losteric

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by losteric 2y ago
I have occasionally convinced teams to adopt both oncall and sprint cycles aligned with Tuesday [1] - the dev teams all loved it. Management was a harder sell, but by and large were happier with the extra days to communicate results/
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by losteric 2y ago
Perhaps selecting for posts with the highest quality reply engagement? If many different people were drawn to lengthy discussions, that suggests the content sparks thoughts that others then feel compelled to engage with. Or select for the e
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by losteric 2y ago
It’s interesting that American neoliberalism perpetuates this thinking of staunch independence, an unrealistic notion that every man fully defends and stands for their own interests. It seems to espouse creating the terrifying Hobbesian “
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by losteric 2y ago
I read through the blog post and entry page twice each - yeah still confused. The pitch reads like an engineer celebrating their implementation. What I took away is: it’s a collaborative IDE for infrastructure? with some nifty simulators to
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by losteric 2y ago
The essence seems to be 1. Amazon is suing this person on the basis of contracts which did not forbid this behavior 2. the DOJ is presumably involved because this looks like criminal kickbacks 3. This person is just arguing against (1) I wo
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by losteric 2y ago
I’m confused by the therabreath story and how it relates to google trends being bad? I see data that matches all my expectations for searches of that mouthwash. What are you missing? What do you want more of?
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by losteric 2y ago
and one can absolutely get examined by a “pilot’s doctors”
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by losteric 2y ago
Bans have helped fight other protection rackets. Businesses are less willing to comply with the mob when the government is swinging a bigger stick. And payments/criminal rewards get pressured down when it’s blatantly illegal
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by losteric 2y ago
Note the study involves injections. The oral route is subject to digestion.
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by losteric 3y ago
itt people are talking about specific policy actions by Biden. Is there a causal effect we can attribute to Trump?
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by losteric 3y ago
If height limits were raised with zoning for multi family housing, those investments would sky rocket faster than under NIMBY
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by losteric 3y ago
Subsidized housing, through vouchers or rent control. At least in my city.
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by losteric 3y ago
Usually? Can you share one example?
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by losteric 3y ago
Why do you say that? I’ve never had that happen with any other of my Google data opt-outs.
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by losteric 3y ago
It’s literally selecting for people who can tell the best stories. Not great for any company dependent on moving fast with autonomy, with a genuine mission. Plus “looking for grit” really means “looking for someone to work long hours (typ
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by losteric 3y ago
Has Gavin Newsom done something equally recent and newsworthy as failing to be nominated by his party? Otherwise... ???
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by losteric 3y ago
Jamming or triangulate the phones? Also yes, anti satellite weapons.
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by losteric 3y ago
> Look at Haskell and Rust jobs. They might have some of the most highest paying but most of them get paid less I would bet that's because there are a large number projects that got written in Haskell/Rust by someone looking to
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by losteric 3y ago
Duolingo is good at going from nothing to something. That’s important. I noticed in this app, trying a language I don’t know, I immediately get blocked on lesson 1 step 2 - my answer is wrong, but I know nothing and there are zero mechanism
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by losteric 3y ago
There’s definitely a gap for going from zero to something. The guided conversation is too many words at once, it’s overwhelming. I immediately see a prompt to assemble two sentences from a list of words I don’t know without translations or
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by losteric 3y ago
Do you thumbs down the bad responses?
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by losteric 3y ago
Why would random individual people put in work, a scientist's life, into "getting people to pay new taxes without blowback"? Why would someone do that... just for fun? And if there is a wealthy elite conspiracy behind it - wh
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by losteric 3y ago
There are no "global cloud seeding" projects. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/28/fac... anything like that would be trivially observed by layperson scientists. (
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by losteric 3y ago
Did you ever wonder to validate the things you "started hearing"?
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by losteric 3y ago
That's a tautology.... The aesthetic and industrial applications of gold are what makes it intrinsically valuable - that being the key distinction, and distinct from Bitcoin. If you ignore the useful aspects, of course it's no dif
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by losteric 3y ago
People might listen to a radio while driving, or have a TV show on while eating dinner or chatting with friends, magazines/newspapers might be expected at doctor's offices. We didn't dip in and out of personalized media feeds
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by losteric 3y ago
Most SDEs have grown up in a severe labor deficit. It's so interesting seeing the idealism smack in to reality. 1. Those "employee-appreciations" were a cost-saving measure to retain talent. 20% time towards projects that ben
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by losteric 3y ago
How does this differ from https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/ (which already has a robust software ecosystem), or the multitude of various "git standards/best practices" already in existe
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by losteric 3y ago
Amazon ships fast to retain customers over brick and mortar competitors. At this point, logistics costs are baked in to seller fees (ie item price). Prime fees were always a free money stream for Amazon to direct in to risky bets/build
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by losteric 3y ago
By underzoned, I meant building up not out. Sprawl is not a long-term answer to any growth challenges.

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