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by jnwatson 4y ago
Another conjecture: overroasting the beans concentrates the caffeine. Their tall (12 oz.) drip has an amazing 260 mg of caffeine. That's about double a typical cup of coffee.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
This use of “dropped” started in the music industry. It means released.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
In reality, it is already in every compiler that matters. For some reason, they don't want to put it in the standard.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The key is there has to be a decent product at the end for an OK price. Makeup has a high enough retail margin that it can absorb the MLM overhead while being somewhat cost competitive. My ex was into Mary Kay. We lost a lot of money on it,
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Buy a house in Japan. Housing shouldn’t be a nest egg.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Micro ops are a level higher than microcode.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Infinity Blade was an iOS game released 13 years ago that was among the first to truly show off what you could do in 3d on an iPhone. It was an early killer app.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
There have been many alternatives. Nearly every embedded OS has a different (and better) API. POSIX won because it was first. Simple inertia keeps it there. Linux has made some strides to buck the shackles though. The io_uring stuff being
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Hollywood movie treatment: A lone SRE (the hero) wakes in the middle of the night after being paged automatically for unusual activity originating from inside the corporate network. Looking at the logs, it doesn't seem like an automate
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Consider the alternative. In an environment where prosecution can merely inconvenience the perpetrator, every action is just the basic math of “gain - (penalty times chance of getting caught)”. We already see that calculus in many corporate
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by jnwatson 4y ago
A friend.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Hiring at Apple was limited because they don’t pay competitively and they only get the “true believer” types that are willing to work more hours at a discount. Source: a low level manager at Apple.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I recently paid $24 a ticket in DC. Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, I just h wars that theater is closing.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That’s a fantastic summary.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
They didn’t make any manufacturing mistakes. It turns out that putting talc on your sensitive parts isn’t good for you in the long term, especially for women. That J and J is responsible for that is just the American legal system.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It is the same argument as the program-by-diagram stuff that has been around for 30 years. Getting API arguments to line up is accidental complexity that might be automated. Understanding business processes and how to construct systems to c
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I saw this on Twitter and thought it was a parody of an out-of-touch executive. I guess not.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Indistinguishable from parody... What would be an example of a new product that will help the company thrive?
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Not necessarily. If your market evaporates, you can't really blame it on product.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You’ve ignored the simple fact that Mac ARM laptops are not merely better than every other laptop around, they are almost in another market space. Macs have had a second mouse button for 20ish years.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I was just thinking that this would have been useful in high school JCL had I had access to WWW in 1993.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
1. Check more than 1 bit. 2. Add glitching detection circuitry. 3. Randomize when you do the check.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The 4090 is a lot better in terms of heat.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I’ve used <targetdomain>@<mydomain> for 2 decades now. It eliminates the risk of password leaks and let’s me know who gives away my email addresses. That it also prevents ad tracking is even better.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You can always read it first. It isn’t much different than pip or apt.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Nice timing. I was in Avoriaz, France yesterday. At 1800 meters, it is more likely to have snow. Still it hit 13 degrees yesterday. That’s too warm for the snow cannons. It was the only resort around to have snow, so it was super crowded
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You’ve successfully expressed the “parent in whatever mechanism makes me emotionally fulfilled” style. Many others take a more scientific viewpoint more oriented around child outcomes.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Still, it will be replicated, then optimized, and eventually cost pennies to run. The writing is on the wall.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
And the movement of spam just accelerated with ChatGPT.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
To optimize, you should aim to kill as many people as possible. Bonus points for killing children of wealthy individuals, since they have the highest potential for future CO2 usage.

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