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by zackbloom 5y ago
The company made an offer. The person accepted it. Nothing notable about the scope of the work changed (at least as detailed in the blog post). The person wasn't stiffed or otherwise cheated. They just... didn't like a job offer w
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by zackbloom 5y ago
My understanding is the company wasn't paying for her time, it was paying for a job to be done by an ostensibly part-time contractor. I'm not sure how the deadline changing increases the amount of work that was to be done.
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by zackbloom 5y ago
She was very explicit about working on it part-time. If she doesn't know how much of his time it will take, how would the company? Isn't it her job to ask for the appropriate amount of money, and reject an offer which isn't e
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by zackbloom 5y ago
This post makes a long case for why air travel isn't _so_ bad, but totally fails to establish why it's 'good and we should want more of it'. In any case, in a world with free and non-greenhouse-emitting energy it won&#x2
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by zackbloom 5y ago
This reads like a case of 'all about me'-ism. It sounds like this person negotiated their salary, and then decided the company didn't value them _because_ the company agreed to raise it when asked. If your goal is to have peo
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by zackbloom 5y ago
Reminds me of [1], from back in the web-day. [1] - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/snow-pro-by-eager
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by zackbloom 5y ago
Having used it pre-release, the JIT compiler is really incredible. It makes Tailwind a sea-change when compared to Bootstrap and the other, similar, CSS toolkits.
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by zackbloom 5y ago
Update: I'm also getting Internal Errors trying to log into the Amazon.com site now as well.
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by zackbloom 5y ago
I'm now getting failures searching for products on Amazon.com itself. This is somewhat surprising, as the narrative always was that Amazon didn't do a great job of dogfooding their own cloud platform.
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by zackbloom 5y ago
It's much colder than that, single-digit millikelvin. They use He-3/4 dilution refrigerators [1]. Getting things cold and electromagnetically-quiet enough that the quantum state doesn't collapse is a big challenge in the fiel
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by zackbloom 5y ago
I'm much more excited about manufacturing gasoline using renewable energy and captured carbon. That would provide the energy density planes need while being legitimately carbon neutral.
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by zackbloom 5y ago
I have no idea how it's still online, but I have a more robust implementation borrowed from the Postgres wiki: https://eager.io/blog/audit-postgres/ I now use it with every project and it has saved me many ti
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by zackbloom 5y ago
The absolute best review of what dopamine really does (mediate attention) and how that relates to the brain's function is this [1] writeup from Astral Star Codex on Predictive Coding. Predictive Coding is a theory of the mind which doe
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Two Weeks Later: Finding and Eliminating Long Tail Latencies(blog.cloudflare.com)
36 points by zackbloom 5y ago|0 comments
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by zackbloom 5y ago
Native tus support would be pretty amazing.
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by zackbloom 5y ago
Correct, my point is I don't believe the quantity of carbon capture which can be deployed will get anywhere close to the amount of carbon being released without a different fundamental economic model.
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by zackbloom 5y ago
My dream is to use carbon capture as 1/3 of a full plan to fix climate change. Once you have the carbon, rather than pumping it into the ground, I would love to use off-shore nuclear reactors to convert it into gasoline. It might sound
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by zackbloom 5y ago
If you listen to the stream there's a moment when they ask each astronaut for a mock-serious 'status update'. At least one forgets to even respond. It feels like cosplay, like a tourist experience where you are pretending to
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by zackbloom 5y ago
> “We literally do not have enough cooks to operate and after months of continuous hiring, training, begging, pleading and getting creative, we have a tiny, loyal, incredible team of individuals at their breaking point and in desperate n
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by zackbloom 5y ago
The person writing this is confusing their personal opinion for objective UX fact. It is commonly accepted that only highly organized users use features like tags. The vast majority of people simply don't. Rather than jumping to the co
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by zackbloom 5y ago
I think the ideal solution would be if it wasn't essentially free to send an email (meaning there is no incentive to not spam). If it cost $0.01 to send an email it would have no impact on normal people and businesses, but it would dra
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by zackbloom 5y ago
The obvious way of ensuring long-term performance is to slow down the buy/sell process. For example, the company could offer a discount on its stock for anyone who agrees to hold it for six months. This seems like a more practical solu
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“Curious what appearing on the TODAY show does for your startup?”(twitter.com)
3 points by zackbloom 5y ago|0 comments
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by zackbloom 5y ago
People increasingly value technology and safety. The market for simple cars is relatively small, and is partially satisfied by the red-hot vintage car market. Car design and manufacture has also become so expensive that it isn't produc
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Cloudflare on the Edge(stratechery.com)
4 points by zackbloom 5y ago|1 comments
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by zackbloom 5y ago
I would say the single biggest issue right now is the cost of an LTE modem and service. Cursory research shows a fully integrated modem is on the order of $44 at small quantities. Obviously cell phone manufactures get that number way down b
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by zackbloom 5y ago
Not to my knowledge. If anyone is interested in building one get in touch, it would be a fun thing to build. Right now we let people to mail videos [1]. Think a greeting card, but which plays your home movies. [1] - https://send
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by zackbloom 5y ago
I work on a company that is squarely targeted at the market of people who don't have Internet. Nearly 10% of Americans don't have Internet, the vast majority are older. During COVID, at least in my family, it was pretty stark. My
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by zackbloom 5y ago
I wish that in each generation we got to choose 100 people to keep alive just a bit longer. Feynman would be on my list.
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by zackbloom 5y ago
Ultimately everything is a system. If the NCAA is incredibly militant about enforcing these rules, the schools will be incredibly paranoid about giving athletes any financial incentive. If the NCAA is more lax, schools will put less effort

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