extragood

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by extragood 2y ago
Why is it the 34th "first annual" ceremony? Is it humor or is there something deeper?
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by extragood 2y ago
I had a Lyft driver who nodded off several times during a ride to the point we had him leave us at the nearest corner as soon as it was safe. It was genuinely scary. I messaged Lyft and they really didn't seem to take it seriously or c
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by extragood 2y ago
I was actually converted to tabs after hearing Richard Hendricks' argument against spaces in Silicon Valley, the TV show. Really didn't think I was going to be challenging my own preferences when watching that show.
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by extragood 2y ago
To your last point, that's basically what I did. I get a lot of satisfaction from being the technical consult for customers, working alongside Sales and CS, and still having that link back to engineering. The kicker is that I get paid
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by extragood 2y ago
Your 2nd point was what really sold me. I was apprehensive before my first ride but it deftly navigated around double parked cars in narrow side streets like I would have done myself. Surpassed my expectations for sure.
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by extragood 2y ago
Keep using Waymo and stream with a stranger on one of the Omegle clones when you ride. Problem solved.
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by extragood 2y ago
Yep. My previous company almost exclusively hires in Latin and South America now. The interesting thing to me is that it hasn't affected the executives themselves yet. If employees from one region work just as well as employees from an
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by extragood 2y ago
That policy was actually one of the major reasons I liked that company and stuck with them for so long. Their goal early on was to avoid raising money if at all possible, and they managed that for a long time by mostly being cash-flow posit
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by extragood 2y ago
I am convinced that the WFH movement is responsible for the recent offshoring trend. Before 2020, it was fairly uncommon to work remotely and most employees were expected to physically come to the office. You would relocate if you got a job
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by extragood 2y ago
It happens. I was offered the option to liquidate up to 20% of my vested shares at my last company's Series A. It was restricted by tenure though (3 years), so it wasn't available to everyone. In retrospect, I should have liquidat
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by extragood 2y ago
I have Crohn 's disease and it's never occurred to me to fault my parents. It is a genetic disease, and I can only hope that the doctors you've worked with have helped you to understand the basics so you can educate yourself
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by extragood 2y ago
Not sure if it's what was meant, but an HOA board isn't too far off of that description. In my experience, the job is necessary but relatively thankless and uncompensated. No one wanted to volunteer their time, and I was intereste
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by extragood 2y ago
It's easy enough to reproduce - may as well run a quick experiment and record that.
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by extragood 2y ago
Yeah, I'm very certain that I've read about this phenomenon in the not so recent past. To the point where I've intentionally listened for the difference on many occassions since then.
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by extragood 2y ago
I've just started using Otta for my search and they publish responsiveness scores. Not sure if it's by role or across the company. It's saved me from wasting time on companies with bad hiring practices (assuming scoring is ac
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by extragood 2y ago
I don't see any missing essentials on this keyboard (even pg up is there), but some of the even smaller form factors actually remove the arrow keys, and using fn for those gets irritating super quickly.
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by extragood 2y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes, but prefer hybrid/on-site Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Flask, React, MySQL, MongoDB, GCP. Some Javascript, Rust, Java. Résumé/CV: https://docs.google
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by extragood 2y ago
Have you messed with animation settings in developer mode? It helped me a lot when a previous phone of mine was starting to show its age. https://www.reddit.com/r/S22Ultra/comments/u6dstg/anyone_els...
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by extragood 2y ago
It was a pretty popular subject on HN as recently as a few years ago. I dont know very much Japanese, but I am familiar with that one due to the other articles that explore the culture. I suspect that there's also some bias at play: th
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by extragood 2y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes, but prefer hybrid/on-site Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Flask, MySQL, MongoDB, GCP. Some Javascript, Rust, Java. Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com&#x
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by extragood 2y ago
Thanks for the comparison to Sublime. That's been my preferred editor for a decade, but massive files have always been a pain point.
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by extragood 2y ago
Thanks for the detailed response! That's really encouraging to hear, and I think thats enough to push me over the edge. Had a close call recently and lost a disk as I was preparing to migrate to my current hardware. I may adopt your 2
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by extragood 2y ago
Agreed on your points about cheap storage and compression artifacts. I've entertained setting up a tape drive local backup for my NAS (4x 14 TB) for a few years. Is it worthwhile from your experience?
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by extragood 2y ago
"I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?"
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by extragood 2y ago
"Sue you". I can't help but appreciate a clever name
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by extragood 3y ago
There was something I was supposed to do today.. huh. Must not have been important. << KILLBOT ACTIVATING >> oh no
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by extragood 3y ago
I've been getting a biosimilar to Infliximab for several years to treat Crohns. I go in for an infusion every 8 weeks; about 6 times per year. I can only tell you the cost on the invoice from US providers, but it's about $10k for
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by extragood 3y ago
This has been my major concern with the currently available LLMs. You can know what the input is, you can know the output, you may even be aware what it's been trained on, but none of the output is ever cited. Unless you are already fa
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by extragood 3y ago
It's notable that it's in Chinatown. I lived there a decade ago and currently work close by. There are few drug addicted homeless people who reside there. The news makes it sound pervasive for political reasons, but it's actu
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by extragood 3y ago
> In the past, many archaeologists interpreted these batons as a noisemaker or ritual object, a sort of ice age magic wand or scepter. “Ritualism was something they used to ascribe everything to,” says Wei Chu, an archaeologist at Leiden

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