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by macNchz 5y ago
> It's been six years since I even had a cubicle. Most offices I've worked in since then had us in barrierless rooms, often kind of cramped, with just enough space for a computer and monitor. Look past your monitor and you see
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by macNchz 5y ago
I definitely see where you’re coming from. When I first got it I was freaked out by the frequent spikes of VOCs, before determining that it’s actually hypersensitive to farts. I’ve come to ignore most transient fluctuations and just use VO
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by macNchz 5y ago
After a year I don’t see any issues with it, the sensors don’t seem to have drifted or changed in their responsiveness at all. It has crashed once or twice and stopped responding but was fine after a power cycle. With any IoT device I’m war
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by macNchz 5y ago
On my leafy Brooklyn street the particulate pollution outside is well within the recommended levels nearly all the time, so thankfully there's not really a pressing need to retrofit modern ventilation into a 120 year old house. That is
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by macNchz 5y ago
I am able to find many journal articles confirming my observations that cooking produces significantly elevated indoor PM2.5 levels, many of which suggest it to be harmful, but I'm not finding anything about the relative impacts of the
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by macNchz 5y ago
I'm using an Awair Element, I didn't do a ton of research on alternatives, but the app is pretty good and it "just works".
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by macNchz 5y ago
After getting a (non-DIY because as much as I like hobby electronics I have a tendency to scope creep my little projects straight into incompletion) about a year ago, my main learnings have been: - Cooking is insanely bad for the air in you
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by macNchz 5y ago
The incentives are aligned for cops to ask the question as much as possible–if their local department gets to keep a good chunk of the seized money, that’s more in the bank to pay for all sorts of stuff, including additional overtime hours
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by macNchz 5y ago
Not OP, but I've used a Mac as my main computer since I was a kid in the mid 90s, and I've installed Linux on most of my Macs at some point or another since like 2002. Every single time I've found it sufficiently cumbersome
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by macNchz 5y ago
The company described in this post is clearly highly dysfunctional, however the self-sabotaging pattern–scheduling an important meeting before even starting to build the make-or-break thing that will be demoed in the meeting–is one I’ve see
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by macNchz 5y ago
This was my first thought when reading about Copilot...it feels almost certain that someone will try poisoning the training data. Hard to say how straightforward it'd be to get it to produce consistently vulnerable suggestions that mak
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by macNchz 5y ago
I read Peopleware a long time ago (from an HN recommendation) and found it super valuable, but if I have any takeaway from this past year it is how right they were about office layout for knowledge workers. At this point I've worked as
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by macNchz 5y ago
> I kick-started the bot on a server remotely and only then discovered it's an endless loop. It required server admin rights to stop it, which I did not have. That sinking feeling when you realize you've started something bad a
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by macNchz 5y ago
Yeah this would be very easy to configure with Zapier if you use an email service with filters like gmail: just set a filter rule to auto-forward the email to a Zapier parsing address and you're good to go. I get notifications from Cha
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by macNchz 5y ago
Yeah I’ve encountered some really fun bugs on more than one occasion due to zero-width spaces sneaking into places they shouldn’t be. I hate Word documents as a medium for sending around API instructions or content for a CMS for this reason
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by macNchz 5y ago
Yeah I encountered this problem recently as someone who was once reasonably familiar with d3 and came back to it after several years away. I find myself wanting to start with a working example I can riff off of more in d3 than with many oth
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by macNchz 5y ago
Here's an article about the problems with brine from desalination plants https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/slaking-the-world...
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by macNchz 5y ago
I think the main thing is that as you go up in the amount of processing, nutrients/fiber are removed (even just by canning) and other things are added (salt, sugar, oil etc), which has an impact if most of what you eat comes from the m
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by macNchz 5y ago
It's definitely not always obvious but I think the categories of "minimally processed" / "processed" / "ultra processed" make some intuitive sense: Raw fish filet / Canned Fish / Frozen
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by macNchz 5y ago
Yeah I was inspired by an amazingly effective attic fan in an airbnb I stayed in a few years ago...definitely will be installing one in any future attics I own.
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by macNchz 5y ago
You’re totally correct about the noise, however I actually use a commercial all-metal box fan to ventilate my apartment and it’s really awesome. I only run it at night, and I put it in a window in another room, facing out with some material
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by macNchz 5y ago
>“We live in a society that is designed for morning people, and evening people often feel as if they are in a constant state of misalignment with that societal clock,” said Daghlas. This certainly resonates with me...I've long been
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by macNchz 5y ago
The thing that provides the best reset for me is a couple of days entirely off the grid, definitely without cell service, preferably without power. There is something about being out on a backpacking trip–10 miles walking from the nearest r
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by macNchz 5y ago
Five years ago I had a whole bunch of extensions, but that ended whenever it was that I first learned that there were bad actors buying legitimate extensions from their developers and filling them with malware. After that I dramatically red
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by macNchz 5y ago
I personally love playing the game called "reconcile these very-important-but-utterly-without-tests sequences of gnarly regexes that were years ago copy-pasted in seven places and since then refactored, but only in three of the seven p
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by macNchz 5y ago
>it is _much_ easier to refactor copy pasta code I totally agree assuming that there will be time to get to the second pass of the "write everything twice" approach...some of my least favorite refactoring work has been on older
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by macNchz 5y ago
There very much are companies doing this and selling it as a service...here's an API that you can query with a piece of contact information to retrieve all sorts of additional information, including hashes of alternate email addresses,
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by macNchz 5y ago
I think now is likely a great time to be looking for one as well, as there's going to be a lot of flux as companies figure out what's next in terms of office space. My home office Aeron came to me for free recently when a friend&#
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by macNchz 5y ago
They discuss the relationship between the companies on their website https://blog.thermoworks.com/thermometer/thermoworks-eti-ltd...
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by macNchz 5y ago
Yeah a surprising number of sites tie their checkout navigation to callbacks on trackers, making critical things like the “Complete Checkout” button just straight up not work when the trackers are blocked...or just down for whatever reason.

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