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by zwieback 3y ago
Has anyone here tried the baking soda trick? I've read about it but can't imagine the flavor would be any good
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by zwieback 3y ago
Related question: are there some employees that are so motivated to solve the problem in front of them (or simply more disciplined) less likely to get distracted? If so, what has been the relative productivity hit to "diligent" vs
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by zwieback 3y ago
Planet Money did a great episode explaining the general thinking and how this theory has become more mainstream lately, although "greedflation" is a bad moniker. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/117548
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I graduated from engineering school in Germany, this is what my graduation looked like: I walked over to the student office and picked up a dot-matrix printout of my final transcript. I recently went to my daughter's ceremonies at UO (
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Yes, you can go to an office supply store and pick one up, use a webpage or phone call to hook it up to your ISP, generally.
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I call BS, dandelions crowd out all the good stuff I want, flowers, vegetables, etc. I don't mind them in my meadow.
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Yes, nice phrasing I'll remember that. Not having a passenger side air-bag is one of those things missing in my indestructible car.
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I'm split on this - some of the new tech in cars is welcome other things are annoying. I do love my Ranger from 1997 - manual everything (I would like power steering from time to time) but that thing is indestructible.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Ok, I think this is a good thing for the most part. Cars last so much longer nowadays. More interesting would be the average mileage of cars on the road, though.
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When I was an intern in the 80s TCE was very popular as a degreaser. We were supposed to wear gloves when dipping our hands in there but often didn't.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Those examples are really hard to listen to, except for maybe the techno/dancebeat ones. Part of the problem is the awful sound, would be much more interesting to have scores generated by AI and then have musicians record it. As it is
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by zwieback 3y ago
You mean in the now content mills can't afford not to crank out clickbait with AI? That would reinforce my general belief that we've been in a transition state these past few years with the reinvention of old business models in th
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by zwieback 3y ago
I don't understand how companies that use fully automated AI to churn out content can survive long term. Why wouldn't I just go straight to the AI to get what I want? Also, I see an opportunity for publishing brands to set themsel
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by zwieback 3y ago
Nice, wasn't aware of these. We have a lot of NI boards and Picoscopes for analog and mixed signal but this looks like a good choice. We've used their FPGA boards in the past.
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I vividly remember how sad I was when IBM chose the 8088, should have been 68K.
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Hmm, maybe a bit too black and white, there are good and bad times. What I'm surprised to find out is how much I enjoy having more time and less drama around the house. And less clutter.
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by zwieback 3y ago
not sure I approve. I spend enough time in Visual Studio that the tight spacing is an asset. I don't really have to think about or look at the icons too closely, it's more muscle memory than anything. Also, I use keyboard shortcut
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Vaguely related anecdote, an acquaintance was playing with his kids at a playground in Central Park and ended up chatting with DeNiro on a parkbench for an hour. My buddy had no idea who he was talking to, which apparently was refreshing en
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by zwieback 3y ago
I'm German and have lived in the US for the past 30 years, still have traces of an accent. I don't care, though, having a Germlish accent in Spanish wouldn't stop me from chatting up all the Spanish speakers around me.
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Yeah, just wait till you're in your fifties and feel like you're also running out of time to do things! For example: "how many more growing seasons do I have to try this or that tomato" or "should I learn Spanish?&q
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by zwieback 3y ago
Nice setup! In addition to a decent scope I like having a USB logic analyzer. There are lots of cheap ones but Saleae (no affiliation) makes really nice ones.
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Yes, definitely. Working on a mature product in a big corporation I'm very familiar with the concept of continuous optimization and it can actually be quite interesting. That's how I see the division: small companies invent and ex
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That and maybe specialty farms. Where I live you can't throw a rock without hitting a small farm or nursery that does very specific things and they seem to do okay in their niches.
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It's hard to support the idea of inefficient farming just out of pure nostalgia but I think there's something else lost when these small family farms die out. I imagine large commercial farms aren't going to experiment as muc
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If you compare yourself to other people in your age group, would that mean less of loss of identity?
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The biggest problems: a) Selecting a book, we want something at least one or two members have already read to make sure there's a good recommendation. Going by reviews has not worked well, it's better if someone brings the selecti
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Sounds like a terrible idea - people are starting to hate the subscription economy, I know I do. I run a fiction book club at work and it is a lot of work, none of which I see this website solving. Also, it's unclear whether I still ha
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Is there a difference in level of chopstick decorum between Japanese and Chinese?
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and let's not forget about AppleTalk, respectable in its day.
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Wow, that sounds harsh, stay safe. I would recommend using the time to focus on basics. The older I get the more I appreciate that I learned C, some assembly, traditional multitasking, basic data structures and algorithms on manageable plat

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