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by mft_ 3y ago
The best managers/leaders I've had in this vein are sufficiently recognised for their part in the performance of their team. Wouldn't it be a small red flag about an organisation if this wasn't the case?
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by mft_ 3y ago
For me, the most interesting part of that article wasn't related to weight-lifting, but the relatively brief critique on the state of the healthcare system and its inability to provide optimal care for individual patients. Maybe it&#x2
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by mft_ 3y ago
You can easily get ESP8266/ESP32 boards with header pins already soldered on; combine this with some DuPont cables (as I’ve just learned they’re called) and you can start messing around with things without much soldering at all. You ca
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by mft_ 3y ago
Sure; apologies for not providing a comprehensive history of the space - I was just speaking from my (limited) experience.
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by mft_ 3y ago
Honestly, I’m not sure about “not what they used to be”: I don’t think Roombas have ever been very good. The early ones were noteworthy for being novel, but (IMO as an early adopter) weren’t very good at cleaning. About ten years later I ex
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by mft_ 3y ago
One could construct a spectrum, from outright pessimism through 'naysaying' and 'reasonable skepticism', ending up somewhere in the region of constructive challenge and helpful pressure-testing discussion. Would all stat
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by mft_ 3y ago
> > Blocking network assets is a setback for format adoption > People are standing here telling him that _allowing_ network assets _is a setback for format adoption_ and he's just going to keep pounding this stupid, obnoxious
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by mft_ 3y ago
It was this little chain in the Framework 16 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39105227 Thanks for the flag - I've moved my comment there too :)
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by mft_ 3y ago
Different strokes for different folks, I guess :) I find a 'standard' 13" (as on an older Macbook Air, for example, which I think is technically 13.3" and 16:10?) a bit too claustrophobic for anything creative - either d
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by mft_ 3y ago
Different strokes for different folks, I guess :) I find a 'standard' 13" (as on an older Macbook Air, for example, which I think is technically 13.3" and 16:10?) a bit too claustrophobic for anything creative - either d
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by mft_ 3y ago
It appears there's a vicious cycle of sorts going on. If all unions did was keep a reasonable eye on safety and (let's say) sensible workers' rights, while also offering a simple outlet for collective bargaining, I'm not
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by mft_ 3y ago
It's notable that a lot of 'smaller' laptops are coming along with ~14" now, rather than the 13" standard. I appreciate that the FW13 is really FW13.5, but if the next work you focus on (having launched the 16) is
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by mft_ 3y ago
I have no real comment on the wider issues raised in the article, but I agree that this is —at face value— odd. ‘Since the latest layoff, “they’ve been scheduling managers to do things like work a register for hours at a time, sorting and s
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by mft_ 3y ago
(I wrote an earlier reply to you, then deleted it, but keep on thinking about your post, so have come back to it. Please feel free to ignore me completely, but be sure that this brief comment is written with the very best of intentions.) I
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by mft_ 3y ago
I think it was just overly stage-managed and produced. I found the upbeat, ‘super-excited‘ kinetic delivery (from both presenters in that part) fake and off-putting; especially for the engineer, I’m almost certain that this was ‘trained’ by
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by mft_ 3y ago
Indeed; to my eyes, Amazon has set course more directly towards enshittification since Bezos left day-to-day involvement. I wonder if ‘customer obsession’ means less to his successor;or maybe the new boss’ success is judged differently (eg
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by mft_ 3y ago
In Germany I generally avoid any business that only takes cash; thanks to the pandemic the number has reduced, but some can still be found. Different strokes for different folks :)
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by mft_ 3y ago
I understand your cynicism, but let’s inject some actual data. The price that the manufacturer charges for a course of blinatumomab (in a different indication for adults, not that this is especially relevant in this discussion) is ~£56k [0]
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by mft_ 3y ago
Our washing machine offers various programs between 30 minutes and 2 hours and 40 minutes. Yes, it's not hard to set an alarm, except the timing on the washing machine is unreliable (I've lost count of how many times I've set
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by mft_ 3y ago
Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good, hey? And I'm no expert, but I imagine there's a circular relationship between the issues that homeless people have. Not having a home often means no address (unless they're ab
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by mft_ 3y ago
Yep - ours seems to take 0-10 minutes longer than it predicts at the start.
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by mft_ 3y ago
I'm totally with you, except a notification that it's finished would actually be really helpful. It's apparently possible to track a washing machine's progress with a smart switch that monitors power draw; I've got
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by mft_ 3y ago
Funny you raise that, as this is one of the very few tasks that Siri does do reliably for me :) (Along with just-about-good-enough speech-to-text, if I speak clearly, and checking on the weather outside.) -- But yes, totally agree with yo
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by mft_ 3y ago
Sadly, in reality, such "holding to account" almost certainly won't happen. 1) Congresspeople's voting can often be related to local selfish incentives - they support local industries because that's what their voter
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by mft_ 3y ago
As an industry (area) matures, each successive developmental innovation is usually successively smaller, more incremental, less game-changing. Since the iPhone, Apple has made a relative but smaller success of e.g. the iPad, AppleTV, AirPod
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by mft_ 3y ago
Eh, I was being a touch snarky using your mobster analogy back at you somewhat out of context, but other than that, I wasn't really straw-manning much at all. I guess the root of where we seem to disagree is the extent to which it&#x27
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by mft_ 3y ago
Such a skewed world view! If I follow you, then: a) you’re okay with companies (effectively) acting like mobsters, in their own pecuniary interest b) you expect every (individual, human) government official to act morally and correctly in e
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by mft_ 3y ago
Okay, so it could be a bug, but it is possible that iCloud is secretly storing more than one version of the file in some cases? (After all, Apple does similar things with other media files.) The example given at the end is interesting: &gt
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by mft_ 3y ago
That's an interestingly hard line to take. The game in question --the penny pusher-- pits a player's skill against the (the design of the) game, and (probably) allows a skillful player to earn a greater return. The game is inhere
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by mft_ 3y ago
But in reality, don’t a proportion of these unsubscribe links do what the previous poster suggested: link you to a proprietary system that requires you to log in to ‘update your mail preferences’?

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