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by csours 2y ago
Consider this - you are able to overpower the force of gravity on earth. The earth is very large, but you are stronger than it's gravity. Gravity is so much less powerful than the other forces.
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Your comment is entirely consistent with the parent comment. 68/2=34 If electricity costs 35c/unit then T could be making 10c and R could be making 33c. T could be choosing to take less profit.
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Legacy is when you have a shell script call an ant script that calls shell scripts that call make scripts that fire c precompile requests to a remote database. (Of course it's now packaged in docker because it runs on a version of linu
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by csours 2y ago
All I will say is, never work in compliance. You never have enough data or the data you need, because compliance is very important, but never as important as the actual job.
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Over the course of the past century we've become enured to media selling our vices back to us. What happens when media sells our virtues back to us? In other words, it feels really good and righteous to be angry at the bad people. It f
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by csours 2y ago
As the big players enshit themselves, my feeling that there is no such thing as a "tech valuation" or "tech multiple" grows.
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by csours 2y ago
One that really gets me is "Big Government" - we are the government. What you mean is "Big Unaccountable Organization" - which can just as easily be Big Business or in some cases Big NGO/Nonprofit/Religion&#x2F
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by csours 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8PndpFPL8g Hank Green - "Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment" There are many ways to explain what is going on right now. One partial explanation that makes sense t
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> The nanosensor correctly identified healthy individuals 98% of the time, and identified people with pancreatic cancer with 73% accuracy. ctrl+f specificity
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> My personal theory is that the fallout from his divorce ... Yes, I've noticed that people having nasty public fights with family members can lead to extremely negative effects on decision making.
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At this point I feel like a rising stock price after a crisis should be a major red flag for long term corporate survival. Carlos Ghosn was able to "turn Nissan around", but it was at the expense of future product capabilities (in
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> We would recommend supervising Claude with management at least as competent as it. insert reaction meme here The drive to fight can make people say some really dumb stuff sometimes (speaking about the banking CEO)
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> My own opinion is that educational curricula are generally not very important at all We spend an incredible amount of time and effort on educational curricula, so it's worth thinking about. My opinion is everything you learn bef
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Yes this bugged me too
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and drugs --- edit: there's why and there's why. Drugs is the answer you sell
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To me, software development is many things, but the inner loop is mainly characterized by two alternating modes: Trying things and Learning things. The biggest hidden assumption I see is that we expect other people to be trying and learning
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by csours 2y ago
Something I've wondered about recently - often times in a kitchen you want hot water and a cold box for food - and lately there are heat pump water heaters available on the market. Is there a fridge/water heater combo yet?
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by csours 2y ago
Anecdote: Back in October '24 I got Covid. My only symptom that stuck around was lack of taste on my tongue (NOT Anosmia, it's lack of salty/sweet/sour/bitter response on the tongue itself), but only on the right ha
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Myeaah, we need to fix that misalignment. --- Private, you better realign yourself in the next 60 seconds! --- So sorry, your alignment score seems to be too low for this promotion. --- Citizens, peacefully disperse and align yourselves.
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by csours 2y ago
Functional Core - are you unit testing side effects? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct... https://hn.algolia.com/?q=functional+core
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by csours 2y ago
To be needlessly pedantic: the wheel is the place where the non-rotating axle connects to the rotating body. So for most automobiles, the tire (tyre) can be detached from the rim, which can be detached from the wheel hub, which encloses the
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no book -> not a book
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There is 0.9 (repeating) apple. edit: Math is very precise, and has very obvious correct and incorrect answers. Language much less so. So when we have a question like this, it FEELS like there should be an obvious and precise answer because
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by csours 2y ago
> "The government needs to just stay out of it." 0) Elect people who claim they can make the voters' existing lifestyle affordable. I agree that sometimes nothing or not very much is the best thing for the government to do
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Ok, just play the next move. Insurance is expensive. Now what happens.
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Pot-two-to-the-first-os vs Pot-two-to-the-third-os
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keep stuff simple ssssssilly
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Do not self-deploy to a disaster area - it helps no one if you also need to be rescued. If you volunteer to help someone else, you can't do it on your own terms alone, you have to be aware and willing to work with what other people nee
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FOMO? Perhaps they were offered exclusivity? Also, it's a brand new income stream. Managers love to talk about income streams at shareholder meetings.
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Whatever your locality is, there are existing opportunities to volunteer. Even if you don't particularly care about whatever that organization does, it's a great place to meet people who care, and they usually care about more than

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