garettmd

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by garettmd 6d ago
I think these responses show how much stigma is attached to mental illness, that people abhor someone placing the label on someone else. Despite the fact that, for anyone familiar with it themselves or in loved ones, it's a lot more pr
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by garettmd 3mo ago
I'm not a huge stout fan but Sam Smith's is pretty outstanding.
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by garettmd 3mo ago
Please explain. I want to know if I'm doing those 2 things correctly...
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Stop Using Pull Requests(a4al6a.substack.com)
3 points by garettmd 4mo ago|0 comments
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by garettmd 4mo ago
How does one pronounce this tool
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by garettmd 6mo ago
It used to be that people didn't read the article, now they don't even read the headline.
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by garettmd 6mo ago
I think part of the issue is that Azure has been struggling to reliably provision Linux VMs. Whether that's due to increased load, poor operational execution, or a combination of them, it's hard for anyone on the outside to know.
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by garettmd 6mo ago
Can anyone comment on the woman peeling her face (mask) off in the background? wth is going on there?
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by garettmd 7mo ago
> It's because your brain is predicting what they will say while they speak, and processing an answer at the same time. It's also why when they say what you didn't expect, you say, "what?" and then answer half a
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by garettmd 7mo ago
prompt: what's the term for financial moves where you keep finding new investors to pay off the previous ones GPT-4o mini: The term for financial moves where new investors are continually recruited to pay off previous ones is often ref
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by garettmd 10mo ago
I always find these discussions about AWS NAT gateways interesting because I recall way back in the day, before AWS had a manages NAT gateway, the recommendation was to roll your own anyway. Or at least that's what I heard. I took an A
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by garettmd 10mo ago
I mean, they have built their own model: https://cursor.com/blog/composer And presumably they'll use the funding to build more than just a modified VSCode.
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by garettmd 1y ago
I'd argue this is an issue not just with "non-tech" folks, but even engineers who don't have experience with Prometheus and other time-series databases. Learning promql always seemed like a hard thing to ask of other eng
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by garettmd 1y ago
How are you finding it compares to just using [Neo]Vim with all the plugins and custom configs? What improvements does it offer?
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by garettmd 3y ago
At least in the US, people routinely spray dandelions with weed killer. So an argument could be made in favor of telling kids - especially in a classroom setting - where you'd rather err on the side of keeping kids from picking dandeli
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by garettmd 4y ago
China's done similar things, the most prominent I can think of being them bullying the NBA into policing what their players can say.
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by garettmd 4y ago
From what I understand, it is cheaper. However, that's just with new power. Most of the power available now is from existing installations, making existing fossil fuel power cheaper than any new installations.
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by garettmd 4y ago
I remember during most interactions with healthcare providers during my wife and I's pregnancies, hardly anyone ever talked to me, sometimes never even looking at me. I get it, I'm not the one carrying a baby to term, but I would
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by garettmd 4y ago
But I think a distinction between "against" and "next to" is that generally speaking, "against" implies a closer contact than just being "next to" or "adjacent to" something. Like in the cha
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by garettmd 4y ago
Yes, that is totally allowed. It is trivial to find products with the confederate flag printed on them.
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by garettmd 4y ago
Which direction are you betting on lab-grown meats?
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by garettmd 4y ago
Not arguing with you that it takes a considerable amount of time to prepare and clean-up a home cooked meal. But as someone who is not living alone (have a wife and kids), I'd say you probably have a lot more free time than you think y
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by garettmd 4y ago
Can someone ELI5 for me?
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by garettmd 4y ago
I mean, to be fair, having a Code of [Conduct|Ethics] is table-stakes for any company smaller than a small startup. This is far from a song and dance, but just checking off a box.
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by garettmd 4y ago
Everything is going down right now. -10% over the last 3 months doesn't seem that epic to me.
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by garettmd 4y ago
There's an option to order without any OS installed
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by garettmd 5y ago
There's also the fact that the "inflation rate" is a pretty imprecise number. There's no real inflation rate, it's more of an average of the price increases of various sectors of the economy. But even drilling down
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Groundhog Day traditions outside Punxsutawney(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by garettmd 5y ago|0 comments
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by garettmd 5y ago
Point a seems more related to the "culture" surrounding modern engineering than it does a prerequisite for the discipline itself. Looking at how SpaceX engineers produce things looks totally different (from my outside perspective)
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by garettmd 5y ago
Although the new CEO has only been in place for about a week. I bet this acquisition has been in the works for longer than that.

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