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by rotten 4y ago
My latest evil advertising industry thought was for all of these infinite-scrolling social media feeds to force the scrolling to stop to watch a (10 second) ad, before you can keep scrolling. Kind of like the commercial breaks of old, excep
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by rotten 4y ago
Fastmail offers a masked email feature for one-time email addresses: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406536368911-Ma...
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by rotten 4y ago
I was having trouble finding a job. I dyed my beard back to my original hair color and had 4 offers within 2 weeks. Dyeing your beard feels disingenuous and smells a little funny at first, but it really works. People remarked that I: - Ha
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by rotten 4y ago
I've recently had the sales team from Magniv.io pestering me to try it as an alternative to Airflow with a "shift left" perspective for automating jobs. I wasn't convinced enougy by the value prop to dive deeper. I thi
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by rotten 4y ago
This bumps up my desire to build my own mechanical watch using one of the kits here: https://rotatewatches.com (something I've had bookmarked for a while as a possible rainy day project)
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by rotten 5y ago
The ash trees are all gone around us. Some 30-40% of all of the trees in our area (central Ohio) were wiped out within just 2-3 years. I'm not sure if we'll get saplings growing back now that the ash borer has wiped out its food
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by rotten 5y ago
RM2 also has a nasty subscription service required to get all the features.
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by rotten 5y ago
Next they should add keys for cli tools: psql, mongo, mysql, oci, gcloud, aws ...
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by rotten 5y ago
There is also "The Geometry of Musical Rhythm"
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by rotten 5y ago
Why do you have to create the folders for your bookmarks yourself? Can you use a classification AI to automatically put the bookmarks in a variety of categories based on the contents of the page? You would then only need to add tags such a
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by rotten 5y ago
They said that there would be spin off and supporting industry also moving into this new industrial zone. Maybe a board manufacturer will move in, to pick up the chips from Intel one side of their operation, and deliver them to AWS on the
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by rotten 5y ago
They regularly dump batches of perfume into the air - you can smell it for miles. It probably confuses pollinators and other wildlife because the smells are so intense.
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by rotten 5y ago
We used to have this happen at an office I worked in where the SEO team was scraping google search rankings by running thousands of queries with different search keywords. Google was blocking the IP address rather than our browsers.
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by rotten 5y ago
This same street has a Facebook data center, an AWS data center, and a Google data center (within a couple of miles). There is a biotech research campus, Bath & Bodyworks main research lab, and the main operations center for AEP (a mid
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by rotten 5y ago
The Ohio State University is in Columbus and if not the largest university in the world it is in the top 3.
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by rotten 5y ago
Not to mention that every one of these startup CEO's thinks they are the next Steve Jobs and find it necessary to act like him.
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by rotten 5y ago
Never answer those honestly. More than half the time they aren't there to "help management understand how to do better", rather to purge people who aren't happy. "We don't need employees who don't love i
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by rotten 5y ago
This should be the "Science of Slow Cooking Meat". Rather than slow cooking in general.
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by rotten 5y ago
It also had a built-in pop-up blocker which none of the other browsers at the time had.
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by rotten 5y ago
What is "cyberphysical coding"? I didn't see any definition on the website, and no, I haven't seen any live examples of it either. It sounds cool, but from looking at this site, I have no idea what they are talking abo
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by rotten 6y ago
Soon I'll be able to have high quality sound embedded in my business card. And when I open a magazine while killing time in the line at my favorite box grocery store, I'll get musical ads. And maybe my driver's license can
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by rotten 6y ago
I would have used the word "percentage" rather than "percent". I wonder if the slightly more precise english would have helped?
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by rotten 6y ago
That depends on whether you consider Math something we discover or something we invent. If it is something we discover, universal truths, then Math is a science, uncovering truths in the same way physicists and chemists and others do. If
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by rotten 6y ago
Probably written by the "If man were meant to fly God would have given _him_ wings" crowd.
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by rotten 6y ago
Pretty cool! If you are drawing and go off the edge of the screen, when you come back it doesn't let you draw again unless you lift up on the mouse button and press it back down again. Using the shift key was much less reliable than
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by rotten 6y ago
And yet at my last two startups, when we could literally pick any product on the market - there was tremendous pressure from product, project management, devs, and the business to use JIRA "because it worked just fine at the last place
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by rotten 6y ago
Another option is to use Instance Groups.
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by rotten 6y ago
Can you use Health-Checks (under the Compute Engine drop down) to monitor Cloud Run? I use them with Instance Groups for deploying docker containers.
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by rotten 6y ago
Their spam is so annoying I would never consider their product. I've had to block them from all of my email accounts.
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by rotten 6y ago
Usually it is surface ships which get that loud. In harbors where sabotage is a concern it is not uncommon to run a regular ping as a deterrent to underwater saboteurs.

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