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by willio58 10mo ago
Whitewashing isn’t limited to the context you think it is: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whitewash
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by willio58 10mo ago
I’ve worked in an org where our CEO had the same sentiment. He preferred the term “work life satisfaction” . Worst thing was, if you really prodded him on it it became clear the definition was basically the same. He just didn’t like the ne
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by willio58 10mo ago
Key fob-based has worked great for me in a variety of living configurations (apartments, single homes) in the past 7 years with my 2017 civic. It can connect surprisingly far distances, and it doesn’t need a direct line of site or anything
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by willio58 10mo ago
I’ve never heard of remote start being used as a way to idle your car while doing other stuff. It’s most commonly used to defrost a car in the winter without having to get into it and sit in the freezing car while you’re not moving anyway.
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by willio58 10mo ago
Most people in my area don’t have garages and we get well below freezing in the winter. Yes we use it for defrosting and getting the car a little warmed up prior to driving to work in the morning.
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by willio58 10mo ago
In the age of push-to-start cars, yeah it does feel basic to me. If I can unlock my car with my key fob, why can’t I send a signal to start it? My 2017 Honda civic has it without a subscription so I was pretty shocked to learn that Subaru d
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by willio58 10mo ago
My partner recently bought a newer Subaru. It’s great, and when we looked it up we saw it had remote start. Turns out it’s behind a subscription. When I found that out I essentially wrote off Subaru as a brand for my future car purchases. C
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by willio58 11mo ago
Add in the fact that insurance companies are legally allowed to (and would be stupid to not) heavily lobby the politicians that decide how much money they can make. They are allowed to donate essentially an unlimited amount of money to the
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by willio58 11mo ago
I like how a couple of these basically show the model is confused between pinto beans and baked beans.
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by willio58 11mo ago
I view dark mode as basically an accessibility tool. Provide the option of light/dark mode to your users so they can choose what works best for them. I prefer dark mode for most things, but what I’ve actually found is that I just don’t
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by willio58 11mo ago
Yeah it was a little odd how I had to connect things, like I definitely would have preferred a simple Bluetooth connection so I could just play truly whatever is on my phone.
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by willio58 11mo ago
I don’t live in SF, or any place with Waymo. So I really just hadn’t downloaded the app yet
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by willio58 11mo ago
I didn’t think I’d be so pro Waymo but anecdotally I had a fantastic experience with one recently. I was at a music show very late ~1-2am in SF and walked out to grab an uber to the airbnb I was staying at. I kept getting assigned an uber,
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by willio58 11mo ago
This would be amazing, though I realize it's not straightforward and not easy to do. I have so many accounts across different companies that this connection piece is basically a requirement for me to use your app on a regular basis. I&
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by willio58 11mo ago
> Technical Debt: At scale, tech debt becomes exponentially more expensive. Budget 20-30% of engineering time for platform improvements. Does anyone else struggle to meet this percentage of tech debt getting done in sprints? If I ever ge
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by willio58 11mo ago
To be clear I don’t want either of those laws to be passed, but I’d like the option to have it on my phone and require police to respect it
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by willio58 11mo ago
Yeah but I need it when I buy a drink too.
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by willio58 11mo ago
> don't even give you a fair technical chance if you lack a degree, and the devs are considered to be a cost center. I've never considered how lucky I am to live in the U.S. and to work at a company that absolutely sees the dev
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by willio58 11mo ago
I’m still waiting for the day where 100% of state drivers licenses are supported in wallet and anyone requesting ID are required to accept them. Quite literally the only reason I have a wallet these days is for the drivers license.
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by willio58 11mo ago
Agreed. Teachers are seeing the massive benefits from banning phones entirely during school hours. I think once we get data from bans for certain things like social media for kids, we'll all want to get on the wave.
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by willio58 1y ago
The problems with the electoral system are just one symptom of a deeper issue: unlimited political donations. The wealthiest individuals in the world can funnel endless money to politicians through Super PACs, and that influence shapes poli
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by willio58 1y ago
As stated near the end of my comment, most Americans are not okay with the system as it is. It’s legalized corruption that perpetuates the system. For further reading, I recommend learning about the Citizens United vs FEC case that vastly i
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by willio58 1y ago
The United States is a democracy, but more specifically, a representative democracy. That means citizens don’t directly vote on most laws or policies—aside from certain state or local measures—but instead elect representatives to make those
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by willio58 1y ago
> I currently manage no direct reports and ship a lot of code. This is a wildly different status than almost all other people with this title. I’m glad this person still likes coding, and they seem to be great at it, but this role doesn’
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by willio58 1y ago
> Cybertruck turned out to be Tesla’s first real commercial flop. It's not an uncommon feeling but the cybertruck is just a flop on so many levels. To me, the most striking way is visually. It's like what an 11 year-old dreams
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by willio58 1y ago
This was awesome, mainly because the paths I could choose were real things I might do. So relevant to my life. And I’m not taking the stats too seriously as it seems so many others are, which is almost comical given the topic. Thank you!
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by willio58 1y ago
This makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
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by willio58 1y ago
One thing I really like using them for is refactoring/reorganizing. The tedious nature of renaming, renaming all implementations, moving files around, creating/deleting folders, updating imports exports, all melts away when you ta
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by willio58 1y ago
Can someone explain to me how a public company can go private and there’s no fear of outcry from the shareholders in said company? Like companies do all these evil things to please shareholders but wouldn’t many shareholders of a public com
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by willio58 1y ago
Funny/sad story, my friend works for the government making maps for watersheds. Elon comes along and forces people to go back to office. She’d been remote since she was hired 3+ years ago. So suddenly she’s assigned to the closest gov

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