bradstewart

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by bradstewart 1y ago
Reading the classics, in some sense, connects you to everyone who ever read them across all of human history. That's not nothing.
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by bradstewart 1y ago
Interesting, thanks. I've always been a fairly "heavy" (vs other people) user of the emdash after a high school english teacher made us use one in every paper to learn how they worked (along with a colon), and I've been
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by bradstewart 1y ago
What specifically is the LLM verbiage you're seeing here? That reads like a normal sentence to me.
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by bradstewart 1y ago
Thank you for this. As someone who recently had to stumble back into turning a few knobs in (what I thought would be) AD for Office 365 licensing needs, after ~10 years outside of the MS sandbox, I had no earthly idea what Entra was. Until
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by bradstewart 1y ago
Thank you for this. Fantastic articulation of a thing I've experienced a few times. Interestingly (or maybe not?), the things that rise to this level have a much higher activation threshold the older I get.
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by bradstewart 1y ago
> parents need to strike a balance between good faith listening and validating, while still ultimately retaining the last word and being able to be an authority when it matters. This is pretty much the key in my experience. To add a fine
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by bradstewart 2y ago
Is this really the same thing though? My family uses that app pretty regularly, and for us at least, it stops us from going out to restaurant or something instead. It's not replacing dumpster-diving, nor would I consider myself to be p
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by bradstewart 2y ago
Shoe Dog by Phil Night might fit the bill. It is definitely about the person (who founded Nike), but also a fascinating look into how the sportswear industry took hold, sponsorship deals, Michael Jordan, etc.
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by bradstewart 2y ago
For me at least, it's personal discipline. If I can fiddle and change stuff, I will.
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by bradstewart 2y ago
Not to mention security compliance. If you can afford all of that, seems pretty likely you'll also have SOC2/etc needs. Being able to "ignore" the whole physical security aspect of that stuff is a huge benefit of the clo
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by bradstewart 2y ago
Two books helped convince me this effect was "real" enough to try it: The Oxygen Advantage and Breathe. A ~year later, anecdotal evidence: it works.
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by bradstewart 2y ago
Came here to say this. Great service.
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by bradstewart 3y ago
But it would mean I don't have to buy the same brand of every tool.
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by bradstewart 3y ago
New things are coming out, Meta's "prophet" for one. I've been pretty impressed with it in a "just throw data and don't even think about parameters" sense. But the fact is, ARIMA models work . So people k
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by bradstewart 3y ago
Same exact path here, just a few years later. Tried gaming on my mom's Gateway, which led to building my first PC with a Pentium D, which led to a hobby of constantly buying/selling hardware on ebay and swapping stuff out, which l
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by bradstewart 3y ago
No knowledge of Google specifically, but that M&A team is often part of strategy unit that's constantly looking at potential acquisitions to fill gaps in product offerings, valuing internal business units for possible sale, etc. So
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by bradstewart 3y ago
I will completely admit that is the main reason I ever replace my phone. It usually ends up being more expensive to replace the battery (even doing it myself with an iFixit kit) than to get a new one with carrier subsidies and whatnot.
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by bradstewart 3y ago
Who makes the thermostat?
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by bradstewart 3y ago
Is there something unique to RISC that makes it inexpensive to manufacture custom chips? Otherwise, I'd imagine the cost of the mask set and validation to far, far outweigh any reduction in unit cost you might see from a custom chip. M
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by bradstewart 3y ago
Those are nice for reducing clutter (I have some), but you're still running 120v on 12ga copper into every one of them.
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by bradstewart 3y ago
> we need 2 months to go and clean up everything we've built over the last 6 since we now have an idea of how to structure this capability is gonna be met with a laugh and a no. How do we break this mold? While this absolutely does
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by bradstewart 3y ago
Power loss?
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by bradstewart 3y ago
The auto industry does, but would Apple operate the same way?
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by bradstewart 3y ago
It's actually incredible how bad the Google Home app and the whole account debacle is. Had the old Nest thermostat and a few cameras for ~7 years. All worked pretty well with the Nest app. I moved and bought the cheaper Nest thermostat
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by bradstewart 3y ago
It's all trade offs. I'm just spitballing here, but if you have limited resources, you can either spend cash/time on lidar or invest in higher-quality mass-produced optics, or better computer vision software. If you get to a
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by bradstewart 3y ago
Just ask them what % of the company you'd be getting, directly. They should answer that. That's a question I've always used personally, and I've refused offers from companies that wouldn't answer it.
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by bradstewart 3y ago
Appealing to "best practice" without concrete, specific reasoning is a big one.
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by bradstewart 3y ago
Thank you for this. Similar situation here, 2.5 year old and a newborn, and I have been having serious trouble keeping my head on straight. I've had so many viruses since the older one started preschool 8 months ago, I can't remem
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by bradstewart 3y ago
Yes. Philips has and Waveform have pretty decent midrange bulbs. Ketra has really, really high quality stuff.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
> If I ever go back to PC-land, it'll be to an underpowered device from a business-oriented line. I've had great luck with exactly this--used, midrange Dell Latitudes.

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