mason55

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by mason55 3y ago
Yes, ultimately if you don’t have a clear vision of the problem you’re solving and the value you’re providing then success will be impossible. And most people confuse building features with providing value or solving a problem and so most p
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by mason55 3y ago
> I would have imagined that most people with CF already had extreme anxiety - wondering when the infection that is going to end one's life will arrive. Is it really possible that Trikafta is causing noticeably worse anxiety? Ther
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by mason55 3y ago
One problem is that there's a major lack of language support to make this easy. IMO, every ID should be its own type. You shouldn't have a bunch of objects that have an ID of type string, you should have a User object with an ID
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by mason55 3y ago
> Why can't I as a regular retail investor trade a stock on Saturday? Markets have chosen to concentrate trading to specific hours so as to concentrate liquidity and to help out the professional traders. If everyone's tradin
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by mason55 3y ago
Yeah if you look at products that went from good to bad and started getting good again, it’s almost always due to competitors starting to have an impact. People will disagree with me but Jira is getting a lot better lately and I’m convinced
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by mason55 3y ago
Whoa, I just recently started having issues with my watch battery dying overnight when it used to last without any problems. Guessing it’s the same thing.
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by mason55 3y ago
If someone's targeting me specifically then I feel like it's easier to just watch my house in person. Plus there are all the neighbors with (I assume) their doorbell cameras that would also have my house in view. And this threat
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by mason55 3y ago
I have an Amcrest doorbell and run amcrest2mqtt which sends messages that get picked up by Home Assistant. Keeps everything local and means I don't have to pay for a Ring subscription. My only complaint is that when I blocked the door
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by mason55 3y ago
> Fingers crossed [...] that Harry doesn’t begin to think that the phone notifications are something to trigger his anxiety We have essentially the same thing and I can confirm that my dogs now freak out at the critical alert sound on
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by mason55 3y ago
If you know Kazakhstan is the biggest then you can get the rest. They're alphabetical going clockwise from Kazakhstan -> Kyrgyzstan -> Tajikistan -> Turkmenistan -> Uzbekistan
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by mason55 3y ago
The other way to remember is, if you can remember that Kazakhstan is the biggest, then it goes alphabetically clockwise. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
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by mason55 3y ago
Neighborle is an ok daily geography game. If you're really good at geography then it's probably too easy but every couple days one of the puzzles actually makes me think (usually stuff on the Atlantic coast of Africa).
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by mason55 3y ago
It's unclear. The Lions also weren't running down the play clock. Possibly everyone just accepted that the game was over and the Lions didn't run down the play clock and the Bucs didn't use their time out. Or Bowles me
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by mason55 3y ago
A good search term for this is "opportunity-solution tree". Basically what you said, first you identify a business opportunity, then you customer-facing outcomes that would help you achieve the business opportunity, and THEN you
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by mason55 3y ago
> The US government has much stronger checks and balances than most parliamentary systems where the prime minister is elected by the parliament. This means that there's no split possible between the executive and legislative branch
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by mason55 3y ago
> Docs especially fall into the common trap of handling the happy path hello world quickstarts, then become increasingly useless as you want to get beyond that to real life use cases. Yeah, Java is what I'm most familiar with. Th
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by mason55 3y ago
> The only metric that matters and one streamers keep tight lipped about, is how many people viewed the show. I believe the new WGA contract is forcing them to release numbers now. NFLX just did a big dump a few weeks ago.
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by mason55 3y ago
Funny. On the other end of the spectrum, I have zero. My dad was an only child and my mom’s brother didn’t have any kids. I have one sister. Family events are not a thing for us.
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by mason55 3y ago
> Because if you use the service you know it is capable of that and more today. The numbers show otherwise and the FCC made it clear that Starlink presented no numbers to the contrary. This isn't even a case of the FCC's num
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by mason55 3y ago
> no, because the only reason Starlink doesn't currently hit the metrics is due to them having so many users joining. They could hit the metrics by temporarily halting signups, cutting off users, or delaying the Pentagon's mas
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by mason55 3y ago
I think the key, as it is in most cases, is the "why". Sometimes there really are urgent deadlines that you really need to hit. Imagine you're building an app for the Super Bowl - if you miss that date then the entire thing
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by mason55 3y ago
> I suspect it would be better to allow multiple PRs per story Yes. Stacked PRs are one way to accomplish this. Another would to have the dev write smaller tickets for PRs and then PRs are attached to tickets from the tech team. Anyt
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by mason55 3y ago
> Every time I hear this claim "It's not that it's 'woke', it's that it's a bad movie" I ask myself: "what does 'woke' mean, then?" I think the idea here is that "woke&qu
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It’s absolutely intentional, they made a blog post about it.
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> ... followed by howls of anguish from the rest of the business when it turns out they were relying on reports generated from a data warehouse which incorporated a copy of that MySQL database and was being populated by an undocumented,
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Yes. If you look at, for example, Amazon's offerings, this is how they use the terms.
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> HA in particular makes it very easy to chose how to install This is the problem with lots of stuff similar to HA when it tries to break into a non-enthusiast audience: people don't WANT to choose how to install it. Most of the
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by mason55 3y ago
The difference is actually copying the data vs. copy-on-write. With the latter, you can make infinite copies without worrying about how much space you're using or the time it takes to make a copy, thus making it feasible to start with
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by mason55 3y ago
Well, that's why the word "official" is in there. Obviously you could mock up the entire github actions scaffolding locally and have it inject environment variables and support all the actions and everything, but keeping tha
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by mason55 3y ago
> It is against the law for holders of nonpublic material information to use the information to their advantage in trading stocks. The US and Europe differ on how exactly this should work. In Europe, your view is correct. In the US, i

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