sethammons

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by sethammons 4mo ago
The smart spider is portia, a jumping spider. A quick search uncovers zounds of videos, articles, and scientific publications on them. They specialize is hunting spiders, changing hunting tactics based on type and number of prey. Yes, they
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by sethammons 4mo ago
Amazing specialization. I was wondering the same thing. Cave glow worms cast a "fishing line," and this is similar-ish. I wonder if N million years ago, a couple of fishing-line-like spiders started anchoring their lines, and the
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by sethammons 4mo ago
Speed is part of fluency. Fluency and understanding feel related
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> As described in court filings, from at least December 2022 through December 2024, Mazulina conspired with Russian freight forwarding companies and others to unlawfully ship controlled items, including industrial oil and gas equipment,
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> its about who can track you and why. I'd much rather a list of times I access a site that required age verification being stored by the government, than every single fucking page I looked at tracked by google/meta. It is abou
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by sethammons 4mo ago
I left teaching and have, literally, 10x'd my annual income after a few years. While teaching, I couldn't afford to support my family of four. We don't need people stressing and struggling financially for the privilege of tea
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by sethammons 4mo ago
The law of supply and demand doesn't go away. If raw population numbers don't support increasing demand, something else does. My first guess would be less people per house, perhaps culturally driven like fewer roommates and famili
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by sethammons 4mo ago
Diff person here. Your handle is not orange, it is grey. I have not seen an orange handle. Grey or green (green for new accounts).
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My helm adventures (a while back now, so maybe better these days): > You have an error in your config on line 1. Good luck.
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by sethammons 4mo ago
as a former teacher, a former receiver of social services, and someone who makes great money helping teams move bits efficiently, I can say most assuredly that most teachers or social workers are regular, non-expert people. My former teachi
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by sethammons 4mo ago
This post hand waves away the inflection point(s) of maintaining high growth rates as you grow. He hints at it saying year 4 growth is harder, but it is _vastly_ harder. Companies focus of the Rule of 40 and struggle to keep above it. And t
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by sethammons 4mo ago
whoops, yeah. Likely b17. My brain subbed "bomber" for the more prominent bomber in my head.
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> When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled. The analytics people didn’t even know where these users were coming from. Of course, your javascript-based analytics package doesn’t see the users you are bouncing bec
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by sethammons 4mo ago
Social media started in the early 1500s if we squint with this logic. Martin Luther’s ninety-five theses were the OG forum post that went viral, and required a printing press.
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by sethammons 4mo ago
Your account has no accountability. Do your taxes wrong and the tax payer is liable. Ask me how I know.
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People live in the alaskan bush. QED
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This is NOT human extinction. Just the collapse of global modernity. Why would the last group of N people not subsistence farm? "Guess we wont try to live like people have for the last x million years, here is a good place to lay down
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by sethammons 4mo ago
Jetson style, we should all be complaining about our 3hr workdays. We produce enough. Distribution is the problem.
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https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/betterbowknot.htm This is my go-to knot. Boots and shoes. They never come undone and a single tug undoes the knot. Said bye bye to the double knot years ago.
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by sethammons 4mo ago
Sure, but it stops being that with multiple teams stepping in the same codebase as business needs expand. You revisit an area of code to find Sam in the billing department (who you don't know) interjected something or other and now the
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by sethammons 4mo ago
I believe you missed the scale. Not a person vs a deer in a car accident. More like destroying whole ecosystems and injuring and killing untold amounts of life (equipped with their own capacity to experience suffering) in the pursuit of mat
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by sethammons 4mo ago
Our thoughts are an electric cloud and I believe randomness is involved, and like a bolt of lightning, the path taken is unpredictable. And make it a tempestuous lightning storm where the state of all lightning bolts represents a moment of
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by sethammons 4mo ago
A fox in the hen house comes to mind. And cats.
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I am a fan of Go, and have been interested in c#; would be interested in hearing about your experience
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Having been at a several places that have gone from framework-makes-us-fast to too-massive-for-the-framework, engineering velocity works as a function of how much mental context is needed and how many people/teams have to collaborate.
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> there needs to be a forcing function. The brain will generally be as lazy as it can get away with, in any situation. So if you want to develop some skill or faculty, you need to create a situation which demands its use Yes! The brain i
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by sethammons 4mo ago
The ancient shadow puppet story tellers were good enough evening entertainment until books, radio, tv, and the internet and porn came out. I would argue the last 30 years have had more attention-competition than most of the last 370. These
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by sethammons 5mo ago
With communication issues such as being dyslexic and having shite grammar, or even being a different language, to be able to have the conversation between humans, the technology counts as assistive. At least as described. "Fix my shit
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State's rights, amirite
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The idea is that if you are already in and doing a good job but can't pass the interview, then the interview is bad. Specialists hiring is a bit different if no specialist are on the team yet.

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