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by hotsauceror 2y ago
There was also a wonderful little throwaway gag, with a sign outside a bookstore reading “James Michener $3.99/lb”
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
A relative of mine works with assembly-line robots at heavy equipment manufacturers. He told me that while they were calibrating a new robot that was used to move axles for industrial mining dump trucks, a miscalculation caused the robot t
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
It’s just considerations, all the way down.
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
That is what falsifiable means. It is a claim the truth of which can be disproved. “Powerful” is no more falsifiable than “best.”
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
That’s Ops’s problem later tonight. You have to move fast and break things.
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
Yeah, some friends and I went to Las Vegas one spring. It was 118 outside but as you say, very dry. It was hot but by no means unbearable. Much more tolerable than the northwest Gulf of Mexico. We had a stretch in Austin back in 2011 wher
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
Went to my cousins wedding in Houston about 25 years ago. Mid-June, 106 air temperature, humidity in the high 90s. I was having a smoke outside the airport exit to the parking garage. More than one person staggered as they left the build
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
Bless their hearts.
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
I agree; I have done a full 180 from preferring camelcase to using snake case everywhere. It simplifies parsing for my old eyes. I also got unnaturally irritated by PowerShell's insistence on hewing so closely to CamelCaseOrthodoxy th
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
Also, profiteering is just piker stuff. Imagine what major intelligence agencies will do once they set up front companies to prioritize placing their own 'content' as a training set.
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
I am honestly surprised that anyone, particularly here in startup / VC land, thought this was going to go any differently. Is the Chief Inspector really shocked to learn that gambling happens at this establishment?
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by hotsauceror 2y ago
Apropos of nothing, but would there ever be a "non-wild" orgy? Perhaps an orderly progression of couplings, with a timekeeper and protocols, and tea being served?
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Yes, this is a time-tested approach complete with shopworn phrases you have definitely heard from lobbying firms and their boughten politicians. One day they ominously warn of 'one-size-fits all solutions"; in the very next breath
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
How would Chase 'show their product' to anybody? They are not a media platform. They do not display ads. Would they start displaying targeted ads when I log on to pay my credit card or check my bank account balance? Or do they
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Same here. I've been very pleased with their cordless yard stuff and tools. Angle grinder, reciprocating saw, drill, driver, impact driver, lawn trimmer, 16" chainsaw, and a corded mitre saw. I will admit I was skeptical at fir
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Why wouldn't they be able to IPO? Making money off of pushing addictive chemicals to vulnerable people is a very attractive proposition. We know this because people will do it despite its being illegal. If you can make money, legall
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
To be fair though, there were similar complaints when they wanted to put a wind farm off of Cape Cod or Martha’s Vineyard or some wealthy leftist outpost like that. As you say, rich people don’t want their view spoiled.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
I find your ideas intriguing and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Yes, right. It seems like some sort of desperate, last-minute thing to fling in someone's face. "Oh yeah? If you care about nature so much how come you're in favor of these giant things that slaughter birds? I guess we ca
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
The entire "it kills birds" feels like such a canard, to me. I don't understand to whom this kind of appeal is directed. It seems to me that the primary interests at stake are 1) the myriad financial interests in the extrac
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
That’s what my travel mug says. Best Father’s Day gift ever. Here’s a freebie for you new dads: What do you call a spider with twenty eyes? A spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiider.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Ugh. Several years ago I spent an entire Christmas vacation, including all day Christmas Day, putting out fires because a team couldn't be bothered to do five minutes of cursory load testing. As a consequence, multiple production sys
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Yeah, people certainly. I wouldn't trade my pictures of my kid for anything. I was thinking more as 'photography as an experience log' being sort of underwhelming. I probably bring more emotion to it when I see pictures of
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
I have not read the article yet but it has reminded me that I am continually underwhelmed when I try to capture a scene with my camera. The essence of the scene never seems to get conveyed accurately - everything seems 'flat'. C
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
I buy a small moleskine notebook for every house we've bought, that becomes the 'house book'. Major appliance purchases, dates and serial numbers. A 'local' copy of the circuit breakers. Renovations with dates, c
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Bubbles are perfectly circular, and natural.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
So now you have two workloads, and they have half a workload, and there are differing standards to which you and they are held? I admit that I come at this question from a very bitter place. I have been woken up many, many, many times at 3
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
If one person on a team consistently does poor quality work, and the others do not, I do not see the utility in blaming the high performing team members for not doing more to prevent the poor performer from making a mess, or in convincing t
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
"Can't rely on others to fix things, because the fact is that most people simply won't even try." That is a much more charitable interpretation of this idea, and when I look at my own life that's pretty much where I
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Yeah. "He wouldn't have hit me if I had just kept my mouth shut, I know how angry it makes him when I ask about money." I want to say this position is despicable, but that's not a very charitable reading. But I fail to

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