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by fatnoah 2y ago
Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible, and those who take medical advice from non-professionals are just as bad.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Don't forget the federal government itself. I've still got 1 year remaining from the 10 years of monitoring I got from the OPM breach wayyy back when. Related, any company offering monitoring should be required to pay for a seria
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by fatnoah 2y ago
TBH, I don't remember the name as it was one of those crazy generic beezelebubatab type of generic names.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Part of the harm is in people no longer trusting drugs. I'm not sure how trust would be eroded by the failure of an experimental drug to treat a terminal case where no other drugs are working.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I've experienced this from both sides. First with my father who was dying of cancer and was informed that while some promising treatments were in trials, he was not eligible. Balancing potential harm from unapproved drugs vs. certain
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I've seen it go both ways. I once worked at a large (> $100B market cap) tech company and had the opposite experience. I had several interactions with C-Suite and the level below and my main takeaway was that "holy cow, they ge
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> a bunch of people doing due diligence on an acquisition Granted, it was nowhere near this scale, but I've gone through this process as the head of Engineering for the company being acquired. At that point, the business had alread
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I run both Plex and Roon on my Synology NAS. The former is used for videos/photos and to share with the in-laws, while the latter is mostly for my own owned & streamed music. Roon's not cheap, but it works for my various use
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Yes, and there are multiple levels of aggregators. For example, in a past life, I built SMS APIs and back-ends, including ones used by smaller telecoms to enable their subscribers to send/receive SMS. (We were pretty small, and only
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Refrigators now have "software" so you can order Uber and doordash... I don't plan to buy any new refrigerator until it has full AI capabilities to generate recipes (including visuals) and guidance based on an inspection
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> This is why blameless postmortems are such good thing. 100%. I'm very much a fan of asking _what_ happened and then figuring out how to prevent it from happening ahead. Look back to inform the future, not to find blame. Ultimat
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> "Trust, but verify" Even though my entire career has been software, I was an Electrical Engineering major, so I have taken VLSI design (and even designed an 8-bit ALU). My first job was writing embedded software, and would f
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I have to imagine that Meta, and other big companies are in a similar situation. Meta, in particular, gives beefy grants and anyone that joined 4-5 years ago has seen the stock go up 7X. For a senior Engineer that held on to the initial g
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by fatnoah 2y ago
In the late 2010's, my startup built a messaging app with millions of daily users sending and receiving >1B messages a month, (somewhere north of 300 messages/sec, IIRC) with a trailing 12 month average uptime of our systems of
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by fatnoah 2y ago
For me, it was Turkey TV on Nickelodeon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_Television
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> Everyone at university not doing an Imposter degree should have had it taught. My grad school had "seminar" classes, which were only 1 hour per week over the semester, but the "back of the envelope estimation" semin
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by fatnoah 2y ago
As a parent that experienced this two years ago, I can confirm. Hearing about a threat at school, followed by shota.fired, and receiving a call from my fleeing child are those "life in slow motion" moments burned into my memory.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
As a parent that experienced such an event, my son having his phone let him message me that he and his class were literally running away into the woods and escaping the situation. Obviously, knowing his class was ok was a huge relief, but
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> I like this angle... Focus first on the fact that I'm having to pay taxes to put a roof over my head while the developer down the road is driving up land prices by squatting on an empty lot while paying pennies! As a resident of t
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Meanwhile, there's me. I discovered cast iron last year and have been loving it for all sorts of things. Of course, my yearly blood test showed high iron levels in my blood so I need to tone it down a little bit.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> The act of doing something is usually what creates motivation to continue. This is one of the techniques I use when feeling burnout or overwhelmed by an insurmountable task list. I set a goal to just get one thing done. Sometimes that
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by fatnoah 2y ago
As a wearer of glasses, I'm ok with this additional level of evolution. :)
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Yes, same here. I don't notice it until I do.
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I can't wait for the shift back to in-person interviews to combat the use of AI assistants in virtual interviews. ;)
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by fatnoah 2y ago
It is a very tenacious plant. I had exactly one stalk grow to 3 feet in a mulched area of my yard. I didn't think too much about it because I didn't know what it was and hadn't heard of it. While testing a trial of a plant
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by fatnoah 2y ago
Somewhat ironically, I'm pretty sure I failed a system design interview at a big tech last year for not drastically over building to solve a problem that probably had far less data (movie showtimes, and IIRC there are less than 50k sc
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by fatnoah 2y ago
That's a great breakdown. To my ears, one of the big differences in Canadian vs. Metropolitan French is that the former is very much in the throat, while the latter is in the nose. Standing in line for currency exchange in Montreal be
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by fatnoah 2y ago
As the resident of a northeastern US state, relatives on one side of my family grew up speaking French, so naturally I took French in high school. I was embarrassed when I still couldn't speak French with the family and had to resort
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by fatnoah 2y ago
> "smart and gets things done" This is what I optimize for as well, and it's amazing how much pushback I get from others on this. I've been hiring software engineers and other roles for over 10 years, and not once did
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by fatnoah 2y ago
I've probably said this in other posts, but the best "don't do drugs" education my child got was living in a city. It's one thing to hear about drugs, it's another to watch your dad call 911 for a man collapse

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