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by bigtimesink 2y ago
There are zombie startups. The business has stalled out, but breaks even. The staff and investors are checked out. Ambitious product people show up with big ideas that never work and then leave. They keep going until someone finds a buyer o
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Promos before the terminal level are easy because your manager wants to retain you. After the terminal level, they're used as carrots to squeeze more work out of you. One scenario to look out for is the company doing well. You realize
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
I've been on the IC version of this. You have to be on the right team, do well, and have the right friends to get a promotion past the terminal level. Ask yourself where the team is in its lifecycle and how much growth it really has ah
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
> Great points - however this can keep your fridge running for 2-3 days (a pretty long outage). $1,000 buys a lot of groceries. It's cheaper to to have a small supply of shelf stable food for outages. > It can also do arbitrage a
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Where does it say Mozilla has your browsing history or sells it?
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
> Mozilla is selling your browsing activity in Firefox "privately" to advertisers Do you have a better source for this?
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
> no one asked for water resistance Manufacturers put water-sensitive indicators in electronics to flag this during warranty claims. Before water resistant phones, people would desperately google for how to save their phones. > don&#x
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Now you're trading off water resistance, size, and capacity. Choose 2.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
It doesn't take very much effort to look at ink costs when buying a printer, so this is on consumers. It might even be the rational choice for low-income consumers since it's cheaper in the long run than buying a more expensive pr
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
I had one of these phones that would crash under load and the update fixed it. The technical fix was sound. Batteries can't supply full power as they age, and the CPU needs high power when it runs faster. It's an annoying reality
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Are you talking about Coyote Vs. Acme?
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
If this doesn't give FF a noticeable bounce, FF really is a lost cause.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
This happened to me. There was a layoff, I got overwhelmed with work that had to get picked up, lost motivation, and burned out.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
> there are a lot of jobs that make it difficult to continue past a few years This has been a lot of my career. All my long, successful jobs have lasted around 2-3 years, and it's the time it takes for the company to realize the ini
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Maybe, but the gold chain, million dollar watch wearing CEO talking about masculine energy doesn't help the brand.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
I'm not sure if it's accurate, but a certain nautical themed torrent directory currently lists Office 2016 as the third most popular Application torrent.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
I got a copy of my background check a few times. They contacted my university (who has my graduation date wrong). I'm not sure if they actually contacted previous employers (who usually just confirm start and end dates) or just checked
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
> In Youth, you fantasize about one day meeting your idols Towards the end of my youth, I got to date a celebrity crush and work at my dream job. Both sucked and left me heartbroken.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Not WaPo, but chuckr is back at Meta because of the political shift. Chuckr is well-known for being a firearm enthusiast.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
When he killed the Harris endorsement, that sent a stronger signal than endorsing her.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Projects I've seen at work. Projects posted on Hacker News. Data races aren't usually an issue for backend services, and modern Java/C# is multi-paradigm.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
This, but I'm getting tired of people using Rust for things that really should be in C# or Java.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
How's Paraguay? I'm told it's one of the safest places in South America outside France, and safer than Chile.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Chile is further south than you think and more developed than you think. Unlike most of Latin America, the tap water in Chile is generally safe to drink, so their electric grid might also be better than you expect.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Musk fanboys are always impressed by how much he does, but it's becoming clear he can't have time to be the CEO of Tesla, owner of X, CEO of the Boring Company, CEO of SpaceX, CEO of SpaceX, CEO of xAI, owner of Neuralink, Reichsl
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
What do you propose? Continue social distancing and masking? About the only middle ground is masking in medical settings and crowded, non-social spaces. I guess vaccination rates are low, but that should be a good thing for people who are v
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
What's your test for when a use is ok and being held back by copyright law versus when it's damaging? Why is one ok but not the other?
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
> Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, stirred alarm among developers last month when he predicted that A.I. technology sometime this year would effectively match the performance of a midlevel software engineer Either Meta has tools
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
Humidity in Taiwan can be very high.
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by bigtimesink 2y ago
The number of M3 and M4 SKUs suggests they have yield problems and are disabling bad memory and cores.

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