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by shaftway 4y ago
So... if McDonalds french fries had been left to their typical sexual reproduction instead of mankind meddling and creating asexual clones then the McDonalds french fry would have adapted to the changing environment and increased competitio
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by shaftway 4y ago
Smaller companies also are exempt from some laws that protect employees. e.g. the WARN act (requiring 60 day notice of layoffs) doesn't kick in until you have 75 employees. I've been involved in a company that made sure not to cro
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by shaftway 4y ago
It's particularly useful for the historical places. And the ones in countries with a less... uh... developed address system. There's a dealership that's closed listed as "Service Point - Costa Rica" where the addres
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by shaftway 4y ago
I use this, and it's amazing. I like to collect things from places I've been. When I bought my motorcycle they gave my kids some poker chips with the dealership's name on them. I found out that it's very common for Harle
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by shaftway 4y ago
I think it's a lot of luck and being one of the first people to apply. Once the flood comes in then people start filtering on metrics that don't really matter. "Oh, you only have 10 years of Java? This candidate over here has
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by shaftway 4y ago
Senior SWE, 20+ years of experience, based in the bay area, laid off from Meta in November. I reached out to my network and had a couple applications in same-day. One of those panned out and I just started this week. I also did a bunch of c
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by shaftway 4y ago
I was on the Play Store and was responsible for implementing the Play Store side of this process. No, we did not install it without informing the user. Play Services would check to see if there was an app available for the user's reg
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by shaftway 4y ago
I don't understand why the Tik Tok challenge came into the original story at all. From what I understand, these people stole a car using information from a video that dared others to try it. Then, later, they crashed it. The headlines
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by shaftway 4y ago
Fellow woodworking hobbyist here. One of the legit (9-fingered) woodworkers at the store I frequent has looked at some of my work and urged me to sell some pieces. My response was "as soon as I start selling things this changes from a
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by shaftway 4y ago
This might be the perfect use-case for a database that I'm looking to build for tracking a personal collection, but it's hard to see the full feature set. I assume that's because it's still rapidly evolving. Do you suppo
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by shaftway 4y ago
I'd like to see a sign in with Google, because that's my authorizer of choice, and probably one of the biggest.
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by shaftway 4y ago
Looks like they consider any breaking change a major rev bump. And it looks like most releases since then have had at least one breaking change.
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by shaftway 4y ago
I doesn't actually have to be an either-or. I have pipes that are pretty loud above ~4000 RPM, but pretty quiet underneath that. When I'm in a residential neighborhood I keep the revs low and shift early (it's less aggressive
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by shaftway 4y ago
This was basically how my manager laid it out for me on day 1.
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by shaftway 4y ago
If I was looking for problems to solve, I could think of a few. - Commercial fleets can be managed remotely. I imagine U-Haul has a lot of manual work to manage their entire fleet of trucks, making sure that all registration stickers are up
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by shaftway 4y ago
I spent a couple weeks in a Google data center, and drive sanitation there is taken crazy seriously. Everything is encrypted at rest with decryption keys and standard storage kept on separate forms of media. Drives are wiped several times a
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by shaftway 4y ago
His objection is that there is no way to opt out of the forgiveness. His personal situation is that he's already in a loan forgiveness program that does not treat the forgiven loan as income, meaning he will never have to pay income ta
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by shaftway 4y ago
I just sold my 12 year old Subaru that needed a full engine swap. The quote was "about five grand for the crate engine, about five grand for the labor, and that's if we don't find any other problems. Given what happened, ther
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by shaftway 4y ago
TIL that disabled == wheelchair-bound. /s There are plenty of people who are disabled but don't have access to a wheelchair.
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by shaftway 4y ago
I suspect the strategy is similar to bracketing. Bracketing isn't uncommon in small financial markets. You basically put a sell order in at a price a bit higher than the market and a buy order in a bit cheaper than the market. As the m
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by shaftway 4y ago
I've found the exact opposite. - The "radio" feature sucks I used the radio station feature of Play Music heavily to find new stuff. If I asked for a radio station of The Cure I'd get a nice variety of 80's music ma
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by shaftway 4y ago
I do most of my work with protos in Java, and it's nice to have a schema like this that will build a bunch of immutable POJOs with builder classes and enough infrastructure to be able to do some interesting reflection-style stuff on to
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by shaftway 4y ago
My wife has mobility issues, so she usually requests a wheelchair. At TSA she's usually asked if she can stand and walk a short distance. She can, so she walks through the metal detector (not the backscatter x-ray), the airport personn
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by shaftway 4y ago
I would never use a hardware 2FA on any service with no other way in. But that doesn't make them not-valuable. For me the ideal setup is a service that offers a SMS verification code or a 2FA token. The 2FA is far more convenient for m
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by shaftway 4y ago
But then I'd get phone calls. :-/
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by shaftway 4y ago
It has some reputation as a brand. If I buy something from Walmart I generally don't expect it to be a quality product. It will fall apart very quickly and it'll probably have some unexpected issue with it. But I do expect that
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by shaftway 4y ago
Yeah, I jot notes too. Check out the letterpress idea. It's nice and subtle and adds a nice touch, but there is a higher setup fee. I think for mine it was like $100 for setup, but then typical prices for repeat orders.
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by shaftway 4y ago
My gut reaction is to agree, but after a deeper thought I'm not sure. Let's say you wanted to weaponize this. How would you do it? You could follow someone with a nice bike, throw an airtag on the roof and claim that the bike was
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by shaftway 4y ago
I finally managed to get my last name as a domain name. My calling cards are all letterpress (reverse embossing) and read "{first_name}@{last-name}.com". The twist is that first name and last name are black, the "@" and
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by shaftway 4y ago
I had a form like that. You put in your email and it sends an email from us@foo.com, to us@foo.com, and to them@whatever.com. We had internal mailing lists for clients, including something like all-clients@foo.com, but they were locked down

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