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by eric_h 9y ago
> studies have shown MDMA users to literally have shrunken bits of their brain. http://www.maps.org/news/media/2462-media-reports-of-ecstasy... . I only had a chance to skim that article, but it is equating tabl
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by eric_h 9y ago
I heard, from someone who works for WeWork, that they do own at least some of the WeWork buildings in Manhattan. Admittedly it was a low level employee, so he could have been mistaken.
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by eric_h 9y ago
If I'm not mistaken, WeWork owns a number of the buildings in which they have offices. Not sure what the percentage is.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Your office even has beautiful floor to ceiling windows that gives you a nice view of downtown and sunsets. s/Your office/some offices My company currently has an office in the middle of the floor of a WeWork building, it&#x2
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by eric_h 9y ago
Everyone switched to SSDs ;)
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Flipping back through a physical book requires a process of trial and error And yet I am so much faster at finding that vaguely remembered section or passage by using that process of trial and error in a paper book than I am on an erea
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by eric_h 9y ago
I had a teacher in high school who frequently cracked a joke that his “ugly” lawn was only ugly because he was prioritizing biodiversity over beauty.
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by eric_h 9y ago
I occasionally use the "hey Siri" feature while in bed to mess with alarms in the morning (i.e. cancel whatever I had set and set a later one in the morning ;) apparently my morning groggy voice always requires a second hey Siri
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by eric_h 9y ago
Terry Davis - he occasionally chimes in here with similarly themed posts (but only if you have show dead enabled). He's schizophrenic, is famous for TempleOS and infamous for the contents of his posts on the internet.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Most bots that I've encountered on twitter "register" a bot by saying it's a bot in the profile. The "up-to-no-good" bots do no such thing, of course.
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by eric_h 9y ago
That would be because Facebook actively makes it difficult for you to have multiple accounts.
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An Experiment That Didn't Work(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by eric_h 9y ago
I'll second this - Walmart is my go to for online purchases of consumable items.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Pretty sure we all do. The constraints under which he was operating to create the mess I took over I understand well, and I do not blame him for the end result. He is a manager now, though, not a day-to-day programmer ;)
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by eric_h 9y ago
Yep, and in particular, one person over 12 years with one to three month breaks between sessions of working on it. He had no choice but to "monkey see, monkey do" what his past self did, and the resultant product is ... difficult
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by eric_h 9y ago
Absolutely. When I stumble upon some code in my full time codebase that I find distasteful, my first thought is "what idiot did this". git blame and sure enough, it's me. Past me has been and always will be an idiot as far as
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by eric_h 9y ago
I should add that I volunteered to maintain this project, in exchange for free stuff from said organization (not money), before I knew what I was volunteering for (heh, lesson learned). 3 years (of occasional work, maybe 1-4 hours a week) l
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by eric_h 9y ago
I disagree. I inherited an app that I'm maintaining that was written by one person over ~12 years. When requirements were added, he just cloned the app and started making the changes so the new app would meet the requirements. Repeat 2
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by eric_h 9y ago
Yeah - we worked with a company that bought some traffic on a cost per impression basis relatively recently, and all of a sudden we had a significant burst in errors being reported. The user agent for the devices experiencing the errors wer
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by eric_h 9y ago
My personal password strategy requires that I do, in fact, have to recall from memory a small number of secure passwords (device access passwords, ssh key passwords, password manager password and one web service password (iCloud)). My memor
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by eric_h 9y ago
Yes indeed. I'm always a little anxious when an installer (or something) prompts me for an administrator password, and some secure channel indicating that it's really the OS that's asking for it would help to assuage my fears
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Like how Slack always says stuff along the lines of "we like you" and "I hope you have a great time at work today" every single time you log in. And they're only doing that to cover for their atrocious first lo
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by eric_h 9y ago
That article about using actually, for real using homing pigeons as data carriers is very cool, thanks. Also - excellent handle responding to a comment about latency.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> (even though it's probably technically illegal) The article mentions that they weren't convicted for their hack because it wasn't technically illegal.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> I've convinced my friends who are good at Set to play a variant based on natural numbers and operations in them I'm curious about this and would like to subscribe to your newsletter ;)
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by eric_h 9y ago
Well shit, color blindness would definitely make the game more difficult, but I bet a grayscale version of the game could actually be made to work. > And of course some people are better at spatial stuff then other. Of course. My remark
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by eric_h 9y ago
I like that the game Set is mentioned. I haven't played in a few years but I've always loved that game. The only problem with it is that for whatever reason some people are _significantly_ better at it than others (right off the b
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by eric_h 9y ago
I was having a conversation with my boss at lunch today - and he made a joke how the difference between our respective sleep/activity schedules is basically the same as the difference between our schedules on the east coast of the USA
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Well, for some reason the ports on my phones would always kind of stop working at some point Lint. Headphone jacks and lightning ports on every iPhone I've ever owned would always stop working properly after 6 months to a year of
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Wireless headphones are subject to interference while wired ones are not. The GSM "buzz" would like to have a word with you. Admittedly it's no longer much of an issue as that standard is not used much anymore, but still

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