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by devchix 4y ago
> There is an open niche for a real-restaurants-only delivery service ... but not at a sustainable price for workers and consumers. The trajectory of this industry is birthing crazy illogical things like ghost kitchens, weird liminal ar
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by devchix 4y ago
An HN user's unforgettable description of Google: "At least when I was there, google seemed like an island with melancholic, but smart and kind pandas who never had to compete for food, for the food was brought to them by a ferry,
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by devchix 4y ago
Whoever is writing the copies for this website is a cheeky tart. Surplus French Stainless Steel Tray: If you have always wanted to experience the ghastly conditions of the French army dining facilities where you don’t even have separate ho
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by devchix 4y ago
I've read that rent-a-family is a normalized service in Japan, I don't know if that's a common rental there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental_family_service This makes me think that humans don't
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by devchix 4y ago
Well I went to the same law school my cousin Vinny did, and I'm pretty sure you can disqualify the expert witness by asking questions like, what's the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic-inch en
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by devchix 4y ago
That he was paid is not enough reason to invalidate his testimony. Everyone in court that day, the lawyers, the judge, you, were paid. Why not him? If he indeed has expertise that would win his party's case, what exactly is wrong wi
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by devchix 4y ago
> The plan was very complex, it was thought of by very smart and powerful people I watched the hearing, I mostly agree with you except for this part. It seems to me there were a confluence of factors colliding. The plan was not thought
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by devchix 4y ago
To present an alternate point of view, I never grokked this idea of free soda, free food, catered lunches, sleeping pods, dry-cleaning, massages, ping-pong table as a way to attract talents. If I took a risk to work for a startup, I want a
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by devchix 4y ago
>I think what I really want is a work canteen, but open to the public I think what I want is an ordinary, a set meal at a local tavern "ordained" at a time and price. I think restaurants evolved to serve a variety of dishes, w
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by devchix 4y ago
I'm in a suburb of a large metropolitan area in the US. The grocery store is abundant, but 20 minutes away, I make one main trip to the store weekly, and a couple of side trips to other stores, eg Mexican/Asian groceries. We hav
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by devchix 4y ago
Yes, I'm using this method. The downside is I can only bake 1 loaf at a time, limited by the size of the Dutch oven, and no baguette. :(
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by devchix 4y ago
> especially with food: it takes a lot of time to source, prepare, serve and clean up Absolutely! You can't just buy a slab of chicken breast, it needs to be trimmed and put away until ready to be used. Hardest of all: planning, w
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by devchix 4y ago
> I bake my own bread Hear hear! I bake once a week, sourdough is my white whale, I've never made a good one, the lean crusty breads need a good commercial oven to turn out a good crust. The home ovens (even with crazy modificatio
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by devchix 4y ago
I like the London practice of having a small square of park in the center among the homes. Although it seems a practice of wealthier urban areas, the parks are gated, the home owners have a key and they pay for the upkeep. I don't kn
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by devchix 4y ago
> their pre-digital limitations Exactly so. I love the idea of scribbling in a leather-bound gilt edge notebook, like a modern Thucydides. I can't find anything later without flipping through, and I hear people keep index in the
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by devchix 4y ago
I've heard the same thing on a recent NPR Planet Money podcast: No Shortage of Labor Stories (Dec 2021): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1065332194 Employers were saying they're desperate to hire, and there
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by devchix 4y ago
> Chances are its not going to change how the company operates any more than the tragedy already has. This seems so wrong to me. The death of a child (or multiple instances of it) is not going to change how a company operates. Neither
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by devchix 5y ago
There's a small distillation of his principles in The Not So Big House , (bonus, it has photos). From what I remember, you want to design space so people move from dark toward light, light rooms from two sides, sleep area should be l
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by devchix 5y ago
This is warm-and-fuzzy sounding sophistry. JFK didn't just say, "Screw it we're going to the moon." He put billions of funding and hired smart people to do it. The bad things that will happen to you is typically not
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by devchix 5y ago
"The announcement of his death was carried in the local paper of Montreuil-sur-mer. M. Madeleine appeared next morning dressed in black and with a black band on his hat. This mourning was noticed all over the town, and there was talk.
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by devchix 5y ago
I'm searching for it myself. There's been plenty of venting about "smart" TVs on HN in the past year. The fellow who wanted to start the project said he had a background in electronics, I should have stickied that threa
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by devchix 5y ago
There was a previous HN thread where someone said they were attempting to make a dumb TV (a commercial endeavor) and others here said they were interested in working on that. I wonder where that effort is. Feels like there is a ready mark
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by devchix 5y ago
The core of this post is the linked article The Pseudoscience of Parking Requirements . The core of that article is three bullet points: • Remove off-street parking requirements. Developers and businesses can then decide how many parki
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by devchix 5y ago
There's more of us than of you. Fuck off, Achilles. /s - of course.
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by devchix 5y ago
Dresden was leveled by bombings in WW2, and rebuilt. There was an attempt to preserve its architectural heritage - red tiled roofs, cobble stone streets, large piazza at the center. There's a burnt church somewhere that's preserv
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by devchix 5y ago
I'm a proficient home cook and baker, on occasion I bring baked goods to work. Invariably, people tell me this thing that I've brought is Delicious! Because it's not TOO sweet ! There's a weird disconnect between the
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by devchix 5y ago
This article is written in an alien universe. "Best Practice" is the well-trodden path. It's typically easy to find, many people know about it, it avoids most of the pitfalls you don't know about, you can get help if
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by devchix 5y ago
You've persuaded me to get the book, I haven't read it yet but I listened to the podcast. I have a few errant thoughts, not exhaustive, it's what I remember. 1. She described the first diagram of a home-automation device wit
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by devchix 5y ago
... and for the things within your reach, you will leave a legacy of unmaintainable bash scripts; the inheritors of which will loathe to modify or throw them out all together because of code inertia and their foggy understanding of it.
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by devchix 5y ago
Early 2000s, me and two others, all working for major US-multinational companies you've all heard of, were onsite for one major US customer. We were all shoved into one cube, ONE . I used to joke that if the cube was any smaller it

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