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> Nobody does a conference talk about the uninteresting boring work that gets done. Id go to that
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in contrast, I had a pleasant experience with people engaging with each other by leveraging the text bubble next to the cursor and then multiple people putting the cursor at the same place and shaking it for fun
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I do this all the time. Excel is a fantastic data GUI for ad-hoc reporting. My typical quick turn-around process is: type SQL in text editor, test sql in database, create a view, connect to the view from excel, use native excel features to
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my day job is a Business Analyst for a Project Management (QAQC specialty) small business. Low pay, but lots of freedom, and I get to learn all of the ins and outs of business to business contract work, especially with the government. Pri
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is it possible there is a bug with duplicate letters? or rather the implication of them when there is none? I ended up in a situation with MMNNA all colored on the same row. AFAIK there is no word for that
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popularity is expensive. people want quality, and generally arent happy to sacrifice it. but the diminishing returns hits way harder and faster for the common person than a hobbyist typically wants to accept. popularity is also skewed you
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Ant Colony Optimization is a type of graph search algorithm based on the way ants use pheromones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algori...
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>expectations put on me from where I came from >I have this crippling feeling of not doing enough These two things are not unusual to find in the same person, and a talk therapist can probably help with the details. Tbh, I had a simil
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life coach here. your feeling is valid and there is no 'answer'. It sounds like you believe you have to actually do something in order to have a point this feeling demands deep personal reflection and / or extended authentic
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isnt that kind of implied by every service? If you use something for free, dont be surprised if it isnt there tomorrow.
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> $1M in monthly revenue (extremely low margin) taking a guess that your app is an API wrapper of some kind? the $ you move is basically through your account from customer to service provider on each call and you charge some low flat ra
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collisions kill people, not speeding tbh that's not even entirely tongue in cheek either. speeding is very rarely the cause of collisions imo. As a disclaimer, I also believe drivers are solely responsible for accidents rather than p
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this can be something where SaaS model works in your favor. Allow people to manually input qualities for an item, and then when someone else inputs the same product code it suggests those qualities to them this way you can build a communit
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if the web app allows csv download, i dont see the issue. set up an automation to download a local copy every week or whatever. the download better be secure, but that's very doable
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>most people will do the research anyway eh, most people will prefer the first product they see - so by the time they get to competitor X, they just dont have the energy to do a full sweep of details. Especially if the first one had ever
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>Remarkably, if you have just enough of some more round-trip efficient storage to get you through the night, the round-trip efficiency of the ammonia, hydrogen, liquified nitrogen, or what-have-you doesn't matter very much. Solar pa
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molten salt is a form of long term energy storage being used by some companies. One example is below https://www.maltainc.com/our-solution Some alternative methods and related companies: https://www.greenbiz.com
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I like to imagine a system with the different geothermal-like technologies working together in maybe a layered like structure. Extracting from the winter / summer cycle, the day / night cycle, and the consistent deep ground /
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>For serious bulk long-term storage it would be hard to beat ammonia Is this related to flow batteries? Right now I think pumped storage is winning (where applicable), but I've heard flow batteries are more powerful >What needs
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>what counts as luxury Paying money to shoot in the dark for miracle theories is a luxury. If you dont have enough food, and you are paying to research how to get more food - it's not luxury research. If you are paying to study s
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Probably true, but somewhere between 2015 and 2020 netflix was a pretty dominant monopoly - at least in my area. Controlled viewing comparable to directTV / OnDemand was the main selling point. Being able to binge an entire show at wi
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>The whole crux of the matter is that we don't know in advance what pays off. Yeah we all know that. My post was sensitive to that. You're not wrong, but there is a cost to that. >I take it you wouldn't have funded a
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>And I would not be the one to explain to the public to spend their money on known ideas rather than discover something new and shiny. Speaking of relating scientists to labor workers.. There is a lot of value to be earned by closing the
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Netflix could have gotten away with ads a few years ago maybe. Not now with all the competition available. their content is relatively weak tbh now that a lot of the classics have moved to other platforms. I'd be gone immediately
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines We about to get some new entries
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That type of role typically requires senior engineers at a junior salary
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I think something that is lost in this conversation is that "quickly" maps to wildly different results in code quality depending on the programmer. It sounds like your CTO did not just operate quickly, but also sloppy and chaotic.
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I do them in bulk, when i have bits of downtime here and there like waiting for water to boil. I use my phone to scan, and then move the photos I try to be up to date by the end of each month because i also scan receipts and like having the
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>Adding the extra step of taking a picture loses a lot of the productivity gain. Does it really? I feel like I spend many minutes filling out the page, and a few seconds taking a picture of it. And I still have the paper.. I do not need
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Autonomous driving is going to be an absolutely huge driver (lol) of consolidating wealth into fewer states, imo. It will be in a states best interest to create a tax structure around autonomous vehicles from other states performing service

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