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by mizzao 5y ago
And those boats and burning... you guessed it... oil?
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by mizzao 5y ago
Going through the Gentoo install process was a great drinking from the firehose experience in understanding how Linux worked. And compiling your own kernel, that feeling when it actually booted and worked after your many attempts failing an
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by mizzao 5y ago
It's always the random stuff like Bluetooth working haphazardly, webcam not having the right driver, USB-C not working with your 4K monitor, or some other cutting edge feature with a dealbreaking kernel bug that gets you. I have an XPS
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by mizzao 5y ago
> For that and a bunch of other reasons I greatly prefer trial periods. Could you elaborate on some of the other reasons?
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by mizzao 5y ago
I understand that there is a psychological burden to the trial period. Perhaps there are ways to overcome that. On the other hand, what if you did hire slow, fire fast and didn't make the trial period explicit? I've seen lots of p
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The Epic Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes(nytimes.com)
1 points by mizzao 5y ago|0 comments
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by mizzao 5y ago
If you were to choose between no Leetcode in interviews vs. a significantly higher chance of getting fired in the first 3 months of your job (essentially treating it as a trial period), would you take that deal? I ask because as a startup f
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by mizzao 5y ago
On the bright side, this gives startups and other new businesses a chance to hire great talent that is highly resistant to getting poached by FAANG!
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by mizzao 5y ago
When did this fab start getting built? Was it a response to concentration of semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan and the risk from China?
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The Unique Science of Left-Handedness(inverse.com)
7 points by mizzao 5y ago|1 comments
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by mizzao 5y ago
Is there a easy way to do this with a utility framework like tailwind? It just makes it so tempting to throw the margin on a component.
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by mizzao 5y ago
> I'm less pleased they seemly didn't deploy this update Is there actually an update here, or just some code that was probably sitting around for years until 2022 rolled around?
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How South Korean TV took over the world(theface.com)
124 points by mizzao 5y ago|153 comments
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by mizzao 5y ago
I joined a mushroom foraging expedition once and all the experienced mushroom hunters had a universal rule of never eating white mushrooms because of the possibility of amanita poisoning.
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by mizzao 5y ago
Should you set up TweetDelete so you don't get cancelled 6 years later for something you said that was acceptable at the time?
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by mizzao 5y ago
This article does a decent job at casting the decentralized database argument as disruptive innovation without resorting to hype. But I wonder about the other fundamental drawbacks of blockchain for developing new applications: - Immutabili
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Safest mushrooms to forage and eat(fieldandstream.com)
167 points by mizzao 5y ago|126 comments
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by mizzao 5y ago
I've found LastPass to be increasingly buggy and less reliable as time goes on. Do they have security problems as well? Should I switch to a different service as a paying customer (for me and my family?) If so, any recommendations?
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by mizzao 5y ago
Can you elaborate on the jail part?
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by mizzao 5y ago
> The benefit of all of this work and discomfort is that you come away with the ability to answer worthwhile questions that haven't yet been answered. And that's a highly transferrable and applicable skill. This is why I have c
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by mizzao 5y ago
There was a great game in this vein (coding) that shut down due to lack of monetization but I feel would be perfect to relaunch as a crypto version, especially since playing at the top levels required coding: https://bot.land&#x2
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Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable (2019)(quantamagazine.org)
5 points by mizzao 5y ago|1 comments
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by mizzao 5y ago
Maybe. A typical 2500W electric burner is equivalent to about 8,500 BTU/hr. The biggest gas burner on my decent Samsung range is 22,000 BTU/hr. A high end wok jet ring burner typically found in restaurants (or in some people'
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior(themarginalian.org)
210 points by mizzao 5y ago|68 comments
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by mizzao 5y ago
A lead-acid battery doesn't seem like a good choice for this application. Prolonged discharge states cause the lead sulfate to crystallize which is irreversible, making it impossible to recharge the battery. A lithium chemistry might b
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by mizzao 5y ago
This is a great one: pissiwog (noun) pis·si·wog a large solitary mammal with a loud but misshapen sound, the dorsal shell having spiral rings of horny eggs
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by mizzao 5y ago
Great article. It strikes me that this system of fishing is far more efficient and environmentally sustainable than the ocean-going ships we use these days. After all, here the fish just come to you!
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by mizzao 5y ago
...which is currently a multi-billion dollar effort at FB (Facebook Reality Labs)
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by mizzao 5y ago
Imagine being the Apple executive that proposes voluntarily cutting app store commissions: "So, what did you do this quarter?" "Oh, I reduced the revenue of the whole company by 7% to reduce future risk to our revenue stream.
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by mizzao 5y ago
Looks like a profoundly insightful book. Will pick it up!

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