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by finnh 4y ago
it's hard to reconcile, right? conversely I've been the clueless guy enough to realize we all do it. like getting angry at random trash and then thinking "you know, maybe someone dropped this by accident when they thought the
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by finnh 4y ago
Oops, I meant "Cry it out" *had* to wait a bit. He's nine now =) Sadly his night feeds went somewhat long because he was a reluctant burper, and that big burp was definitely necessary for him to fall back asleep. I read mos
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by finnh 4y ago
Garishness on new TVs also comes from the "soap opera effect", caused by motion smoothing, which is enabled on every new TV I've seen (and which tends to reset itself every few months on my home TV). Turning that off makes e
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by finnh 4y ago
self-soothing FTW. Although, funny story: sleep training went great with our first kid - maybe one hour of "cry it out" and then everything was fine for the rest of the night and all following nights. So when the second one came
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by finnh 4y ago
Ah, gotcha - I interpreted "challenge" differently from how you meant it. thanks!
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by finnh 4y ago
How so? My understanding of the Chicago School posture is that lower prices to the consumer is the only thing that matters (vs, for example, too high of market share). The Chicago School proposes that no amount of market share is too high
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California sues Amazon, alleging its policies cause higher prices everywhere(npr.org)
6 points by finnh 4y ago|5 comments
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by finnh 4y ago
Iran's decline began when the US overthrew Mossadegh's democratically elected government and installed the Shah, which led to the Ayatollah.
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by finnh 4y ago
What are examples of Apple doing the reverse?
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by finnh 4y ago
Analyzing code in terms of "function points" was something done back in the day. Maybe it still is; in my mind it's part of the same general dustbin as UML et al.
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by finnh 4y ago
Requiring a "non-tech PO" to upgrade a package is just broken, though. PMs are good at some things, but giving them power over every minute of an engineer's day is a recipe for badness.
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by finnh 4y ago
Thank you for being a foster parent. Being stereotyped while helping a child/children is a crap deal, you have my sympathy along with my thanks.
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by finnh 4y ago
But network byte order is big endian, so I can see arguments both ways (as it were)
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by finnh 4y ago
Nice! My friend blanka was the first person to do this with the first generation of Intel Macs, back in 2006: https://www.macworld.com/article/179192/xponmac.html
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by finnh 4y ago
How? Unless you input a form of ID (like a telephone number in a loyalty program) I don't see how a cash transaction can be linked to you at all. It's not like your cash purchase of 58.32kr has a match 578.32 kr withdrawal; that
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by finnh 4y ago
Our Catan set has noticeably nonuniform dice. They roll high numbers much more frequently than low numbers; presumably bc the high-numbered sides weigh less (?). We haven't buckled down and done the science but it definitely tilts th
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by finnh 4y ago
whoa. sounds like your drainage might be at fault. i have never heard of anything like this. I'm not a plumber, or anything related, but dishwashers should not have slime and should not need cleaning. yikes.
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by finnh 4y ago
I've been WFH since 2002, with one 10-month exception after selling a company. It's good! Not for everyone, I suppose, and you need to have dedicated space for it.
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by finnh 4y ago
Ouch! I hope they aren't howling too. Coyotes howling is one of nature's crazier sounds. The first time I heard it, from a distance, I was all kinds of confused. "Is there a mad hobos-on-meth tea party going on over the next
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by finnh 4y ago
Ugh. Similar to a local branch of big multinational banks - almost entirely pointless, basically always empty, but land-squatting to advertise the bank's brand. They are such a waste of retail space, and they are brutally common.
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by finnh 4y ago
High-skill tradespeople often make more than architects. Not at the star level, of course, but architecture is generally a poorly-paying field for the amount of schooling and intellect it requires.
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by finnh 4y ago
Seems like eBPF could be useful here as well, to get some external insight into per-connection counts and behavior.
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by finnh 4y ago
> ... unless it becomes a crazy persons labour of love Or there are valid business reasons to keep chipping away, in particular on performance-per-dollar problems at scale. If you're spending $1M/month on hardware to run somet
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by finnh 5y ago
> Doing it as an insider would be truly insane Why? The concerns (how to steal the money, how to launder/tumble it) seem orthogonal. Random question: is there a statute of limitations on this type of theft? If so, insiders would b
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by finnh 5y ago
By AI-based do you mean "something with heuristics"? IIRC Algorithm X / Dancing Links is the main way to brute-force it quickly.
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by finnh 5y ago
FYI just because you seem to like it: "harebrained", like having a rabbit's brain
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by finnh 5y ago
I love that movie. Now I need to re-watch with subtitles!
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by finnh 5y ago
Or maybe they have better things to do with their time.
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by finnh 5y ago
Gotcha, thanks. I used to use Synergy 1.x, and it was great. Recently returned to the fray and didn't have time to build-from-source (or didn't find an easy 1.x installer for new OS X) so grumble-grumbled and paid for Synergy 2. a
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by finnh 5y ago
Such a good point about housing. Also, green new deal jobs upgrading the energy efficiency of our housing stock. Lots of work to be done.

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