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by xtracto 3y ago
I agree with this so much. In my view, the paradigm of residencial real state being an investment is wrong. Residencial properties should have economic properties similar to cars. When someone stops using a car she tries to sell it ASAP as
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by xtracto 3y ago
Or what I've seen some people do here in Mexico: 3% discount when paying in Cash :-)
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by xtracto 3y ago
It was similar in the original Mario Kart of the SNES. I clearly remember always choosing toad or koopa because they "felt" the more average to me. Donkey Kong was difficult to handle and also had slow acceleration, same with bows
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by xtracto 3y ago
Something like this just happened in Mexico: the president exposed the personal contact info (phone iirc) of some journalist that wrote a piece critical of his government: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/wo
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by xtracto 3y ago
Reminds me of GERD. It's a disease that affects a sizable group of people. It's a mechanical issue that is very well studied and known. Yet, the main two treatment options are "workaround/hacks" or a very invasive o
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by xtracto 3y ago
IIRC there's a stage 2 Test device that uses vagus nerve stimulation through the tongue to attenuate tinnitus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8120162/ I think it's called the Susan Sho
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by xtracto 3y ago
I've been a CTO for several startups now, and currently am a Technical Advisor for a couple of startups. The best "non-technical" cofounders I've met are relentless negotiators and have that magic ability to sell. They
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by xtracto 3y ago
I think the current state of file sharing is not as good as before. Even on the gray areas of the internet such as sharing of copyrighted work, the "profiteering" of the "contemporary internet" has taken over the "
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by xtracto 3y ago
Those were wild days indeed haha.
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by xtracto 3y ago
I still remember sites like SuprNova.org and later mininova sites that were some of the first public Bittorrent sites I discovered. Although before that I was a heavy Emule and Kazaa user, and I also remember WinMX fondly (the only place wh
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by xtracto 3y ago
Ooh, let me give you one data point on that. I've had great success hiring juniors. One was a WebDev "bootcamp" graduate lady; I was hesitant but bit the bullet, and it paid of well. It was good for the team and, as she was
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by xtracto 3y ago
What? I know at least 2 Hans who are native german, and are no older than 40. And I lived in Germany only for 4 years.
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by xtracto 3y ago
You are depressed. You may want to check on that. Aside of that, most people become good at something just by practicing. The first thousand hours of doing something are a chore, and suck. But once you start mastering it, it becomes a joy
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by xtracto 3y ago
I've got a kind of hot take that I'd like to talk about: First, is there something similar to a CTO at Boeing? (Like chief engineer?) If so, then I think he/she is ultimately responsible. I've been an executive tech le
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by xtracto 3y ago
As a Mexican, I find this actions from the US to try to maintain the "Pax Americana" Imperialism quite interesting. People in US centric forums like HN, Reddit, Slashdot, etc just cannot understand or see it, and it's OK; it
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by xtracto 3y ago
For me it's the ten hundreds or similar way to call the thousands. It's something that I have to picture the number in my mind and then translate it to the equivalent in thousands.
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by xtracto 3y ago
It's funny that you end your comment with a link to github. The centralized website that has been swallowing open source code. Other than that, I agree with your message.
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by xtracto 3y ago
https://www.boringreport.org/ is actually pretty good at that. I've been reading it for some time. It's LLM generated I think
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by xtracto 3y ago
I think thats part of the conspiracy: you don't directly murder one guy, you show him skeletons you know about him and tell him you will put them out in the public. The rest solves itself.
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by xtracto 3y ago
I think what Apple is doing is more similar to Nintendo I the 80s with their "seal of quality". There where a couple of companies that circumvented their security mechanisms and went to court. Was that wrong of Nintendo? My opi
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by xtracto 3y ago
I just want the integrated touchpad of my Dell Latitude 9330 to work decently. The libinput driver is just crap with this model, to the point that I have to connect an Apple Magic Trackpad, and that works great . Synaptic driver works bet
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by xtracto 3y ago
This. My current job I found vía linkedin, but from someone I would had never imagined . After the previous company I was at, burned to the ground (figuratively... kind of) I wrote a short text in linkedin saying that I was looking for a
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by xtracto 3y ago
The last bit is the most important. Not your keys, not your coin. There are just so many risk in Cryptotokens that it's not worth it to add another one by giving your assets to a third party. Hope you get your money back, but for other
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by xtracto 3y ago
Uber got successfully shot down in my city in Campeche Mexico [1]. Mostly due to corruption between government and taxi owners. But hey, it's possible!. [1] https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2022/01/uber-could-b
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by xtracto 3y ago
Mhmm this gives me an idea.. what if I could "group" metabase sql queries by "similarity" (either of results or of the query itself) Another option could be to use LLM to summarize, tag and group queries for better disc
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by xtracto 3y ago
I had the same experience. Featurewise Superset looked better, but after wasting a couple of hours trying to install it, I just gave up. Instead I installed Metabase in 5 minutes tops: spin ec2 instance, whether and java -jar . I've
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by xtracto 3y ago
It's OPs wet dream reality. Not sure even how old he was at the time that happened . Maybe he just collected a bunch of references and created a narrative in his head. Good for him. The way Microsoft played at that time was through SC
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by xtracto 3y ago
This is funny. You say someone did something because of X reason. That someone is saying No, I did it because of Y reason" , and your reply is to ask them to prove it? Let's see, who would I choose to believe.... mhmmm
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by xtracto 3y ago
Ooh I 'member! /. Is filled with stories and comments of people badmouthing Miguel because of his stance of integration between Linux and the Microsoft world. His views appeared always "controversial " to the OpenSourc
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by xtracto 3y ago
Just stop buying apple products... it's like people buying Lego toys and whining because they are expensive and cannot plug with Playmobile toys. So people are so enamored with apple devices that they cannot stop using them, but don&#

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