randrews

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by randrews 4y ago
It's what I do because I don't want the money, I want to hang out with friends who share my interests. A couple people have actually taken me up on it; come over with a pizza and we spend an evening cutting things out and it'
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by randrews 4y ago
Demanding money works, but I think it's a proxy for something else that works equally well: I own a laser cutter. Owning a laser cutter is sort of like the maker equivalent of being "that friend with the truck." I eventually
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by randrews 4y ago
I have an app for cryptic crosswords, and a few puzzle / card games (Venbrux Software, and stuff by Zach Gage, are good). I also turn off almost all notifications (I can get actual text messages and phone calls and my alarm clock and t
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by randrews 4y ago
It starts at around $40k. That's expensive for a car. Most people are not buying new vehicles, electric or otherwise.
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by randrews 4y ago
This doesn't even sort of make sense. Twitter was in the news and this wasn't because Twitter is actually a bigger story: you're right that most journalists live on Twitter, so, its policies have massive influence on the nati
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by randrews 4y ago
Any more, whenever a company I use goes public or is acquired, I start looking for the egress. I'm happy that the founders of whatever it is got a nice payday, but I don't expect their creation to continue being worth using after
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by randrews 4y ago
Other than general supportiveness of my interests, neither of my parents were in a position to do that. There are a lot of things where, if I had had someone knowledgeable sit down with me for an afternoon, I'd have been years ahead of
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by randrews 4y ago
Of course, that is definitely how I got that first job. But I know plenty of people who got engineering jobs without parental help, and also plenty of people born into privilege who didn't make it as engineers even with the help. The i
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by randrews 4y ago
Yep. Not to mention it's objectively not true: I worked at NASA for years, most people working there aren't rich, it pays less than most other engineering jobs. One of my parents worked there and we weren't rich when I was gr
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by randrews 4y ago
Why is it whenever someone says something unifying and wholesome like gp, someone like you isn't too far behind to remind everyone to feel bad about themselves?
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by randrews 4y ago
Part of this might be the context of a date: I spend long hours outside work learning and building things just because I find my profession interesting, but when most people ask about it I change the subject quickly because I know exactly h
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by randrews 4y ago
K&E Deci-Trig, or a Deci-Lon if you want something with a few more scales than that one. Those both give you the CF / DF "folded" scales, which are handy.
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by randrews 4y ago
That's exactly my point: "seeking out an arrangement" is exactly what net neutrality outlaws, and while it's obviously bad to artificially slow someone down, NN proponents also say they're against artificially speed
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by randrews 4y ago
Doesn't become a vice for me; I'm against censoring regular people too. Everyone should be able to say whatever they want.
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by randrews 4y ago
I've been asking this exact question for years. I feel like most people got some well-meaning propaganda on this and see net neutrality as an anti-censorship thing (which, hooray for anti-censorship) without thinking through all the to
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by randrews 4y ago
> NASA planetary mineralogist Roy Christoffersen used these six aluminum cylinders to test the lunar dust under an electron microscope to verify it was collected during the Apollo 11 mission. Heh, weird to see the name of an old coworker
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by randrews 4y ago
Well, I'm paying YouTube for a subscription for that, so probably out of there. People who aren't buying a subscription see ads, the advertisers pay to place those, so, out of there. Edit: I don't think the economics of it ar
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by randrews 4y ago
While I work, I listen to hour-long mixes of synthwave / retrowave / vaporwave music on YouTube. I've never heard of any of the artists, and other than the occasional "hey I recognize this melody from another mixtape&quo
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by randrews 4y ago
Just come up with a socially-acceptable, PR-reason for leaving. Probably whatever you told the new job in their interview: "I'm leaving because of the commute," or "not enough potential for advancement," or somethin
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by randrews 4y ago
Then if you really want them to change, you should try to become one of those powerful people... Not leave, and give up all power you have over them, is my point.
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by randrews 4y ago
...Okay, yes, technically sometimes by leaving you can change an organization from "alive" to "dead." :) But that's probably not the change that would have kept you around, right?
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by randrews 4y ago
I've changed the place I work immensely in my three years here, and I think for the better. But at no point did I (or would I) threaten to leave if they didn't change... It just wouldn't work.
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by randrews 4y ago
One of the wisest pieces of career advice I ever heard was "you cannot change an organization by leaving it." It works both ways: if you're leaving in hopes that it'll be a wake-up call to management that a valuable pers
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by randrews 5y ago
Conflating a valid point with a bunch of total-nonsense points in order to discredit it is an effective strategy.
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by randrews 5y ago
I wonder if the name is a reference to Anathem?
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by randrews 5y ago
This attack would completely fall flat if you were using something that was posted here a couple days ago: https://hotdoglinux.com/ The fake popup would be the only window that doesn't look like an Atari ST. :D
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by randrews 5y ago
"Yeah, that's the kind of thing I spend all day working on, but right now I just want to hang out with you guys and have dinner / play this game / enjoy the party / whatever."
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by randrews 5y ago
> "why would someone use your engine over Google" as a reasonably good question, as opposed to "nobody is going to use your engine over Google because it's a household verb". Well, one of these is a question, the
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by randrews 5y ago
I took it to mean any question that, if you don't have a good answer, means your startup shouldn't exist. Like if the answer to "why would someone use you instead of Google" is null, then you are probably not going to su
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by randrews 5y ago
> who have established that one or ten person team can conquer many a Goliaths, or bring to the world something entirely new. I wonder how many of those teams couldn't answer what was better about their product than the one they wer

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