected the franchise to be older than that. As someone who's never read one of their books, they seemed old when they were apparently still new.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I interviewed at Netflix in 2015. Unlike every other company I interviewed at, they earmarked you for a team before you interviewed. I didn't know what teams were available; the recruiter earmarked me for the logged out experience. I
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Google DevRel had someone who went by his last name (Surma). In the company directory, he was Surma Surma.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
"Is it any good?" is its own question. I went down this rabbit hole trying to see how to make the non-gaming side of a Steam handheld feel like a tablet, and was surprised/disappointed at how spartan the touch-based Linux eco
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think our IT dept will support an old OS if a newer one is available; even if the old one gets security patches and the new one doesn't work on some machines.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's insane that it costs as much as an iMac, but it's also insane that it effectively _is_ an iMac (with nerfed software).

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