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by jurassic 4y ago
FWIW, all the startups (series B-ish) I'm currently in talks with to join are full-remote, and I did not specifically set that as a criteria when choosing which roles to go for. I think smaller companies see office space as pure overhe
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by jurassic 4y ago
It would be easier probably to build a computer keyboard with no backspace or arrows. Or to just remap those keys to noop. I’m deep in the keyboard hobby, but it’s definitely on my todo list to build a write-only keyboard.
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by jurassic 4y ago
The OP frames sexual loneliness as a problem. I don't think it's a huge leap to say porn is part of the reason why people are having less real-life sex. Morally I have no issue with it, but ease/speed/price are important
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by jurassic 4y ago
There are a lot of factors at play here. Porn is ubiquitous which reduces the number of people looking for real-life hookups to satisfy their immediate urges. Awareness of the health risks (STDs, etc) of having many partners has probably ne
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by jurassic 4y ago
> I wonder if this is partially because jobs seekers have over optimized for salary or total comp relative to other things like job security and working conditions. People move around so often now to keep up with market comp that it&#x27
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by jurassic 4y ago
Whether it's law or not, the board will fire them if they don't make shareholders the top priority.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I pride myself on being a big tipper in restaurants with table service, but when the point-of-sale prompts me for a 25% tip on a counter-service transaction before I have even been served I balk. Why should I pay so much extra for service w
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by jurassic 4y ago
Maps are an art form. There will always be a market for beautiful maps as art objects.
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by jurassic 4y ago
It what way was Elon's layoff successful? They'll probably be bankrupt in less than a year.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I can't wait for Elon's Twitter to fully crater so brainless Wall Street people will stop trying to emulate his approach to cost reduction. It's obvious to everyone paying attention that Elon destroyed that company in the fir
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by jurassic 4y ago
It’s okay to quit. The academic world has exploitation baked into it so it’s rare for people to be told that directly by those benefiting from your continued participation, but it’s okay to quit. If the thesis is making you this miserable y
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by jurassic 4y ago
I'm one of those folks with a small vinyl collection (~75 albums? Like 25/yr since I got into it) and no turntable. I got into this during the pandemic when the quality mid-range tables were sold out everywhere for months on end s
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by jurassic 4y ago
Every time this happens I get angry. Whatever accounting rules are causing this to happen need to be changed pronto.
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by jurassic 4y ago
We're shopping around for a pediatrician for our forthcoming baby and several offices we called said they will only accept new patients who will commit to a full schedule of vaccines. That's fine with us, but I got the feeling som
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by jurassic 4y ago
The latest iteration of the Preonic already supports 2x2u configuration. But some extra space between hands would be welcome.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I haven't quite reached this level yet with the keyboard hobby, but reading this post feels a bit like looking into my future. I've soldered together a few kits designed by others and have been itching to try my hand at designing
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by jurassic 4y ago
I have no problem admitting my interest in ortho layouts is mostly an aesthetic preference. At home where I can spread out I'm quite content with my Ergodox. But for travel, I find my 2x2u Preonic quite comfy... all the keys you need,
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by jurassic 4y ago
I'd like to see this technology become cheap and ubiquitous enough that everyone can choose for themselves what voice they would like to hear right at the moment of consumption. It's always a huge bummer when there's a book I
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by jurassic 4y ago
The best Furby project I’ve seen is the Furby organ https://youtu.be/GYLBjScgb7o
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by jurassic 4y ago
I agree with everything you wrote. We keep Disney+ because their family content is untouchable by anyone else. HBO/Apple we trade off every couple of months depending on what's new and what we are most interested in. Netflix I sub
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by jurassic 4y ago
I don't typically condone piracy because I think it's important to compensate writers/actors/artists, but I do feel angry about the state of things. Physical media is looking relatively good in many cases. Discs are a ha
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by jurassic 4y ago
> I think they did an effective job completely Turning public opinion against twitter employees. Painting them as dead weight and woke stooges for the FBI. I disagree. From what I've seen, the only people holding anything against Tw
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by jurassic 4y ago
Not sure what you're asking here. Anybody holding public shares (whether vested or purchased on the market) at the time the deal closed got $54.20, with the public share price converging on that price in the days/hours leading up
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by jurassic 4y ago
I think video content is going to crowd out text-based media for this reason. Maybe deepfakes and synthetic video content will eventually become as cheap and ubiquitous as text content. But for now, if you see a person on the screen you can
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by jurassic 4y ago
Lots of good advice in this thread. Only thing I would say is: don’t rule out the wife and kids if that is what you want. As a man, you are not on the same biological clock as women and many men have had families in life’s second act.
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by jurassic 4y ago
You can’t blame the enforcement of a new policy on a “rogue employee”. The buck stops with Elon and he needs to own the consequences of whatever policy changes he decides to enact.
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by jurassic 4y ago
My claim was not that all or even most Staff engineers at prominent companies come from bootcamp backgrounds but that bootcampers can and have achieved this level of success. My bootcamp cohort was over 9 years ago... anybody who didn'
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by jurassic 4y ago
I do think there was a bit of a gold rush with fly-by-night programs popping up everywhere; as a result the quality bar for bootcamp grads has probably shifted down on average, but I expect there are still some very talented trying to jumps
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by jurassic 4y ago
> I’ve never met a single boot camp person, and absolutely zero staff engineers are boot camp grads that I know of, unless they scrubbed it from their LinkedIn and never talk about it. This comment has the same energy as the person I onc
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by jurassic 4y ago
I was a bootcamp grad in 2013. Myself and my classmates are now mostly filling Staff+ roles, many working in FAANG level companies. So, yes, many people have hired bootcampers and had a good experience.

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