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by richardw 5y ago
My wife’s shuffle battery finally died. Competition seems to be fairly lame. I can’t believe it hasn’t been beaten yet. I’ve ordered a replacement battery rather than risk some device with 3.5 stars. Someone build it. Runners worldwide woul
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by richardw 5y ago
The unicorn face on my Apple Watch. “Hi I’m thinking of upgrading my Apple Watch 1 but the 7 is quite expensive” “Can I speak to your daughter for 30 seconds” (Yes there’s a salesperson in the story but in my case there wasn’t and I know I’
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by richardw 5y ago
Author links articles they were inspired by at the bottom. That’s fantastic and we should all do that.
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by richardw 5y ago
I’m careful. I often catch myself and fix downs I don’t intend. Yet I found a bunch of flags, and only two real ones. Check for yourself, you might be surprised.
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by richardw 5y ago
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by richardw 5y ago
No forced chitchat, no chance I’ll be rated badly, (eventually) safer than many of the drivers I’ve had. I’d use it daily if it were an appliance rather than an interaction. Right now I have a car.
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by richardw 5y ago
Take all the elephants and lions and giraffe in Africa. Put them in North America. Where are they safe? A few reserves maybe. In Africa they do mostly fine because there is a lot of undeveloped land. Develop the land and give a population a
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by richardw 5y ago
Not the answer but a good idea spinner: sports. I met a ton of people doing cycling group rides, and first went for a MTB ride as a non date with my now wife. We were on distant leaves of a social tree but that was a great way to spend time
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by richardw 5y ago
Thought experiment: Apple could hire nine NSO equivalent teams to do what NSO does. Then fix the bugs they find. This is not a guarantee there are no bugs, but if finding them is crucial to fixing them, NSO is now 1/10 likely to be the
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by richardw 5y ago
I think the treadmill sounds terrible as well, but maybe be open to the possibility that you would enjoy some if fitter and thinner. I’ve been strong and fit and I’ve been pretty overweight. The state affects what you perceive as enjoyable.
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by richardw 5y ago
Yes but they save a lot not paying Firefox to be the search box.
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by richardw 5y ago
Not if you’re in sales, I’d guess. It almost literally tells your target C-suite that you’re cut from the same cloth and to ignore the bleating of underlings. It’s a peripheral cue calibrated to increase bonding and trust. “These are my peo
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by richardw 5y ago
You perfectly demonstrated why they shouldn’t be speaking to you. Their schtick is crafted to work on levels where you don’t get to tank the deal until it’s way too late and egos are now on the line.
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by richardw 5y ago
The account that locked them into Google for a decade? Yes. No competitor could begin to attempt to sell a new service against free. Now the social contract is switching after all the baiting and it’s money time. It’s typical in SaaS to gra
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by richardw 5y ago
That’s about the last shred of trust. I was such a fanboy for so long. I’ve paid Google a lot of money when the price on the tin was upfront. I’ve used the free services as well. They generated huge goodwill and lock-in all over the place.
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by richardw 5y ago
It seems that some think it’s possible: https://breakingdefense.com/2021/11/raytheon-northrop-lockhe...
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by richardw 5y ago
Absolutely. We can’t just pick up the phone and check! I get triggered with the best of them. Sadly you can’t edit comments in meetings.
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by richardw 5y ago
Sorry, didn’t mean to do that. I was honestly self-mocking in how it needs to be done how I did it, obviously the innovation allows so many more ways to play. Another friend’s wife buys the more complicated sets and admits they’re actually
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by richardw 5y ago
Why do you intensely dislike words on a website? I have an opinion about a toy, I’m not intensely disliking people who use it differently. I said nothing about those people. When she’s older, we might be those people. Play the Lego bloc
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by richardw 5y ago
Yeah that’s why I’m being partly tongue in cheek. As a kid I enjoyed both models and Lego. Now they’re combined. I’m very sure it’s a killer profit driver, you need tons of sets and enthusiasts want the Death Star. Go wild. It’s just less c
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by richardw 5y ago
I have a 3 year old, who has a 101-year old great grandmother from my wife’s side. Had 4 generations simultaneously playing with classic Lego a month ago. This toy just sparks creativity with no measures of wrongness. I’m going to put off b
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by richardw 5y ago
Yeah I think he used the word intuition. Exactly same insight though. I think “recency” is the bias that causes our view that tomorrow will be pretty similar to today. I’ve noticed it in myself, for sure. Market at X? Yup that seems rationa
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by richardw 5y ago
Totally, I’ll claim to have been very pessimistic before it happened. Referenced the likely downturn in an economics assignment that didn’t impress my very optimistic lecturer. I missed the bottom though, was convinced we were going down a
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by richardw 5y ago
I think Taleb’s point was more that humans don’t have a good intuition for extreme events, layperson or expert. See the housing crisis during which experts and laypeople were equally fooled. We’re good at understanding eg height of people (
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by richardw 5y ago
Reference discusses power generation and plant maintenance. You can argue about words but only the net CO2 matters when you’re looking for a simple answer. Perfect is the enemy of the good. We need net-0 but if you only have a binary 0-not-
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by richardw 5y ago
> If it emits carbon it isn't green, it really is that simple. Producing solar emits CO2 over the full lifecycle. Even during the generation and maintenance phase, it’s above zero. There’s no zero until we remove CO2 from the enviro
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by richardw 5y ago
Do you have any opinion on whether it’s a good example of a modern Python project, as per OP’s request?
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by richardw 5y ago
I’m not a…rustafarian?…but we didn’t get as cross when C# was mentioned above, in a thread about Java and C. In fact it’s top comment at my time of reading.
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by richardw 5y ago
You have to be so cross when you produce a car and that’s what happens to your client base. What do you do? Give it a facelift? Test when dealers don’t like it? “No no we want you to tell us which one you like least .”
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by richardw 5y ago
Offer option of a reservation, maybe at extra fee. Pay if you cancel within 24h. Now clients have an option. Some might really want an X and be willing to pay a slight premium.

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