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by jxf 1y ago
I think this says less about supernovas and a lot more about how staggeringly, incomprehensibly vast the observable universe it.
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by jxf 2y ago
I like this! One note: I think the README would also benefit from having a (crowdsourced?) list of providers that offer (or will soon offer) Docs as a hosted offering. Many users of collaborative editing tools aren't sophisticated enou
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by jxf 2y ago
> Platforms have to start here too. Otherwise, they’re DOA. Completely agree with this. The person who starts building the ultimate meta-framework or meta-API as step 1 is almost inevitably doomed to failure if they can't articulate
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by jxf 2y ago
Q: Can I use this if I work at a Microsoft Teams enterprise org? Probably not, I'm guessing, but hoping there's a way to make that work somehow.
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by jxf 2y ago
> Hopefully, he doesn’t abuse the power too much The best possible outcome for Starlink is that he gets distracted with something else and doesn't meddle in it whatsoever.
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by jxf 2y ago
In OP's case it sounds like they do get compensated with the day off, which is PTO. It's not a trade everyone would make but an extra day off into a long weekend is one I would have taken earlier in my career.
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by jxf 2y ago
The idea of the "world debt level" being alarming doesn't make a lot of sense to me. There isn't anyone else we _could_ owe money to, right? I'm not educated enough in global finance to have a useful opinion in this
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by jxf 2y ago
Unclear on that first point. The authors claim 26 MPa for CoRncrete, which is about the same as the higher end of the range of concrete (~28 MPa) but much cheaper. On the other hand, it sounds like the paper's saying it's also muc
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by jxf 2y ago
> Sync options can include locally/self hosted options or use something like iCloud that don't depend on a software vendor's running a service though. Don't most sync options depend on a software vendor running a serv
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by jxf 2y ago
The hashtag idea is a nice trick. Would definitely be nice to have a local archive.
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by jxf 2y ago
Thank you for the pointers! On your third bullet, when you say "versus channels" are you also saying "don't use channels at all" or are you saying "when using chats, use @everyone but don't do that in chan
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Ask HN: Making Microsoft Teams Bearable
20 points by jxf 2y ago|27 comments
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by jxf 2y ago
I think it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" thing. If you make the law sweeping, businesses will complain it's an infringement of big government. If you make the law targeted, businesses will complain the
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by jxf 2y ago
> For most programs, the limiting factor is not performance but the cost of implementation and maintenance. The limiting factor for what? Their commercial success, or something else?
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by jxf 2y ago
I was just thinking this. You'd either need to special-case your debuggers or be able to use something that provided bespoke hooks for pointer-following.
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by jxf 2y ago
Not all of the building needs to be direct residential; for example, I could definitely imagine some light retail, a computer lab, a tool library, an indoor track, a gym, et cetera.
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by jxf 3y ago
Harvesting is also a good use case; many crops cannot be harvested in any reliable way besides by hand.
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by jxf 3y ago
> And ones that somehow dodged instantly fatal disasters for almost 3.5 billion years We didn't dodge them. We were hit by them repeatedly. Humans just weren't alive then to be killed by them.
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by jxf 3y ago
All life seeks to explore, because adaptation is essential to continued survival. Mars is a laboratory for us to see if we can thrive outside our home world. If there's two things the universe teaches us, it's that (1) our little
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by jxf 3y ago
It's basically WSJ with a somewhat more global perspective, and Euro-centric instead of US-centric.
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by jxf 3y ago
The Walmart folks are pretty bright in general. I did some consulting for them a while back so I saw this first-hand. Organizations aren't monoliths, of course, but my experience was that they definitely did know what they were doing.
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by jxf 3y ago
GitHub is also a centralized service that defeats the purpose of using decentralized technology. People will use centralized services when they contribute value in excess of the loss of value from being less decentralized.
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by jxf 3y ago
That's not a great argument for it being impressive, though, which is the original remark in this thread. A car that unpredictably explodes and kills all its occupants, but which can be made safe by installing a widget, is not impressi
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by jxf 3y ago
You should be less impressed; it exudes confidence but is frequently incorrect in that thread.
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by jxf 3y ago
> Our team tried a few options and is now implementing something from scratch instead. > > We also want text to be legible, dates and task names directly shown near the task bars, etc. This is bin-packing with extra steps, which i
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by jxf 3y ago
> This gets less ideal when you want to implement some kind of hover tooltip that shows that value at a particular point. A data value doesn't have to be identical with the value used for plotting purposes. Haven't used Apache
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by jxf 3y ago
> I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Your remark was "The app didn't write the error message, the people implementing the app did". I responded by saying that you can't tell who the human is. > it would
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by jxf 3y ago
But we can't identify which human wrote the message. There's a huge difference between a push notification that says: > Flight UA569 has been canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience and we will rebook you on the next avail
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by jxf 3y ago
Garmin's Fenix line is massively overkill but it's in this category, and I got it for this reason. It can go weeks without charging.
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by jxf 3y ago
Yeah, all fair. What piqued my curiosity is that you could wait _less_ time than you did before (potentially not at all!) which feels like the opposite of what you want to do in such situations.

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