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by notJim 5y ago
What would be the purpose of this with USDC though? Since you have to put in more than the loan amount as collateral, aren't you just paying to access your own money? For non-stablecoins that you don't want to sell, it makes more
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by notJim 5y ago
It's not just training ourselves, it's companies training us. When people talk about dopamine hits from getting a like on a post, or feeling a buzz from an app, they are explicitly setting out to create a behavioral pattern that b
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by notJim 5y ago
Curious what your situation is. If it was personal stuff, I would honestly just mute anyone who is too noisy, and then check in periodically. If you don't like them, well they get a large period in between check-ins :). Over time, they
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by notJim 5y ago
In my view, if people are getting annoyed you're texting them, it's on them. They're the ones assuming you expect an immediate response, unless you're complaining about it. If you're getting annoyed about them not r
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by notJim 5y ago
> I have purposefully started training my friends by being erratic with my texts/messages/e-mails. This is the way. My whole family is like this, and it's awesome. Sometimes people are too busy and don't reply, but no
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by notJim 5y ago
If anyone else is on the fence about the Quest 2, I received on as a gift, and it has totally blown me away. I was previously somewhat skeptical of VR, but it's so fun. FWIW, it also feels a bit _different_ than normal video games, bec
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by notJim 5y ago
> Facebook has a corporate structure that simply will not prioritize any effort longer than 6 months unless a senior company executive To be fair, many companies have some degree of this. They don't want to commit significant resour
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by notJim 5y ago
Very fair point, important to try to enjoy every stage of the journey.
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by notJim 5y ago
> Of course we don't know how much immunity comes from infection Come on, this is silly. We haven't learned nothing over the last year. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...
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by notJim 5y ago
This is all ridiculous. Of course you have to test that people can code, but it doesn't follow that people must be able to code without any references available, or without using standard libraries. I can code just fine, but I still ha
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by notJim 5y ago
Curious about the age of the person who supposedly wrote it in 6 minutes. If you're fresh out of school, "String.contains" may be top of mind, but the vast majority of people never write that function in practice, so it'
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by notJim 5y ago
> No one evaluates your interview questions Are you saying each interviewer just makes up their own questions?! That's ludicrous if so. Where I work, we have a standardized pool, with standardized evaluation criteria.
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by notJim 5y ago
IDK, if the interview is just a few hours of misery to get a significant financial upside, it's not such a big deal. People always assume the job will be miserable too, but that varies from team to team. Especially because the salary i
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by notJim 5y ago
A sandwich place near me does BLTs, but ONLY in the summertime when the tomatoes are worthy. I love it.
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by notJim 5y ago
Oh wow, their marketing pages are very misleading. They list the best stats for each model, but no model exists that has that combo of stats.
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by notJim 5y ago
LOL sorry, I was just going off your comment: > There are, apparently no super-chargers between Cincinnati and Indianapolis
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by notJim 5y ago
Ahh yes, and the US Government is so famously responsive to the many problems facing our society.
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by notJim 5y ago
They're doing pilots in my city where there are just chargers next to some of the street parking spaces. They use one of the major EV networks, so you can use the app to get an alert when it's free, and people cycle through.
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by notJim 5y ago
IME, superchargers have not been located very conveniently, unfortunately. Mostly doing trips around Oregon.
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by notJim 5y ago
I just compared, and that's a route where having the long range Tesla makes a big difference. With the long range, the charging is reduced by around 30 minutes, so it only adds 30 compared to the ICE car, and only requires one charging
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by notJim 5y ago
2 hours is only like 100 miles of driving. Wouldn't it make more sense to run the battery down further, since charging is faster at a lower state of charge?
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by notJim 5y ago
> (which they promote it as being green while 99% is produced from natural gas) If the carbon-containing part of the production was sequestered, it could reduce the carbon intensity of the fuel greatly, couldn't it? Still has to be
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by notJim 5y ago
> Hybrids can be greener than an full EV Any cite for this? It's not totally implausible to me, at least given current power generation.
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by notJim 5y ago
Not true, Ford Mach-E is $42k at 305 EPA. $36k after tax credit, so even cheaper.
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by notJim 5y ago
I don't see how this could be true, Tesla is way ahead of everyone in terms of charging infrastructure. The Mach-E and Id.4 both look like good cars, but Electrify America is still smaller, and having some growing pains. I think Tesla
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by notJim 5y ago
If you're in the US, this comment really makes no sense to me, unless you live in or visit rural areas very frequently. Teslas are practical EVs right now for those who can afford them. Most charging happens at home, and there are plen
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by notJim 5y ago
If that's their preference, they should have stayed on the normal rate plan, which offers exactly that. I think the issue is misleading or fraudulent salespeople talking people into buying something they don't understand, rather t
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by notJim 5y ago
Hasty Googling gives a bitrate of 85 Mbps for 8k video streaming with HEVC. Presumably if a physical media comes out, it would be closer to 400 Mbps if it was a similar compression ratio as 4k. I'm not sure what the bitrate of volumetr
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by notJim 5y ago
I have gigabit now, and barely need it. It’s nice to have for the occasional large download, but otherwise it’s unnecessary. Even the latest ultra hd Blu-ray spec tops out at 128mb/s, and Netflix won’t give you more than 25. Can’t imag
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by notJim 5y ago
I agree with this, but those things have also moved from essentially being artisanal to being more formalized and scientific. I don't think we're at that point in software engineering.

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