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by tcbawo 5y ago
This reminds me of something that came up a while ago here, Lou Holtz's three questions asked of a leader: Can I trust you? Are you committed? Do you care about me?
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by tcbawo 5y ago
True. If the compute module interface manages to become popular and somewhat standardized, we might start to see an investment in modular keyboards and other parts. Having reuse between models is difficult when so many parts are similar b
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by tcbawo 5y ago
I imagine that a huge percentage of laptop failures come from physical damage to the screen, hinges, keyboard, or battery. It would be nice to be able to swap the body out and be able to reuse the existing core components
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by tcbawo 5y ago
I'm a huge fan of Dave Murray's. It's great to see that he'll be there demoing the Commander X16. He has a great way of making vintage technology accessible and relevant as a teaching tool. I've spent some time w
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by tcbawo 5y ago
Advice from billionaires is subject to survivorship bias. Luck and timing have a huge multiplier effect on one's personal wealth. So, personal wealth is not proportional to the quality of message. Most extremely wealthy people I ha
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by tcbawo 5y ago
The general mistreatment and neglect of whistleblowers makes me think such a policy is unlikely to work.
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by tcbawo 5y ago
Using variant as the storage type while providing a nice public accessor API makes sense given the huge difference in semantics between a struct containing optional fields and a variant.
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by tcbawo 5y ago
I'm neither a researcher or doctor, but I've seen numerous articles that describe this. Anecdotally, I've had multiple people (acquaintances and family) suffer from neurological effects. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.ni
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by tcbawo 5y ago
I haven't seen an evidence that supplements would prevent the majority of severe cases, or the neurological damage done (in even mild cases). Is this something backed up by data?
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by tcbawo 5y ago
I watched the Netflix movie adaptation "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" with my children. It's a very inspiring story, and in some ways humbling to see someone needing to fight every step of the way for education, a better l
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by tcbawo 5y ago
I can also imagine it being used to circumvent currency controls, especially in and around Asia.
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by tcbawo 5y ago
I have seen implementations of type erasure/delegates that store an instance pointer and pointer-to-member-function as an instance and pointer-to-member-function of a dummy type with the same calling convention. It's interesting
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by tcbawo 5y ago
> "Coding isn't hard, it's just typing!" Coding is thinking. He might be forgetting the thinking aspect of his own job.
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by tcbawo 5y ago
Bill Cosby's character was a gynecologist whose office was in his basement (!)
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by tcbawo 5y ago
In my experience, as an employee (with no real skin in the game), doing the unglamorous jobs rarely gets rewarded with anything but more unglamorous work. You have to fight for your career and be willing to switch roles or jobs when you re
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by tcbawo 5y ago
I remember Apple's joint product venture with Motorola, the Motorola ROKR, which worked with iTunes but was severely crippled in terms of capacity and transfer speed. Motorola seemed to spend a fortune on advertising. Apple played Mo
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by tcbawo 5y ago
The Fed is unlikely to intervene in the short term because they have acknowledged that undershooting their 2% average inflation target means they have to allow it to overshoot from time to time. We're still working out supply shortage
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by tcbawo 5y ago
I know someone in their early 40s experiencing dementia-type symptoms (consistent with frontotemporal dementia). It is early but is quickly getting worse. It's heartbreaking to see how this is affecting his spouse and children. So f
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by tcbawo 6y ago
In fact, now that the line can be blurred means we will need to put the matter up for lawyers, legislators, and judges to decide. What can go wrong there?
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by tcbawo 6y ago
We will never have an energy surplus, because cheap enough energy will be used for cryptocurrency mining. It's like when we thought that the industrial revolution/productivity boom would lead to a four hour work week.
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by tcbawo 6y ago
The business model of indirectly billing for a video game (through insurance) is fascinating. I hope it has merit and helps people, but I would be a little concerned that it could also be exploitative.
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by tcbawo 6y ago
I completely agree with this, but I additionally advocate for function/method names to be formed verb-object. Plus IMHO active, descriptive verbs are best, instead of 'do', 'handle', or 'manage'. As oth
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by tcbawo 6y ago
Money is stored wealth, the ability to buy goods and services in the future. The problem seems to be that we live in a time of societal upheaval. The future of stored wealth becomes cloudier and more uncertain the further you go out in ti
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by tcbawo 6y ago
This is tragic and profoundly disturbing. It highlights the importance of continued research in effective diagnostics, treatment, and prevention for children. Hopefully the advances we have made will continue to reduce the infant mortalit
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by tcbawo 6y ago
Empowering people in the same way that company towns did in the early 1900's USA
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by tcbawo 6y ago
I don't think it's that people in charge of big companies are not creative thinkers. I think their priorities are things other than employee satisfaction, or possibly even employee productivity. Both of those things are great, b
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by tcbawo 6y ago
Learning self regulation is probably developing a coping mechanism rather than solving the problem directly. These are probably good strategies to employ in addition to pharmaceutical options when necessary. From what I understand, US doc
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by tcbawo 6y ago
Not optimizing when creating a temporary variable is unfortunate. I sometimes create those for debugging purposes, give them a descriptive name, then leave it in for documentation purposes after the debugging is complete. Typically for me
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by tcbawo 6y ago
When the police came, what happened?
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by tcbawo 6y ago
It sounds like you're asking more about getting into practical paid side-jobs than getting basic skills and interest level. Things have kind of gone the other direction with parents willing to pay to someone else to teach their kids s

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