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by blawson 6mo ago
For sleep a wired pillow speaker works great, the advantage being there is nothing to fall out of your ears, and you can isolate the sound so only you hear it through the pillow: https://www.amazon.com/Crane-Company-PS2-Soft
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by blawson 2y ago
1Password + Fastmail integration for generating masked email is also great. Plus a nice UI for handling OTP, notes, credit cards, IDs, bank accounts, etc, it's easily worth the annual price for me.
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by blawson 3y ago
OT but this book is so incredible. The breadth of information covered is amazing, even for being ~20 years old at this point. The audiobook at .7 speed is my sleep aid.
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Hopper Cuts 30% of Staff in Bid to Get Profitable(skift.com)
4 points by blawson 3y ago|0 comments
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by blawson 3y ago
FWIW I get the right answer on Google right now when I try: Can you melt an egg? No - if you heat an egg it's not like melting ice (or metal). Because an egg contains a substantial amount of carefully folded natural proteins in their n
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by blawson 3y ago
Togglz is another option: https://www.togglz.org/
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by blawson 3y ago
I tried this as a little hobby weekend project but found that after a while it would start hallucinating answers even if previously it had gotten them right. It didn’t even take that long sometimes, where I’d ask a question about revenue, t
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by blawson 3y ago
Does this mean the whole easter seaboard, should consider bottled water instead of tap?
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Blockchain company Solana Labs is building a Web3 mobile phone(coindesk.com)
5 points by blawson 4y ago|0 comments
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by blawson 4y ago
Speaking of which… https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-on-ipfs/
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by blawson 4y ago
Where?
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by blawson 4y ago
For now Blind might have a sufficiently high quality network to make this worthwhile even on hiring. You wouldn't find it unless you were serious "enough" about your career, even if there is a ton centered around LC grinding
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by blawson 4y ago
I wonder how much of this can be traced back to the proliferation of System Design interview stages, and resulting training material? From my experience all of these resources tend to direct you to think in microservices / uber-distrib
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by blawson 5y ago
Not GP, but I don't think there's an actual "rate" as such - it's the actions the Fed takes to balance prices such that it falls within their target: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference
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by blawson 5y ago
Algos trading purely on the EPS beat due to Rivian?
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by blawson 5y ago
Lattes in Miami are also $5, just saying.
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by blawson 5y ago
> When you get a vaccine you are literally getting a live virus injected into you. This is false for the mRNA vaccines according to the CDC: mRNA vaccines do not use the live virus that causes COVID-19 and cannot cause infection with the
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by blawson 5y ago
Yes!
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by blawson 5y ago
Because this is an aging blog, I'm guessing they focus on the ideas around remdesivir being potentially beneficial for longevity and its concentration in red wine.
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by blawson 5y ago
I like it, but that might encourage the top profiles to take their audience off platform entirely. Unlike say Youtube, I don't think Twitter creators are able to monetize directly on platform?
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Bolt seeking to raise $777M at up to $11B valuation(axios.com)
2 points by blawson 5y ago|0 comments
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by blawson 5y ago
In general love the idea of these sorts of plastics improvements and hope it can solve a lot of the existing waste issue. And cut down on the awful micro plastics! But the cynic in me is wondering about the articles 10 years down the road t
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by blawson 6y ago
Apparently you're meant to use kibibyte for 2^10 (1024) bytes, with the prefix kilo being the International System of Units' version of 1000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units
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by blawson 6y ago
Arthur Jackson really was a man ahead of his time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA8xTGP_M8g
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by blawson 6y ago
I find if I set the playback speed to 1.3-1.5x, I’m forced to listen much more closely. Give it a shot! It’s maybe a bit like that Thinking Fast And Slow story about the kids who scored better on tests with blurry questions.
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Austin’s $7.1B Transit Plan Gets Green Light from Voters(cities-today.com)
2 points by blawson 6y ago|0 comments
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by blawson 6y ago
Steve Jobs had a video on this, about computers being bicycles for our minds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTRzYjoZhIY
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by blawson 6y ago
Technologies like Chisel can make this a lot easier I think: https://www.chisel-lang.org I'm not super familiar with it, but one day perhaps hardware verification becomes as easy as software testing someday?
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by blawson 6y ago
Maybe you've read the book Lifespan, but the research talked about in it feels far more optimistic than what you've outlined. [1] Certainly there is already a decent amount of money being spent on it, and more and more each year w
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by blawson 6y ago
Yes and no. When your RSUs are granted at 100k and then vest a few years later at 300k, from yours and the IRS' perspective you made whatever + 300k.

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