dan_quixote

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by dan_quixote 4y ago
Consider that some of Amazon's more recent ventures into automation (namely PrimeAir) are driven by the long-standing knowledge that they would exhaust the labor pool in many markets. They knew their growth and labor practices would hu
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
Primary care in the US is heavily reliant on the most basic heuristics to meet patient throughput requirements. Many clinics are operating at 15 min/patient. And no one wants to spend their free time charting the visit and making nec
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
> Not every business has the money to waste converting their old apps to cool-tech like Elixir or a React frontend with microservices. I always ask myself (and the team at large) "how much time/effort will it take to reach pari
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
Anecdata: Everyone I know with kids in elementary school is reporting major outbreaks at school for the first time in the era of Covid. This includes my family. The transmissibility (specifically among kids) appears to be significantly hi
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
A.k.a series hybrid . Chevy attempted this with the Volt - it made perfect sense to me but never really caught on.
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
Fraud paranoia seems to keep constant downward pressure on our social safety net. We'd rather scrap a life-saving system than accept a minimal level of fraud. Just imagine if retail businesses operated this way and shut down at the f
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
>If I was a parent in the US I'd be looking for an underground formula railroad Yep - we found a company in Florida that was importing formula from Germany at a reasonable premium. Keep in mind that this was 4 years ago, so I don&#
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
It actually wouldn't surprise me if they optimized for bar/qr code readability. I wrote something years ago that used industrial cameras to read QR codes as well as very precise metrology features. I had to optimize the optical&
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
His videos are a delightfully interesting AND relaxing. Always a joy to watch and very little patreon/shill filler.
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
> Insurance is the only industry where they agree to pay for something (in this case, "medical care"), but then after service has been rendered can decide to pay less, or not pay at all, or stop paying that provider altogether
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by dan_quixote 4y ago
Sounds ideal in principle (principal?), but low interest/risk on student loans is what allowed tuition to inflate well beyond general inflation in the last several decades.
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
It's still very common outside of the cores of highly urbanized neighborhoods. I generally like it, but sometimes the visibility isn't as well-maintained as it should be.
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
> I try not to exceed 75MPH on 65MPH roads, or 80MPH on 70MPH roads. Where I drive, often traffic exceeds the posted speed limit. Here I was thinking you were in the Seattle area until I read the last bit.
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
Teams has good features. Lots of good features. Too many good features, really. And they're assembled in the most confusing/annoying/exhausting way. I've given it a fair shake (probably in the hundreds of hours of vid
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
Nostalgia I guess. If you're old enough to remember the world before ubiquitous internet, you likely have some fond memories of arcades. We didn't always have everything available at arms length instantly. Many of us saved up m
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
I can't speak for Wealthfront, but managed "funds" are typically balanced across high and low risk securities. Thus they will obviously lag behind even index funds like SPY/QQQ. Where managed funds tend to show benefit
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
I made the leap from physical to software engineering several years back and the quality-of-life difference is night-and-day. Certainly there are software devs that would find a better fit in the physical engineering world, but I think mos
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
I've come full circle on this and actually like HCL now. It's so limiting that there's often only one (or a few at most) way to feasibly do something. This is kinda painful when your team is small, but becomes a net-positiv
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
I’ve even seen vegetable oil used as cutting fluid on CNC mills. So it makes sense on a chain saw.
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
> In my opinion as a 20 year software veteran, the skillset many software engineers lack is having a bigger world-view of company operations and why they are doing what they are doing. Some of that is obviously on the company structures
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
I say this as someone who has gained significant wealth from personal real estate - Tax it more. It's crazy to incentivize personal real estate as an investment.
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
I was forced back into it after years of using GSuite and....it's just as clunky as I remember. You get a different feature-set depending on whether you're using the native app or browser version (but it's not obvious at fir
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
Is it not just a case of survivorship bias? I'd expect that the historical stuff in museums is carefully (not randomly) selected. There were probably all kinds of crap art from the same era that simply got trashed.
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
So, lack of SELinux and the like?
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
> Letting employees work from home: -$0 Are we sure this is true? It's easy to put $0 on a balance sheet under the real estate column. But there are certainly other costs (including opportunity costs).
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
I _think_ the reason that the comparison with OpenAPI feels weird is because OpenAPI uses one (and only one) communication interface in REST. AsyncAPI is trying to accomplish the same thing without a consensus in communication interface.
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
Yup, used quite a lot for things like loadbalancer configuration (for instance): https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-load-balancer-controll...
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
This is a huge hurdle. There is actually some chip/silicon fab sites that never left (only scaled down considerably from their peak). A family member has worked at one for many years as an engineer/manager. When he tells me sto
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
Anecdotally, I have at least 7 family/friends that were RNs at some point and moved on to other professions or dropped to part time. Zero of my family and friends are still full-time RNs. They cite a combination of reasons: risks fr
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by dan_quixote 5y ago
OPB is excellent. Oregon Field Guide is just so good. As a Seattle resident, I'm a bit jealous that Oregon has us beat with the outdoor programming. But a lot of their stories cross the state border. https://watch.opb.org

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