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by Epenthesis 5y ago
I'm certainly an outlier, but it seems intuitively likely that I'm experiencing a subset of what other people experience, rather than a disjoint. Ie, other people feel the socio-emotional component as well as the lust compone
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
I'm not sure that's true. I have little to no sex drive (am "asexual" as the kids say), but I've had intense crushes/obsessive feelings about individuals with no associated desire to have sex with the targets t
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
It's interesting how different "bubbles" of software development can be. For me, as an engineer whose worked across FAANG and YC startups in San Francisco, Angular has had absolutely zero mindshare for at least the past 6-7 y
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
That's what the first image in the article is purporting to show (~33% of people in the general population over 85 have dementia)
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
While it's true that the article indicates FB views comments as positive signals, that's definitely not the primary focus of it, which is about likes vs "higher intentionality likes + other emotions".
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
It's weird to me that that article's headline emphasizes "angry emojis" have 5x higher score than "likes (and repeats it in the first paragraph) and then only lower down explains it's in fact that any emotio
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
Put in 3 M$/yr and you'll get 50.7%. Not a lot of people hitting that regularly, but I imagine it can sting a little if you've got a more proletarian salary normally and are hitting that region just once because of say, a sta
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
Roughly 0.6% of NYC has died from COVID, so it's impossible for its IFR to be 0.2%
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
Is Derby pronounced with the first syllable rhyming with "car" or "her" (/dɑ:bi/ or /dɜ:bi/)?
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
I imagine this depends on what circles you run in. I feel like in silicon valley, the modal image is of a FAANG employee making 400 k$/yr.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
It is a protected title in Canada, requiring a license, but not in the United States. In the US, the title "Professional Engineer" is roughly equivalent and similarly requires a license.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
He was right in a sense, the 00s and 10s were the era of the dynamic languages. In momentum if never quite in absolute usage. But my sense is that we're gradually swinging back around to static typing via gradual typing + mainstreaming
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
My impression as a 30 year old het guy in SF is that the big 3 are Tinder/Bumble/Hinge, roughly sorted in order of "casual" to "serious relationship". According to friends, OkCupid seems to be baaarely limping
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
Eh, luck + effort beats luck, but luck by itself pretty often beats effort. I'm a good deal wealthier than some much harder working + smarter friends of mine because I lucked into joining some (moderately) successful startups.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
Seems to use the same uh, emphatic pronunciation so long as "gallo" is at the end of the translation sentence. Any text with something after "gallo" sounds more normal.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
I believe it's true for most of the sprachbund, including my native language Kannada (which is a Dravidian language very much unrelated to Hindi)
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
Oh wow, my mistake! I personally have the merger, and so I misunderstood which direction the split went.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
The goal of pinyin was not to make Mandarin words pronounceable to English speakers, but to be a consistent means of representing the sounds of Mandarin to Mandarin speakers.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. It was difficult for me to think of an example without resorting to IPA, since my own American accent is fully cot/caught + father/bother merged.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
* Spanish: "hacer" * French: "pas" * Italian: "casa" * Mandarin (written using pinyin): "bàng" * German: "katze" * Japanes (written in romaji): "arigato" * Bahasa Indonesia: "
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
A good addition might be to point out good first guesses for the vowels in non-English names (Examples used assume a General American accent): * "A" as in "ah" (like "ah, I see") * "E" as in "e&q
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
The article alleges that sodastreams produce weaker fizz than commercial carbonated water. I personally haven't found that to be the case, but it seems like there's dozens of sodastream models and maybe I happened on a good one.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
My Hindu American family "celebrates" Christmas (tree/lights/presents/big meal)
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
Of course it's unusual. If you're in SF and work in first tier startups/FAANG, your social circle is going to be mostly people in similar situations. It's a very unusually high earning and unusually rapidly high earnin
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
The easiest way to do this is to go to a small company where everyone wears multiple hats. 50 people is probably the upper limit.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
I personally like it a lot. It's my go-to at a bar when I don't feel like drinking That said I also like plain seltzer and bitter flavors generally (dark chocolate, black coffee, IPAs), so YMMV.
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
American English speaker here, born and raised in Dallas, Tx. The stress goes on the second syllable for the verb for me ("I ab sent myself").
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
As someone who's never used Discord, what's it do better than Slack? Superficially other than aesthetics/integrations, they seem basically identical
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by Epenthesis 5y ago
The case was filed more than 2 years ago, but I can't find any follow ups. Does anyone know if there have been more recent developments? t the very least, has UVa issued a response of any sort?
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by Epenthesis 7y ago
I think the PagerDuty trio (Alex Solomon, Baskar Puvanathasan, Andrew Miklas) were 26-27 when they started it.

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