handy2000

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by handy2000 3y ago
> In any case, _THIS_ is innovation. Actually playing with models and finding things that are better for everyone Yup, that's a good point. The current model doesn't seem to be sustinable.
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by handy2000 3y ago
Does this also introduce a bad incentive for drivers to delivery food slowly? Or do delivery apps account for that somehow already?..
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by handy2000 3y ago
You are partially correct describing that some delivery drivers already batch their orders. But that's still a different use case. Foodsby can't scale to 15 min increments for all restaurants in the city. While some people can pre
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by handy2000 3y ago
At the end of the day this is all driven by market dynamics that affect everyone. Uber Eats doesn't have a secret sauce that makes it cheaper for drivers to deliver food in cities with lower restaurant density. Someone has to pay for g
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by handy2000 3y ago
You are describing a completely different service though. Prep-meal delivery also works, but it's addressing a different usage pattern. In the same way you could propose to replace Uber with... buses? 15 people get on the same bus at a
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by handy2000 3y ago
I guess this answers the question: "Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels" ( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-int... )
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by handy2000 3y ago
Do you know by any chance if wiim is capable of streaming music independently, without relying on a separate computer? I.e. my smart Denon speaker can stream Spotify, so if I start playing on my laptop through that speaker and then close th
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by handy2000 3y ago
I see, thanks. So basically a suite of networking hardware solutions? What I found the most confusing is that they sort of differentiate UniFi from WiFi. E.g. "Instant WiFi for retail POS" - yes, like any other WiFi router? Or is
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by handy2000 3y ago
OK, as an engineer with decades of experience, I give up. What is "Unify AP for WiFi"?
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by handy2000 3y ago
Exactly, I only understood that it's basically a WiFi router by reading this thread. I guess I am not their target buyer... still, would appreciate more clarity.
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by handy2000 3y ago
Read this several times. Still don't know what I am looking at. What is "UniFi Networking stack", what is "UniFi Network"? Is it a WiFi router? I use a TP-Link router at home, and they don't sell it as "TP
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by handy2000 3y ago
There is a distinction to be made between a parseable string and a valid URL in more complete terms. While it's nice to have a new standard function that checks whether a string is parseable as a URL, it can't, of course, validate
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by handy2000 3y ago
I had success in the past hampering the process by linking to various legislations (e.g. GDPR, CCPA) and asking my PM to reach out to legal to approve the implementation. At larger companies legal is usually pretty cautious and takes a very
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by handy2000 3y ago
My guess is that the author chose to approach this in a softer way, without shaming the designers. He is leaning into education without assuming bad intent. Not going to lie, this might be more effective than shaming designers.
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by handy2000 3y ago
> A username form only This is such an annoying pattern that was adopted by almost all websites. It almost always breaks password managers (requiring 2 invocations). I guess it "helps" people who can't differentiate betwee
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by handy2000 3y ago
I read about Prime being hard to cancel several times now. It's not harder than any other membership. It feels weird defending Amazon, but just go to your Account, you will see a large card right at the top saying Prime. Click that, on
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by handy2000 3y ago
> they have no ability to measure the effect of any given design intervention over anything more than the duration of a test It's actually pretty common to have a holdout group that's basically a long term control group for a s
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by handy2000 3y ago
It's really not about aggressive goals. OKRs are always tied to a single metric (in some cases secondary metrics exist, too). So if no one on the team has a strong ethical compass, the way that goal is reached is not a concern, the o
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by handy2000 3y ago
Not in the HTML 4.01 spec ( https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html ), so probably a vendor extension (don't think I ever used these attributes).
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by handy2000 3y ago
Didn't know that! Wonder what made them choose to turn this off by default. Must be an interesting eng story.
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by handy2000 3y ago
> I don't think that's accurate. It was old Internet Explorer that wouldn't render tables progressively. You both agree and disagree with my comment :) If memory serves me right, I started migrating off table layouts at th
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by handy2000 3y ago
In an odd way, I miss the time when web dev was so quirky and unpredictable. It was a never-ending process of experimentation, puzzle solving, discovery, and, once you figure out a hacky way to do something as basic as a 3-column layout, ve
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by handy2000 3y ago
IIRC non-table based layouts are rendered progressively, while table-based layouts have to be loaded fully first, and only then rendered. At the point when this was relevant, the Web was slow (slow connections, slow rendering engines), so o
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by handy2000 3y ago
I get those too. Even if the founders gave away 10-20% to investors, actually building the project under the "management" of inexperienced founders and getting 1% doesn't seem like a fair deal. At this early stage when there
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by handy2000 3y ago
How is it ironic? Not sure I follow. The article is making the case for challenging music. You pointed out that Brubeck made challenging music (i.e. 5/4) accessible to most people. My argument is that this is a poor example as 5&#x2F
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by handy2000 3y ago
The worst example of this is the "founding engineer" role. I get a lot of these offers, and it just feels like a scam every single time. Founders often sell that as some incredible opportunity, zero-to-one, full codebase ownership
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by handy2000 3y ago
I have now tried four different artists and all show very bad matches. Vaguely artists in the same genre, but still clustered by overly broad features. Artist and music similarity is an incredibly nuanced area, I don't think any of the
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by handy2000 3y ago
Pandora still gives the best recommendations. I doubt the Music Genome Project will be matched by a purely computation analysis any time soon.
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by handy2000 3y ago
5/4 isn't that challenging of a time signature. I would argue it's just uncommon and so most people associate it with Take Five. 3/4 was extremely popular in Europe for centuries and is not perceived as challenging.
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by handy2000 3y ago
I somewhat disagree with your assessment. I don't think the next phase after traditional Western harmony is a wider adoption of microtonal music. What we see more and more of is an increased reliance on aspects that were previously les

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