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by shaftway 6y ago
Full disclosure, I'm a Googler, but these are my own opinions. I use G Suite (or G Workspace) for my vanity email address, but I use gmail for pretty much everything that matters. My email is set to auto-forward to my gmail address and
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by shaftway 6y ago
Periodic table entries here. Lots of ways to divide that space, but generally for me laptops were lighter elements, desktops heavier, and servers the heaviest. Virtual machines were all heavily radioactive elements (e.g. Uranium and Plutoni
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by shaftway 6y ago
It helps. The building code part especially makes a lot of sense. And also realizing that a crane would have to be involved once you get beyond individual sticks. Once you have a crane involved then you've got to get it on site, at whi
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by shaftway 6y ago
Just for completeness, can you add vasectomy to the list? I think it's an under-utilized option given its effectiveness and the fact that most insurances cover a huge portion (often 100%) of the costs.
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by shaftway 6y ago
I've watched videos like this where there's this big push for making modular parts where "the pieces are just like legos" and "construction needs to be more like manufacturing". And then the video shows a bunch
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by shaftway 6y ago
Check the settings on your TV and sound system. I had similar issues with my TV adding lag so it could do some sort of post-processing. Switching the feed to "Game mode" made a world of difference.
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by shaftway 6y ago
> Windows 2000 was super neat compared to the old clunky Win 98 My dad had a friend with an MSDN subscription, so we got a pre-release developer copy of Windows 95. Moving from Windows 3.11 to that was pretty jaw dropping. But after a wh
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by shaftway 6y ago
I clicked on that fully expecting it to be the demonstration of various drugs on spiders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2HipedgM3I
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by shaftway 6y ago
FWIW, it only has to be ugly and imposing from the air. I'd much prefer something on my roof for this that delivers the packages directly inside. Makes it easier for the drones, prevents porch pirates, etc. Basically I want the drones
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by shaftway 6y ago
Age, most likely. He explicitly calls out one of the blurs as some teenagers. The rest look like they're younger from body shape too. All of the faces I saw were clearly over 18.
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by shaftway 6y ago
I think their point is that Visa and Mastercard are acting as judge, jury, and executioner. If Pornhub is doing something illegal, there's a process for dealing with that, full of judges, juries, and.... well... executioners. Until Por
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by shaftway 6y ago
That's unlikely, especially in Manhattan. Maybe the bill should be more targeted, but there are certainly areas of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx that would benefit from it, so targeting just Manhattan isn't a silver bullet. Don&#
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by shaftway 6y ago
Ehhhhhhhh. I certainly appreciate the officer that wasn't doing their job when I was doing 52 in a 50 zone yesterday. It's a tough job and there could be any number of factors that prevent them from issuing more citations. But in
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by shaftway 6y ago
New York City has significant problems with traffic and parking; a growing proportion of that traffic is delivery vehicles. These deliveries can be hugely disruptive to both vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Here's an NYT article from la
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by shaftway 6y ago
I think your second model isn't exactly accurate. I think it's more like: "take off as much as you like, but no more than you've earned; you earn 2 weeks each year and can't bank more than 5 weeks" It's
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by shaftway 6y ago
I've never been given a design doc to implement (though I prefer to code, so sometimes I wish I had). I've always been expected to do the research and figure out the design for myself. Sometimes I ask people to fill in parts of a
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by shaftway 6y ago
Oh yeah, the creative reallocation of school money is a problem. But this is the society we live in now; a significant part of the population believes that public schooling is a charity.
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by shaftway 6y ago
This doesn't feel new to me. I entered the industry in the mid-90's, so I have no reference from before that period. But I'll cherrypick a few items: > Microsoft is building VSCode for the cloud. Few people own desktop com
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by shaftway 6y ago
I'm in the interviewer pool at Google. Other FAANGs might be different. I've had candidates ask me why we do this, and my answer is that once you're in the company, transferring to another job on the same ladder is fairly tri
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by shaftway 6y ago
In most of the US lottery proceeds go to schools. Not sure about other areas. Of course, the fallacy here is that dollars in budgets are fungible, and when lotteries are established municipalities often redirect the same number of dollars a
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by shaftway 6y ago
I'm sure we could build an AI to predict whether it will using past attempts as training data.
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by shaftway 6y ago
I agree here. This isn't a case where someone took a similar picture. The pictures are identical except OPs is more cropped than the competitor. This is similar to a common practice in the art world where you photograph the borde
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by shaftway 6y ago
When the Snowden leaks came out it was a surprise to Google that the government had tapped the data center to data center connections, as these were private and not thought to be tapped. Eventually all traffic between data centers was encry
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by shaftway 6y ago
I spread it on steaks before searing them to give them a bacon-y outer layer.
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by shaftway 6y ago
That only means the conspiracy goes deeper.
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by shaftway 6y ago
Unrelated, but I can't help it. I assume "whalesalad" was a bad autocorrect that was meant to be "wholesale". But since most autocorrects learn from your past typing, I'm really curious what opportunity you had
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by shaftway 6y ago
Can I suggest you add "I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility" to your list? https://qntm.org/responsibility
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by shaftway 6y ago
Lutron used to make an amazing switch that worked with Hue. It was the Lutron Connected Bulb Remote. You hot-wire the switches behind the wall plate, and screw in a panel that sits right behind the rocker hole. The remote then slots into t
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by shaftway 6y ago
I'll admit it's not exactly a straightforward comparison. And it's on each of us to weigh the costs and likelihood of becoming ill versus big tech causing pain. I have my weighting, you have yours. On my scale, between their
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by shaftway 6y ago
And yet, here we are. https://www.marlerblog.com/legal-cases/a-little-cargill-hist...

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