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by jimmydddd 6d ago
I'm a drummer (musician) and drummers faced a similar crisis forty years ago with the advent of drum machines. A guitarist and bassist could perform with a drum machine instead of sharing their pay with a drummer. An experienced drum
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by jimmydddd 8d ago
Amazon's Zoox is running a limited test of robo taxis in Las Vegas, just going between certain hotels. The rides are free, so a friend and I tried it out. At the hotels, the cabs are constantly pulling into spaces that open up at the
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by jimmydddd 10d ago
In the 1990's UPS spent a lot of effort grooming promising junior employees to move up the ranks and become managers. They would then move the managers around to different locations, thinking that good manager can manage any dept. Ma
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by jimmydddd 12d ago
As best I can tell, main narratives are: 1) Nike decided to sell direct from their Web site and pulled shoes from Foot Locker to save on their cut. Foot Locker filled the empty shelves with Hoka. 2) Nike decided to stop innovating for perf
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by jimmydddd 12d ago
Not an enterprise product, but SimpleNote is great. I was happy that they bought it.
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by jimmydddd 16d ago
So, at my company (and most companies I think), we use confidential in-house versions of the AI software. We don't want any confidential information leaking into the public realm. Are these scientists doing that, or are they just usi
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by jimmydddd 19d ago
Agreed. But you have to go shoeless throughout your youth so that the bones and muscles of the foot grow strong. This is true, for example, with kids in some African countries. There was a trend of barefoot running in the US in the 2010&#
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by jimmydddd 19d ago
I think classical and symphonic music are helped in the US by school music programs. It's the best way to have 100 kids practice and perform for a concert. Breaking them into 25 jazz quartets is a lot more complicated.
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by jimmydddd 19d ago
Old joke: What's the difference between a flautist and a flutist? About $50 an hour. :-)
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by jimmydddd 21d ago
What do you mean by listening to music with them? Like, sitting around in the living room playing each other's favorite songs? I don't think I've ever done that with my parents, my kids, or anyone really.
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by jimmydddd 22d ago
Maybe they're just PR stunts to gain attention and hype the power of AI?
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by jimmydddd 23d ago
It's strange though, because Trump's elderly voters are the ones who vote by mail. Some observers say he would have won the incredibly close 2020 race if he hadn't discouraged mail in voting.
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by jimmydddd 26d ago
How long did it take you to leave (get out) at the end? I've heard they often have massive backups in the exit line.
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by jimmydddd 26d ago
I few years ago I saw a TV interview where some gen-z kid confidently stated: "the dictdionary is supposed to reflect how I talk, not the other was around."
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by jimmydddd 29d ago
The patent application is not yet publically available, so I can't tell what aspects of the system they are trying to protect. They probably have some narrowly tailored features that they can protect. Maybe related to the rendering,
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by jimmydddd 1mo ago
Re: immigrants. I have several relatives who totally upended their lives in foreign countries to become grad students in the US. If nothing else, they are very excited to get to spend 5 years in the US. Believe me, they would not be even
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by jimmydddd 1mo ago
re: department head at our company about 4 levels above me... -- what could be going through this person's mind when they continue yelling at someone after the situation has been explained? A friend got screamed at by some upper level
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by jimmydddd 1mo ago
Financial companies are cutting down on the amount associates can bill the firm for a $30 dinner, and the time before they can have the firm pay for a $30 car ride home. They definitely wouldn't pay for Bloomberg if it could be easily
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by jimmydddd 1mo ago
That cord storage pocket is pretty nice as well.
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
This has a lot to do with the analysis. How much control does Amazon have over the company. That's why they point out in the video that the drivers have to wear Amazon vests (and get punished if they don't), work Amazon directed
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
I've seen two reasons. 1) Backward compatibility--you would have to add an additional security layer, and some old legacy switching hardware (5% of the network?) wouldn't support this. 2) Phone companies profit from the calls, s
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
But how do you enforce this? It seems like most of the US spam calls originate from India. Do you have to get cooperation from Indian authorities? Seems unlikely since it's helping their economy? Do you put the burden on the phone
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
Many have noticed that the super large sizes at Costco, etc. often are more expensive per item or oz. than the sale price of a regular size at a Shoprite or whatever.
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
At my kid's daycare, they sent home an authorization form to allow them to use your kid in pics that might be posted to the internet. Some parents declined out of privacy concerns. Now I guess we are just blasting past all of that.
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
Probably what was meant by "Though probably balanced out some by being 10 year old data by now."
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
I never got into gaming. Never bought a console. Seems like I wasn't missing too much.
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
Hypothetical: A group of people from a specific race and culture recently came into a country and make their living primarily by stealing the wallets of tourists. If you had to guess, what are the chances that they are Japanese people?
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
As an interviewer, you should be aware that there is a split on advice given on this topic. Half of the folks say to send an email, and half say not to. Several recruiters have told me that, all things being equal, a company will take the
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
I don't think he's talking about personal fulfilment. His take is more simple. He's saying don't do the following: "I created a piece of software, and it works pretty good, but I have no customers. Should I work
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by jimmydddd 2mo ago
I'm a lefty, so fountain and liquid ink are out due to smudging. Unless I use a hook grip (also known as overwriting). Which, come to think of it, was probably why I was so bad at taking notes until notebook computers came around.

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