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by mpalczewski 5mo ago
I tried reading Myth of Sisyphus by Camus recently. I found it tedious and boring. Sort of a rehash of stoic and Taoist teaching. Yes embrace the absurd but sooo long winded. Has anyone else read this, am I missing something?
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by mpalczewski 5mo ago
My iphone 15 pro max. manufactured in Aug 2023. 536 cycles. is at 84%. I doubt it will make it to 1k at above 80%.
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by mpalczewski 6mo ago
only true for commodities
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by mpalczewski 6mo ago
It's literally how you got those things. Without leverage to get them, they would have just been complaints. You ask what you can do, and then you do it.
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by mpalczewski 6mo ago
> Maduro was president of a sovereign country. It's funny how we accept the importance given to that statement. when he's just some dude who took control of a country and gave himself that title. As if the social construction
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by mpalczewski 6mo ago
They aren’t necessarily experts at using Llm’s. They have different incentives as well
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by mpalczewski 10mo ago
I helped fund that kickstarter. The first season released on that kickstarter was such a disappointment. As if they forgot to be funny.
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by mpalczewski 2y ago
California has the worst roads of any state I've driven in. San Fran and San Jose, rank among the top 10 in the country of the worst roads. Whatever they are using it for, isn't for road maintenance.
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by mpalczewski 2y ago
Propaganda source
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by mpalczewski 2y ago
They should get out of that business altogether and let anyone sue an airline
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
This is par for the course. We've had the gulf of tonkin incident, and weapons of mass destruction. The difference is now we have more information, so it only looks like it's gotten worse.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
I bought a t-mobile g1 the first android phone. At the time my school's wifi needed you to log in every time you joined the network. I wrote an app that logged you in automatically. Solved a need I had, I then put in in the app store
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
This would have prevented me from publishing my first app, which ended up getting me my first job and a great career.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
I've always had the sense that Google was really bad at negotiating.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
A big centralized government bank is not somehow going to be magically better than multiple commercial banks. At best it would be equally bad but more likely it will be worse than the dmv and irs put together. Going to the bank will be li
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
I’m in a similar boat. Header files typically led to faster compile times. OCMock worked like magic. Where both languages are poor is how large the binaries they produce are.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
I’m most productive when I’m having fun. There’s always going to be not fun shit. Is on you to find the fun and on the employer to make it possible. Otherwise I’m unable to give my best.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
The way they carry themselves it's like they know it.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
They would have posted and much fewer people would have seen the announcements. You have to go where the users are.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
Gravitational waves warp space/time. so the distance between two points will be slightly longer/shorter.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
Patagonia is pushing polyester with its associated micro-plastics, instead of the renewable natural fibers that they were using before like wool. Good, evil, depends on who is counting.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
They had bad numbers and the ceo went, fuck the stock price, I need everyone to know this wasn’t my fault. I had no faith in management after that. I sold all my chgg stock.
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by mpalczewski 3y ago
I would not reccomend TWSBI for beginners, I find that the nibs are way to finicky. I needed to tune mine a bit before it wrote well. Pilot and Lamy are great out of the box.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
Techies can best influence by understanding why sms otp is popular and come up with something better. Not only do you need to understand what shortcoming sms has, but non cynically understand why other solutions are worse.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
I bought a used nuc computer on eBay for less than $100 recently. It’s much more powerful than a pi. Used computers are some of the best bargains now.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
the mandate is maximum employment and 0% inflation.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
As a reader I would prefer the writer not repeat themselves and write less, rather than try to find some fancy way of not “sounding” repetitive, but in reality finding yet another way of repeating. I prefer actual repetition to that. More
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
That’s not inconsistent with survivorship bias.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
Probably a case of survivorship bias. Tools that already lasted this long are likely built better.
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by mpalczewski 4y ago
I love it, answers the question. “What would vim be like as a web client” I use it regularly.

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