lazystar

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by lazystar 2y ago
The decreasing usage of nicotine products in western civilization over the last 30 years should be considered in all doscussions on the increasing prevalence of ADHD. At least one study has shown nicotine use results in increased concentrat
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by lazystar 2y ago
the best example of this can be seen by comparing the experience buying a treadmill on amazon, to the experience buying a treadmill from costco.
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by lazystar 3y ago
"Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery." When was the last time you saw that phrase?
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by lazystar 3y ago
Pearl Harbor was (is?) a fully armed and operational naval base in 1942, but the stories from individuals that survived the attack, did not come from soldiers alone. Officers have wives and children; government contractors require civilian
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by lazystar 3y ago
speaking truth to power is difficult when the survival of your social structure depends on your continued income. ironically - or perhaps intentionally - the fact that no one feels safe due to random firings of "top performers",
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by lazystar 3y ago
do you have a source for this claim? if not, please note this is not reddit.
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by lazystar 3y ago
if their best software engineers designed MCAS, gotta wonder at the skill level of the folks designing the internal tooling that does qc checks.
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by lazystar 3y ago
The decreasing usage of nicotine products in western civilization over the last 30 years should also be considered. At least one study has shown nicotine use results in increased concentration for those with ADHD; it's possible the tr
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by lazystar 3y ago
How many generations of humans improved the glove crafting process, prior to the generation that created this glove? Thousands? How many generations of humans have been writing software? Three? We're at the early stage of software en
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by lazystar 3y ago
Need a source on this, please. It sounds real at first look, but I cant find any links and it's very similar to the boston molasses flood of 1918 story, especially that last bit - "The event entered local folklore and residents r
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by lazystar 3y ago
related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887840
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by lazystar 3y ago
> Any idiot would suffer the same fate if they gave those answers. No one really cares about her intrinsically. In the same vein, one would expect an idiot to misattribute the criticism of their aptitude and view it as a personal attack.
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by lazystar 3y ago
The individual devs impacted by layoffs did not make that decision; please leave these types of quip comments on reddit, where they belong.
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by lazystar 3y ago
as another anecdote, Q advised me to update a security group with a rule to allow ingress traffic on specific ports from a Lambda function execution role. It's jumbling up documentation from two completely different security tools; it
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by lazystar 3y ago
It's good - spends a lot of time debunking claims from previous bios and memoirs that dont hold up under an examination (e.g. some memoirs werent written until decades after the events, and others with fantastic claims were likely cas
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by lazystar 3y ago
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
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by lazystar 3y ago
a billion humans typing on a billion keyboards for a few decades... just needed someone to come along and categorize each of the outputs.
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by lazystar 3y ago
hmm. in hindsight, that sounds like the first company i worked at, as a dev on the ops team. i was oblivious to those higher level strategies, and set out improving the internal orchestration software. it felt like each optimization and
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by lazystar 3y ago
well, theyre close to releasing a product that they know they can call AGI, as its really just 3 letters thag can be trademarked. seems like its being hyped up like ML or bitcoin, lots of hype to sucker in the investors, be the first to bu
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by lazystar 3y ago
> that caused multiple Sev-1s ...did folks run out of tables?
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by lazystar 3y ago
thats not very frugal; please provide a source or citation for your claim.
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by lazystar 3y ago
stability.
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by lazystar 3y ago
yeah... as more folks join the no-uppercase wave, it makes me consider using capitals again. but, its just a lot more of an expressive way to talk to another human in a text based format.
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by lazystar 3y ago
burnout and sleep deprivation can lead to some pretty bad choices; thats why you want to surround yourself with people that will stand up to you when your ideas and plans suffer from too much tunnel vision. sounds like the other 3 board me
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by lazystar 3y ago
neat article. im surprised at the lack of any mention of the Steller's Jay, which is the provincial bird of BC and lives in the same PNW regions. If anyones got a similar article that covers steller's jay social heirarchy, id ap
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by lazystar 3y ago
true. i guess its similar to comparing skin mags from the 60's-90's, to the engagement algorithms and UI designs used by pr0n sites after 2020. theres going to be a "survival of the fittest" shift - folks that are able t
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by lazystar 3y ago
ok, english-speaking culture, but only english speakers in the western half of north america.
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by lazystar 3y ago
kinda the same thing that phone sex businesses have been doing for decades, no?
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by lazystar 3y ago
look at the backgrounds of those board members... cant find any evidence that any of them have experience with corporate politics. theyre in way over their heads.
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by lazystar 3y ago
> supposedly works like 80-100hrs a week if theyve been doin that for a while, no wonder the board wanted them gone. eventually you cause more work than you put out.

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