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by ebg13 6y ago
You're probably right. I don't know what would be a sane instrument to compare to bicycle care though. Is it possible to play music with a giant rock? It's weird seeing this kind of language about a classic utilitarian device
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by ebg13 6y ago
Thanks. It's hard to express how literally almost everyone who enters a PhD program is coming right out of undergrad and is still in many ways a child. There are no good decisions because making good decisions depends on having good in
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by ebg13 6y ago
This seems like a fun, slightly expensive craft project but not a serious bicycle. Or maybe the problem is that it's a little _too_ serious of a bicycle. $400 for just some tubes, glue, and dropouts, plus another $800-$2500 for the oth
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by ebg13 6y ago
Nice idea and implementation! In case you plan to move this from hackathon experiment to real product, to me the second letter in the logo splash (first image in the readme) looks like an "l" instead of the "r" that it&#
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I'm curious, what advice would you give to a person that is in that position you were when the opportunity of PhD was given? (and have a childhood dream of being a professor) Bluntly, if your goal is to become a professor, don&#
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by ebg13 6y ago
Startups tend to at least pay you for your time and effort, I think? But I wouldn't call startup culture healthy either.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Why don't you quit I did after several years. I, luckily, was in CS and landed on my feet. My partner and many friends did not quit. They, unluckily, were not in CS. So I have the displeasure of seeing it from both ends of the d
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by ebg13 6y ago
Postgraduate student depression and suicidality is at horrifying proportions. The universities don't care. No one cares. Academia is super fucked and super fucked up, and it just keeps marching onward with blindfold on and fingers in e
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by ebg13 6y ago
Many charities keep their resources in investment structures. These are often called endowments. > a charity doesn't (usually) actually use the stock - they would sell it to spend it when they needed the money It sounds like that
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by ebg13 6y ago
> is it not more effective altruism for those like Bezos and Scott to keep their wealth compounding as effectively as possible, and then donate it much later on, perhaps in a few decades? You can donate stock. Or, if desired, the chari
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by ebg13 6y ago
But most people don't need or even care about those things. Making the MB or Air body bigger (not thicker) and just increasing screen, battery, and heatsink size proportionally while keeping it fanless would knock everything else out t
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by ebg13 6y ago
> If Apple makes a 12" MacBook with a M1, it would be awesome. I wish Apple would make everything" MacBooks with M1. I hate that I have to wait another year or whatever for a 15/16" screen and will have to pay a mea
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by ebg13 6y ago
They're very pretty. But I really don't understand the meaning/value of most of the shown descriptions. (I see that the creator is not from an English-speaking country, which may explain also why the grammar is clumsy and non
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by ebg13 6y ago
Riley Reid Estimated MRR: $743,862.34 I'm in the wrong business! Meanwhile Nakedbakers has 174,386 subscribers and $0 MRR. But...uhh...where do these estimates come from?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I have a pair of Audio Technica A700s, about $150 new that are now 12 years old; I'm on my 3rd set of earpads. So you buy a new set of earpads on those every 4 years. But we can also compare with the same-market-segment-as-AirPo
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by ebg13 6y ago
I think that's the goal. One side is some special equipment and the other side is their simulation.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to give the impression that I was disagreeing. Yes, I agree with you.
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by ebg13 6y ago
If we assume that they'd make more from your (plural) personal 10 than they'd make from their tiny fraction of total revenue, then yes.
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by ebg13 6y ago
There's a broken image on the page. https://i.imgur.com/xwSUXHz.png
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by ebg13 6y ago
https://www.tripsavvy.com/paris-accessibility-to-disabled-tr... Only one Paris Metro line with 9 stations has elevators and ramps for autonomous wheelchair access. There are 16 numbered lines and hundreds of stations in the
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by ebg13 6y ago
I do want used clothes, but the average man who donates used clothing in the US is much fatter than I am so nothing ever fits.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> what is an example of a good Good for you is the one you enjoy using. Good for me is the one I enjoy using. Even if I didn't have a problem with Solarized's lower contrast, I would still think that its colors are hideous. T
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by ebg13 6y ago
> It is optimized for good readability and contrast It most certainly is not. Solarized is a low contrast theme by design and fails accessibility standards for text contrast.
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by ebg13 6y ago
And also 50% of the battery life.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The discussion seems to have settled down to "M1 is great! But you'll soon be able to get a Zen 3 CPU that's just as good." It feels worse than that to me. Those people are actually saying "But Zen 4 in 2 yea
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I still agree with the general message of love that the bible teaches That's just called Humanism. I think it's weird to say that being baptised makes you Catholic if you don't believe in the specific tenets that diffe
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by ebg13 6y ago
Being baptized doesn't transform anyone into anything. Catholicism is a belief system, not a law of physics or chemistry. If you don't adhere, then you aren't an adherent. TIL there are people who call themselves Catholic who
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I'm Catholic myself, but I don't give a shit about what the Pope says How does that work?
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by ebg13 6y ago
Red Hat was independently profitable. Slack is currently not.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Too many people in these comments talking about chances of picking random sequences or randomly choosing runs of numbers. Not enough people noticing the part where it says "The organisers say the sequence is often picked." Often?

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