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by giaour 4y ago
> Focus on the stuff we can control and ignore the noise? Isn’t that one of the hallmarks of supposedly high IQ people? Isn’t the opposite usually held to be the case? The groups you would typically associate with impractical learning fo
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by giaour 4y ago
Isn't the "Design Ideas" request going to the same Sharepoint server that is storing your doctor's OneDrive? I didn't capture and inspect the traffic myself, but https://support.office.com/client&#x2
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by giaour 4y ago
I'm very curious to know if the traffic is going to a centralized web service or the user's Microsoft 365/Sharepoint installation.
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by giaour 4y ago
If you're putting PHI in a presentation, you probably already have HIPAA problems.
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by giaour 4y ago
What indication is there that Microsoft wants to keep this traffic secret? The OP was able to detect and inspect this traffic with standard network monitoring software.
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by giaour 4y ago
If Twitter never changed the product again, you might be right that they could keep the ship afloat with a skeleton crew. But it doesn’t sound like that’s Musk’s plan. He wants pretty substantial feature changes, which normally means less s
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by giaour 4y ago
Did you mean to post a link?
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by giaour 4y ago
> Less than 1% do. Let's say, though this is a high estimate, 0.5% of Windows users are ARM. Now let's say my app has 1 million installs at $1 each (pretty successful). That means my total value for optimizing for those ARM use
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by giaour 4y ago
Private high schools tend to have more flexibility with degree requirements than public schools. Many public schools expect teachers to have master’s degrees in education, and while private schools look for a BA in the subject area or signi
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by giaour 4y ago
Absolutely! The kind of impact you can have working on government services is pretty astounding, and USDS is a great way for people with private industry bona fides to dip into civic work, complete a few projects, then return to their high
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by giaour 4y ago
I wanted to go back into a role where I could spend most of my day coding. I would like to go back and do another 2 year term at some point, but I'd like to advance more in my IC role first.
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by giaour 4y ago
I left USDS in June 2021, but during my time there, there were no job roles. USDS has "communities of practice" that roughly correspond to the roles you would see at a big tech firm (e.g., software engineers join the Engineering C
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by giaour 4y ago
I just don’t see how that’s workable as a business strategy. If Twitter charges you for a blue check, the social value of the mark will go down. If they simultaneously charge higher prices based on the wealth of the subscriber, that’s askin
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by giaour 4y ago
The last clause in your comment is doing a lot of work. Prohibitive cost is only one form of exclusivity, but there are many others. For example, Twitter’s blue checks are free today but difficult to obtain. It sounds like Twitter is lookin
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by giaour 4y ago
Bribing your way into an elite college costs a lot more than $20/month, though. As a society, we also confer prestige on a lot of things that basically amount to spending a prohibitively large sum of money: running a foundation; being
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by giaour 4y ago
Device encryption on Windows Home has a different brand name ("Windows Device Encryption") and works a bit differently, but AFAICT it's also on by default if you log in with a Microsoft or AAD account. Can't find any spe
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by giaour 4y ago
Bitlocker is on by default in windows 10 & 11: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/device-encryptio...
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by giaour 4y ago
> Btw if you are confrontation averse, you should not be managing anyone ever. 100%, but that requires that their manager be willing to have a difficult conversation with them. It’s not impossible that your whole reporting chain can be s
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by giaour 4y ago
Totally agree. This is exactly what I would do to debug a complex expression in a program: break out chunks into smaller expressions, assign their results to intermediate variables, then echo out or inspect those variables in a debugger. On
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by giaour 4y ago
There's a cultural expectation that a fired or laid off employee is entitled to severance (unless they were fired "for cause"), even in the absence of a legal requirement. You are also entitled to state unemployment benefits
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by giaour 4y ago
I imagine bosses engage in "quiet firing" specifically in order to avoid difficult conversations. Keeping someone on the payroll AND explaining that the role isn't working out seems like the worst of both worlds for a confron
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by giaour 4y ago
The way Excel lays out data and intermediate states visually is pretty intuitive (compared to, say, using a step-through debugger), but the formula editing pane has an atrocious UX. I would love to see Excel but with a scratch/snap-lik
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by giaour 4y ago
Next time you go in for a check-up, make sure your doctor measures your A1C level. Getting groggy after eating is not abnormal, but, depending on severity it may be sign of prediabetes.
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by giaour 4y ago
Yes, assuming the rental market has sufficient competition and can take advantage of existing homes. Local rental property monopolies or regulation (either governmental or from private organizations like HOAs) that prevents the excess homes
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by giaour 4y ago
You should also factor in "imputed rent," which is what you would have spent on housing had you not owned a home. Subtract your property taxes, mortgage interest (+ PMI if you had it), and upkeep costs from how much it would have
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Biden Proposal Could Lead to Employee Status for Gig Workers(nytimes.com)
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by giaour 4y ago
To keep the analogy fair, people would need to regularly get botulism from eating their bunker rations (or some other consequence on par with getting permanently locked out of a crypto wallet).
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by giaour 4y ago
No disagreement here. Last time I was house shopping, realtors holding open houses wouldn’t include school ranking information in written material but would proactively announce it to everyone who walked through the door. (Black and multira
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by giaour 4y ago
I don’t really see how it could be steering if the site is showing everyone the same information. Zillow probably disallows the filter for more benign reasons (maybe forcing parents to manually filter by school rating was found to increase
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by giaour 4y ago
“Not your keys, not your coins” has a doomsday prepper tinge to it. (Not quite as much as someone dismissing centralized emergency management with “not your bunker, not your rations,” but in the same spirit.) Maybe it’s the right attitude f

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