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by chrismartin 4y ago
Or you could use a libre and self-hostable chat platform (like Element on Matrix), and get rich discussion that costs little or nothing to keep around permanently.
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by chrismartin 4y ago
"What are you doing with your weird broken browser, you weirdo?" (I am also a weirdo) Fun fact, Slack also started blocking Fierfox 78 ESR last winter, which was the default browser in Debian stable until just a couple of weeks ag
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by chrismartin 4y ago
When people bother to make them, channels provide discussion grouping at the subject level. Threads are an even finer-grained grouping that, granted, some people don't use. In my experience, all the problems you mention are also presen
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by chrismartin 4y ago
Disagree. The history is not just "chat". It's a valuable stream of questions and answers, problem solving, code snippets, bug reports, and user stories. It serves the purpose that a FLOSS project's mailing list archive
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by chrismartin 4y ago
I have nothing but praise for Matrix, via element.io or any other client of your choice. It's user-friendly, mature, history is not restricted, and the public matrix.org homeserver works great. You can use Element in your browser or as
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by chrismartin 4y ago
For things like "where you're allowed to live" and "time zones of team members", yes, 100%. For a lot of the other points, employers are incentivized against candor, especially in a public posting. They're tryi
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by chrismartin 4y ago
Optimization might not be worth the trouble at the individual level, even if that's half the fun for this crowd. But optimization is 100% worth the trouble to make the guidance as effective as possible at the population level. Even sli
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by chrismartin 4y ago
I wonder what the blog author considers "high intensity"? 65-80% of MHR is common advice (see my other comment) but generally _not_ considered high intensity. 80% is still supposed to be under the lactate threshold.
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by chrismartin 4y ago
Maybe wrong place to ask, but is there guidance based on modern evidence on what makes a workout "high intensity", and how to structure a routine of them without leading to over-training or injury, especially for people who have e
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by chrismartin 4y ago
In short, you cannot outrun your fork.
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by chrismartin 4y ago
If by "back in the day" you mean the half-century following WWII, the USA had it uncommonly good: dirt-cheap post-secondary education, increasing upward mobility for everyone, low cost of living relative to income, and pensions. T
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by chrismartin 4y ago
That's not the impression I got from this recent HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728350 tl;dr is that private equity firms are _so_ aggressive in buying up local veterinary practices (especially 24-hour
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by chrismartin 4y ago
Is there irony in asking for other researchers' data (presumably free of charge) and then publishing the results of that effort behind a paywall?
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by chrismartin 4y ago
The private sector can solve this entirely. We just need to: - Find people who own property with lead in the ground - Pay them for a pinky promise to never ever mine the lead - Sell the resulting "lead offsets" to private aviators
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by chrismartin 4y ago
Physically? A lot harder than converting it to unleaded gasoline. For one, existing aircraft are designed around storing the heavy fuel near the center of lift/mass. (One benefit, the aircraft keeps its trim as the fuel is burned.) Thi
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by chrismartin 4y ago
None of this amounts to much while Ford's ability to produce EVs remains low. Ford sells about a million ICE trucks per year in the US, but they're only planning about 150k total F-150s Lightning through mid-2023, and the waiting
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by chrismartin 5y ago
I've seen vaporware like this since I was a kid in the 90s. Talk is cheap, slick renderings are cheap. Is there _any_ mostly-wind-powered vessel in active, revenue-generating, trans-oceanic cargo service? Container or otherwise? Maybe
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by chrismartin 5y ago
That problem appears mostly solved these days. Household refrigerators and freezers now use propane. Many (most?) new vehicles now use 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerant#Refrigerants_w
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by chrismartin 5y ago
This feels unlikely, particularly in software and skilled tech knowledge work. First, "What if very few companies support X 3-5 years from now?", where X could be health insurance, paid vacation, or a 5-day work week. Yes, Remote-
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by chrismartin 5y ago
No axe to grind here, but this article contains a lot of misinformed, over-generalizing FUD about modern Thinkpads. It sounds like Cory's experience was with the X series: these Thinkpads are the thinnest, lightest, and most difficult
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by chrismartin 6y ago
Looks aside, air conditioning is a win for postal workers in hot climates. The Grumman LLV doesn't have it, and postal workers are required to keep the windows shut when they leave the vehicle, even in 115°F days in Phoenix.
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by chrismartin 6y ago
If you're ever around Tucson AZ, I recommend a visit to the Titan Missile Museum. (No affiliation, just a fan.) The tour includes a simulated launch order, two volunteers are chosen to turn the keys, and the ancient control panel will
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by chrismartin 6y ago
We can't embed media but we can still link to it? I welcome efforts to encourage higher-quality discussion on social media, but I don't see how this gets us there. https://subreply.com/about "Subreply was cre
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by chrismartin 6y ago
Parlor!
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by chrismartin 6y ago
For my use (occasionally joining someone's meeting), the Zoom web client completely eliminates the need to install the app. They don't make it easy to find, but: https://zoom.us/wc/join/enter-your-meeting
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by chrismartin 6y ago
It looks like the slider valve is surrounded on all sides by hot air-fuel mixture and combustion gas. Will the fingers of the slider valve need to be lubricated? Might they be lubricated without consuming (burning) excessive oil (with conse
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by chrismartin 6y ago
I agree but I've seen this not work long-term. Entrepreneurs are inherently curious, distractible, and prone to move on to other projects. Any leader is prone to burnout. I know a small company with a great founder who wanted to suppor
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by chrismartin 6y ago
Nobody makes enough money to pay multiple-six-figures developer salaries without people being exploited somewhere, and any $bigcorp is generally incapable of acting in a way that doesn't maximize shareholder value (except as needed to
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by chrismartin 7y ago
If y'all hug my web server to death then read it on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20200401142803/https://blog.c-ma...
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Mobile Hotspot Data Limits and How to “Avoid” Them(blog.c-mart.in)
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