magic_smoke_ee

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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Excellence, consistency, boundaries, structure, periodic surprises to improve handling change, and confidence-building adversity. Or, if you're a country rebel, just name them contrary to their most probable gender identity. /s
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
I consulted at a Stanford biomedical department that openly used age discrimination to displace older full-time employees. They also were biased in hiring researchers and staff who tended to be of the same ethnicity and characteristics as P
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
It's the Starbucks over-commodification of features, apps, and ordinary products to extract money from a sliver of rich people and an increasingly impoverished nation where wages for the bottom 75% have been flat for 40 years while rea
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Exactly. Not to me. Fuck subscriptions for every little thing without ownership. If BMW want to sell a license for heated seats or automatic headlight wipers, more power to them, but count me out.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Yeap. Deal breaker: I do not like normalizing the deviancy of sending shell input to a third party. F opt-out telemetry and a "trust us" privacy policy. They're pressured to deliver maximum profits in a short time, and having
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Electrolytic capacitors are kinda like lead-acid batteries in that they are polarized through manufacturing processes. A voltage is applied in the factory to anodize the anode with a thin oxide layer. For fun, I think it would be possible t
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
From around 2011-2015, I sometimes talked to an ex-Navy electrical tech who said he was also an early Apple rework tech in the SF Bay Area. He had no shortage of work fixing manufacturing problems, adding rework improvements, and building c