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by fatnoah 4y ago
Oh yeah, I'm fully aware of that. Somewhat ironically, the one device (garage door opener) that I did allow to do its cloud thing works so poorly that I gave up on trying to make it work and turned off the WiFi. The remote open never
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> To solve all this they decided to build a cloud API that would resolve all these problems in one go. It solves everything except for the fact that, for people like me, it means we'll never actually give network access to the devic
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> i suppose - or you can watched live stream together over video chat, and not have something over your face. you can do that today and not have to pay hundreds of dollars for hardware too :D Speaking as someone who does sit with somethi
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> The fact of the matter is, if you have people you can hang out with in person you're not going to bother with VR, or the metaverse. Several of my friends have Quests, and we use them regularly with each other, but the catch here i
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> At the time, the biggest concern Zuckerberg had was that they didn't own a platform. I believe the concerns around the lack of a platform were both about "moat-defining" and the possibility of being deplatformed by Apple
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by fatnoah 4y ago
In a previous life as a full-stack Engineer at a startup, this was my white whale. The state of logging, monitoring, and alerting was such that signal quality was low, and only indirect observations of the system were possible since the lo
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I went through the process in the fall (starting about a month before being laid off, as it turns out) with almost 25 YOE. My background includes significant startup experience at all levels, plus FAANG and some bigger companies. It took m
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Every company is different, startups included. In my first full-time job, I was at a big company and completed my first project in a couple months. As it turns out, that was actually my project for the year. I literally had nothing to do
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by fatnoah 4y ago
This. The best "weather app" is my bookmark to the NWS forecast in my area. The best part is that NWS doesn't name ordinary storms.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I distinctly remember that Wing Commander had "good guys" not winning paths. My second most frustrating experience in that game was intentionally choosing that path and managing to succeed on the final mission after umpteen tries
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> - you think you are more likely to use the insurance than others, eg by being more clumsy (and without paying a higher premium) Unfortunately, this is exactly my life with my family. For my own phone, I don't use a case or screen
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> But I can’t feel part of the reason for the NYC subways many woes is because of the 24/7 service and the lack of maintenance and cleanup Come to Boston. We don't have 24/7 service and still close lines for entire days,
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> Support for woodshop and metal classes offered in high school disappeared in the early 2000s to make way for computer labs, Ray said. I graduated in the 90's and my high school had (and still does have) amazing facilities, since i
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I started my career during peak XML crazy and while I liked parts of it at the time, the number of things it was used for was quite insane. I had to maintain a system once where a major part of it was XSLT, when could have just been a
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Facebook used to (still does?) have an easter egg on their map depicting NULL island: https://twitter.com/chris_whong/status/1359126193413488645 If you look closely, it strongly resembles another island: https:&#
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Way back in the early 2000's, I homebrewed a simple server to stream audio from my home PC via Windows Media Services (IIRC). It featured a web app to allow me to create the playlist. It let me listen to my own music at work without
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by fatnoah 4y ago
There may really be no damage to Chipotle, but the nature of trademark law is that failing to defend your trademarks can result in you losing the ability to enforce them. By not going after this likely non-damaging case, Chipotle could run
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I was just thinking that as one popped up just now. "Some account services will not be available until you sign in again" all day every day. Whenever I try to close it, it (of course) brings me to settings. Guess what? If I have
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> That’s compares to the due diligence we went through when I worked at a small startup years ago. It was only for a few million but they made us go through hell with all their information request. I went through this as an exec at a sta
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> You can, you should teach your kid about the dangers of drugs and addiction. Still you wouldn't bring him in a crack house... I know this is a little tongue-in-cheek, but I have a 15 year-old and we lived downtown in a major city
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I spent a long, long time in startups before moving to larger companies, and eventually a FAANG. The folks I worked with at the FAANG were incredibly smart, motivated, and collaborative, but a huge percentage of them had no experience outs
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> This is odd to me. This is not a long distance. Is there zero transport infrastructure where you live? There is, in fact I lived a 5 minute walk from a bus stop and worked near a subway stop. My commute was: 1) 5 minute walking
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> In double blind trials or audiophile I can hear the gold plating sort of way? I think this type of comparison with espresso is comparing the differences of far different orders of magnitude. i.e. Impact of a bad grinder, poor bean dis
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> I can't imagine what it would have been like if I had spent the week out commuting between the hours of 7am to 7pm I can, because I lived that life. My wife and I moved from 1 bedroom apartment in the city to a house in a suburb
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by fatnoah 4y ago
> A scale is nice to follow instructions if you've never used an espresso machine before, but I don't think it is necessary. Or maybe my taste buds just aren't discerning enough :) I manage to get a very good shot 9 times
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I don't have a scale, and I use whatever basket came with the machine, which I do believe is unpressurized. I don't have the bottomless portafilter, though. I feel like eyeballing pressure gauge and the flow from the regular bas
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by fatnoah 4y ago
A few years ago, I took my son to the CS:GO Major Championship in my city. It was held in a university's arena, and my son was excited to go. Even though I'm a gamer myself, I was very "meh" about being up to my armpit
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by fatnoah 4y ago
FWIW, I have a fancier machine, but don't have any of that optional equipment. I have a decent and consistent burr grinder, but other than that my optional equipment is the tamper and a toothpick for distribution. This is mostly beca
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Jumping on the double-boiler fan train. My family likes lattes and I like espressos. I make them one at a time, and it's nice to go from pulling the shot, to steam, next shot & steam, etc.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
As someone with a teen, it's tremendously difficult to navigate, and like all things related to child-rearing, it probably depends on the actual kids in question. For our teen, the rule is that mom and dad have full access to all devic

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