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by ff317 5y ago
IMHO, there's nothing inherently wrong with having a mission statement. The fix here is that you must balance that mission statement with a well-defined set of Values as well. The mission is what you want to accomplish in the world, a
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by ff317 5y ago
I'm mid-40s and had 2x Moderna on the recommended schedule back in Apr/May. First shot was just mild injection-site pain. Second shot was terrible. Symptoms started about 12h after the shot, and I was stuck in bed for ~36-48h o
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by ff317 5y ago
Exciting positive answers to this problem would be: 1) All such restaurants offering free open wifi + 2) A commercialized system that hosts the menu PDFs on tiny https servers on the restaurant's wifi router and serves them locally (po
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by ff317 5y ago
The comparison is more appropriate than you maybe even intended. Cars are considered weapons (e.g. driving at someone is assault with a deadly weapon), and cars are very dangerous in general and kill lots of people (and not just the driver
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by ff317 5y ago
I've been buying "Sceptre" -brand LCD TVs for use around the house the past several years. They're "dumb" with just a basic remote and basic settings firmware like TVs from a decade or two ago, and they tend t
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by ff317 5y ago
I tend to agree that "lab leak" hypotheses are worth exploring (without wading into "bioweapon conspiracy theory"). They're worth exploring on the grounds that it could help change policies and practices to reduces
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by ff317 5y ago
> It kind of reminds me of a study I heard about a few years back claiming that straight men average three times as many sexual partners as straight women. Except, that isn't possible! It really depends on whether they were reportin
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by ff317 5y ago
The state of Texas is ~9% of the US pop, and Dallas, TX (top metro area by pop in the state, 4th in the country) has a substantial public transit infra to study (DART).
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by ff317 5y ago
> masks aren't effective, plus we need them for healthcare workers to care for pandemic patients I noted this at the time as well, but I read it (perhaps between the lines a bit) as more like: masks probably help, but if you all go
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by ff317 5y ago
> if the only handling you do is effectively `alert("out of memory!"); exit(1);` it's really not worth bothering with it. I'd argue that even this is worth it, for most software. At least then you get a clean exit an
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by ff317 6y ago
There are many valid perspectives and issues on the decline of Perl, many of which are valid, but I'll add my own about the perceptions (as an ancient Perl coder who has mostly moved on) of Perl code being pretty messy and unmaintainab
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by ff317 6y ago
A viewpoint that often gets left out of these discussions is the intersection of true open source and doing big things. So many orgs and people in these debates fall into the easy trap of assuming the world of potential open source users (
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by ff317 6y ago
They're inextricably linked, though. It's always much easier to start a small business in a relatively-unregulated environment, but that's because nearly zero thought or protection is being given to the drivers' or load
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by ff317 6y ago
Yes, this is a major factor that's often overlooked. I grew up doing child-level hacking in the 80s and then got into real hacking in the 90s as the commercial internet was first starting to blossom. While the reality I inhabit now a
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by ff317 6y ago
Couldn't you formulate a problem for extreme decimal-place accuracy based on the multiplication of errors in a physical process that's repeated in ways that multiply small errors into bigger ones?
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by ff317 6y ago
This post needs some positivity! The Wikimedia Foundation is still hiring many of the same positions we were before all of this. You can see the currently-open positions at: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs&#
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by ff317 6y ago
I've been working from home (in full time positions for a couple of tech companies) for the past ~12-13 years now. During that time I've done both purely-technical work and managerial work (managing other remoties). I'm exci
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by ff317 7y ago
Not to mention the airline industry in particular routinely has adverse events that affect it. Just to run down a list of random things airline execs should be considering as "normal" risks they need to plan some buffer for, all
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by ff317 7y ago
And Option 5 - Invest in research and development: better engines? Lighter materials? Better interior arrangements so that flyers can feel comfortable while you still turn a profit? I get that airlines don't directly create these thin
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by ff317 7y ago
I tend to agree that's a reasonable broad conclusion. However, even among stimulants, there are chemical differences between them, and they might act differently in the body. Also, coffee does contain a lot of other chemicals alongsid
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by ff317 7y ago
Yeah I'd love to see one or more additional free ACME issuers that are largely functionally-equivalent to LE, but in a different jurisdiction and under different management, with separate infrastructure, etc. One of the less-obvious re
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by ff317 7y ago
While it's obvious that some information is numerically greater than no information, it's not obvious that a censored flow of information makes anyone's life better than the alternatives. When the information flow is all-or-n
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by ff317 7y ago
I had a short-bed diesel for 5 years or so, and put it to plenty of use. Yes, it's not ideal for common dimensions of lumber (but you can just pop the tailgate down and put some little red flags on stuff), but it will still haul ton
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by ff317 7y ago
A motorbike will generally both accelerate and brake faster than a car in a straight line (mostly because it's light), but actually loses on cornering speeds against a four-wheeled car because the bike doesn't have as much lateral
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by ff317 7y ago
Yeah but there's still a point to be made here. Maybe the amount is closer to $10/month instead of $3/year, which is still pretty cheap considering the social utility and "entertainment" hours people are getting ou
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by ff317 7y ago
I'm also for increased drug legalization, but it's important to keep in mind the counter-balancing points as well. Lots of adults will make very poor decisions when presented with the easy opportunity to do so, at least at certain
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by ff317 7y ago
Right, this is what I fear somewhat as well, especially more on the mental than physical side. I'm very cognizant of the fact that people have complained about the latest tech ruining society since the time of Socrates (who apparently
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by ff317 7y ago
I think usually the unsustainability argument is about scaling it to the population of the world. Our modern and in many ways awful systems of mass food, energy, and water production are just vastly more efficient per capita of resource re
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by ff317 7y ago
+1 - I think the kind of marketing and messaging that makes environmentalism all about saving "the planet" and "the animals" and "the natural environment" really doesn't serve us well. A better strategic
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by ff317 7y ago
We did some light version of this in elementary school in the 80s, at least at my little public school. There was a thing we did once per six weeks for a day, where everyone brought in some unique food they (or their parents) made at home

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