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by neilv 1y ago
I just got good first page hits and ranking for a search for "midjourney", but it looks like Midjourney is paying for 2 Sponsored spots on the first page, even though the user searched exactly for Midjourney's well-known br
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by neilv 1y ago
If you're a manager, consider not saying that up the org chart is "sucky". Almost certainly no one on your team will go tattle, but it can leak out accidentally, such as when someone is flustered over a problem. More likel
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by neilv 1y ago
You have to mean it, and you have to follow through on your words with actions. Otherwise, even if you are a good actor, to initially make people think you are being sincere, people will eventually realize you aren't being straight wit
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by neilv 1y ago
> The right thing to do in this situation is to acknowledge that you see the situation the same way they do, but do it privately, within your immediate team only or in 1-1s. "Yeah, this new policy sucks, [...] If you're a man
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by neilv 1y ago
I agree. And we should also be similarly conscientious about the privacy of everyone else as well. (Even though respecting privacy would mean that a massive number of HN techbros would quickly be unemployed.)
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Let's say that some people are opposed to the city's enforcement of parking rules against them (people who don't want parking tickets for overstaying in a spot, nor for parking somewhere they aren't supposed to). Let&#
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by neilv 1y ago
They try to sell you replacement product in the same announcement: > To help make this transition easier, we’re offering our steepest discounts ever on trusted smart lock replacements, available exclusively to Kevo users. Are the execu
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by neilv 1y ago
You can more easily get strong canvas grocery bags, with and without branding. Including ones with two sizes of handles (one set of handles for dangling from hands, the others for slinging over shoulder), which I guess you could alternate b
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by neilv 1y ago
It's only a Y10K problem if people assume that a year that happens to be 4 digits is existing in a system that doesn't permit years of 5 or more digits. But as soon as you put a leading 0, (besides confusing people) you seem to be
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by neilv 1y ago
I came here to quote that exact part of the article. My guess is that he probably doesn't believe that, but that he's smart enough to try to spin it that way. Since his career should be taking at least a small hit right now, not o
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by neilv 1y ago
Incidentally, from what I saw of undergrads at Brown University, I think Lisa Simpson would've fit right in. I mean that as a compliment to both.
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by neilv 1y ago
Oh, I see now: house of cards (usual meaning) + throwing more cards on (like throwing money on the fire, and also how you destabilize house of card) + GPU cards in this case (even though they're not necessarily cards). I like it.
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by neilv 1y ago
Incidentally, from what I saw of undergrads at Brown University, I think Lisa Simpson would've fit right in. I mean that as a compliment to both.
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by neilv 1y ago
> If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link and write an idea for my own spin/take (takes 30 seconds) - log it Not quite the same thing, but a perspective to be aware of... For example, I used to be on
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by neilv 1y ago
I guess I might agree, so long as that ecosystem is shared with Purism Librem 5 (a potentially sustainable device, if not affordable), and so long as a more affordable but also sustainable device (which means non-Hallium) will actually appe
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by neilv 1y ago
> basing that on a Lisa Simpson nightmare https://quahog.org/FactsFolklore/Trivia/Limelight/TV/The_Sim... > Brown ('81) alumnus and Simpson's writer Ian Maxtone-Graham takes credit for
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by neilv 1y ago
> Saying you went to school in Boston is much lower in fanciness than Harvard or Ivy League except that most people know what it is code for. At one point, I identified at least 4 categories of how Harvard alumni may mention or not men
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by neilv 1y ago
As a consumer, this is great. If Amazon can also ensure that every "Sold by Amazon" unit is legitimate (that they aren't sometimes sourcing badly), then it's 10x great. (That I didn't feel comfortable enough trust
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by neilv 1y ago
On an SSD or HDD, it would occasionally be useful to have an eink display that indicates faults, wear, and thousands of hours operated. Maybe also show the drive label and something about the partition table, although that requires inspecti
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Ginsu confused us about use cases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wzULnlHr8w&t=25s
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Thanks, my bad.
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> My biggest question is if they use Halium/libhybrys at all, That would be a showstopper for now, IMHO. Doing it with maintainable open source Linux drivers is the hard part of having a viable device, from everything I've s
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These practices are very similar to what I've done in the past, for a large, sensitive system, and they worked very well. (IIUC, we actually were the first to get a certain certification for cloud deployment, maybe because we had a goo
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by neilv 1y ago
I'm surprised that the Xmonad project is/was willing to pay someone. Does anyone know whether there was a single benefactor, or where the money was coming from, and why? (Incidentally, I love the way that my Xmonad setup works, e
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If you're not committed to Ubuntu, Xmonad still works great with X11 in the latest Debian Stable.
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I think of JavaScript as Eczema.
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To maybe make trust easier, let's say there's two kinds trust: * Sometimes you implicitly trust that someone will do the right thing. Easy: you just know. * Other times, you decide you're going to invest in trusting someone
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> When asking questions of your team, it can help to (separately) ask the same question of multiple individuals. The difference in answers can be illuminating. [...] Ask questions of your boss, your peers, stakeholders, and anyone else
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I haven't noticed anyone wearing them in real-life, despite walking every day in a concentration of university/college campuses (Harvard Square, USA, and surrounding neighborhoods, sometimes including MIT). I've only noticed
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But currently not very popular.

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