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by macNchz 4y ago
I am a huge remote work fan and basically refuse to ever attempt to write code in an open plan office again…that said there definitely is some electricity missing in those very early stages when working remotely. I’ve been involved with a f
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by macNchz 4y ago
We were introduced to the concept of "self monitoring"^ in social psychology classes in college, which attempts to describe this phenomenon. Reading about it was a bit of a light bulb moment for me, as it offered some explanation
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by macNchz 4y ago
I've managed to get my parents to be suspicious about emails and phone calls, to forward me anything they're unsure of, to reply to any communications purporting to be from their financial institutions by calling back with the num
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by macNchz 4y ago
Yes, having thin plastic bags of food waste out on the street for hours every single night is quite clearly the fundamental issue. To me, there's an obvious path forward in removing a few free parking spaces on each block and replacing
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by macNchz 4y ago
Correct!
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by macNchz 4y ago
A few years ago I managed a 10TB Postgres cluster backing a moderately high traffic site. I no longer even give the briefest of blinks at any of the fully managed database prices that used to make my eyes water.
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by macNchz 4y ago
I'm an avid hiker/backpacker/runner and tend to agree re Gore-Tex clothing, but I do like having it in footwear for hiking in wet areas. It very obviously doesn't breathe as well as advertised, and I'd never want to
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by macNchz 4y ago
NYC air quality is quite good, especially considering the density. I agree in principle re society's addiction to cars and I'd love if there were fewer in NYC, but, interestingly, the subway system actually has orders of magnitude
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by macNchz 4y ago
In my mind the issue is less “is it conceivable that a small team can run a bare bones version of the Twitter app with hundreds of millions of users” and more “can a small team manage a big distributed system that was designed to be managed
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by macNchz 4y ago
Getting an accurate HR Max can be useful…I got into running several years ago and struggled early on with the zone based training recommendations until I realized it was just because my max HR was higher than the various apps estimate by de
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by macNchz 4y ago
I bet that a couple of passes through random different languages on Google Translate would keep the text comprehensible but be sufficiently nondeterministic to accomplish this in just a few clicks.
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by macNchz 4y ago
That decision making process is a key part of what's taught in a wilderness medicine course: assessing the situation at hand and deciding whether it's necessary to evacuate for a higher level of care, and if so, whether you need a
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by macNchz 4y ago
I experimented with making a GPT-3 excuse generator for getting out of work/school a while ago^. We can look forward to a future of incredible synergy, as employees dodge work with AI generated notes and are summarily fired by an AI! ^
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by macNchz 4y ago
There are many things you can do this way, the terminology “cold soak” used in the parent comment is a good starting point, there are lots of resources online with ideas and techniques for cold soak backpacking meals: https://sec
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by macNchz 4y ago
> You take over a company that was full of bad behaving managers and employees. Is one week of ownership enough to actually understand this and identify those people? It seems they had a preconceived notion of how much revenue the busine
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by macNchz 4y ago
Haven’t traveled internationally since 2019 but AT&T was always good for a chuckle on landing: “Welcome to {country}! You can continue using your AT&T data at our roaming rate of $25/megabyte.” Then I’d buy a 10GB SIM for $15
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by macNchz 4y ago
My wife and I have had Mint for 3 years in NYC and I don’t recall ever having had a situation where there was good service but slow data. Speed tests on 5G generally run over 400mbps. I did a trial before we switched from a regular AT&T
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by macNchz 4y ago
I think Waymo first launched early access to nobody-behind-the-wheel hailable rides in Arizona almost exactly 5 years ago: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16615290/waymo-self-drivi...
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by macNchz 4y ago
I recently disabled the "Use hardware acceleration when available" setting in Firefox on my machine (Ubuntu 22.04, Nvidia 1080ti) on a whim and discovered that it had been the cause of tons of jank on my machine, often bleeding ov
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by macNchz 4y ago
Depends on the coast I guess...NYC, for example, gets some real whopper summer thunderstorms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk3Gz9o9yw4&t=12s
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by macNchz 4y ago
In the past some of these were flaky and would hang using 100% cpu, I’d google “fspind 100% cpu” or whatever and find 20 other people with the same problem and zero info about what the process actually did.
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by macNchz 4y ago
Sublime has a Linux build which works perfectly! I switched from MacOS to Ubuntu as a daily driver two years ago. Keyboard shortcuts generally were the biggest annoyance, however I can’t speak to Sublime shortcuts specifically, as I have al
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by macNchz 4y ago
Since the topic here is Blink-182... I grew up listening to them and managed to go to a special show of theirs in a very small (for them) venue in NYC about 10 years ago. I'm optimistic about the future of VR, but the only aspect of th
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by macNchz 4y ago
Yeah this is very market dependent, especially with regard to whether there are state/local income taxes or the government depends mostly on property taxes. Here in NYC I’d expect to pay $10k or less in annual taxes for a property in t
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by macNchz 4y ago
I feel like the more typical reality is an exec looking at the site on some random browser or device, that then has to be in the support matrix, e.g. an enterprise business web app that supports the most recent 2 versions of modern desktop
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by macNchz 4y ago
> Certainly prices may come down in some locations as interest rates go up if there aren't enough cash buyers The interest rates make a huge difference here...a hypothetical buyer who could afford $5000/month in payments would
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by macNchz 4y ago
Apple may not be perfect, but the bar to be more ethical than Facebook is incredibly low. Facebook has consistently demonstrated a level of contempt for their users' privacy for many years. I took note of this personally for the first
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by macNchz 4y ago
This is an interesting anecdote. Despite a longtime interest, I've been hesitant to bother trying alternative keyboard layouts because even with only really minor changes to shortcuts (capslock replaced with ctrl, emacs text navigation
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by macNchz 4y ago
> practically institutionalized disdain for the smart kids. I am talking cultural products here Escaping this is certainly a piece of why people pursue "good" schools in wealthy areas, gifted programs, and private schools. Obvi
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by macNchz 4y ago
Accurate real time pacing information can be useful during races, when it’s easy to get caught up in the pace of the crowd and lose track of the muscle memory for your race pace. It’s also nice when you want to do any sort of interval train

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