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by eszed 9mo ago
The only FLW building I've been inside is the Marin Civic Center, and I'd call it the opposite of cold and abrupt. The outside is... weird - and, yeah, the roof leaks, and not all the doors open and close all the way and it costs
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by eszed 9mo ago
Are you anywhere near (the remains of?) a canal network? That was how bulk cargo was generally transported in the 18th century. First-mile + last-mile would be by wagon, of course, though usually pulled by oxen, not horses. Canals were econ
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by eszed 9mo ago
I take your point, but a good PM will have been inside the decision-making process and carry embedded assumptions about how things should work, so they'll miss things. An outside eye - whether it's QA, user-testing, (as here) th
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by eszed 9mo ago
All of the best (imo) speculative fiction - sci-fi and fantasy, mainly - does this. I always enjoy the echos of reality, too.
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by eszed 9mo ago
Watch it. Best TV show I can think of, ever. By that I mean that the writing and acting and production values are top notch; it's entertaining throughout - some of the other greats are not ( The Wire falls down here, sometimes; Keis
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by eszed 9mo ago
I did not know about this, and it's excellent . Seems like a one-shot explanation for the "vibe-flation" phenomenon that many people find mystifying.
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by eszed 9mo ago
I wasn't sure what (if anything) in this post is a joke, but I looked up the Mars thing, and it's not. I'm looking forward to listening.
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by eszed 9mo ago
I mean... That's kinda how it works? More than once I've halfway forgotten birthdays of friends who live in timezones to my east, and then sent them a message saying "Happy birthday! (It still is where I am, lol)". I&#
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by eszed 9mo ago
You can defer the decision without waffling on the communication. Saying "we'll decide this later" (ideally with some reasons / parameters), is decisive - and sometimes gets pushback. Going silent in order to avoid dis
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by eszed 9mo ago
> Same thing happened with modern building architecture Yes. Yes, it has. I'm currently in the midst of a building project that's ten months behind schedule (and I do not know how many millions of dollars over budget), and I&#x
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by eszed 10mo ago
A carbon tax, you say? 9 out of 10 economists agree, and dozens of voters. Dozens! [That read as snark, didn't it? Sorry. I absolutely, completely, 100% agree with everything you say.]
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by eszed 10mo ago
I've recommended that book on this board before. If you read it, I'd be curious about how you think it hits now, because part of its interest - I'd say insightfulness, at the time, but it now might risk anachronistic "ch
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by eszed 10mo ago
Yeah, that's one argument - and is certainly true for later (medieval and early-modern) periods where urban disease rates were _much_ higher than rural. The corollary hypothetical is that Roman cities had well-developed water and sewer
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by eszed 10mo ago
Which, they could - in fact, government (specifically meaning Civil Service) is the ideal environment in which to manage long-term scale, focus, and investment - it's just that private (in fact multinational) interests have weaponize
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by eszed 10mo ago
I find that observation unsurprising. What would be more interesting is the relative incidence between outlying forts and interior urban centres. The article mentions a couple of papers on urban fecal matter, so maybe that answer is availab
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by eszed 10mo ago
Agree. That's how / why students best learn grammar: for / through a practical purpose. (Deciding the practicality of Latin must remain an exercise for the reader.)
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by eszed 10mo ago
Yeah, I loved my university-level grammar class, which I took as a requirement for a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certification. But I was able to speak and read and write at an extremely advanced level long b
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by eszed 10mo ago
Yeah, I'd have thought so. The lad's a little behind on appreciating narrative, though. Loves books, but can't yet focus on anything that isn't ~= pictures::words. It's fine; he'll get there. Love both Pooh
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by eszed 10mo ago
I can't wait to read LOTR to my (now four-year-old) son. Been looking forward to it since we started trying for a kid. Seriously, peak fatherhood moment. I'll savor it. That (and a few others are) on the embargo list: he's
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by eszed 10mo ago
I've not read enough Corey to form a judgement, but I don't think Jordan has nearly enough literary "heft" to satisfy close reading. Don't get me wrong: the story is fun - I enjoyed every bit of Wheel of Time - an
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by eszed 10mo ago
Cloning and extending someone's long-abandoned github project?
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by eszed 10mo ago
On the other hand, I only learned (my native) English grammar by studying another language. I mean, I used standard English intuitively, but couldn't have told you any of the technical terms. I agree with modern educators that explicit
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by eszed 10mo ago
I'll understand if dang takes it down, but the heavy (and intentional, I assume) irony makes it one I'd personally keep up. Thanks for posting that.
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by eszed 10mo ago
Thanks. Copied the journal's generated link, and should have inspected it more closely. On the other hand, why do they do that? Genuine question, are they imbedding tracking or something? I note that yours goes to a pdf, is there a way
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by eszed 10mo ago
Everything in this article rings true to my limited and glancing observations of the phenomenon. In a previous life I worked in an industry (entertainment) where becoming a celebrity is an occupational hazard. A few times I was treated as i
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by eszed 10mo ago
My impression was the same as the poster: it still over-indexes on a couple of recent posts. Of course, it's possible that we've both been repeating ourselves all year long! I mean, I know I do that, I just think I've ridden
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by eszed 10mo ago
Excel is not "complete" until they stop forcibly converting long strings of numbers into scientific notation - or at least give me a sheet-specific way to turn it off. I know how to stop it on my machine, but I have shared documen
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by eszed 10mo ago
Here's the paper: https://rdcu.be/eVCCw
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by eszed 10mo ago
> The livestream sharing commentary on investing appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking. So /live is some kind of a r
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by eszed 10mo ago
<Maximum pedantry mode engaged> Either could be correct, because whisky casks begin as whiskey casks. It's wise to be aware of all the links in your supply chain!

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