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by thethethethe 4y ago
You can change the device type in Google home to work around the scheduling issue
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> I feel like SF residents' aversion to new transit projects is unfortunate but totally reasonable SF residents don't have an aversion to funding transit and transit projects, see measure L that just passed with 2-1 support. &g
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Here in SF it feels like no one wants public transport to get to them I call BS on this. San Francisco residents just voted 2-1 to fund transportation more. See measure L in: https://sfelections.sfgov.org/measures The
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by thethethethe 4y ago
These numbers are misleading as many of these companies have an army of contractors that are not included in the official headcount numbers. Google, for example, has more contractors than full-time employees, bringing the total employee cou
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by thethethethe 4y ago
I just tried it and now it is 'gilimp.org' The site looks legit
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by thethethethe 4y ago
If I was working at Twitter right now I would be looking for a different job, regardless of what I think of Elon's politics/motives. The talk of layoffs and major policy changes creates massive uncertainty and I don't think I
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> How do you do full hard-reset and reboot on an entire culture? easy, hire management consultants
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> If you want the change, then propose an improvement. I don't need to have a solution to have valid criticisms of an existing system. I am just sharing my experience with testing, how it has affected my life, and why it didn't
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by thethethethe 4y ago
This doesn't align with my experience writing software and applying maths to engineering problems. I am working a lot with statistics in my current role but if you asked me to take a stats test, I would almost certainly fail without re
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Not sure why you are being flippant. I am trying to point out that the methods we use to "determine who is a genius and who is not" are deeply flawed and rudimentary, letting people fall through the cracks and preventing people wi
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Everything is time constrained Yeah but not to the same degree or in the same way. Having to sit in a room with no sources for an hour and shit out some test answers is not really same as having weeks to apply yourself with access to a
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Again, though, if creating new, better widgets requires calculus, student A may not have what it takes, but student B almost certainly can't do it. I'm not so sure about this. What if student A was just better suited to learn
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by thethethethe 4y ago
I know this isn't true because of my own experience. I've always been bad at math, I failed precalculus multiple times in both highschool and college, I never got past my first year of calculus in college, I wasn't able to pa
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Student A that passes a Calculus exam may be be more likely to know Calculus than student B that fails but so what? Passing a Calculus test doesn't necessarily predict if the student can apply their knowledge to production to generate
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by thethethethe 4y ago
I'm pretty sure these "never ending special events" are called pedestrian streets which have been studied and to my understanding and are quite productive commercial areas and are very pleasent to be in
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Hmm do you think that people who live in a city and pay taxes to maintain its infrastructure don’t deserve to have opinions on how said city spends tax dollars on transportation infrastructure. Seems a little entitled to me
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Dense cities. It's hard to see how EVs can work in denser cities where they theoretically could do the most good. No!!! Keep your cars out of my city! Personal EVs are not a solution for cities, they just perpetuate detrimental ca
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Because investment in the arts (I mean serious investment. Not like USA) has worked pretty well for some countries. Perhaps we should invest infrastructure, systems and institutions that give people more free time, flexibility, freedom
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by thethethethe 4y ago
I am sure that art is very hard work. I also happen to believe that art is extremely valuable to society. I enjoy art almost constantly throughout the day and it makes my life better. I just don't appreciate the sentiment that artists
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Seems a little entitled to me. Why should artists be able to spend their time doing exactly what they want while all the boring plebs have to pick vegetables/write CRUD apps? Sounds like someone is upset that more people dont find util
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Go to "Robot Settings", then "Status Lights" about halfway down the page
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by thethethethe 4y ago
I have mine dry mop to keep the dust down rather than wet mopping every day. It's much less work than wet mopping, I just need to change the pad once a week. It still takes a long time to mop and gets stuck more often than my i7 but it
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by thethethethe 4y ago
You can turn off the lights in the app. This was annoying me too. They added it as a feature recently. I think the idea is that you know your Roomba is docked correctly and charging if the light is flashing
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Is skylark (now called starlark btw) general purpose? Its my understanding that its largely used for configuring bazel.
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> It's it a good language? Unknown. I have personally written several thousand lines GCL (the generic version of BCL used at Google) and I can say that it can be pretty frustrating. The difficulty and complexity of defining configur
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by thethethethe 4y ago
The number of lines of BCL at Google says little-to-nothing about the efficacy of the language itself, it's more of a reflection of the complexity and scale of the _systems_ its used to configure.
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Also there should be a high correlation between kids being college-material and parents being college-material. Whether you believe in nature (genetics) or nurture (good parenting, high standards, role model, access to education, etc),
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> Converting half of the presidio of GG park to SROs and RV camping would drastically improve the stable housing options for homeless. uhh how about we start with ugly things like parking lots and urban freeways rather than destroying th
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by thethethethe 4y ago
> For whatever reason, Google decided to tell people that the same person who's building the klaxon and the concrete wall and the pipes for the power plant, and the person who's operating the power plant, are one in the same. B
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by thethethethe 4y ago
Yeah well maybe those pesky pedestrians should stop being poor and buy a car. Problem solved

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