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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, I'm aware of it, but having your team abjectly fail isn't good for your continued job prospects either. You shouldn't be the hero, but you also don't want to have your team get fired for want of you spending 2 hour
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea, as someone who is more outspoken and has passible soft skills, I often find myself accidentally becoming team leads in ways that often end up making me a worse engineer. If I'm the only person who understands the work and can expr
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by noirbot 2y ago
From my perspective, I've had mostly good managers, in the sense that I've had multiple managers get fired over the years for being more interested in making sure the team had the tools and support that it needed than doing what t
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by noirbot 2y ago
I'd be really curious if that causal though. Airline pricing is an extreme black box, subject to tons of factors. Maybe the other flight is just at a better time for people traveling before/after some event? Or it's on an air
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by noirbot 2y ago
For sure. I totally agree with you about what's happening from a business perspective, but I'm just pointing out that it's innately not completely rational and it's not necessarily a good guide to how we should think abo
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, but A. most people don't know or care to avoid Boeing and B. the odds are still really good, and probably safer than driving and quite a bit faster. It's not to say we shouldn't do better, but I really doubt that public
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by noirbot 3y ago
Defining it as "a human choice" is both clearly accurate and misses the point. Yes. It's obviously not physically impossible. But just ascribing it to "a chronic lack of intestinal fortitude" as if everyone involved
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by noirbot 3y ago
Isn't some of this also network effects though? Having a Swiss train system has a lot more value because it connects to the German and French and Austrian train systems. You build a train line from LA to SF and it serves those cities,
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by noirbot 3y ago
No way. I've taken that route many times over the last decade and never paid less than $35. It also usually takes 4.5 hours unless you take the Acela which I've never seen for less than $80. It's cheaper, and I take it becaus
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by noirbot 3y ago
Additionally, trying to buy any of the land in between, let alone get environmental damage clearances for building all those tunnels and bridges is probably borderline impossible. Most US rail was built in the era where we were actively tak
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by noirbot 3y ago
I dunno, I think we're still in a zone where Amtrak derailments have killed more people in the last decade than domestic aviation issues, and that's even before you account for the fact that there's probably multiple magnitud
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by noirbot 3y ago
I mean, out of college a while ago, I literally got a 0.5% APY car loan that my accountant told me I should, under no circumstances, pay down early. I bought a new car that I've essentially done nothing but do oil changes on for 10 yea
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by noirbot 3y ago
I did. I totally abandoned Apple once before, and I moved out of it for laptops in the last two years with no real disruption. I use almost no Apple services on my phone in a way that locks me into them. Most of the apps I use on iOS, I hav
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by noirbot 3y ago
But in many cases people, myself included, swapped to using Apple products because Android and Windows Phone were so much worse and had peripherals that interfaced way worse. I spent most of a decade on Android, paying essentially the same
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by noirbot 3y ago
I agree that Apple can be anti-competitive. I disagree with your assertion that it's because Apple users "never would consider buying non-Apple products". I even know people with iPhones and non-Apple smartwatches and workout
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by noirbot 3y ago
That seems like a bold claim that there's no way to compete. I can see the argument that no one can make that better product because of Apple's locked APIs and internal carve outs, but there's a huge third party peripheral ma
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by noirbot 3y ago
It's definitely harsh, and I want to be clear that I don't think it's innately a bad idea or destined to fail, but when it's easy to throw millions of dollars at a moon shot, trying to spin data straw into gold is worth
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, I feel like "Data Science" was always a Zero Percent Interest phenomenon. It's the software company version of Dogecoin or GameStop or AMC. If you've got free money, why not throw 10mil at the moonshot of discoverin
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by noirbot 3y ago
And this really seems like it's going to keep going that way in Austin. Any time I'm driving around, I'm passing under-construction apartment and condo buildings all over town. It's nuts. On my regular commutes, I pass p
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by noirbot 3y ago
Because a hour-long security line is something that happened after? IIRC there actually was a terrorist attack on a TSA line in the early 2000s.
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, I generally agree with that. At least in my '14 model, it also has some weird internal gate where it won't let you scroll through more than 5-10 items in a list while you're going more than 5 MPH. And if you're stop
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by noirbot 3y ago
I've owned one for so long and it makes me so upset that Mazda doesn't have an EV yet. I just want my current car as an EV and I'd be happy.
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by noirbot 3y ago
Not that there aren't plenty of good reasons to hate Nintendo, but you're mad at them because Walmart committed fraud selling you one of their products, and then you didn't look up what something they sell does before you bou
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by noirbot 3y ago
I kinda doubt my friends read enough good stuff to have 50% of their stuff be more than 1-2 things per day, which is pretty bad volume. What percentage of what you read would you re-share in an average day? You also have to remember that so
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by noirbot 3y ago
The question is what percentage of my friends have more than 50% of my interests? I read plenty of interesting stuff on HN that isn't interesting to a lot of my non-programmer friends. So I post it in the "software-dev" chann
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by noirbot 3y ago
Aren't those tiers just functionally accomplished by other technologies better suited? For instance, a Slack/Discord/Matrix with themed channels for people to talk and share relevant stuff about some hobby or topic for sharin
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by noirbot 3y ago
That's why Twitch gives you tons of tools to schedule ads and manually trigger them at less disruptive times. It requires the streamer to care about not disrupting their stream enough to plan ahead and preemptively run ads and not just
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by noirbot 3y ago
That seems like it presumes that your IRL friends have good taste/similar interests though. The reason people follow big accounts is because the big accounts often have some specific niche of thing they post in that's curated in a
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by noirbot 3y ago
It seems like it's punishing to people who are responsible with it. If you have issues with people showing up and not being away from their phone, then either talk to them or don't invite them. It's not your job to "fix&
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by noirbot 3y ago
I can't read the article in full, but my question would be if it's excluding people on video calls and such. I'm social with people on audio or video calls 2-4 nights a week, and in-person 2-3 more nights, which is less in-pe

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