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by mabbo 5y ago
I interned at Microsoft when he was CEO and he gave us a lunch q&a. The man is the most charismatic person I've ever seen speak in person. Given just how badly he ran Microsoft, I really think his ability to convince people of stuf
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by mabbo 5y ago
Joshua Weissman has brilliant information that adults want to know, packaged in a format designed to make adults want to murder Joshua Weissman. I believe it's some kind of social experiment. Like his entire online persona is an experi
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by mabbo 5y ago
Did you read the article at all? > do remember some folks taking issue with the idea that the reverse sear was your creation. > There’s a competition barbecue team, Iron Pig BBQ, who were doing a similar technique, but it wasn’t publ
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by mabbo 5y ago
Do you have an example of something he showed the takes 10X longer? I find most of his recommendations made me a faster cook.
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by mabbo 5y ago
He has an episode in which he absolutely mangles his pizza and it looks horrendous. He literally says while recording "Doesn't matter, still pizza. Actually, that's what I'm going to name this episode." It doesn&#x2
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by mabbo 5y ago
This is what happens when you remove all humans from the loop. The decisions made by software can be manipulated once you have a reasonable estimation of what the software is doing. This time it's Russia. Next time it will be an Americ
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by mabbo 5y ago
My imagination has a lot of ideas about what this means. But I also dropped biology in high school and went into computers, so I'm very poorly armed to assess this. Can someone tell me what the real implications of this are, and what t
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by mabbo 5y ago
Wow, that's a really great point. If we have these sorts of drones helping to contain and manage the allowed fires, in an automated fashion, we can reduce the effort needed to do so, or perhaps even control larger fires. Maybe I was to
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by mabbo 5y ago
The reason we have such terrible fires now is that we keep putting out fires when they're small. Nature builds up too much burnable matter over time. Small fires would burn it in small, localized areas. But if the small fires don'
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by mabbo 5y ago
There are two distinct problems: content and content access. Games, tv shows, films, these are the content we want. Netflix, HBO go, Hulu, steam, battle.net, these are content access systems. What consumers want is legal access to all conte
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by mabbo 5y ago
> The only case Automerge cannot handle automatically, because there is no well-defined resolution, is when users concurrently update the same property in the same object (or, similarly, the same index in the same list). In this case, Au
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by mabbo 5y ago
A fun thought experiment to counter this idea. Let's presume that the universe is full of Dyson Spheres, and the gravity they produce is what we call "Dark Matter". Well, Dyson Spheres must be built, right? So earlier in time
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by mabbo 5y ago
You're worth that 25% more though. The value you provide is not based on your location. You deserve better.
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by mabbo 5y ago
You know, I do owe you an apology. That was snarky as hell and I don't know your situation. Sorry.
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by mabbo 5y ago
You remind me of myself when I used to work for Amazon. I'd also spend a lot of time explaining to friends how "It's complicated" and "You know, they also do a lot of good things". But the reality I wouldn&#x27
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by mabbo 5y ago
But this goes to the heart of problem at Amazon: "Customer Obsession". Which really means "we only care about people paying us money". If Amazon cared about creators, they would have built an automated system that monito
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by mabbo 5y ago
I knew there might be more content, but had no idea how to get there. It never occurred to me that I should move sideways. There was no hint. And it's a shame because it's an otherwise really nice website.
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by mabbo 5y ago
The UX for this page is a lesson. There's no affordance, no hints, that you should be moving sideways instead of the standard 'down' that websites typically use. The '1/5' made me think there might be more, but
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by mabbo 5y ago
> EFS file systems now provide average latency as low as 600 microseconds for the majority of read operations on data and metadata. I do not want to detract from how awesome this is at all. It's a great improvement and worth of cele
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by mabbo 5y ago
On the surface, yes. But in reality this is the fringe far right using the vaccine as a reason to disrupt the country. My biggest concern with this all is the timing. The vaccine rules have been around for months, but right at the same time
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by mabbo 5y ago
What's the major differences between Dunstan chestnuts (a hybrid) and 'true' American Chestnuts? Or do we even know, given how long its been since the American Chestnuts died off? https://chestnuthilltreefarm.com&#
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by mabbo 5y ago
I was delighted when a section of my town was named "Fairy Ferry".
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by mabbo 5y ago
If prices were in terms of money, then a company should want to undercut its competitors. This would overall be a net-win for it, as customers would move more to use its services than the competition. This would force the competition to ALS
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by mabbo 5y ago
I took the lazy route, but you provided all the details I ought to have. Thanks! I hope someone reads it and reports a tree this way.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Your friend should report the location to the American Chestnut Foundation. They can monitor the tree, get it gene sequenced, learn more about it. Every survivor is another set of genes that maybe lead to the revival of the species.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Here is the crux of the problem, in my mind: Does Facebook have more of a prerogative to help people in Africa or to maximize profits/value for shareholders (primary among them, Zuckerberg)? And the answer is complicated. In an actual
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by mabbo 5y ago
I don't know what has changed about the game, but running it in my phone (Pixel 4, Firefox mobile) has become near impossible. Every other action freezes the entire page while some event gets processed. And by event I mean like "c
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by mabbo 5y ago
Discord is a wonderful program for real-time communication and asynchronous conversations. But are either of those use-cases how you want to provide a help system? Imagine if Stack Overflow was ephemeral. If once you asked a question, the q
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by mabbo 5y ago
> France is the only country I know that's managed to make nuclear power work. Hello from Ontario, Canada! Have a look at the 'supply' tab of this page: https://www.ieso.ca/power-data . Most of our energy p
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by mabbo 5y ago
> I worry a little that my view is overly simplistic, or maybe applicable only to domains that I have worked in. If anyone wouldn't mind poking holes in this argument or offering examples I would appreciate it. I think this line alo

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