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901.
by roughly 2y ago
If we're going to keep Boeing around because it's in the national security interest to have an American airplane manufacturer, we need to either nationalize it, break it up, or remove the entire leadership class. The company exist
902.
by roughly 2y ago
I think a lot of people underestimate awk or aren't aware of its capabilities - I used it quite a lot when I was new in my career before really understanding it. There's enough awk snippets floating around that you'll see it
903.
by roughly 2y ago
`sort` and `sort --numeric`, `uniq` and `uniq -c`, and `cut` in its `cut -d' ' -f 3` are things I use far, far more often than sense or reason suggests I should. Pipe all that to `xargs` (or `xargs -n1 -IAB -p10 command --flag AB`
904.
by roughly 2y ago
lsof I find I'm using primarily for debugging stuff. strace and tcpdump fit into the same general category - "What the hell is this program actually _doing_ right now?".
905.
by roughly 2y ago
Everywhere is a haven for bacterial diversity. Bacteria outnumber human cells in your body 10:1.
906.
by roughly 2y ago
To the point of the article, sure, it was good enough, but it could be better, and if we're not striving for the best - if we're not valuing the expertise and practice that allows someone to hear a fractionally out-of-tune piano a
907.
by roughly 2y ago
In the words of Stephen Jay Gould, “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
908.
by roughly 2y ago
> The pinnacle of human attention cannot be directed at everything, everywhere, all at once. We have to focus our attention on a limited subset of arts and pursuits, where discernment will always be high, and settle everywhere else. Ther
909.
by roughly 2y ago
In one case it’s 2/mo, in the other it’s 2.5, which is pretty similar except it’s a whole-ass additional person getting carted off every other month.
910.
by roughly 2y ago
Stripe had a live dashboard over Black Friday that showed the dollar value of all transactions across their network, including those blocked for fraud. The fraud rate was nearly 12% of the total dollar amount of transactions.
911.
by roughly 2y ago
Noted in the article: > Amazon centres in Dunfermline and Bristol had the most ambulance callouts in Britain, listing 161 and 125 across the period respectively. In Dunfermline, that's two to three ambulances a month; in Bristol it&
912.
by roughly 2y ago
You fool! “Patent pending _AI-driven_ human biology based neural retrieval” would’ve gotten $150M
913.
by roughly 2y ago
Yeah, this is something I try to be aware of - I’ve got my style and it works well, but it’s not the only style and in many cases it’s not the best. I’ve got a team of mostly senior folks, all of whom have very different styles, and it’s be
914.
by roughly 2y ago
Especially as I've gotten older, I've noticed I do less work more slowly than my younger peers, but I only have to do it once, and I usually get closer to the root than my younger colleagues. Measure twice and all that.
915.
by roughly 2y ago
Eisenhower: “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”
916.
by roughly 2y ago
I think a key here is recognizing when the expected result is catastrophe and acting accordingly. There's a whole lot of procedures in the hospital that are designed for normal times and are _good_ in normal times(*) - they enforce peo
917.
by roughly 2y ago
Don't forget the 7280! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7280
918.
by roughly 2y ago
I very much miss the halcyon days of the feature phone - Nokia got _weird_ with it for a bit: https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2...
919.
by roughly 2y ago
I'm an iPhone guy, but - there _are_ other designs for phones, right? The squircle corners, the shiny metal band surrounding the matte back, the aqua-pill-shaped buttons, the colors - Google is a $2T company, there's gotta be an i
920.
by roughly 2y ago
> If there was a physical "undo" button, I could get behind this philosophy I had two reactions to this - The first is that's part of why I like working on low-stakes physical projects - especially when I'm working in
921.
by roughly 2y ago
As the saying goes, "Wherever you go, there you are."
922.
by roughly 2y ago
No, Cannabis is not the same as video games, sex, television, or the internet. It’s a highly potent psychoactive and bioactive substance. Ignoring that isn’t being more “fair” or “honest.”
923.
by roughly 2y ago
Early in my career I was working ops, and we got into a debate about a tool we were building - how much we should let people bypass some safeties we were putting in. A veteran colleague said "the fundamental requirements of my job are
924.
by roughly 2y ago
Because you don’t always bypass them. You bypass them knowingly and intentionally - you leave the burglar alarm off when your friend is coming by - but most of the time, you want the alarm and you want the choice.
925.
by roughly 2y ago
Physically addictive is one thing, but it's a mood altering substance, and if you tell me you don't know people who overuse it because of that, I'm gonna call you a liar. All of this "Weed isn't physically addictive
926.
by roughly 2y ago
I broadly agree, and - a great many people who smoke to that degree are self-medicating for various mental health issues, so the counterfactual isn't quite as cut and dry as that.
927.
by roughly 2y ago
I don’t know if it’s the case here, but very, very, very often in biotech you’ve got the primary foundational research happening at university labs funded by grants, and it’s the productionization of the research (and then clinical trials,
928.
by roughly 2y ago
SF has several police districts and district stations - may be worth checking against those, too: https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/sfpd-stations/s...
929.
by roughly 2y ago
> If Jack Dorsey doesn't walk around alone past midnight, he's not absorbing the same risk quotient either. Jack Dorsey is a weird motherfucker and a real outlier for this example. He used to walk to the Twitter office every da
930.
by roughly 2y ago
> Probability I will become a crime victim by travelling through that area Still not that. P(you’re the victim) = crime count/potential victim count. Population density may not be the right number for the denominator, but you need s

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