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by pbnjay 6y ago
Paying $10-20/mo for a fridge is not going to significantly impact retirement savings over the long term. The alternative is putting that little bit extra into savings every month to buy the next fridge when it breaks. It balances out.
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by pbnjay 6y ago
Exactly! It's what I see of the spacex model - if you standardize one model and do it well, you find the weak points and either reinforce them or improve them.
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by pbnjay 6y ago
That's the thing tho. Make it cheap enough to not be more expensive. Make it a quality product so there's little maintenance cost. Don't replace it every 10years and there's less overheard across the board.
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by pbnjay 6y ago
I have a totally boring "financial engineering"-related dream every time I need to replace a major appliance: I would gladly pay $X/mo for one appliance in perpetuity that I never have to think about it again. Give it a repla
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by pbnjay 6y ago
Couldn't you generate monthly/weekly salts to track longer-term metrics? Repeat visitors probably would not see this as that much more of an intrusion than daily stats.
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by pbnjay 6y ago
Anyone have an idea of the remaining licenses or restrictions on these? I have a small pixel font package and it would be cool to bundle some if possible.
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by pbnjay 6y ago
I know multiple engineering folks in the industry and they constantly tell me about how much the culture sucks. Very cool problems, but it's very cutthroat as you would expect. Source: live near many teams just outside of Charlotte
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by pbnjay 6y ago
I've always wondered if I could take the Unix "everything is a file" approach way too far and hook it up to a web service. This looks like exactly the kind of glue to make that easy...
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by pbnjay 6y ago
How has traffic/attacks changed since acquisition? Microsoft name surely gives them an even larger target on their back.
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by pbnjay 6y ago
Certainly! You can contact me using the email in my profile.
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by pbnjay 6y ago
A Project/Team management tool for academics: https://delv.io/ Professors have to run research groups in addition to teaching and committee work. It's very similar but different from the industry/corporate wo
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by pbnjay 6y ago
Oof. Keybase was struggling to define what exactly it was, so I guess they is the best exit option for them anyway...
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by pbnjay 6y ago
We had a similar setup at our University as well. Execs decided we needed to be a part of school-wide clusters though, and are now trying to retire even that computing hardware and push us to the cloud without covering any of the costs.
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by pbnjay 6y ago
If these law firms really believe that they are acting like robin hood, taking from the greedy universities and giving back to the students who really need it, they'd be doing these suits pro bono so the students get every dollar they
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by pbnjay 6y ago
Only two USB-C ports?!? That's really disappointing, I always have a yubikey in one so that only leaves one free. Seeing this, I'm actually more inclined to get the Air since it has faster ram, a newer processor, and no touch bar.
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by pbnjay 6y ago
I've had multiple instances of scheduling Zoom meetings where GSuite automatically added a Meet link also. Had to send a fix to attendees the first time and caught it the next few times before I sent the invites. Very annoying practice
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by pbnjay 7y ago
Thanks! Trying to reduce friction as much as possible (and save some $$ on hosting costs in the off-chance this actually takes off)
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by pbnjay 7y ago
Hey all - I created this, after receiving a 3rd "cancelled conference" email in as many days, I realized while driving home that this is going to be (at least) a few really slow months for research dissemination. Happy to answer a
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Show HN: Share cancelled conference posters virtually(virtualpostersession.org)
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by pbnjay 7y ago
This is awesome. I have a version of an old 8x8 IBM font compiled into a pixel font renderer package I built for Go: https://github.com/pbnjay/pixfont This would be a fun addition, I had started a BDF parser I need to
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by pbnjay 7y ago
I find go doc, go fmt, go vet, gopls, etc to be much more undervalued than the compiler itself. I use these supporting tools much more frequently than I invoke the compiler (yeah they're related...) but TBH the huge selling point when
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by pbnjay 7y ago
The receiver name is likely to be used within the method, and always defined at the top of the block (and recommended to be consistent across all of the receiver's method definitions). So locality and consistency are great, improving t
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by pbnjay 7y ago
The have a furnace and no roof, so I would assume worst case they blast the heat and melt some of the snow so it slides off. Humidity - the greenhouse opens up so they can easily let out excess moisture.
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by pbnjay 7y ago
Yes, they failed to credit her: https://pubmed.gov/13054692 In his own book, Watson admitted he had seen her work before publishing his result.
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by pbnjay 7y ago
Well since Rosalind Franklin did the majority of the work, yes.
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by pbnjay 7y ago
These numbers are super misleading. 72% were continuously enrolled, but 16% switched to a different employer plan! We don't know how many of those were the same employer or if the spouse just had access a better deal that year or what.
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by pbnjay 8y ago
My 6yo son went to the ER with blue lips and we ended up with a $1400 bill for a glorified strep test.
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by pbnjay 8y ago
I've been at 3 different universities now, and all of them have a 8-year cutoff for credits expiring even at the PhD level. So I've definitely seen folks push that number but in my experience no one has gone over that.
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by pbnjay 8y ago
The MinION is approaching this but you need really good prep work to get reliable results.
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by pbnjay 8y ago
I work in bioinformatics in academia, and it's really hard to get good software engineers. Academia can never pay as well as industry, but we do get to do interesting work that leads to new scientific discoveries and medical knowledge.

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