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by rrdharan 5y ago
I use Karabiner Elements to make CapsLock either Escape (when tapped) or Control (when held / pressed with another key) - works great with a Kinesis Advantage: https://pastebin.com/6gQFV9EY
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by rrdharan 5y ago
This is a fantastically accurate description. I'm tempted to send it as a card to my director along with a sympathy bouquet and a box of chocolates. Well done.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
1. The marshmallow test has been debunked (just like so many other flashy claims in the social sciences field, the science is questionable and the replication crisis is very real). So using it in a rant about how uninformed people are is it
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by rrdharan 5y ago
What are the chances this study is actually reproducible? What was the sample size? Personally I’ve shifted to a default position of extreme skepticism regarding any study that makes any claim on any kind of human behavioral pattern. Burned
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Google gave out a $1600 cash bonus to all full-time employees at the end of 2021. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-promises-employees-16...
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by rrdharan 5y ago
VMware actually filed and was granted a patent for the same technique, years earlier, though to my knowledge they never used it for anything (not even for counter offensive purposes against MSFT :). https://patents.google.com&#x2
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by rrdharan 5y ago
I’m a software engineer at Google, working on Cloud Bigtable, which I personally think is pretty “cool stuff”. I speak to different prospective and existing customers multiple times a week, sometimes multiple times a day, over chat, email,
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Why even have multiple brands? Why not just have the government enforce a single manufacturer for each type of item and standardize everything? They could plan if all centrally and… oh wait.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Crypto has not helped any of these people.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
The iPod helped save Apple. IIRC it, even more than the iMac, helped return them to profitability.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
I don’t think the situation has stabilized, either for NYC or for Uber. Too many variables. It’s also possible a stable equilibrium doesn’t emerge and it’s just a pendulum that swings between upstarts and incumbents, regulated and deregulat
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by rrdharan 5y ago
It’s funny / depressing that Microsoft is not in last place given the frequency, severity and rank embarrassment-level of the slew of recent Azure vulnerabilities that have turned up.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
GCP allows nested virtualization: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtu...
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> Last year I splurged on a PinePhone (around AUD300 including dock and shipping) which I hope will last me for the next decade. I’m admittedly a pessimist but I’d personally be quite shocked if that happened. I simply lack faith that a
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by rrdharan 5y ago
https://deltadna.com/blog/how-whales-spend/ https://www.pocketgamer.biz/comment-and-opinion/72369/mobile...
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by rrdharan 5y ago
No he’s not: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/09/eric-schmidt-is-reportedly-n...
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by rrdharan 5y ago
They didn’t really exist yet (they did, but they were tiny, not on anybody’s radar, and not really competing for top end experienced / senior talent for example, they were just vacuuming up new college grads).. https://en.m.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
It is a slightly confusing way of presenting it though.. would’ve been a bit clearer IMO if the graphs were showing “time taken to complete 2 million conversions” with the graphs sloping downward as cores increase in the good cases (scaling
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by rrdharan 5y ago
There’s zero evidence in your anecdote to suggest anything other than a coincidence. You’re basically just arbitrarily choosing to believe it wasn’t.
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They really aren’t.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
It’s not able to use safari content blockers as far as I know (I don’t think any mom Safari browsers can?).
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by rrdharan 5y ago
That may be your ideal but it is most definitely not mine. I don’t understand how people can compare the austerity debacle and resulting outcomes in Greece with what the US was able to do (and turn a profit on) post financial crisis and dec
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Drugs and alcohol are fun (and/or they have inherent value). Crypto is only fun when it’s arbitrarily going up in value, which would seem to be somewhat curtailed but these bans. Of course crypto can be used to obtain (illegal) drugs,
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by rrdharan 5y ago
I’ve seen it in Brooklyn on multiple occasions, always late night.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> And then all the bad stuff that happens in big cities came right along with it, including the jerks, the swatters and the drive by shooters. That stuff also happens in towns and villages. They just don’t have enough people to make it a
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by rrdharan 5y ago
To that point: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56425115 The QALY tallies are not pretty.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Not quite the same scale but the whole Color World 76ers thing is kind of in the same bucket?
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by rrdharan 5y ago
I had the privilege of working there for a summer (as an intern at Lucent in 1999). That was my first office job and between that and occasional childhood visits to my father’s workplace - a giant Bank of Montreal compound in suburban Toron
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> Tesla has not yet had a chance to investigate what happened and provide the media with an official response. They have no communications department. No such response will ever come - there is no mechanism to request or be provided with
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by rrdharan 5y ago
This seems like a silly and needlessly anti-American framing. There’s plenty of high profile theft in Europe - more in fact, since the security is so lax: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/world/europe&#

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