burritosnob

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by burritosnob 8mo ago
People often confuse severe consequences (a fall = death) with high probability. Alex, like most climbers, reduce that probability to near zero through obsessive prep. The travel to/from Taiwan was statistically riskier than the climb.
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by burritosnob 2y ago
I suffered from migraines for over a decade. They were infrequent at first but, at the peak, I was getting 1-2 a week and felt like I was just "surviving" in life. I saw countless doctors and specialty clinics, none of which offer
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by burritosnob 2y ago
I'm rapidly approaching 50 and in the gym 7 days a week 2+ hours a day for heavy lifting and cardio. Creatine is one of the few supplements that I can say has noticeable immediate difference on or off. Without it, my recoveries take lo
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by burritosnob 3y ago
How are they "taking everything from the community"? You mean researching user feedback on other printers and building a better product? I have owned a dozen or so printers over the last decade going back to PrintrBot. As with a l
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by burritosnob 4y ago
I run a small consulting practice and we have pivoted almost exclusively to helping customers reduce cloud spend. Across 100+ engagements, with cloud spend raging from $500k-$40M per year, I can confidently state the following: >90% of c
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by burritosnob 4y ago
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WC64NPQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... Worth noting, the first one lasted 13 months before the frame became fairly rusty/moldy from sweat. I would put most the blame here on me t
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by burritosnob 4y ago
I bought one of the ~$400 tent saunas on Amazon and it was the best health related purchase in recent years. It only gets to 135 degrees, whereas the one at gym reached nearly 200, but it feels hotter and I can only last about half the time
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by burritosnob 6y ago
Not being an investor doesn't preclude me from having an opinion. There is nothing prescient here... just an engineering team burning cycles better spent elsewhere at current stage of the company.
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by burritosnob 6y ago
This was written by team.video who is in a hyper competitive space. Every hour spent on Aviary is an hour not spent on differentiating customer features. Why? There are a ton of open source CM tools that give you same functionality and do i