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by yowayb 8mo ago
So many websites and apps are still broken in so many little ways. Maybe broken isn't the right word. But all kinds of annoyances and breaches still happen all the time. I generally don't complain/review, and just learn the w
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by yowayb 8mo ago
I appreciate the fun, but he's clearly messing with them or has Asperger's. You can definitely reduce hoops by knowing the bins, which they helped him with.
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by yowayb 8mo ago
And, within high-trust societies (eg Japan, Korea, Vietnam) getting wasted lubricates social bonds in the workplace. I've met successful functional alcoholics. Seriously, they actually function and make lots of money. They're also
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by yowayb 8mo ago
First job out of college, I spilled my guts on form 86, ~40 joints, ~10 ecstasy. Denied clearance the entire 3 years. This was 2002.
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by yowayb 8mo ago
Makes complete sense. I've spent some time around Southeast Asia and met plenty of vets that discovered many psychoactive substances who also happen to be anti-war.
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by yowayb 8mo ago
I doubt anyone in an official capacity is using such techniques, but I can tell you this is common in sales. A lot of people in management with control of budget have at least one of just a handful of human weaknesses.
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by yowayb 8mo ago
omg this was my experience. I figured there was no point lying officially, so I listed exactly how many times I smoked weed and took mdma. I was banished to the unclear side for my entire 3 years there. Meanwhile the head of IT was a raging
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by yowayb 8mo ago
This particular thread of the argument can go on for a while. I can't well articulate the doubts I have because I'm not in the industry, but many such well-meaning laws have a tendency to backfire once given enough time for bad&#x
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by yowayb 8mo ago
Thank you for including southeast Asia (and other humid places) in the discussion :)
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by yowayb 8mo ago
I love exposed everything in construction. Every plumbing and electrical problem that required me to call someone involved the thing being hidden for aesthetic reasons. I'm currently in an old house in Vietnam and I had to add exposed
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by yowayb 8mo ago
And you'll work with moral/ethical companies that slowly become the thing you're trying to avoid
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by yowayb 8mo ago
I read there was an actual original Hostess bakery. Imagine a fresh all-natural Twinkie. Mmmmm
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by yowayb 8mo ago
I went to Moscow in December several years ago and learned they've got one the world's largest district heating systems.
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by yowayb 9mo ago
I worked at a now-defunct defense contractor with the typical inefficiencies of hyper-secrecy and government waste. A friend once asked, "aren't you conflicted that you're helping kill people?" At the time, that questi
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by yowayb 9mo ago
I studied Turkish for a few years and remember thinking it could make an interesting programming language (due to the grammatical/agglutinative features). I was gonna call it Ç, but I was never seriously going to make it. Happy to see
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by yowayb 9mo ago
In my 40s now, I can recall dozens of "we should..." statements from myself and others. Typically, these statements were driven by some personal mishap, and the statement is basically forgotten (because it was never a big deal to
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by yowayb 9mo ago
I once rented a "kei van" in Japan once. I think I remember seeing similarly utilitarian trucks, but forget what they were called. I found the kei vans very practical.
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by yowayb 9mo ago
I got a drying closet. It's basically a heater in a tent with a few vents. It takes almost twice as long as a similarly sized tumble-drying machine, but absolutely nothing but warm, moist air is exhausted into the room. I even use it t
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by yowayb 9mo ago
I personally find this opinion typical of HN readers, and I argue that successful influencers/pretty-people can easily beat more serious professions in terms of economic value, because the vast majority of people are more human than th
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by yowayb 9mo ago
I hate ads until I need them, then I complain that the algorithms still suck. My wife recently reminded me I have to give Shopee time to surface good options when I don't have the exact words. I expect this to improve as their models i
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by yowayb 11mo ago
I rode Waymo in SF recently and was impressed at how calm it was. We just got in and a guy on a bike was riding in the opposite direction, and the Waymo just stopped and waited for him to yell something, and we went on our way.
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by yowayb 1y ago
Unrelated, I asked Grok to "Generate ANSI art of the cover of the first issue of Iron Man War Machine" (I did this back in the BBS days for a friend's welcome screen) and it repeatedly outputs: |_______|\n |_______|\n It&#x27
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by yowayb 1y ago
I'm grateful for low-level work, but what I really need is massive mocap datasets of cats moving so I can make a cat game with realistic motion (none of this walking on an invisible treadmill that rotates), and access to everyone'
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by yowayb 2y ago
The hardest part about making a game is the art.
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by yowayb 2y ago
Tangent: many in IT and engineering don't work on soft skills. I hope this shows it's not that hard.
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by yowayb 2y ago
There are benefits to publishing certain things and hiding certain things. Even children know this (yes lying/hiding is an innate capability). The word "privacy" itself is almost as poorly defined (or overloaded terms perhaps
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by yowayb 2y ago
It was always strange to me that scientists (people that are expected to be rigorous in their experimentation and analysis) would not include history in their analysis. However, the Latin root of the word "science" is about cuttin
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by yowayb 2y ago
How would X benefit from such an acquisition?
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by yowayb 2y ago
There are many things (I frankly don't think there's a more specific word for this) like diets and psychedelics where many of us (rigorously minded) are constantly seeking proofs within systems containing sufficient complexity to
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by yowayb 2y ago
No warm up but I was 35 yo

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