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by trimbo 4y ago
I also used to work on email at scale (XXX million per day), and even then I encouraged everyone to click spam[1] for any email they did not expect to receive and do not want. My email address and phone notifications are a direct link to me
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I agree that measure of success is relative and like the principles you list, but your reply lands reinforcing the point of the tweet. Does 2 out of 9 successful startups mean your tenets listed here will lead to your level of success 22% o
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It's not like they were hammering on some obscure startup. The world's richest man promoted FSD at every opportunity for years and sold it to customers.
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> but the rate of overdoses from prescription opiates is, as i understand it, very low, because the dosage is predictable Over time, addicts do not get the same high from the same dose of opiates. They require higher dosages, until such
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by trimbo 4y ago
> for that matter, how many opiate overdose deaths would be avoided if you could buy pure, safe heroin of known concentration over the counter Since 2000, 75% of US opiate users started with prescription drugs[1]. So my guess is overdose
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> That said BA earned a hell of a black mark when it chose to divert to Heathrow rather than Stansted or even Gatwick when its engine was on fire After declaring an emergency, if they landed at Heathrow, that was at the pilot's disc
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Out of curiosity, can movies and shows use them? Do they censor it out if the movie is ever shown on broadcast TV? Naturally the example that came up when I searched is The Purge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns8t4Y9G4wU
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by trimbo 4y ago
Maybe the correct comparison for computing is ENIAC to Viking. We had a computer the size of a room and then sent one to Mars in just 31 years
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I appreciate memory safety, but feel memory safety is often discussed to a panacea-like degree, like in this article, that ignores the risks of rewriting to achieve it. From your example, the idea of porting existing C and C++ code in the k
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> People should be taxed for driving ICE They are. Heavily. In California, right now with gas at $3.59 (Costco), gas taxes are adding around 50% to the price of gas. ($1.15 of fixed fees, plus sales tax) > All the money from these t
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"2 Gs", in the US at least, means "two thousand" (G as in Grand)
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50 Years of BART – The Transbay Tube(youtube.com)
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Why wouldn't you use C++?
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What was illegal? Disney was selling character stuff for decades prior. Star Wars toys were licensed by Lucas before that movie came out[1]. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenner_Star_Wars_action_figure...
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by trimbo 4y ago
He took $1bn in a personal loan and execs in total took $4bn in loans. [1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/11/17/sam-bankma...
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Related: Feeding Cattle Seaweed Reduces Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions 82 Percent https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/feeding-cattle-seaweed-reduces...
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How much of that $500K is liquid?
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I think you meant 12 work weeks
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by trimbo 4y ago
That's 36 hours of normal use, with a 60 minute workout[1]. My Fenix 6 lasts 8 days of normal use and currently tells me it can record a 14 hour run even with only 42% battery. [1] - Details in footnote #1 on https://www.app
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> I think it’s simple enough to see why Nokia thought Windows would be the right choice. It was far more polished than Android at the time Everyone knew at the time Elop had made a terrible choice crafted to sell Nokia to Microsoft. Here
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No California water thread is complete without the Delta Smelt https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article256930082.html
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> 5. What is the current model for education based on? [...] Education is about checking a box on a list of requirements that was developed 150+ years ago. This is very well put. IMO nothing better illustrates how deep-rooted that model
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GE appliance repair guy told me not to give up my 2006-era washer/dryer when he was replacing the drain hose. Unfortunately I had to. A year later an LCD screen went bad and would cost $1K to fix. So I bought a new LG. The problem is t
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Have you ever successfully billed oncall hours as overtime when you weren't called?
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Related: Los Alamos' Roadrunner was based on the CELL as a co-processor, and was #1 in TOP500 in November 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner_(supercomputer)
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One of Plowshare's proponents was Edward Teller. Teller designed the bomb that was tested as Castle Bravo. Castle Bravo's yield was far above expected and was a fallout disaster that was known at the time[1]. Castle Bravo was in 1
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Last time I tried taking an Uber from SFO to SF, the quoted price was $150. Taxi downstairs was $40 and was waiting for me to get in. Didn’t smell like vomit. But if it did, I’d roll down the window and remember I’m saving $110 for a 20 min
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So many houses in my SF neighborhood are currently empty. They're single family homes so I'm not sure of the impact on the overall population, but it's been weird around here. - For sale and empty. - Full renovations. Guessin
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> Someone at Thoughtworks sold Dominion Energy on the idea that Thoughtworks... if things go well, they will get follow-on business and maybe even a whitepaper. ... > Market pressures don’t apply to internal teams Market forces are co
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> You're much more likely to get shot by a drunk angry husband anywhere in Wyoming than NYC. Let's look at violent crime statistics[1]. Wyoming is one of the safest states in the country. New York (as a state), has 50% more vio

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