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by kevstev 4y ago
You really think this causes lumber prices to fly through the roof though? It may have been a factor but it seems a stretch that NYC restaurants would increase demand that much.
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by kevstev 4y ago
I was not eligible for any COVID relief. I was above income limits. Wasn't it two $600 checks though?
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by kevstev 4y ago
Whats the most recent phone you have tried to use in low light? The last two years of Pixels and Iphones (and maybe others, these are just the ones I have seen firsthand) are amazing in low light for a typical use case. I mean sure if you h
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by kevstev 4y ago
I am sorry, I don't understand- can you explain this? What construction was required for safety measures? Especially such that required wood specifically?
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by kevstev 4y ago
I agree with your overall post, but the demand was likely less driven by federal stimulus, than everyone being stuck home and looking around and realizing maybe its time to finally fix that fence/deck, and knock out that project I have
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by kevstev 4y ago
I have had success by actively cultivating a small number of recruiters I perceive as high quality. I find them if they are offering roles that are truly unique and special I will reply back and just say "hey I am not in the market rig
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by kevstev 4y ago
Interestingly, I am in the middle of replacing my HVAC which died last fall. I was dead set on getting a heat pump. I didn't really care about the increased upfront cost, so long as I was getting increased comfort and there would be a
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by kevstev 4y ago
Just one anecdote, but I bought a Canon in either late 2014 or early 2015 and it works great- it looks like I have printed about 6000 pages on it- mostly academic papers. IIRC it was a clearance that was selling for $300ish when it original
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by kevstev 4y ago
I had a Creative Nomad, which I bought around the end of 2003 and I was scoffed at by Ipod owners at how big it was. Doing a little digging, this was the model: https://www.cnet.com/reviews/creative-nomad-jukebox-zen-xt
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by kevstev 4y ago
Did you watch the video linked on the highest rated post on this thread? The one from technology connections? It explains it all very well. I am happy you have an open mind, but the fact that you are trying to tear the technology down when
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by kevstev 4y ago
If you already have a central AC system, a heat pump is more or less a drop in replacement. The heat pump becomes both your heat and AC unit. Heat pumps are now the most premium option on units offered by the well known names in HVAC- Trane
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by kevstev 4y ago
I am not sure the case you are making here- most people who would be switching to a heat pump for heat are almost certainly using oil, natural gas, or propane to heat their homes, all of which require a good deal of centralization. Those th
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by kevstev 4y ago
I got stuck in this trap for a bit at my last job. I was called a "manager" and expected to do all of the managerial bits, but only had 2 others on my team that were very junior. Yet I was still expected to take on a full IC load,
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by kevstev 4y ago
I think a huge point you are missing here is the whole supply and demand aspect. The whole point of raising interest rates is to reduce the demand of borrowed money. What made sense to borrow for at 1% interest may not make sense at 4.75%.
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by kevstev 4y ago
This was a real scenario I faced and the company/founder was a complete stranger to me- I forget if he just found me on LinkedIn or it was through angel list- I would not have been a cofounder just their CTO. Either way I ended up taki
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by kevstev 4y ago
> If they are coming from tech, the fact that they couldn’t convince a former colleague to work with them means they’ll be a terrible manager. I kind of disagree here. I have been a manager at F*NG and just below those places in terms of
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by kevstev 4y ago
Well lets say you work at TechCompany. TechCompany makes most of its revenue off of ads, but it has a bunch of side bets in classifieds, AI, self driving cars (or so its rumored), virtual reality, chat, even some finance tools. Now you want
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by kevstev 4y ago
If anyone reading this was part of the affected, please DM me. I have an SRE type role open that would almost certainly be a good fit for anyone from eng. Totally remote, good company culture.
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by kevstev 4y ago
I feel this way about self driving cars as well. Its like even 10 years ago, the capabilities they have today would be considered mind blowing, yet they receive so much hate because they aren't yet adapted to all situations. Its baffli
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by kevstev 4y ago
Thats interesting. When I did play with it a bit, it wasn't clear to me if it was actually doing that, but in hindsight it definitely was and was not just a coincidence. When I first used ChatGPT, I had a dog that recently passed, and
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by kevstev 4y ago
Agree- so many are dismissing it because its not perfect, but this is an absolutely enormous leap from anything else I have seen in my lifetime, and this crosses the chasm IMHO between "AI is unlikely to really be able to have general
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by kevstev 4y ago
In the mid 90s to early 00s, I loved looking at the ads in the Sunday newspaper from computer stores, and month by month you could see prices coming down for all components, if not week by week. The pace was so torrid. They stopped even adv
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by kevstev 4y ago
The "famous", at least in some circles, paper on climate change created in 1977. It has predicted our current actual temperature increases along with carbon emissions with startling accuracy: https://www.google.com&#x2
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by kevstev 4y ago
Yeah but there are other solutions as well. When these articles come up people seem so obsessed about finding some gotcha! and why it won't work for them in certain situations, its strange to me. Heat pumps are absolutely a better tech
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by kevstev 4y ago
Yeah I am not a huge fan of bottling, but living in the city, space is always at a premium. It's more about just not having an ugly kegging setup somewhere. I now have a basement and am actually just thinking about keeping it there if
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by kevstev 4y ago
My company gave me one of their jackets a few years back for being involved in some recruiting efforts. I honestly had no idea how expensive they were- I have an LT hood of some sort- their product line is absurdly convoluted, but I later f
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by kevstev 4y ago
I tried this- someone left a 5lb CO2 tank on my corner and I had it refilled- I was excited since I am a home brewer and have always been interested in kegging. I got a regulator, the cap, and then tried to carbonate a 16oz water bottle. It
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by kevstev 4y ago
This was 2015ish? Right before they turned into Oath. AOL existed for a lot longer than anyone realized- and actually operated more like a hedge fund buying media properties with funds from people who were still subscribing to what was left
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by kevstev 4y ago
The problem is that the threat of litigation is enough to make them essentially enforced. Sure you could go to a lawyer that says this isn't worth the paper its printed on, but either you, or maybe your employer, is now going to have t
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by kevstev 4y ago
An Elegant Puzzle- Systems Engineering Management. The content is great, and the design and typsetting are fantastic too. It helped formalize a lot of half thoughts I had floating around my head in regards to engineering management.

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