FastMonkey

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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I think Salesforce is fine for large companies with teams of sales reps and a well staffed IT department, but it's overkill for most small to medium sized companies with just a few sales reps. If you can run on a creaky set of excel sh
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I don't think it's questioning anyone's competence to suggest that a single scientific result might have confounding factors. This is one study done by one team. If the result was repeated in several studies, all coming at it
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
It seems like he probably has enough saved to never have to work again. I don't think I'd keep plugging away either if I was in that position and the work wasn't my passion.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Maybe rocks in the scree cool down the air in the pores between them. Cool air is denser so it sinks and flows out at the bottom of the porous layer, and new warm air is pulled into the ground towards the top of the scree pile. People found
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Invest in very boring things, like S&P500 and AGG ETFs. If you feel tempted, try investing a couple of percent in something more exiting. You'll find its easy to invest with hindsight but very hard to do it in reality. With your fi
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I don't think he's saying that the repair will teach you the first principles of phone design. It's that by taking the step of actually opening the device, you significantly lower the hurdle to any next steps.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
In theory: (real GDP)×(price level) = (money supply)×(money velocity) In general terms its probably a decent model. But ya, there are situations where it's not completely internally consistent.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I'm not that keen on that. Odds are that when the plastic is broken down, it'd be broken down into CO2. we're much better off just locking all that carbon away underground. If anything, we'd be better off with some micro
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
With people falling over themselves to prove how well work from home works, it's more likely that the jobs just go abroad.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I don't know about that. I left civil engineering for finance a couple of years ago. Changing was actually a lot less painful than I thought it would be (I might even say it was fun), and I'm way happier now. There was a couple of
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I don't know the details of this, but a guy I worked with once told me he did work detecting underground structures using gravity measurements. I guess there's lots of relatively affordable equipment to so something like this. ht
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Ya, a good microphone makes a huge difference and it's just plug and play.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I was against going back to the office too (just 2 days a week, but still). Having gone back I can't argue against it, it's just more productive to be in the same space as your team.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
The periodic back and forth movement of a pendulum can be modelled as a circular rotation with constant angular velocity. We "know" that it just goes over and back so we "know" that the circular motion is just a model. A
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
You could cut the paper along the X axis, and subtract the area below from the area above.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
That's sad to hear. I'm in UT's online data science masters and I think it's great. They have some teething problems (we're the first cohort taking a lot of these classes), but it's all pretty minor stuff like
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
All undergrads from a single university also. Just based on the social development of people as they go through undergrad, I'd guess that the variance in behavioural change before and after treatment is fairly high whether they're
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Maybe they mean "OS"?
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I've gone back and forth a bit between electronic and paper notes. For me, electronic just can't beat the physical location of paper. I know where in space a particular note is so it's easier for me to hone in on it. I sketch
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I also only ever heard of it as "Maslow's hierarchy of needs".
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I wouldn't have any issue with this type of stuff if it was just for pure self understanding. It's interesting to have that kind of reflection. However, even if the science were sound, we wouldn't just fall into a single cate
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
The B2B startups I've seen that grew into something real all had did some consulting in their area at the start. It gave them a broader experience in the problems they were trying to solve, and helped them build relationships with thei
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
The power company where I live installs more ducts than they need when they dig a trench. So they'll install say 10 ducts in the trench when they only need one or two. They rent out the extras to telecoms.
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I guess the Yorkshire countryside is probably depopulating like many rural areas are, so they probably have extra capacity in the water lines. In London, decommissioned gas lines used to be sold to broadband companies to avoid digging up th
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
This comment is being downvoted but it's correct. The moon all moves at the same speed, which is the speed at its center of gravity. The face nearest us is moving slightly slower than it should at that distance so it is pulled towards
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
I was going to make a similar comment, but you phrased it better than I could have. It's easy to say in hindsight that X knew Y, but there's a big difference between knowing something and just suspecting it. In fact, at the time t
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
The last point is an underappreciated one I think. Having been an engineer and worked around engineers for a long time, I've seen a lot of people get very frustrated in the face of fuzziness in organizations, teams, politics. It's
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Looks great! There's a lot of small businesses that have been upsold on Salesforce who are now finding out that all they needed was a moderate step up from excel to a simple database. I'd love to see a bit more visible detail on i
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
Step 1 if you've made a mistake is to tell your supervisor. Waiting to see if it'll go away on its own will make the problem grow, robbing your supervisor of the ability to fix it. Your failure to tell others makes you look like y
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by FastMonkey 4y ago
"Regulatory arb" makes it sound like they did some clever financial engineering to conjure money out of this air. It actually means they were able to skirt regulations meant to put a limit on the interest rates that borrowers pay.

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