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by mrwh 4y ago
I have a 1960s steel Omega that keeps pretty good time and that I wear most days. It's comfortable and pretty and never actively tries to get my attention (other than being an objectively nice object to look at). It's also, in com
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by mrwh 4y ago
I credit Civ I with my almost failing my GCSEs, but I guess I did okay in the end. But then I have in the decades since avoided games I could happily play all night :).
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by mrwh 4y ago
True, and I'm just guessing here at the tenor of the film. All the same, if he probably wasn't as comically villainous as Shakespeare had him, he was still a bad king by the standards of his day. Because he lost. Nice user name, b
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by mrwh 4y ago
I've not seen the film, and I don't know how fair the criticisms are, yet it does feel like there is an unexplored irony in making the crux of the film a battle against authority, while also trying to rehabilitate an absolute mona
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by mrwh 4y ago
What I want to make remote work better is a laptop with the camera positioned behind the screen, maybe two thirds the way up. I don't care if this makes for a small dead zone in the screen. I want to be able to look directly at the per
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by mrwh 4y ago
Agreed. My first thought was: yep, those actually are bizarre pictures - like some hideous experiments to cross steam trains with hazel trees or giant squids.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Yep! Being the first mover doesn't seem to have helped Kodak much. They spent what must have been huge amounts on r&d - all to ultimately destroy their film cash cow, and be taken over by electronics firms.
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by mrwh 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious here: is first mover advantage real? I can think of plenty of examples where the second mouse got the cheese, so to speak (digital cameras being one; search another; electric cars another, etc etc). Where has bein
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by mrwh 4y ago
Indeed! We already have dedicated parking spaces for the disabled. Keep those, get rid of all the others.
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by mrwh 4y ago
My job is what I want to work on. But I'm lazy, and I know myself well enough to know that if I didn't have to go through the things I dislike about my job (hello doing performance reviews), I'd stop doing it all. And it wo
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by mrwh 4y ago
Agreed. And well, if everyone played the game, then the population at large would still be better off taking the million. I can well imagine there being fewer social problems if we all get a million fun bucks versus half of us getting fif
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by mrwh 4y ago
I'm currently trying to buy a house. It sucks! Does indeed feel like a general rule that anything with the potential to improve one's life significantly will frequently be unpleasant to go through.
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by mrwh 4y ago
True from my experience and talking to female friends. Men have trouble at the top of the funnel; women have trouble further along (when, of course, more emotional investment has gone in, and more time too).
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by mrwh 4y ago
I do have some sympathy with the general idea that we should be able to build a whole lot more than we are. The article takes some odd inspiration though. Marc "build but don't dare build near me" Andreessen. And Uber, which
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by mrwh 4y ago
Knowing some academics, I'm pretty sure my job in the corporate world is significantly more relaxed. Publish or perish! Not saying there aren't compensating factors (though compensation is not one of them), but you know, a word to
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by mrwh 4y ago
I wonder if this has changed since then though. I had surgery on my shoulder a couple of years ago, and had a one week prescription for opioids, then it was as much Tylenol as I could eat but nothing stronger.
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by mrwh 4y ago
I got sworn at recently for walking over a crosswalk at a normal place. The driver (blue Tesla) seemed to think that anything other than trotting across was a dire insult to him. I bet he's awful to cyclists.
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by mrwh 4y ago
"In Javanese mythology, the gamelan was created by Sang Hyang Guru in Saka era 167 (c. AD 230)" According to Wikipedia. Presumably there's a history of protogamelans, but still.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Me too - the estimate was 11 weeks, but start to finish the whole process took three, and I was able to take my own passport photo at home. A pleasant surprise!
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by mrwh 4y ago
Doesn't pass the smell test (so to speak!)
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by mrwh 4y ago
Given that electric cars are already cheaper to run than ICE cars, especially older and less efficient ICE cars, the transition should be net positive for poorer people. I'm being somewhat panglossian here of course, but lower fuelling
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by mrwh 4y ago
Are there reasons to think that trucks are easier to drive safely? E.g. you might be able to see further (even if you can't see the child walking in front of you at the crosswalk). Seem to be plenty of reasons to think they are more da
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by mrwh 4y ago
Dark grey houses, why? I've seen so many recently renovated and for sale houses painted the drabest colours and I really don't understand it at all. It's like a symbol for being tasteful, without actually having any taste.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Could you explain why your solutions are being blown off? Is it because you're at a top-down environment which doesn't listen to junior engineers as a matter of course? If that's the case, then it's an unusual situation
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by mrwh 4y ago
Does this cover the Bronze Age collapses, triggered as societies moved to iron? That could be a counterexample: the long-range trading for copper and tin was no longer required, and that decrease in complexity (combined with the increase
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by mrwh 4y ago
Definitely my experience of Scrum! In my part of a FAANG we do a sort of sloppy waterfall and honestly it's the most effective method I've found.
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by mrwh 4y ago
What I desire in a landscape photograph is the belief, no matter how naïve this is, that I could experience that sight in person. A landscape photograph as proof that the world is beautiful. Fantasy pictures don't have this dimension a
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by mrwh 4y ago
I used a bunch of dall-e images to illustrate a talk recently, thinking that it's not _quite_ yet a totally hackneyed idea (but soon will be). The approach in this article is actually pretty interesting, and some of the results do reca
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by mrwh 4y ago
Something that'll make me happy whatever happens, that could remove all motivation to look after myself and those I (currently!) care about: no. Because I don't want to become that person even if it would be very pleasant to be hi
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by mrwh 4y ago
I agree! And in fairness I left ten years ago so... maybe it's no longer true? Interested if anyone has a more recent perspective...

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