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by leetcrew 3y ago
timezones don't need to perfectly predict whether the sun is up to be useful. when I set a meeting with a colleague in India, I don't really care whether the sun is up. it will almost surely be down for at least one of us. I am ju
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by leetcrew 3y ago
a teacher's job is to teach their students. a "banker" (at the sort of bank where you might open a checking account) isn't expected to grow your checking account for you. you're supposed to do that, and the bank is
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by leetcrew 3y ago
is BYOC that common at software companies these days? even if I wanted to "invest money in essential tools", I wouldn't be allowed to connect them to any company networks. in any case, the most resource-intensive thing my wor
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by leetcrew 3y ago
it's only a no-brainer if you went to an expensive school or have low expectations for your career in your 20s. total in-state tuition for a four year degree is ~$40k. that's not nothing, but at least for me, getting that wiped ou
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by leetcrew 3y ago
bankruptcy stays on your credit report for 7 years iirc. that's a long time to get denied (or approved with terrible terms) for credit cards, auto loans, mortgages, etc. if you have a reasonable student loan balance and a solid job off
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by leetcrew 3y ago
you're right lol. I was basing this comment off of misha's previous video. just watched his lap with the track package and he's passing all kinds of cars in the corners.
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by leetcrew 3y ago
the quality of questions is important during the technical segment, almost as much as getting the correct (or at least reasonable) answer/solution. charging into a solution without picking up on the ambiguities is one of the classic wa
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I agree it doesn't really make sense, but I guess I don't understand what the problem is. not every purchase in life has to be made based on the output of a spreadsheet. as long as they don't actually drive 200 mph on public
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by leetcrew 3y ago
by the time you're looking at $100k+ cars, you've moved into "want" territory, not "need". some people want a car that can give them a massage. some people want a car that can go 200 mph, even if they'll n
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by leetcrew 3y ago
both can be true. if you watch footage of people driving them on the ring, you'll notice they have to to take corners at much slower speeds and then make up time on the straighter sections. even accounting for the higher weight, model
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I don't see those two as mutually exclusive, prima facie, unless you see "culture" as a euphemism for "perpetuating white supremacy". it certainly can be, but it can also be things like haverford's honor code,
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I think the argument is the opposite... they start with one or more orders of magnitude of qualified applicants in excess of capacity. and to meet DEI goals, only X% of those accepted can be white anyway. how they actually pick from the qua
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I take your point for long-distance travel, but the same argument doesn't really make sense to me in the commuter context. if something goes wrong with the second leg of my commute, I probably want to figure out a different way to get
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by leetcrew 3y ago
factorio isn't CPU or GPU bound though. memory bandwidth is typically the bottleneck, at least according to the developers. I'm glad the developers have prioritized game mechanics and sim optimization over graphics, and I think th
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by leetcrew 3y ago
they're also the entity that gives "bite" (pun intended) to the pollution mechanic, which complicates lots of tradeoffs in the game. with biters/pollution, trees are both an inconvenience and a helpful pollution buffer.
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by leetcrew 3y ago
the concentrated syrup is indeed much cheaper to get to the retail location, and typically the retailer does make a large margin on fountain drinks. at a restaurant, this typically offsets the very tight margins on their other offerings, si
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by leetcrew 3y ago
this is kind of disingenuous. the "bill of materials" for a bottle of soda may be measured in cents, but most of the $1.75 you pay at the store is the cost of getting it there and storing it. it's not a phenomenally profitabl
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by leetcrew 3y ago
the f-35 is mostly used for training. it has very few combat sorties to date.
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by leetcrew 3y ago
putting people in jail for doing drugs doesn't do much for their children or their health either. I also don't see why it has to be all one way or the other. I agree that people with dependent children have no business taking risk
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by leetcrew 3y ago
if you want to attract the best talent and have an in-person culture, you kinda have to place offices in central locations, which inevitably become very expensive. take NYC for example. office space in manhattan is extremely expensive, bu
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I don't really agree. the hard part of networking is being worth talking to for the other person. people will happily overlook a little awkwardness if they think you might be able to help them in the future. you don't have to put
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I don't know of a universally accepted scientific definition. but you might find this section of the wiki page for hallucinogens helpful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen#Effects_by_type
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by leetcrew 3y ago
that's kinda like asking what kind of properties alcohol would need to exhibit to qualify as an opiate. it's similar in some ways, but the definition of "opiate" excludes alcohol. if your definition of "psychedelic&
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by leetcrew 3y ago
three out of four of those things aren't related to road wear and tear though? how about annual miles * k * (weight/axles)^4? adjust k until the roads are paid for.
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I'd rather not share too many details, but it's similar to how credit card applications are processed. there's an automated system that can automatically approve some applications, with a manual fallback. the system my junior
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by leetcrew 3y ago
are their expectations unreasonably high, or are yours too low? last year a junior on my team worked with a few other juniors and a PM to implement a straightforward automation project. their system saved about $50mm last year, and that num
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by leetcrew 3y ago
this doesn't make a lot of sense to me. do you have some archetectural insight, or just guessing? fetching a list of default/subscribed subs and comparing it against the whole list of private subs every time someone loads your hom
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I do actually have a dashcam built into my personal vehicle. I have mixed feelings about it, but overall I think the benefits outweigh the risks. that said, the risks are not to be taken lightly. even if the recording is only stored locally
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by leetcrew 3y ago
no thanks. pervasive surveillance is bad enough already without the requirement that the surveiled pay for the hardware themselves.
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by leetcrew 3y ago
basic physics intuition suggests that a relatively heavier vehicle with much more torque available from rest would abrade away more tire material in daily use. maybe this could be mitigated with special tires for EVs, but it seems like a pr

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