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by twelve40 2y ago
> put out a job posting with no intention of hiring i've seen (and worked for) many startups that post reqs prominently to signal to the world (investors, customers, etc) that "things are going great" and "we're
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by twelve40 2y ago
speaking for myself, i fly every other week, sometimes i don't care for food, other times i could be hungover or hungry flying into or out of a full workday and meetings. Realizing that a nice hot meal or two are sometimes pretty amazi
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by twelve40 2y ago
French Bee nonstop $265 one way, SAS with one stop $219 for next couple of weeks i checked
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by twelve40 2y ago
> steak and cheese roller from 7-11 I don't think i've ever seen one where i live (san jose), just some sad-looking hot dogs. I think there is just a ton fewer choices in 7-11s here compared to Japan. And mostly really garbage
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by twelve40 2y ago
I find this and the emacs sentiment really weird. I use vim daily for quick edits, but for any sizeable codebase, especially new/unfamiliar, IDE's are just better. It's like depriving yourself of a bunch of tools and helpers
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by twelve40 2y ago
It very much is, compared to other countries. In Europe and other places they might feed you two full meals in economy the time it takes SFO to NY. Here, you get puke-inducing "pretzels" and half a plastic cup of water. In that re
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by twelve40 2y ago
anecdotally, that's not what i recently experienced. I used to envy cheap cross-Europe flights, but somehow nowadays I can fly from SF direct to Paris for $250 or Cancun direct for $150 (cheaper than roundtrip Uber to SFO)... local Eur
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by twelve40 2y ago
what a sad day for affordable travel in this country! my favorite trashy airline, so many memories. But then again, if it became Jet Blue, then it would also cease to be Spirit, right?
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by twelve40 2y ago
> As of August 2024, Waymo's fleet is under 1,000 vehicles > Los Angeles County there are 7.67M registered automobiles and trucks what are you even talking about
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by twelve40 2y ago
> The reality is, most of the time when you “ship” your software, executive management neither notices nor cares your reality might be different than mine, but things that got shipped definitely get noticed because they are used as a bar
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by twelve40 2y ago
yet it's almost the norm these days. Sick of hearing Steve Jobs invented smartphones when I personally was using a device with web and streaming music years before that.
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by twelve40 2y ago
Wow that's a cool side business. > spent on things they don't need Do you actually find people who pay you to teach them to stop buying crap? Like, when I get a Doordash I already know it's a waste of money that instead co
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by twelve40 2y ago
Always wondered what happens to housing in countries that rapidly depopulate. Like, Latvia losing 1/3 of its population, or Japan losing 4 million in 10 years. So they now have much fewer people for the same housing supply? Does it all
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by twelve40 2y ago
> severing that connection would still absolutely destroy our economy and quality of life Probably, who knows. I'm just making an observation. Maybe after being useful to help win the Cold War they are now considered by the powers t
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by twelve40 2y ago
> back-channels ensure they aren't forced into a position That's a great observation. Except in this case this back-channel is kind of glaringly public and possibly illegal?
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by twelve40 2y ago
Back when? China, despite being a "commie state" (still is btw) split up with USSR by 1969 then struck a deal with Nixon to partner up with the US to become a manufacturing hub for the States.
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by twelve40 2y ago
They are not our largest trade partner. Both of the last two administrations were driving pretty hard to distance from PRC. Given that, animosity from normal folk or lack thereof seems kind of vague/irrelevant?
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by twelve40 2y ago
tru but at least they can stifle it and make it very expensive by shutting down as many channels as possible. The law, even when it's as stupid as banning encryption algorithm exports in the 90's, must be obeyed, but I think ultim
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by twelve40 2y ago
um... try reading the tweet maybe? it's adding massive new details about a different country altogether
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by twelve40 2y ago
This is a very convenient global scapegoat for those responsible for mismanaging the forests here and now. Nobody is disputing these studies. But then Newsom comes out and instead if saying "it's my fault for underinvesting in fir
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by twelve40 2y ago
A bunch of very different things conflated from perf reviews to tools for counting commits (i guess?). Tools: sure, some metrics are either misleading or gameable to the point of being useless. But you'd imagine some tools might be act
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by twelve40 2y ago
I don't even know how I would react if i was caught off-guard with a stupid question like that out of the blue with everyone watching. On a good day, I would probably laugh it off and say something obviously idiotic like "my vulne
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by twelve40 2y ago
Still, you'd rather save your push back privileges - which come with a cost - for something actually important and work-related. Not for random crap like that, being put on the spot randomly in a personal way.
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by twelve40 2y ago
> so much infra construction in Korea and Japan, but the prices are reasonable Just watched a Bloomberg short about SK where they complain that they are overworked, over-stressed, hypercompetitive, depressed as a people, giving up on sta
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by twelve40 2y ago
> One person controlling a bricklaying robot can get paid a respectable wage while keeping costs down. what happens to all other persons? For example, there are 3.5 million truck drivers in US, whose only skill, with all due respect, is
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by twelve40 2y ago
maybe that's why it was impressive/memorable?
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by twelve40 2y ago
The companies could have done that for the last 20 years at least, but didn't. Why? Layoffs aside (70k at Facebook is obscene), instead of India we now get RTO mandates.
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by twelve40 2y ago
The Maya suffered for sure, but they survived in numbers that exceed all of native American population in the US, for example, and kept their language. Others had it much worse.
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by twelve40 2y ago
...or a $5 wrench
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by twelve40 2y ago
thanks for the links, always great to a see a well-referenced reply

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