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by mason55 5y ago
> A school is a public institution. How speech laws apply to public institution is not some crazy out there idea. It is well established. Free speech laws apply differently in school. They're not exactly the same as other public
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by mason55 5y ago
Schools sort of fall in an area between private employer and government entity. They have to allow more leeway than a private employer (they can't prevent speech just because it makes them uncomfortable) but they can put more limits o
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by mason55 5y ago
There are only two ways to make money in software: bundling and unbundling
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by mason55 5y ago
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure Especially for a CEO, who has quite a bit of power to optimize for any measure, it's going to be very hard to craft a measure that gives the results you want and can&#x2
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by mason55 5y ago
I’m guessing the problem is last mile. There is a train from Denver that takes you directly to one mountain (Winter Park) but getting a train to any other mountain adds a ton of time and expense because you need shuttles from the train stop
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by mason55 5y ago
And whether the act of debugging has changed how everything works
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by mason55 6y ago
> I still have many English words I know (and use correctly in writing) that I'm not sure how to pronounce. Do you mind sharing some examples? As a native English speaker, I'm so curious! Do you think that if you heard them
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by mason55 6y ago
Speaking of Portuguese, I've always found the usage of "ç" to be interesting. I've never studied the language but just from looking at words it's clearly the way to represent the soft "c" sound before a &
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by mason55 6y ago
There are a few changes that I believe are universal. I'm thinking hard/soft "c" becoming "k"/"s" and soft "g" becoming "j". I don't think I've heard any dialects
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by mason55 6y ago
You said it yourself: > an abuse of Microsoft's market position Apple has no such market position to abuse. It's perfectly legal to put restrictions on your product. It's perfectly legal to be a monopoly. It's onl
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by mason55 6y ago
So what's the alternative? You can talk about work history but now you're locked out of the FAANG track if you don't start with an internship there because very few jobs are going to work at the same scale. Of course you co
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by mason55 6y ago
I’m in the same boat. Love using it day to day (dropping into nix-shell to try something e.g.). Love administering the systems when I need to make small changes or do things I already know how to do. Absolutely dread having to figure out so
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by mason55 6y ago
Yeah I’ve been running Nix on a home server for a couple years and using home manager on my MBP for just as long. The biggest challenge to learning has been all the examples that use nix-env -i.
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by mason55 6y ago
> and it's the rules that need changing Why? The shareholders & execs were free to impose stricter compliance and risk rules. They chose not to. As long as you don't have contagion spreading to the rest of the financial
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by mason55 6y ago
It was also one of the major benefits in the (fast) transition from mini USB to micro USB! Mini usb had a bad habit of wearing out the port instead of the plug.
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by mason55 6y ago
You can still do all those things on a computer. And now it’s so easy to put up a web app that I’d argue barriers are much, much lower than when you had to figure out how to get your physical software distributed. The goals of “keep grandpa
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by mason55 6y ago
We’ve found something very similar in a totally different industry. We started with data collection and people were willing to pay for the data, but not enough to create any kind of long-term sustainable business. We’ve slowly moved up th
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by mason55 6y ago
The alternative is to develop the entire stack in house. Unlikely that you’ll do any better and meanwhile your competitors will pass you by. It’s really just the consequence of asymmetrical outcomes. Most of the time it all just works and
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by mason55 6y ago
Yeah this is why we end up setting goals for our teams that are generic, like “respond to production issues within one business day”. Not the dev’s fault if the big Q3 feature they were supposed to work on gets deprioritized in Q2 or some i
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by mason55 6y ago
Saw one flying over an intersection in suburban Colorado just last weekend. I had seen them "in the wild" before (e.g. while river rafting in PA) but it was interesting to see one while I was just out running errands.
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by mason55 6y ago
Sure, lots of reasons you can’t create the most very optimal experience. But even if you can’t swap out the switches in your rental there are other options if you keep “physical first” in mind. There are even smart switches made to stick o
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by mason55 6y ago
Yup. With this approach the only thing that goes wrong is you start to rely on some of the automations and it's a bit annoying if one stops working for some reason.
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by mason55 6y ago
That's just bad smart home planning. Any smart home device should work on top of existing physical control. Don't buy smart bulbs that require you to use your phone or voice to control them. Instead, buy smart switches that wor
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by mason55 6y ago
In addition to what the other reply said about going local-only using Zwave/Zigbee, the other key is that home automation should be "in addition to" not "instead of." Want to control your lights remotely or automate
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by mason55 6y ago
If you're interested in what investment bankers do in a 95-hour week then check out the book "Barbarians at the Gate." Events took place in 1988 so you don't have things like PowerPoint but there are a lot of good examp
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by mason55 6y ago
I think there are two things that cause this. One is that there’s a minimum performance that people will tolerate. Beyond that you get quickly diminishing user satisfaction returns when trying to optimize. The difference between 30 seconds
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by mason55 6y ago
Yeah we have a dashboard product as part of our offering and the main problem is that it’s just a mess of data thrown at the user to dig through. Our big initiative is to turn it into actionable information or guided experiences so that us
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by mason55 6y ago
I’ve worked with a bunch of huge Fortune 1000 companies that do similar things. Model each contract in its own excel file then every month put in that month’s data and have the excel model spit out how much you owe in the form of a formatte
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by mason55 6y ago
There are multiple versions of 5G. Some are fast and have a short range (think 1gbps) others are slower but have longer range. I’m in a rural/urban transition area and we have a solid 5G signal that gives me 200mbps on my phone.
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by mason55 6y ago
Not on home internet. I have the 4G version and used something like 1.5TB last month with no slowdowns (mostly just streaming 4K content)

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