trapperkeeper74

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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Relentlessly resourceful. It's a false dichotomy though to say mindset is the only thing that's important, it's the most important but not a panacea. Also, it's going to suck if there's a massive/gradual increa
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Let's assume there are some people whom have many years of hiring people effectively. Whom among them is going to trust a computer at this point in time? Also, what potential candidate is not going to be immediately insulted or lose r
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As a consultant, I've seen these sorts of environments over and over... either as dying companies or companies struggling to compete at risk of dying. Any sort of business that isn't defensible, high necessity, timeless, cost-cont
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Forests aren't always a panacea. Sure, rainforests mutually support others in similar tropic and subtropical bands with rainfall patterns, but in the melting tundra forests of Russia, there is an effort to deforest permafrost to keep i
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Having worked in the nuclear industry and watched the show, it's clear mob NIMBYs, politics and govt mismanagement have made us less safe than a central, well-managed nuclear waste facility (either for-profit, PPP or govt not run by cu
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
There were <5s kernel compiles in 2002. By contrast, a quad socket Xeon Platinum 8180M ($13k MSRP each) system costing $60k with ridiculous SSDs can do it faster than you can blink. That's how far retail technology still has to go t
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Touchbar is definitely a no-go, requires looking down and breaks flow.
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There's less affordances for touch-typing based on the shape of keys like Lenovo or older keyboards for boundaries of keys... it just makes typing harder unnecessarily to shave a few millimeters.
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Keywords "Looking at." I'll take that as a datapoint.
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Numbers today are all well and good, but goodwill and rate-of-change indicate future trends. People will tire of $3000 laptops with nonfunctional WiFi and Apple Authorized Service Centers voiding their AppleCare warranties.
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That's probably so however Siberia is contributing much more. The whole of subarctic tundra is at risk for rapid melting and co2 and methane release as trapped ancient organic material decays. There are also other major, imminent issue
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When companies focus on just one thing in a vertical, they're incredibly vulnerable. Samsung does lots of things fairly well, with some hiccups, well beyond just personal electronics and home appliances. It's diversification. EDIT
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Exactly. Penny-wise and pound-wise. Too often, it's pound-foolish.
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Interruptions and distractions are productivity genocide. Another subtle problem with open/unassigned layout is wasting time tracking people down.
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I have a friend who's 7'4". Makes my measly 6'5" seem normal.
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I'm taller and the same width. I won't do aisle seats because jag-offs boarding and deplaning will rub my shoulder raw.
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Without eliciting comment from Assange, this article comes across as an one-sided, thinly-veiled hit-piece.
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Open ASIC IP cores and firmwares are a must-have. Without independently-verifiable silicon, there's no telling was is or isn't there.
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Biosynthesis . Ah. Here's a sythensis from 2003: Concise Large-Scale Synthesis of Psilocin and Psilocybin, Principal Hallucinogenic Constituents of “Magic Mushroom” http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/
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The secret Apple project for potentially blood glucose monitoring would be amazing. Non-interstitial fluid / noninvasive sounds like a really hard problem that may require a very bright light source and/or a sensor more sensitive