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by smugma 5y ago
Most interesting thing to me is that the Midnight screws (Part 923-05081) cost 27% more than the other colored screws ($0.19 vs. $0.15). If they were Product(RED) screws, it would have made more sense.
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by smugma 5y ago
While I agree that the proposals are bad, I don't blame "committees full of government employees". One of the lead proponents/authors is distinguished Stanford Professor Jo Boaler. It's interesting that a lot of the
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by smugma 5y ago
Sure. This was a late 30’s white woman being biased against a late 30’s white woman. It didn’t feel intentional.
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by smugma 5y ago
I'd say the many/most have been with the company 10+ years (low attrition!). New hires are generally younger, but new hires that are more senior (IC or Manager) are generally older. That's not surprising, is it?
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by smugma 5y ago
From what I've gathered the few times I've been to Seattle, it isn't so much racially segregated as predominantly white. A Black friend of mine moved there to work for Amazon and hated Seattle. Eventually he got the ability t
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by smugma 5y ago
BC (Before COVID), I was having trouble finding a qualified person for a role on my team (Operations, not Engineering). I was getting a lot of candidates apply that looked the same on paper but weren't good fits (they claimed to be tec
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by smugma 5y ago
I'm in my 40's have been with the same company (FAANG) for over a decade. I'd say a majority of the management (including engineering) is in their mid-30's to 50's. It looks like the entirety of the senior managemen
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by smugma 5y ago
Why doubt the claim? It is initially counter intuitive but actually makes sense if you think about it. In any case, it’s not just a story, it is described in this paper: https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gnee
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by smugma 5y ago
$1/min = paying for the privilege My kids’ old preschool must have read Freakonomics and instead charged $5/min. My wife once fell asleep and was charged $90 for being 18 min late (I got a call at 6). At least it wasn’t $5/mi
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by smugma 5y ago
One valid use case for this is for the software to detect when you're speaking while on mute and notify you that "you're on mute". Maybe I dreamed it up, but I thought I've seen this before (WebEx?). I could imagine
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by smugma 5y ago
Matt Levine on point: Twitter’s relatively new chief executive officer, Parag Agrawal: Welcome, Mr. Musk. We’re so glad that you are our biggest shareholder. We have prepared a presentation showing how we are executing on our strategy of be
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by smugma 5y ago
There’s a big difference between calling it out in person and over the Internet. You were rightly calling out the person’s language as unacceptable. Maybe the hope was to change their behavior (unlikely, at least in the short term) or at le
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by smugma 5y ago
You can export multiple notes at once (PDF or HTML) on macOS.
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by smugma 5y ago
I used Evernote 5-6 years ago. It was a decent product but somehow I lost a note once. I deleted the app and never tried it again. A few months later my wife went through the same experience. I now use the iOS Notes app. It’s good enough, i
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by smugma 5y ago
It's news that MIT is doing it, but there is precedent for this in the US. The University of California system (includes Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSC, which had a wildcat strike during COVID) unionized nearly 40 years ago, and have had man
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by smugma 5y ago
When markets are rising so rapidly, there are very few people who might lose money on a sale. There’s a lot of fat in the process, but it’s not particularly relevant when prices are going up double digits each year.
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by smugma 5y ago
Less true in music. For example, iTunes Match is still a thing, even though it’s (mostly) obsolete if you have Apple Music.
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by smugma 5y ago
Today I said “beautiful day out” to some guy who looked maybe homeless. He immediately offered me a beer, which was nice, but I declined as I had 4 kids to watch at the beach. It turned out we went to the same college (Berkeley) and he grad
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by smugma 5y ago
Claiming someone got promoted after they left the company doesn’t really make sense. Just thinking about HR systems, I don’t believe the claim. I do know someone who was promoted while on maternity leave (@FANG). She absolutely deserved the
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by smugma 5y ago
It shouldn’t. If you have 10 Years experience and take a year off to birth and raise a child, you should be able to come back and be paid similarly to a man or woman who has 10 years of experience and not be penalized 2-3 years of experienc
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by smugma 5y ago
Jony Ive would talk about the fragility of ideas. I didn’t realize that Wardle started the idea for Wordle years ago, and let it sit and stew for a few years and came back to it and refined it further. However, the most interesting new thin
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Wordle creator describes game’s rise, says NYT sale was “a way to walk away”(arstechnica.com)
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I passed up an opportunity to live abroad before we had kids. It was complicated but I wish I pushed for it. Absent that, I wish I traveled more before I had young children (and before there was a pandemic).
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Weren’t Mike Clancy (I think he only had a bachelors) and Brian Harvey (I think he got a PhD but maybe in education) around when you were there? I took both their classes and I thought Clancy was there in the 70’s and Harvey maybe 80’s?
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My roommate freshman year at Cal was on the football team (and later went to play in the NFL). He took a physics “for poets” class by a great professor (George Smoot) and he’d talk about how awesome it was. A couple of years later I had a d
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by smugma 5y ago
I generally agree with the other Ryan’s feedback. I’ve been very lucky/fortunate/successful, so it’s hard to call it a pay cut, but giving up FANG RSU’s 15 years ago hurt, and in general engineers make more than non-engineers. It
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by smugma 5y ago
I was a SWE at a FANG. Left to get an MBA, then went back to FANG to do other things. Finance, Operations, Product. My role now still has me involved in solving problems, and I will still review technical architecture (eg why are you propos
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by smugma 5y ago
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU's, aka in-law units, granny units, or garden apartments) are popular, both from legalizing historical unpermitted units as well as new developments. This often happens by taking out part of a garage or unf
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What's more feasible is that CA HCD (Housing and Community Development) rejects SF's plan as not consistent with state law, as they recently did to LA[0] (even though LA's plan was really pro-housing overall, there were some
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by smugma 5y ago
A friend’s mom makes us pho about once a year. Definitely not just hot water. It takes hours of prep to make the broth. Easy for a restaurant to make in a bat, and relatively low calorie and fat, but it’s denigrating to call it hot water (A

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