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by shaftway 5mo ago
Yeah, I switched to a bike too. Way better quality of life, and lane splitting is a godsend. In my area not allowing a bike to pass is actually a ticketable offense (though I've never actually heard of anyone getting a ticket for it).
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by shaftway 5mo ago
That fancy Lamborghini is going to be sitting in the same traffic as my Honda.
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by shaftway 5mo ago
Oh yeah, not a barrier, but for the volume they'd want to enable it's not a complete loss. Remember who uses GameStop. It's certainly not me, and it's probably not you. I'd guess that their core demographic is 14-25
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by shaftway 5mo ago
> Ebay commissions are not that high, 13.25% for most items. 13.25% isn't zero. > The barrier to listing [is] the amount of labor it takes to list and price everything GameStop has a surprising amount of technology around their p
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by shaftway 5mo ago
You're right that there's no real advantage to eBay buying a pawnshop conglomerate, but a pawnshop conglomerate buying eBay gets a massive advantage. They're already sitting on a mountain of used inventory, and at some point
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by shaftway 5mo ago
> Most of modern life in America is an elaborate series of choices to maximize the distance between yourself and Spirit airlines passengers So much this. I regret that I have but one upvote to give.
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by shaftway 6mo ago
What are you going to do 12 hours later when it's daytime again?
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by shaftway 6mo ago
The best concert experience I ever had was in the mid-90's. I went to a medium level band (frequent radio play at the time, but you probably wouldn't recognize the name now) at a smaller venue. But I guess nobody really promoted t
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by shaftway 6mo ago
This is the difference between a command (which is discarded after it's executed), and production code (which you probably want to keep around for a little bit). But I'm in the same boat. I love the expressiveness of chaining a wh
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by shaftway 7mo ago
In German that's called Wortbildungsfähigkeit, or in English, WordStructureCapability
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by shaftway 7mo ago
> The conflict is no longer an ephemeral part of the merge that only ever lives as markup in the source files and is stomped by the resolution that's picked, but instead a part of history. How is this different than having a merge c
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by shaftway 7mo ago
Delayed conflict resolution in jj is valuable when you're rebasing a long chain of commits. If I rebase a chain of 10 commits and each of the commits has a conflict, I'm stuck in conflict resolution mode until I fix all 10 conflic
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by shaftway 7mo ago
This is kind of how jj handles the situation. git won't let you move on from a rebase if there are conflicts. By comparison, jj will just put a marker in the log pointing out that there are conflicts in a branch. You resolve them whene
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by shaftway 7mo ago
Right, but if you clog up their pipeline with enough fake applicants, then they won't get any real ones. Same outcome.
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by shaftway 7mo ago
The solution to this seems pretty clear. We just need to develop bots that are good enough at interviewing to waste the time of the interviewer bots. They don't even have to be particularly good, just good enough to drive their token c
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by shaftway 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14347 > Among U.S. federal agencies, the order authorized the official use of the secondary title "Department of War" for the United States Department of Defen
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by shaftway 8mo ago
It should be good. It's the third time he's written this exact same announcement, including "taking the blame" and "making the difficult choice to cut a large group instead of smaller cuts over time" and "
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by shaftway 8mo ago
I've actually had really positive responses. I'm fairly senior (~20 years of experience). I was laid off by Meta in 2022, started at Block 3 months later. Laid off by Block in 2024, started at a smaller company 1 month later. Deci
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by shaftway 8mo ago
FSD automatically shuts off and relinquishes control to the user in an emergency. I bet the real number of FSD accidents is far far higher, but they're using this loophole to claim it's lower than it is. If you call them out on it
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by shaftway 8mo ago
I would have loved to see some discussion of mono- versus poly-repos and steps towards improving this situation. I prefer mono-repos personally, but they have the downside of being very busy and bulky because of that. Doing a partial clone
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by shaftway 8mo ago
I think the reality for any product that has >7,000 employees working on it is that some people's job is to prioritize growth at all costs, some people's job is to prioritize the effects of on vulnerable people, and the vast ma
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by shaftway 8mo ago
I feel like there are some key differences between the companies though. The second one outlined for Meta is: > Heavily-redacted undated internal document discussing “School Blasts” as a strategy for gaining more high school users (mass
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by shaftway 8mo ago
The glass of the window does not have a frame. You want the glass to go into a rubber seal to really prevent air from getting in and whistling at high speeds. If there's a frame around it, then no problem, the seals move with the glass
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by shaftway 9mo ago
People who remember Yotta and Juno. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse_Financial_Technologies
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by shaftway 9mo ago
I'm a fan of this too, I think it's a very clever design. But I also think it'd be pretty trivial to make in a six axis CNC. Maybe even a 4 axis if you're clever with your mounting.
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by shaftway 9mo ago
The algorithm for the checksum (the sixth digit) is subject to one of the most common human errors, swapping adjacent digits. The UPC checksum algorithm handles this without significantly more complexity. They have you multiply all of the n
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by shaftway 9mo ago
I'm a software engineer who does woodworking in my spare time. But I've never experienced that satisfaction. I've never made something that is perfect. Every time I look at something I've made all I can see are the flaws
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by shaftway 9mo ago
Given that hot tubs have been brought up twice in this thread, I'd pose that hot tubs at conferences might be their own Schelling points.
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by shaftway 9mo ago
I've seen people have success with a more legit version of the Circuit City scam. For the uninitiated / younger generations, Circuit City was the Best Buy of the early 2000's. In 2009 they went out of business and laid off ~6
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by shaftway 9mo ago
Maybe. I haven't really heard many of the people in my circles describing an experience like that ("opening up" to an LLM). I can't imagine * anyone* telling a general-purpose LLM about memories they cherish. Do people

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