el_benhameen

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by el_benhameen 10mo ago
Oh, another fun one: I once got an offer letter via Docs. The edit history included the original paste from another candidate’s offer letter, including their name and salary. Useful for benchmarking!
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by el_benhameen 10mo ago
Yep. I do this because I explicitly do not want a third party to see my thought process. If I wanted the reader to see my edits and second thoughts, I would have included them in the final document.
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by el_benhameen 10mo ago
Just upgraded my license today, so I guess Charles is my new Baader-Meinhof token. Great tool! The ssl proxying is especially handy.
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by el_benhameen 10mo ago
If you’ve ever tried to find an employee in one of their stores, this won’t be very surprising.
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by el_benhameen 10mo ago
Not a bad way to thicken a soup, either. I prefer it to using cornstarch (a roux still has the best flavor and consistency in my opinion, though).
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by el_benhameen 11mo ago
Not exactly your main point, but where’d you go to learn calculus? I did the usual classes in high school but none since, and I’d love to develop a better appreciation for it.
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by el_benhameen 11mo ago
This is true, but it’s also true that the money buys all of those extra activities and services. At my kids’ school, the garden program, music program, arts program, and teachers aides are all funded by the PTA. The field trips are funded b
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by el_benhameen 11mo ago
Yeah I think the context matters a lot there. I’m assuming it means “on a state by state basis”, which is true. But within my state, at least, family income, outside spending, and property tax revenues correlate very strongly with outcomes.
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by el_benhameen 11mo ago
FWIW, the .net folks seem to have put a lot of effort into the native AOT pipeline in the last few releases. We have a large, non-trivial application with a fair amount of legacy code, and getting it AOT’d in .net 10 (targeting wasm, even!)
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by el_benhameen 11mo ago
If that doesn’t work, a lot of county health departments have free clinics for people without insurance.
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Ask HN: What's the prototyping workflow at your company?
2 points by el_benhameen 1y ago|0 comments
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Meckel’s diverticulum
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
In January my daughter had a pretty scary stomach issue that had us in the ER twice in 24 hours and that ended in surgery (just fine now). The first ER doc thought it was just a stomach ache, the second thought a stomach ache or maybe appen
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I’m the same way with working on a plane. 2 hours of plane work is worth 4 hours of desk work. Something about the ambient noise, incentive to stay in the seat, and strict time boxing. Shitty internet (if it works at all) means there’s a hi
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
> Your body is a commodity to be monetised That’s my favorite John Mayer song
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Ha, I figured someone would give me shit for that. I blame my comically oversized feet and comically undersized hamstrings.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I’ve tried with every set of tips except for the xs, same thumping with all of them. Zero issues running almost daily with the second gens for several years. I think it’s more than fit—either oversensitive ANC or something with the composit
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I have this happen outside of flights. Cupping your finger over the ANC mic is enough to trigger it. The new tips (that’s my guess, at least) also transmit vibrations into your ears much more than the old tips or third party memory foam tip
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
This is extraordinarily well written. Deep without being verbose. I thought I’d just peek at the link but it sucked me in.
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Title Arbitrage as Status Engineering(humaninvariant.com)
5 points by el_benhameen 1y ago|0 comments
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I have many fond memories of visiting and being amazed by this thing as a kid, but if you’ve seen it recently, it’s in pretty bad shape. “Decrepit” is the term that comes to mind. If it functioned and looked good I’d agree that it’s distinc
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Or, go after the small fish who can’t afford to have a biglaw team on retainer, bulldoze them to get a legal precedent set, and then use the example to extract concessions from the bigger players.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
There is a theory (theory! very theoretical) that the risk from radiation does not scale linearly and that low doses of radiation might actually be protective. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Not to worry there, either! I think the drugs are pretty standard, are not opiates, and honestly I think that most humans understand that “if you’re gonna poke me in the eye, at least make sure I’m good and sloshed” is a pretty reasonable a
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Wear sunglasses (or your regular uv-protective polycarbonate glasses), even when it’s not real sunny out.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I worried about this too. I had surgery for a congenital cataract at 27 or so. I was conscious-ish and remember hearing the surgeon talking and doing something to my eye, but they put you on some _wild_ drugs and I absolutely did not care.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
I got one on Amazon for a little over retail and it’s a solid keyboard. I had a knockoff 65 before and you can definitely tell the difference in quality. I believe Microcenter has them in stock if you’re in the Bay.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Just know that when this inevitably happens, it’s now on you for putting it out into the universe.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
Wow, I had no idea. That’s pretty cool. I don’t read a ton of pdfs on my phone, but I always find it super frustrating when that functionality is missing somewhere else.
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by el_benhameen 1y ago
> I’ve had one interview where I had to do multiplications really quickly, whilst shouting my name, and doing such-and-such random thing every five minutes. I think the whole “I would stand up and walk out of that interview” trope is a l

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