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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> or that they remove a sense of urgency from academics That was one of my frustrations with "prep" school: An artificial sense of urgency that does not, in any way, reflect how one leads a happy, healthy, and successful life;
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
One of the things I like about Hacker News is that, when someone throws around a vague sports term, there's a massive discussion to just figure out the heck they are talking about. Reminds me about this thread about goats: https:&#x2F
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I played kickball as a kid; as a clumsy nerd it was a lot more fun. I don't remember ever using a bat with a kickball, other than for laughs. It would work, though.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I clicked around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4qCVWejYrA to see people playing and holding a "16 inch softball". It took me awhile to realize that it's the circumference too.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
They need to get the range over 300 miles. I'm on my 4th EV, and the Buzz just wasn't on the list due to poor range. Now before you start going "but but but," remember that EVs very rarely get the rated range. They lose
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
What I really want is an open-source desktop (and possibly mobile) streaming music player that supports most major services. (I don't care if it only works if I have a paying subscription. I don't mind spending $10-20 a month for
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The article linked in this thread claims no one has ever sued based on constructive feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22258113 (Not that I give it when rejecting most candidates, because I don't want to
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> If you say anything, and the applicant is a malicious litigant, you just became a potential paycheck via settlement. Do you have examples? I know this is a real fear, but I've never heard any examples of lawsuits except for issues
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> A plurality of individuals have tried to argue with me... A minority of those will go out of their way to hound me on social media. Which just reinforces why a rejection transitions to "no contact" most of the time. I try to
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
That's what these are for: https://www.tesla.com/megapack
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Because often, somebody wrote something a few years ago and there isn't a business case to constantly upgrade every single dependency.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> there is no information in a rejection Building on that: There's a few reasons why a company won't explain why they reject a candidate. One of the reasons is that they don't want candidates to "game" the system
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Sounds like they got greedy: > Some banking experts said that the bank would have managed its risks better had it not been for the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA), enacted in 2018 and supported b
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Uhm: There is the OfType method that is generally used to filter an IEnumerable<T?> to IEnumerable<T>. It doesn't care about reference vs value types, because it doesn't compare to null. Instead it checks the type of e
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I suspect it's Windows, actually, and I'm pretty sure the UI is some form of C#. They tried to recruit me for the UI. If I lived closer, I would have jumped on it. Not only was I bit of a Tesla fanboy at the time, I used to work a
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The teller who called me basically gave me awful service. I visited the bank a few days earlier because they sent me a debit card that I didn't want. (I wanted to switch it to an ATM card because it's harder to commit fraud with t
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> You said you were "advised to adjust" your account. Again, I apologize if I come across as ignorant, but what kind of adjustments? A few months ago, a teller offered to move my savings account to a higher interest version. I
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> I got money, the bank is holding it, everything is going great! Until your account is many orders of magnitude larger than the other accounts. I suspect the typical "business" account was well under a million. See https:&#x2
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
See in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058480 > If you are the customer you want a bank that understands what kind of inflows/outflows you’ll typically have. The bank wants to manage the risk, an
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
It's not about blocking the sky. Starlink sends the internet connection back down to the ground somewhere in the country you are in. That being said, if I have an American starlink account, and I go to Indonesia, what happens? Does my
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The bank account was appropriate for small businesses. IE, restaurant, laundromat, ect. This became clear when the article explained that there was education for tellers about what a tech startup is. Mitchell didn't take the call. He
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
One of the more frustrating things in life are cleaning up novice mistakes from people who should know better. I wonder why the investors didn't at least do some due diligence into where the money was being stored?
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Take them to small claims court. (Also close the account. No bank should lose money like that.)
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
TFA didn't really explain the mistake. What I think it was: 1: Chase's business account wasn't appropriate for a tech startup; nor was it appropriate for the amount of money Mitchell was handling. 2: When your bank calls you
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I'm stumbling over the example: > I was overseeing generators in theater, and the one powering the mortuary facility had failed. ... I didn’t have HVAC expertise or the necessary parts. > I had two choices: initiate a long contra
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Just curious: Anyone know if things like Starlink are viable?
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> Adding 20% to the weight of a car isn't really a big deal And typically the car can't go as far on a single charge as a tank of gas. I can usually go about 200 miles on a typical charge in my (cough) "300" mile EV
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I view classic cars as a "preservation" exercise, and the kind of thing where paying extra for synthetic gasoline is "worth it" for a historical demonstration. That being said: For hobbyists who use a classic car as a ba
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I had one of the giant Mac Pros from 2007, and I was able to change drives, RAM, and even replace the included graphics card when it fried. I even fixed my first Macbook pro from 2006. My more recent Macbooks haven't needed repair befo
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> One example of an analog computer is a mechanical clock. It calculates that passage of time by means of springs, gears and an escapement that models the real world. Many other examples include slide rules (yes, I'm that old), spee

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