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by sigstoat 6y ago
> They could probably infer that if I'm watching comedy ... I don't want to watch some guy's channel about bassists that they've tried to get me to watch 100 times prior. davie504 is basically a musically-themed comed
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by sigstoat 6y ago
...what have you guys been doing for the last 10 years?
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> I don't know where you live and how garbage disposal works where you live a dump truck with a giant mechanical arm grabs my trash can, picks up over the top of the truck, flipping it around in the process, and then shakes it viole
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by sigstoat 6y ago
when i interviewed at google a few years ago the guy told me they were starting to require everyone who’d taken the relevant training to interview candidates. unsurprisingly, he didn’t seem enthusiastic, couldn’t manage to say “yes” when i
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by sigstoat 6y ago
that was they author's point. some engineers would use it, if it existed.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> A short circuit is usually a wiring issue. A poorly manufactured USB cable can certainly cause a short circuit. yes. also extremely high quality cables which have been damaged in the field can develop a short. power supplies intended f
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> AFAIK, before the iphone all phones had a swappable battery. they also had wildly lower power demands.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> I fully agree that some manufacturers (cough Apple) are obsessed with thinness, but I strongly believe the main driver behind fixed batteries is planned obsolescence. i've worked with companies making the kinds of products you&#x2
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by sigstoat 6y ago
how is the on-disk data repaired once an error is found? if dm-integrity returns an error to mdraid, will mdraid rewrite the error'd blocks once it determines the correct value from a mirrored copy, or via parity?
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by sigstoat 6y ago
or gets paid by the community the officer harmed. :(
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by sigstoat 6y ago
at some point they’ll be autonomous, running off of IMUs and SLAM. there won’t be anything to jam.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
japan has, i understand it, a bunch of competing private railways.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
has anyone built something on top of twilio's video offering? it looks relatively straightforward, and seems to me like most tech companies (and some university IT departments) could pretty easily build internal conferencing stuff on t
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by sigstoat 6y ago
you can sudo sponge, and not run the entire command with elevated privileges. (i'd welcome a method of doing that in zsh.)
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by sigstoat 6y ago
even without the fractional shares mentioned by sibling comments, you can open a vanguard account and get a single share of VTI, which is currently $170 something. no other fees, or hidden weirdness or anything. or get some bond ETF that ha
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by sigstoat 6y ago
maybe some day after their search develops even the faintest idea of what programming language lexemes look like.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> I wonder if the climate control units in office buildings have even been switched off when not in use. even if they're on, there'll be much less for them to do. fewer people opening doors, fewer bodies producing heat, less no
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Talking about airborne transmission, though? The kind of masks that can protect against that are hard to come by. Not to mention that the virus could enter via the fluid of the eyes (not trying to add conspiracy here, just trying to ma
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by sigstoat 6y ago
i wish target and home depot would stop making us wait in line while they futz about wiping things down. it's been clear that time spent in line with other people is a bigger concern than the possibility that something is lingering on
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by sigstoat 6y ago
not much filming going on at the moment, i think? if hollywood is bleeding out, it probably won't notice being kicked in the teeth.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> To what degree will loss of hand sanitizer further the spread of Covid19? somewhere around not at all. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hy... https://www.theatlan
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by sigstoat 6y ago
the bogleheads wiki and forum is of course, a great resource, better than HN for this. > I can aim to max out 401k contributions, and then what? unless your 401k has extremely good expense ratios (<0.1%), i'd: put enough into the
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> But for a technical crowd, like HN... there's obviously a lot of folks here who aren't "technical", see endless stream of "how to find a technical cofounder"-esque posts. (and that's ok!) and even the
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> The actual physical activities the restaurant does, such as choosing a menu, cooking food, handing food to customer, playing low music, cannot be good or bad on some independent scale. at a minimum, the health department disagrees, re
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Stars are of the order of thousands of star-diameters apart from each other no. they're millions of star-diameters apart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radius compare it to a light year. note that the n
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> That, but for account management. account management seems different. the developer relations folks have more purple hair and technical skills. account managers are suits who come in at the start to sign the contract, and again later w
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> but it is being used as standard on other operating systems ...so even more people are looking at it? not sure what problem you think is happening here.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> jumping ship to a brand new one with less eyes and reputation That doesn't sound like an accurate description of LibreSSL, what with it being a part of OpenBSD.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
i don't see the words "correlated" or "decorrelated" in there, so they can't be addressing the fact that the risks on mars (however great!) are decorrelated from the risks of earth. which is the point. not that
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by sigstoat 6y ago
why wouldn't they just hire contractors who don't expect to ever be hired?

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