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by curun1r 3y ago
They're transparent in the sense that they tell you the cost and it's the same when you checkout 5 minutes later. But calling it "transparently priced" is nonsense. Fares change based on multiple variables. The fact that
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by curun1r 3y ago
FWIW, when I had to get in touch with EDD several years ago and had absolutely no luck calling the main number, I eventually got through with the foreign language numbers. They’re generally staffed higher in proportion to the number of call
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by curun1r 3y ago
From my 5-minute read of the situation, this feels similar to the quote about politics in academia, “Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” The more you get out of the mainstream a
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by curun1r 3y ago
It says in the article that they weren’t migrating from REST. They had an internally-developed technology that’s very similar to GraphQL called Falcor that they’ve been using. They actually had it before GraphQL was a thing, but futzed arou
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by curun1r 3y ago
> I imagine they’re upset that they can’t send adverts through the API Even that doesn’t make sense. They could’ve just told app developers a) we’re going to start co-mingling ads in API responses and b) that failure to render those ads
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by curun1r 3y ago
The other fundamentally different thing is the learning tools. As a kid, I had one book on one opening and I had to sit by a board reading it to make the moves to try to dial in the learning. It was a slow and laborious process. I tried che
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by curun1r 4y ago
There’s more to life than money. Autonomy, mastery and purpose. Those are the textbook three dimensions of intrinsic motivators that lead to job satisfaction, and it’s often much easier to find those in a startup. Working in a more establis
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by curun1r 4y ago
Just a reminder that this isn't new. When I was about to enter high school in the early 90s, Oakland was trying to end-around testing standards for black students by declaring Ebonics as a separate language so that it could classify bl
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by curun1r 4y ago
Variations of this have been going around for years. Sometimes scammers will even work with cam models to record victims sexting over videoconference. At one point they were targeting Muslim men because they knew the cultural implications o
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by curun1r 4y ago
I‘ve always been a night owl. Waking up at any time before 8am just left me groggy for most of the morning. It didn’t matter if I established a sleep schedule where I got a full 8 hours, my body just doesn’t like getting up that early. But
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by curun1r 4y ago
I think it really depends on the type of project. An open source project is going to have different goals for commit messages than an internal corp project or a private personal project. I'm a big fan of conventional commits, but only
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by curun1r 4y ago
Why is home ownership important? It’s a serious question. It’s currently important within the context of houses as a form of appreciating wealth that can be passed on to future generations, but a big part of the reason we have a housing cri
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by curun1r 4y ago
Social media. Being part of the mob that punishes and gets likes and gives people their dopamine fix. And as we know from all the other ways that humans get their dopamine fixes, they're not just going to sit by passively and wait for
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by curun1r 4y ago
Their goal is to keep you subscribed, not to keep you entertained. They know they don’t have enough premium content to keep you as a subscriber if that’s all you watch. That kind of content usually costs a ton to create. So they need to hav
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by curun1r 4y ago
I’ve found it’s too error prone to rely on developers remembering to use conventional commits. But when you use something like cocogitto [0], it makes writing compliant commit messages the path of least resistance. I’ve always liked the ide
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by curun1r 4y ago
The other part of authoritarianism that’s less popular to talk about is that, in many ways, it works very well. In many parts of the “free” US, you can’t leave a visible bag in your vehicle for more than a few minutes because you’ll return
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by curun1r 4y ago
My favorite is an app called ApneaTrainer. It has two different breathing patterns, but I do the 1-4-2 pattern for 30 min, 3 times a week. It helps you set your level as you improve. I’ve mostly plateaued at level 16, but I still find it us
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by curun1r 4y ago
I’ve done a lot of freediving training and your app is now my fourth breathing app on my phone, so I may be an outlier, but in trying a few exercises in your app, I found that it was going way too quickly and causing me to over-breathe (hyp
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by curun1r 4y ago
There may be designs that cut out some/most of the cost, but I made the comment because I watched a YouTube documentary on an airport that was making modifications and they had to dig up a bunch of the runways. They made a big deal out
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by curun1r 4y ago
The other major concern is running reliable power to the lights. That isn’t something that can happen above ground when crossing runways, so there’s going to be at least some digging up the runway and repaving. Repaving runways isn’t cheap.
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by curun1r 4y ago
I don’t think they’re getting stupider. They’re what they’ve always been…a source of conventional wisdom. When conventional wisdom said bloodletting was good for health, they bled their patients. When mercury was considered a medicine, they
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by curun1r 4y ago
> What is it ultimately used for? Quite often, it seems, they ask to build your profile to sell to advertisers. As much as it would be great for everyone to be treated equally, our genders do affect the crap that we buy and advertisers o
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by curun1r 4y ago
The dubious administrators are a symptom, not a cause. The root cause is guaranteed loan money. About a decade ago, I remember seeing a study posted here that said that for every dollar of increased guaranteed loans, tuition went up 71 cent
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by curun1r 4y ago
Just adding on… Browsers model back/forward linearly whereas the mental model I want is more tree-like. If I end up going back a few times and then click a link in the same tab, I lose all ability to go forward again. So a lot of my ta
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by curun1r 4y ago
Not the person you’re responding to, but having worked both… The obvious thing is the perks. When I worked in an 8000 person company, I got to go to any tech conference I wanted, got to attend leadership training courses, had more $200&#x2F
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by curun1r 4y ago
> one reason why Apple phones still do really well on the secondhand market Apple products do well on the second-hand market because Apple usually doesn’t cannibalize that market by selling low-end devices. By positioning themselves as a
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by curun1r 4y ago
Heh…I remember attending a Java dev conference in 2006 where attendees thought the mention of using NetBeans for professional development was a joke. Like the presenter prefaced a statement with, “if you use NetBeans…” and he wasn’t able to
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by curun1r 4y ago
1960s? Try the 1990s. The Blockbuster version of Bad Lieutenant had almost 30 min removed. Blockbuster was silently editing many of their VHS rentals before DVD took over. Yes, not government censorship, but it’s almost worse when a private
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by curun1r 4y ago
> The 'can't put old widows out of their homes' scenario is why California's Prop 13 came to be There’s a better way to handle this, though, than the Prop 13 approach of limiting taxes. You just allow a certain amount
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by curun1r 4y ago
You're assuming that we're talking about a government surveillance setup where information is intended to be private. But the article's discussion still applies when the subject matter is canceling people on social networks.

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