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by patja 5y ago
I'm sure this study that may not have been actually performed has been loosely replicated by many managers using their own teams' actual data. I've certainly worked in organizations very familiar with figures they calculated
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by patja 5y ago
I have the free personal hobbyist license and also love it. Learning how to use it to make my own custom models was one of my most gratifying pandemic personal growth projects. Very empowering.
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by patja 5y ago
They use an incredible number of off the shelf shower grab bars I recognize from Home Depot in the interior of pretty much every ship. I find things like that a bit distracting.
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by patja 5y ago
I kept looking for a connection to the Squeezebox media player. I don't think there is one.
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by patja 5y ago
Same thing happens with relocation expenses. Many employers make you pay them back if you leave within a year. That's normally quite a sum, and can be even bigger if the employer paid closing costs or otherwise made a new hire whole
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by patja 5y ago
All it asks is to hand over all your private contacts. For me that is a ridiculously high price.
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by patja 5y ago
I feel exactly the same. But it was a bit infuriating to realize how huge an impact it was having on my kids who were being socially excluded for the sin of Android. Many children have ipads and hand me down iphones with no SIM just for iM
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by patja 6y ago
I've always been stunned by how irrelevant the ads were on my Kindle, until I became so annoyed I paid the fee to turn them off. Ads for Kindle ebook titles I had already purchased, ads for household cleaning products, ads for books i
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by patja 6y ago
This reminds me that there is a fascinating Econtalk podcast episode on the subject of how the kidnapping insurance market works. Companies who have employees working in parts of the world where they are at risk of kidnapping for ransom ha
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by patja 6y ago
My group of close friends tried playing online, where nobody knew who was which country. Some had trouble disassociating the back stabbing role play from our real life relationships. It nearly destroyed a few relationships.
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by patja 6y ago
It is pretty common knowledge in the area, especially with all the brewers of beer and coffee who care quite a bit about water composition. The city regularly publishes tests breaking it all down: http://www.seattle.gov/util
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by patja 6y ago
I can't even recall the last time I saw a physical fight. Last time I participated in one was around 1980.
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by patja 6y ago
That works until your city decides to allow unhoused people to take over the parks with tents and generators as has happened in some cities in the US.
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by patja 6y ago
Huh. It is interesting to read this study that claims all kinds of bad things happen with water below 50 ppm TDS. I've been drinking Seattle tap water (under 50 ppm TDS) for over 50 years and have never heard anyone suggest we need to
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by patja 6y ago
I'll admit I pay it just to hang onto my ancient 3 letter gamertag.
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by patja 6y ago
I'm also not seeing anything here that meets the definition of the word "salary". These details matter if you are trying to be taken seriously.
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by patja 6y ago
Just speaking for how it works in Seattle, buy nothing groups are often more about making hyper local connections with neighbors and not quite so focused on the efficient transfer of goods. For example as soon as one gets too big, they spli
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by patja 6y ago
She is remarkably circumspect about these details. Lots of references to people being allegedly from Harvard or appearing to be from Harvard. It does feel disingenuous to put that out there and not provide a single example.
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by patja 6y ago
Seems like a good case for a strict content security policies and self hosting static assets.
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by patja 6y ago
I don't know if it is a placebo, but many births by cesarean section are medically unnecessary, and can cause harm.
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by patja 6y ago
The US CDC (Center for Disease Control) currently recommends male circumcision for positive health effects.
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by patja 6y ago
On one of my first programming jobs, they weren't quite ready for me, so they just told me to read all the manufacturer's documentation on the platform we were using. I managed to read most of it cover to cover. Within a month I
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by patja 6y ago
I just finished playing The Witcher 3 on Xbox and feel Cyberpunk is far far below the visual quality of The Witcher. Partly because the HDR is so washed out, but there simply isn't nearly as much detail to it.
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by patja 6y ago
There is an aphorism that captures this: once you announce it, it is no longer altruism.
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by patja 6y ago
If you want something more than the Wikipedia content, try the book Wittgenstein's Poker. My book club read it about a decade ago and it's one of the few titles we keep referring back to.
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by patja 6y ago
Key features like the spatial effects only work with an iPad or mac. So now you have a dependency on Apple keeping that part going for years as well, if you want to keep using them as you would have expected to at launch.
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by patja 6y ago
I find it interesting that he refuses to wear wireless headphones while podcasting because he can't tolerate the latency. But he's perfectly fine with it when watching a movie? Lip synch latency drives me crazy once I notice it.
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by patja 6y ago
I'm a diehard Squeezebox/LMS user still using three Squeezebox devices on a daily basis. With that said, the synchronized playback has never been really what I would call great. It is roughly in synch so you can go form room to r
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by patja 6y ago
10 quarts? I don't think the v8 in my first car even took that much. Aren't most vehicles more like 5 or 6 quarts?
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by patja 6y ago
KLOC can be a useful productivity metric to track at an individual developer level, given the developer works in the same domain for an extended period of time, and has the professional and skill level maturity not to game it. That relies

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