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by commonturtle 6y ago
I imagine one of these milk-substitute brands will become something like the next Coke: a recognized and widely available brand across the world. Personally I hope it's Oatly, I really liked both their oat milk and their oat yogurt.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
You should never, ever, install a MacOS update the moment it comes out. There is a high chance (> 30% from my experience) that something will be wrong with it. iOS too for that matter. Wait for at least one week and check out other peopl
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I've worked with an O(100k) line code base in Python that was pure torture. Honestly, I was so desperate for static-typing by the end that I would have preferred if it was all written in C++. Large codebases are really hard reason abou
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Pretty amazing collection, thanks for sharing. Ant Works 1 was my favorite.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I use a pomodoro timer, and try to hit a minimum of 10 pomodoros of focused work each day. Prevents the whole day from passing by and me realizing all I've done is reply to emails and have idle chat all day.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
This is a really good point. Training, equipment, and horse-power would have given knights huge advantages over peasants.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Took a look. I think your resume as probably as good as you can make it. It's easy to read with a few achievements nailed down for each role. Anyway in my experience people will likely spend < 1 minute on your resume, so you begin t
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I'd just post on blogspot or a free blog from wordpress.com. Then use HN / Reddit / Twitter for discoverability instead of relying on Medium.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
You could still send a physical card, I suppose, even if you can't meet in person? Lovepop's popup cards are pretty nice: https://www.lovepopcards.com/collections/best-selling-pop-up...
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Interesting, a sort of artificial photosynthesis; converting CO2 + water + nutrients into edible food. Edit: Found an interview with the founder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iv0857U3UE . Basically the idea seems to be t
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I don't understand why Fox News accepted the outcome of the election so readily. No "this is rigged!", "stop the count!", etc.? Does someone understand the power dynamics at play here? Is Trump not useful to Murdoch
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I was wondering if there was a catch. So this might be a good way to heat things but not to generate electricity.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications was one of the best technical books I've ever read. Perfect mix of theory and practice for someone who understands the web stack but doesn't understand how distributed systems
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Why did pollsters do so badly? The shy trump voter hypothesis doesn’t seem compelling to me.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I saw Taleb’s video on this topic too but couldn’t really follow it. Does someone have a eli5 explanation for someone unfamiliar with how financial arbitrage works?
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by commonturtle 6y ago
The inbound tourism idea is something I didn't think about. Transmission may depend a lot of people transporting it from one geographical region to another, and that might be less common in the developing world simply due to worse tran
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by commonturtle 6y ago
A few I wouldn't have guessed in a million years: - India's biggest export is oil. I didn't know India even had significant petroleum reserves. - UK's biggest exports is cars. - New Zealand's biggest export is.. mil
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Yeah, I'm just not sure what's happening in Asia, South America, and Africa. There were stories about lots of cases in a few countries but the number of deaths was quite low. Europe and North America seem to be the brutally hit bu
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Wow, I didn't know this existed. I had the itch to play some of the games of my childhood a while ago (mostly roguelikes and interactive text adventures), but was too lazy to set up Dosbox. To be able to run them from my browser is jus
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by commonturtle 6y ago
2 hours / day of practice for 30 days will give you enough ability to clear Leetcode style questions. Trust me, it will be worth it. At Microsoft, you have plenty of autonomy over your life and work. Even if you don't work very ha
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I think life at a lot of the huge tech cos is pretty relaxed. Especially the older ones: Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, IBM, etc. Put in your 40 hours a week (if that), and chill. The next generation of tech cos (Google, FB, Amazon, Netflix, etc
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Artists including themselves in their art was also common during the renaissance. Da Vinci apparently included himself in his painting Adoration of the Magi ( https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/adoration-of-the-ma
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Agree with the need for moderation. But to 'spend slightly less than your opposition' might be insufficient; you don't usually have one opponent but a few. In that case your first opponent knows if you have to spend all your
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by commonturtle 6y ago
'Waste' is the wrong way to look at it. It's like someone looking at the human body and complaining about the huge amount of energy spent collecting waste from the body and passing it out via the urinary tract. Wouldn't
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Tbh I still think Netflix is a very good deal. For $14/month you get access to a huge selection of movies and TV shows that you can watch with no commercials. Where I'm from a ticket to the cinema costs about that much (excluding
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I'm open to just learning things for fun too; although ideally would like to be able to apply them somewhere. What I fear is traditional retirement that I've seen some people choose: spending the rest of their days watching TV and
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Yeah the title is misleading and the results are probably not going to replicate in humans. But surprisingly the comments on this post are really interesting and good quality.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
That's an incredible story. I always enjoy reading about how people have managed to stay active and learn new things well past the typical retirement age. What does your dad work on exactly? When did he start programming? I hope I&#x27
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Lockdowns vary so widely across countries that to use the term lockdown as a standard term is misleading. E.g.: The UK had a national lockdown in April-May, but people were allowed to go into work if they couldn't WFH, but in many othe
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Tyler Cowen's Debate with Eric Weinstein(youtube.com)
2 points by commonturtle 6y ago|0 comments

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