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by cagenut 7y ago
I have a working theory that basically all "devops engineer" jobs of the last 5ish years are more or less automatic/happens-by-default burnout traps. Hard to tell how much is that and how much is just we're all sliding
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by cagenut 7y ago
It doesn't matter how common they are today, it matters how common they were 20 - 40 years ago, particularly for state/govt workers. And the answer then was "very".
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by cagenut 7y ago
People understand things through stories, narratives. All of which are oversimplifications. Always. Therefore, for any given popular one, you can always be the contrarian well-actually guy. You can always point out the broader inconsist
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by cagenut 7y ago
not just density, but "easier" for the decision makers. Its easier to rent a big open room than to figure out an office plan and seating plan and construction schedule. Its easier to move desks around like musical chairs than to
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by cagenut 7y ago
there are about a hundred layers to that onion short version: they're a pirate-ship/skeleton-crew management team sent in to do a "turnaround" (or flip) on the former gawker media by a private equity firm. the way a frie
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by cagenut 7y ago
This is awesome. I wish someone would put vive trackers[0] on bowflex selectable dumbbells [1] and do something similar. IMHO VR for lifting will be an easier place to start than VR for cardio or calisthenics because you're not moving
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by cagenut 7y ago
the context of the thread, the post you were replying to, is about the economic impacts of most of china staying "on vacation" for a few more weeks. your twice now trying to catastophize that into a deathtoll or "the end of t
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by cagenut 7y ago
according to various models the infection rate should shift from exponential growth to an s-curve function where growth rapidly falls off, the first stage of containment, somewhere around the 15th. the 17th is the monday after that, so man
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by cagenut 7y ago
deaths are absolutely the wrong metric to focus on at this point. as you said, the normal flu is plenty deadly. even if we assumed that variable was break-even, what matters now is the rate of infection transmission and growth. right now it
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by cagenut 7y ago
I largely agree with most of whats already been posted. Many of these things have been true since dial-up BBSs and usenet. We're mostly just seeing them apply to more and more of the population. But for a moment consider another facto
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by cagenut 7y ago
This article has some good charts and visualizations. Just to add one for context, this is from the IPCC SR15 report 2 years ago: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SP
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by cagenut 7y ago
w/r/t #2 you're not arguing the point you're just re-phrasing it. That money has to come from somewhere, so it comes from the schools and the spending power of the residents via higher property taxes. That's why a
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by cagenut 7y ago
The housing costs of some second/third/worse tier city are almost completely meaningless. Unless the job gave me a 10 year contract with a golden parachute or something. It doesn't matter if you can make the numbers work onc
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by cagenut 7y ago
would you be so kind as to explain more about what that means? particularly w/r/t this line in the abstract the low standard electrode potentials of K/K+ electrodes lead to high operation voltages competitive to those
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by cagenut 7y ago
wow you rarely see "tech" companies migrate in this direction (vs say enterprise or smb).
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by cagenut 7y ago
I'm in favor of an 80/20 policy. 80% renewables, 20% nuclear. The thing is, we're already at 20% nuclear. So the "debate" over it is largely a distraction/delay-tactic.
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by cagenut 7y ago
If you're interested in this, check out this playlist of presentations from the Sustainable Aviation Symposium in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWUnMAqjJ9CAue9jS0osS... Some of them are very deep/te
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by cagenut 7y ago
If you're in any of these states/regions in the US you can opt-in to 100% renewables via a third-party-supplier: https://cleanchoiceenergy.com/how-it-works/areas-we-serve/ If you're in a state that
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by cagenut 7y ago
this is still the main issue to me. I read NTSB crash reports, I read other tech companies post-mortems, I watched Chernobyl, I've worked in devops for a decade. I don't believe that "we" (humanity) have even come clos
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by cagenut 7y ago
he's like a modern social-media-native version of jim cramer
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by cagenut 7y ago
thats not how you ship a v1 what is it about cars that make all software engineers turn into junior product managers.
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by cagenut 7y ago
on a related note, I find very few things more predictive in how much I'm going to like a person than the side they take in thiel v gawker.
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by cagenut 7y ago
To me the distinction between terrifying and doomed is that the former is something you can/should react to and the later is something you've defined as too-late or given up on. We are not (yet) doomed.
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by cagenut 7y ago
I'm a fan of Gwynne Dyer youtubes, I think he does an excellent job of articulating the most plausible doomer case, particularly w/r/t to india. However that's not scientific research published in peer reviewed journals
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by cagenut 7y ago
FYI to anyone else reading, this is the other side of science-denial coin, the doomer side. The most authoritative reports (ipcc ar6 and sr15) show us probably landing in the low 4's in a "BAU" scenario. However those scena
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by cagenut 7y ago
Their taking the overall emissions targets from the IPCC SR15 report and dividing it per-capita. My preferred way of visualizing it is the first, third and fourth set of graphs here: https://ipcc.ch/sr15/graphics Its p
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by cagenut 7y ago
I love windy maps for visualizing pollution like this. Note though that its CO (monoxide) not CO2.
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by cagenut 7y ago
good news for electric vehicles
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by cagenut 7y ago
I can practically hear the journalist giggling in my head as he writes some of these quotes down.
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by cagenut 7y ago
> At least once, I want work at a place that really has its shit together. I'm old enough now that I just skip directly to wishing for powerball numbers.

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