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by jwestbury 3y ago
I have a degree in English lit from a second-tier state school (admittedly, a very good second-tier state school, as these things go -- my favorite professor/mentor was a UC Berkeley grad in medieval studies). My wife has a degree in
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Eh -- most home offices tend to end up in bedrooms, which in the US are obligated to have a window that a person could fit through (or to have some other secondary exit aside from a door). One problem is where the window faces. A north-faci
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Sure - but this holds for public companies, too, especially those with different classes of share. For instance, Drew Houston has >50% voting power for Dropbox, despite it being a public company in which he nominally owns <50% of shar
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by jwestbury 3y ago
As someone in my late 30s and childless -- and with a vasectomy to ensure that remains the case -- I have some regrets, but they're on the same level as the regrets that I got a dog which I struggle sometimes to care for. That is to sa
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by jwestbury 3y ago
I trust them that Atlassian product performance is bad in ways that are always novel and surprising, at least.
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by jwestbury 3y ago
> If someone comes up with a new machine, why publish it if it's legal for every factory and large company to start producing them without compensating the inventor? Sure, this is the goal of the patent system. You'll note that
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by jwestbury 3y ago
What about people reading your code and learning from it before implementing their own code? What's the similarity level where that becomes a problem for you, if their code is closed-source or uses a license you disagree with?
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by jwestbury 3y ago
The reality is, the Luddites are actually receiving quite a lot of positive attention in recent years[0][1][2]. As you've said, they weren't fighting against machines, they were fighting against the use of machines to circumvent l
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by jwestbury 3y ago
> but the benefits are too great to justify sacrificing for nostalgia. I don't necessarily disagree - but I also don't think this is an obvious truth.
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Have you done any show & tells for the hardware? I miss working in Blackfoot and going to those, back when all of AWS was there. Always fun looking at S3 and EBS chassis!
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by jwestbury 3y ago
> Before cars it was highway robbers. This is a bad comparison. One occurs when travelling in unpopulated areas. But most pedestrian fatalities occur in populated areas which should be safe for pedestrians (and historically were).
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by jwestbury 3y ago
> Meanwhile, a very large group just voted for a party that wants to stop pretty much every investment in renewables, while also pushing out migrants in an already very tight and quickly aging labor market. So, Netherlands, then? > ba
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by jwestbury 3y ago
If you read the rest of the article, it seems fairly clear that one of the fake women advertised as speaking at the conference is a fictional persona created by the conference's organiser, and has been run as a social media presence fo
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Just want to remind you that Tesla was delivering vehicles that didn't even have their seats attached properly[0]. Build quality issues are certainly something legacy automakers deal with -- but Tesla has generally brought these issues
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by jwestbury 3y ago
It's a name not everyone will remember, but Musk is not unlike Peter Molyneux in some senses. The reason Musk has generated so much hate, though, is that he's become quite powerful, with an outsized impact on western society, and
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by jwestbury 3y ago
The Lucid Air Dream managed >500 miles per charge in multiple real-world tests. The EQXX concept from Mercedes has managed >620 miles in two separate real-world tests, though admittedly it probably benefits from ideal conditions and d
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Without any real substantive changes to the vehicles, Tesla's prices rose as much as 50% (for the Model X) from 2021-2023. Even the Model 3 has increased by about 25%. You can make inflation arguments, but it's pretty hard to clai
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Oddly -- I've never had this problem in interviews. Is it possible that it's better screening happening pre-interview at FAANG and FAANG-like places? For what it's worth, I like practical programming problems. The problem com
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by jwestbury 3y ago
This is largely, but not strictly , true. It's worth remembering that field artillery was in use in many battles prior to this period, and, in fact, had been a major component of the ability of the British government to put down the J
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by jwestbury 3y ago
They change a lot in the US, too, and different companies have different methods of spreading risk across geographical areas, which can lead to shockingly different prices from different insurers depending on your location.
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Can you elaborate on this view? Chemical weapons seem to have no redeeming qualities. LLMs have plenty -- I use OpenAI-backed products at work quite regularly, and find they've increased my productivity and my general happiness with my
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Having a "right" way to do things also makes it easier to maintain design which meaningfully guides user behaviour. The interaction between design and user experience is quite complicated, and multiplicatively so with >1 UI opt
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by jwestbury 3y ago
If you're in a city which supports it, the best non-driving maps app is CityMapper. So, so, so much better at public transportation and blended trips.
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by jwestbury 3y ago
My pet theory: They pushed it because it more closely resembles Apple Maps. When I opened Google Maps earlier this week, I genuinely thought I'd opened the wrong map app.
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Or: git reset --soft HEAD~1
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by jwestbury 3y ago
> A lot of EA is simply prioritizing what saves the most lives, right here, and right now. Is this altruism, or just utilitarianism by a different name? This is obviously a serious ethics question, and one that likely has no objective a
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by jwestbury 3y ago
> In my case, getting my sleep apnea treated with a CPAP machine coincidentally greatly reduced the frequency of these episodes. Orthogonal to the post here, but I just want to encourage anybody reading this who snores, or has a partner
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by jwestbury 3y ago
When I was young, and experiencing the occasional ringing in the ears that's known as "transient ear noise" or "transient tinnitus" -- as far as I know, the causes are not well-understood. But, as a 7-year-old, or w
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by jwestbury 3y ago
Red to reflect the fact that it is actually Hell.
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by jwestbury 3y ago
There's another fun aspect of this -- combined with the lubrication, it leaves escalator rails near some lines absolutely filthy. I've got a pair of trousers permanently stained because I put my hand on the rail while walking down

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