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by tristor 3y ago
> It's interesting to speculate on why, if Scrum is so bad, everyone uses it? Scrum is bad (as implemented by bigcorp), but waterfall is worse (as implemented by bigcorp). A simple example from my past. My team was scrum based in a
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by tristor 3y ago
For anyone taking this as inspiration, I would recommend spending good money on a comfortable ergonomic chair and a decent headphone setup instead. 95% as good as an S-tier speaker and room setup, for about 0.005% of the price, and you can
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by tristor 3y ago
IQ is scored on an SD15 or SD16 scale, not an SD10 scale. On a more typical SD15 scale an IQ of 163 is 1 in 74883 people, or around 4500 people in the US. It’s lower than my IQ, and I’ve by happenstance met people with the exact same IQ w
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by tristor 3y ago
Those seem like very reasonable recommendations. Thanks for sharing that. I have never read a Tesla owner’s manual, so I was replying to what was shared previously.
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by tristor 3y ago
Like anything in safety critical engineering there are margins of safety. Seal failures in the top end of the brake system can cause water ingress without immediate impact on the braking system but will eventually cause hard lines to rust
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by tristor 3y ago
Brake fluid is not flushed due to heat cycling, that is what bleed maintenance is for. Flushing every 2 years is because brake fluid is hygroscopic (absorbs water), and even brake systems are not perfectly sealed. Water in the fluid reduce
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by tristor 3y ago
You’re just straight out incorrect. The HUD doesn’t obscure vision, and if adjusted correctly for position allows you to keep your eyes closer to the horizon while maintaining awareness of important information. It’s the best thing about m
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by tristor 3y ago
I'm not sure what your point is? Every country on Earth historically has treated their indigenous peoples badly. Most still do. I'm not trying to boil the ocean or solve racism (assuming it's even solvable) here, I'm
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by tristor 3y ago
I don’t think it’s unique to the US, but it’s unique to the US among wealthy well functioning democracies. Most of the other countries where police abuse is rampant are poorer deeply corrupt countries, India is a great example in fact. Ind
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by tristor 3y ago
The police don’t behave this way in most other wealthy countries. For reasons that aren’t relevant context, I have had encounters with the police multiple times in the US and in numerous countries abroad and the difference in behavior is s
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by tristor 3y ago
Sounds like more evidence the police are an officially endorsed criminal gang. That seems like the source of the problem, and not solving that is just a bandaid.
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by tristor 3y ago
I live in a much cheaper area than the SFBA (Denver), and anything decent starts at $1.2M, if you find a house here for $600K, it’s what’s considered “bulldoze ready”, empty lots with sewer, water, power already connected go for $550K+. If
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by tristor 3y ago
> How often do you have a Product Manager who is an expert in regulatory/compliance laws and has contacts with government agencies? > Usually the Product Manager is Josh, who just finished uni, and a two weeks product manager cou
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by tristor 3y ago
At $300k/pa with $5000/mo in rent, it’s pretty obvious I am talking about SFBA and NYC, which unsurprisingly have the highest density of people earning $300k/pa. In those areas you need to spend at least $2.5M to buy anythin
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by tristor 3y ago
> The economy is doing stellar for the upper classes which account for maybe 10 to 15% of the population. Part of the problem is that the US isn’t one “the economy”, it’s localized, primarily due to housing markets. There is no way that
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by tristor 3y ago
I am anti-union, but not because of any indoctrination, but because when I was younger I worked in union shops before I got my first tech job and I saw how corrupt the union was, it was a complete racket, and it encouraged people to do medi
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by tristor 3y ago
> The Nordic model begs to differ. Can you expand on that? Because as an outside observer it seems that the Nordic model is primarily propped up by public-owned natural resource extraction enabling near-endless funding for universally a
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by tristor 3y ago
The thing about fast fashion that upsets me the most is that it’s driving the market. It’s very very difficult to find high quality clothing that is ethically made, because so much of the market and money have gone to fast fashion. Teemu
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by tristor 3y ago
> If these banks and other institutions actually did write fat paychecks to young mainframe programmers the demographic problem they're facing might not be so bad. When I first started work I was involved in banking/insurance m
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by tristor 3y ago
If I wanted to be snarky I would have said Whole Foods, but Walmart is universal in the US.
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by tristor 3y ago
The behavior here is largely because the investors and the founders don’t come from an agricultural background, they’re born and bred urbanites who think they’re inherently superior to the rubes in the flyover states, rather than realizing
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by tristor 3y ago
> “There’s a 5-year-old child here,” Mirabelli said. “Imagine how a child feels when your father says he feels emotionally damaged by your birth.” Classic. Blame the father, even though his sperm was used non-consensually and the mother
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by tristor 3y ago
I have Comcast, and this is exactly why I have the highest tier of service, so I can guarantee that most of the time my video calls are fine, since I am permanent WFH.
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by tristor 3y ago
Technically speaking, wired connections use physical RF bandwidth on the wire, rated in MHz/GHz to specify channel width, and bond these channels together (usually some variation of QAM) to provide you the ability to serve a particular
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by tristor 3y ago
The thing that annoys me about the FCC, besides that they are generally impotent here or at least unwilling to actually do their job, is that the focus is always on speed as structured by maximum throughput for the link. I pay for a gigabi
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by tristor 3y ago
For those that don't want to read too much on this blog to find answers, the simple answer is nothing beats a quality mechanical drafting pencil if you're using it for writing and not for art. The Rotring 600, the Pentel Graphgea
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by tristor 3y ago
> makes use of the high-quality hardware clocks available in EC2 So are you using vector clocks in the backend to handle transaction ordering and maintain consensus?
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by tristor 3y ago
It's literally the only claim they made. There were no alternatives, so of course it's perceived and implied to be the strongest claim. They said what they said, trying to weasel out of it doesn't make the case.
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by tristor 3y ago
They did not explicitly say it, it was definitely implied, since their entire comment was to claim that is was misogyny and sexism that were the motivations for commenters questioning these board members qualifications. I invite folks to a
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by tristor 3y ago
I suggest you reread your comment then. You claimed the only reason people questioned their qualifications was sexism.

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