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by kbutler 5y ago
Good project management would prioritize the feature list, cut out 95% of the effort to define an MVP that could be delivered with 2-4 hours of coding, and delivered to the user to find out if it's worth doing anything more.
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by kbutler 5y ago
...compared to Chief Design Officer at Apple? (2011 $30M salary + $25M stock, not disclosed after that).
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by kbutler 5y ago
Yes, yes, trademarks are properly adjectives, so you also don't "google" or "use Google", you "search with the Google(tm) search engine". And you've never used a Kleenex - you've used a Kleenex(t
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by kbutler 5y ago
In my experience, developing software on a local dev machine is precisely when fine-grained control of software stack versions is needed. This can be encapsulated with things like docker, but the "I'll globally, arbitrarily update
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by kbutler 5y ago
Some factors: - low voltage (below spec) - constant on, instead of cycling - strong element - backup power - generally a protected environment
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by kbutler 5y ago
If that's the quality of advice from Kim or from the article, it's best to disregard it. Drinking alcohol when you're cold and don't have access to shelter is dangerous: https://www.accuweather.com/en&#x2
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by kbutler 5y ago
I think this is the biggest factor - the rise of the "Buffett Indicator" implies that the stock market is increasingly valuable compared to US GDP, and thus capturing or measuring more value than just US production, but the linear
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by kbutler 5y ago
I wondered about this too, but both sides of the ratio are denominated in current dollars, so dollar valuation is already divided out: ratio of total US stock market value to US GDP
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by kbutler 5y ago
75/decade == 1 every 7 weeks Sounds pretty common, or as the grandparent said, "tens of minor incidents that...didn't get reported on"
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by kbutler 5y ago
Copyright is limited in time (at least in theory!). U.S. government works are not eligible for copyright. Some works do not have sufficient creative element to be covered by copyright, or the other user may be using only the non-covered ele
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by kbutler 5y ago
US Copyright law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102 (b)In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operat
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by kbutler 5y ago
But the owner of the copyright is.
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by kbutler 5y ago
Snopes rated that claim "Mixed" Compare: It was a subjective call on whether ____'s use of phrases "you have to show strength" and "demand that ____ do the right thing" were meant to condone violence a
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by kbutler 5y ago
So Unbearably Depressing / force you / hate / deeply, overwhelmingly depressing / spirits deflate And that's just the intro. Skip to the end: "These pictures erode the soul."
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by kbutler 5y ago
I think this is a case of hyperawareness/catastrophizing - upon realizing the mindless interruption of CAPTCHAs, the authors have focused so intensely on the minor discomforts of monotonous, poorly composed, poorly shot pictures that t
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by kbutler 5y ago
The point is to have the pan well-seasoned, which requires fat but doesn't add (significant?) fat to your food, then it doesn't take as much fat to keep the food from sticking. Some users claim flaxseed oil is the ideal oil for se
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by kbutler 5y ago
> The "skeptic" only needs to have one single piece of data turn out to be inaccurate “The great tragedy of Science–the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” –British biologist Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) This is
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by kbutler 5y ago
Cars, asphalt, heating/cooling, industry, and population density increase? "According to the EPA, many U.S. cities have air temperatures up to 10°F (5.6°C) warmer than the surrounding natural land cover." https://s
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by kbutler 5y ago
It's the equivalent of T-posing humans everywhere. Not a relaxed posture reflective of nature, but does allow more visibility and analysis. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man
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by kbutler 5y ago
The fact that our brains can recall fantasy as reality is a form of "misattribution". It's only one of many ways that our memories are inaccurate, to speak nothing of the various biases and inaccuracies that are incorporated
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by kbutler 5y ago
I'll just say my experience in early 2021 didn't match that, or I wasn't willing to invest enough to get unsupported, pre-release software working, when I had easy access to x86 macs.
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by kbutler 5y ago
This was true until April 15, 2021. https://www.docker.com/press-release/Docker-Desktop-for-M1-p...
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by kbutler 5y ago
He did: "the suspect had kept the paintings at the home of a relative that he frequently visited to look at them," The article doesn't say if the relative knew they were stolen originals or presumed they were prints.
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by kbutler 5y ago
Son presumably got it at school (high mask compliance). Wife presumably got it from son. 5 days before other son's wedding...
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by kbutler 5y ago
I think it occurs someone criticizes a political opponent for using a word or phrase which has been commonplace until that time, though some may have considered it offensive. Immediately, that usage is widely decried as horribly offensive,
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by kbutler 5y ago
Does "back in time" mean earlier when speaking of future events? Or only past events? A future meeting "moved back" is definitely postponed. (US English)
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by kbutler 5y ago
Moving up a date is like moving up toward the front in a line (or queue) vs moving back.
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by kbutler 5y ago
6 * 1.18 = 7.08 people, so that could explain 1 adult. I think the "some adults, some kids" is more significant - similar to back seats in many small cars - you can put 3 passengers in there, but 3 adults won't be happy.
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by kbutler 5y ago
Similar. It's more an example of the apocryphal economist anecdote - "if it's jobs you want, you should have them dig with spoons instead of shovels." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10&#x
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by kbutler 5y ago
Sounds like an essay to state Arthur C. Clarke's "First Law": When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is

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