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by tcbawo 3y ago
An interesting comparison might be veterinary care, which has also been increasing for quite some time. The typical insurance model for veterinary care is quite different than human healthcare insurance. However, one aspect in common is a
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Why not? There are people out there that manufacture their own ammunition. This wouldn’t surprise me at all.
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Investors in the dot com bubble looked at a straight line and thought it would extend forever. Now investors are looking at an exponential line, expecting it to extend forever. It probably won’t and some will be disappointed. Ultimately,
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What you are describing sounds more like a problem with leadership to empower ICs and groups to make improvements, or possibly a culture of dumping code, declaring victory, and moving on. If new hires are bailing in their first week, the p
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by tcbawo 3y ago
This has probably been asked dozens of times, but honest question: how much of a technological dead end is the X11 architecture? Perhaps this ship has sailed, but what were the impediments to modernization? Lack of developer interest? La
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In the grocery story the other day, I noticed Kit Kat cereal on the shelf. Who would buy that and consider it an even remotely nutritious meal, I don’t know.
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Casinos — more than anyone — understand the cost for disrupting their revenue streams. There is also the possibility of damaging future revenue streams if they take much of a reputational hit. They have all probably anticipated such an ev
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I hope this will be useful in treating food allergies. It also seems to be potentially scary to be attempting inverse vaccines while our understanding of the mechanics of immunity are so limited.
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HP laser printers are not on the subscription model? I sought out a Brother laser printer specifically due to several bad experiences with lockout on HP printers.
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While watching that video, my first thought was about safeguards. Will it stop if obstructed? How often has someone gotten injured or killed by such a device?
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by tcbawo 3y ago
> I started programming as a kid, and always knew I wouldn't like it make it in the industry. What made you think that? It sounds like you might have some self esteem issues that should be addressed. Not all tech work is glamorous,
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This doesn’t seem terrible if the business benefits justify the costs. There is a cost/benefit to this, presumably.
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You’ll never know unless you try. Stay focused on accomplishing business objectives rather than technical details or purity. Design pieces of the system to be replaced. If you’re building a business, the technology is a means to an end.
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C++ has ternary expressions as well. The author was proposing a change to if/else as a more readable alternative to the ternary symbols. IMO using something like: x = “x” unless(true) “y” Wouldn’t follow the usual left to right order
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I always liked C#’s null coalescing operator ?? ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref... ). Rather than changing if/else fundamentally, I would prefer something along the lines of
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I had never considered sunk cost fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost on the long term time horizon of my career. In multiple cases, I stayed on longer than I should have. Early in my career I suffered f
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I worked in telecom for a number of years. After years of outsourcing and cost cutting, I left and took a job at a company that might be considered fintech now. This coincided with the early days of electronic trading. This led to a soft
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* This might sound trite, but you will make the most money when your company has lots of money. If your company is struggling or its industry is going through a cyclical slowdown, you will typically make less than at a flush firm or i
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I’m not a financial planner, but you might want to seek one out. There are fee-based ones that will give you advice and help you plan for near term financial goals in addition to retirement. Make sure you find a licensed CFA, who has a fi
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Do you have any links to what you’re referring to? From what I dug up, early results had not shown effectiveness with reversing atherosclerosis.
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I saw the term Resume Driven Development on here once, and I’ve been using it ever since. I like this term a lot, also.
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I hope somebody makes a game of Trivial Pursuit with generated questions sourced from Wikipedia.
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What I would really like is to group Legos back into their sets. Or to recognize the particular sets that are contained in the jumble. I was hoping more advances had been made in recent years.
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Have there been any enhancements to AI-based Lego sorters? Like many people, I’ve got bins full of mixed sets of Legos. A world where you can recognize pieces from a set and divide them up would be amazing!
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It seems that P(returning a bought mattress) is more than 10%, so it probably makes sense to continue advertising to those people. Also, there are probably people who buy multiple mattresses (eg. parents), that might buy a second mattress
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I suspect that the momentum behind the project is having a group of core developers (Kling foremost) that have complete knowledge of all the moving parts. This allows a small team to make changes quickly while keeping the whole cohesive an
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The WSJ Opinion pages generally consist of articles written by The Editorial Board and also those submitted by guest contributors. It would be hard to argue that opinion pieces written by external authors and published by the WSJ have any
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IMHO, the printf-style API is superior to the stream based API, because it can be adapted into a logging API that defers string formatting or delegates it to another thread. Overloading by type can be accomplished with printf-style API as
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by tcbawo 3y ago
Needing to extract money to live from hobbies that don’t pay is stressful and awful. If your hobby does that easily, good on you. Having agency — money to live and freedom/time to indulge in hobbies is the ideal.
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by tcbawo 3y ago
I’m curious what the estimate for rodent population is. In the largest city near me, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were multiple large rats per human being.

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