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by namdnay 5y ago
Ohhhh was that the one with “Googlezon”? I remember that video doing the rounds
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by namdnay 5y ago
I’m not sure how much authority being tech lead confers? It’s the lowest possible line management position. I wouldn’t expect a tech lead to have any influence whatsoever on legal, contractual or communication issues
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by namdnay 5y ago
I know that the zeitgeist is to say “your employer doesn’t care about you, don’t care about them etc”, but honestly in my experience the employer-employee relationship is much more stable and human than a contractor-client one
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by namdnay 5y ago
> Its really in the 2000s where Toyota switches to an "only conservative cars" business model when the Toyota developed sports cars disappear, engines start staying mostly the same, and generations get longer And then 2020s Toy
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by namdnay 5y ago
I guess it's more efficient, because at a four-way intersection in the north-american system there are always pedestrians and cars crossing. Whereas in the standard european system, either cars going left are stopped in a dedicated lan
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by namdnay 5y ago
yes, of which you expect more when you enter an employee-employer relationship than when you are independent
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by namdnay 5y ago
You need to take a step back. The end user is not asking for https whatever, they’re asking to see the same Wikipedia page their friend saw, adapted to their screen. Whatever gets in the way of that is bad UX I guess the best way to do it
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by namdnay 5y ago
Well… yes? Employees trade lower revenue for greater stability
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by namdnay 5y ago
Nice article! One small typo: > It can be seen that all three sensors correlate very well but that the Vindriktning only shows about 65% of the PM2.5 values of the other two sensors and thus seems to considerably understate the air qual
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by namdnay 5y ago
> The main enabler of socialism in a non willing populace is the government forcibly extracting taxes from people who would otherwise not donate freely to that cause So.. taxes? What’s that got to do with socialism?
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by namdnay 5y ago
> People in scandinavia live in warm houses, in continental europe people live in cold and damp houses in the winter huh?
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by namdnay 5y ago
The lookup key would be if the backend stores all the generated towns, and you're just referencing them. But I think simple encoding as you say is more probable
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by namdnay 5y ago
> By and large, though, I think most people would agree that politically Wikipedia skews somewhat left of centre. I find this type of sentence very frustrating. Left of which centre? Where is the centre? What is left and what is right? N
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by namdnay 5y ago
There are far more bicycles than cars, but 99% of these are very basic cost-efficient designs , probably sold for less than 100eur new The discussion was about the engineering value of a 10k bike (or a 100k watch I guess) - it’s more of a l
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by namdnay 5y ago
Probably not a native English speaker. They mean a cordless driver/drill
856.
by namdnay 5y ago
Nah… 2k is already a good ebike with a central motor and big shocks. Your entry level commuter ebike is around 1k
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by namdnay 5y ago
A bicycle has higher margins because the volumes are much smaller. The engineering that goes into even the cheapest of Dacias is hundreds of times more complex
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by namdnay 5y ago
Does upper body strength have a big impact on longevity? I would have imagined that daily biking covers 99% of the health gains
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by namdnay 5y ago
And piggy
860.
by namdnay 5y ago
some dired hams don't contain any nitrites. I know parma ham doesn't, for example
861.
by namdnay 5y ago
defrosting under warm water takes about 5 minutes, if you cook it immediately it's perfectly safe
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by namdnay 5y ago
So you ordered something, they couldn’t get it to you, they’re going to fully reimburse you within a week, and you’re complaining about poor customer service? If that’s your idea of a big scandal then you’re living an unbelievably privilege
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by namdnay 5y ago
None of the other countries being discussed have any of that, and yet their systems work fine. So I don’t think the solution is there
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by namdnay 5y ago
3) Excel macros and VBscript
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by namdnay 5y ago
> Ultimately, closed-source software is like running a factory with a machine you aren't allowed to repair. But that's exactly how big organizations handle most internal needs! They don't have mechanics on the payroll to r
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by namdnay 5y ago
+ Teams, Jabber, Sametime, Hipchat, FB workplace i.e. basically every corporate chat system
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by namdnay 5y ago
I suspect they mean "recycled" as in "we reuse existing assembly lines / stocks of parts" and not "we take apart old iphone 8s to make SEs". That doesnt seem feasible from a quality assurance POV
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by namdnay 5y ago
Do Apple actually do component-level repair? Or do they just bin it and send a new one?
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by namdnay 5y ago
Keep in mind that nobody at large scale is paying the sticker price for AWS (or Google or Azure)
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by namdnay 5y ago
well, only if the friends are keen cyclists with road bikes. no commuter in shirt and trousers with saddlebags for the laptop etc is going to be running at more than 25kmh

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