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by trentnix 2y ago
We?
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by trentnix 3y ago
Now add vertical adjustment to the spinner so I can play Discos of Tron!
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by trentnix 3y ago
Government can do what it wants, and at a perpetual loss. At least the private company has to make ends meet.
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by trentnix 3y ago
New Outlook was so messy to use with GMail (what my employer uses) that I’ve switched to Thunderbird. I can’t say Thunderbird is really all that great, but it’s better (and behaves more predictably) than new Outlook. Generally, desktop emai
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by trentnix 3y ago
That was my thought as well. Additionally, they’ve formalized activities that happens organically in most teams and seem convinced they’ve done something novel.
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by trentnix 3y ago
More than a couple of folks in the startup I work in are using your product. Kudos!
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by trentnix 3y ago
+1 I thought Shop Class as Soulcraft was excellent and found the author's theories on the lack of job and life satisfaction among those doing "knowledge work" compelling. It reminded me of the movie Margin Call when Kevin
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by trentnix 3y ago
Young philosopher: “master, how do I know that I exist?” Master: “whom, may I ask, is asking?”
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by trentnix 3y ago
> Leaving AI to a handful of companies is in my opinion the fastest route for inequality and power concentration/centralisation Well yes, that’s precisely why they are lobbying for it.
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by trentnix 3y ago
They gotta get people back in those vacant, downtown offices somehow. If California can eliminate the savings that remote work brings for an employer, then maybe employers will choose to fill up those offices they are leasing. But instead,
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by trentnix 3y ago
- Rim brakes are cheaper. The price of carbon-frame road bikes has dramatically increased because of disc brakes and inflation. - rim brakes are easier to maintain. Disc brake DIY maintenance required equipment and expertise beyond most rid
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by trentnix 3y ago
Carbon rims (prior to 2016 or so) were notorious for offering a poor braking experience and you ran the risk of overheating the brake surface on big descents and potentially delaminating the carbon rim. Better wheels and pads were manufactu
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by trentnix 3y ago
I loathe posts like this one. I see them a lot on LinkedIn. Where each sentence is its own paragraph. Or maybe two sentences, where the first is normal but the second? It's succinct. It's the textual equivalent of an Instagram fil
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by trentnix 3y ago
LOVED Lemonade Stand. It was Economics 101 for a second grader.
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I took a job at a small-town consulting firm writing C++ and Java near where I grew up (I had worked for them a couple of summers in college). It turned out to be an outstanding first post-college job. I learned a lot, was challenged, and
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by trentnix 3y ago
Enron... sigh . I went to college near Houston (Texas A&M) and interviewed with Enron in early-mid November, 2001 prior to December graduation. Given the timing, I believe it may have been the very last interview loop they did. For a so
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by trentnix 3y ago
That they uniformly laid off similar percentages of employees last fall (despite the fact the stock market has rebounded) should have confirmed your suspicions nearly a year ago. They seem to largely be lemmings, calling plays out of the sa
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by trentnix 3y ago
I felt unfulfilled back in 2009/2010, thought I was burned out, and left tech for a 9-year period (2011-2019) to own and operate a retail sporting goods business (bikes, running shoes, and swim gear). Now THAT was a grind. After I came
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by trentnix 3y ago
I find as I’ve gotten older I’m no less enthusiastic about new technology. But I’m much more reticent to assign any intrinsic worth to “new”. Young me would have assumed “new” meant “better”. Now I’m absolutely certain that is not the case.
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by trentnix 3y ago
Ah yes, starting from a clean slate. https://devrant.com/rants/816880/i-ve-done-it-again
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by trentnix 3y ago
Trust only answers from domain experts. And how does one discern who the domain experts are?
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I feel better though!
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by trentnix 3y ago
I’m working order? Maybe as much as 10-12k. The emergence of barcodes has inflated the price of games like this. A DoT environmental is widely considered an arcade grail and is rare. It’s extremely sought after and the logistics of the size
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by trentnix 3y ago
I’ve been following Tim Lapentino for many years and immensely enjoy his Art of Atari book and love for all things retro nerdity. I’d be really disappointed if this was faked. But I admit, it is astonishingly remarkable that the guy who cur
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by trentnix 3y ago
I can confirm. We had all of that at the small, rural Texas school I attended. My class of 17 produced two successful computer scientists, a college professor, and a Navy nuclear engineer, each of whom all went through that very curriculum.
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by trentnix 3y ago
As I recently read, scientists speak to the press when they are either trying to raise money or are obligated to do so by those who who have given them money. And the press is just excited to have something to print.
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by trentnix 3y ago
> I have similar issues with the agile methodology and its 2-week “sprints”. Why are we sprinting… ALL. THE. TIME. Can’t we at least mix in some brisk walks every now and then a la high intensity interval training? Following the fitnes
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by trentnix 3y ago
I've heard it also said "strong opinions, weakly held". Unlike "mental liquidity", it doesn't require explanation.
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A company I worked for a few years ago sold a source code license and I was tasked with sharing the source, sans history and only at a specific point in time, to the purchaser’s GitHub organization . I was told it had to be done as quickly
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I’ve struggled with focus and consistency over the years and always made up for it by simply working more. But eventually that doesn’t scale, I’d get burned out, or both. I wish that great fits of productivity was just a byproduct of waking

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