jasonboyd

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by jasonboyd 11mo ago
I agree they are deadly serious, but to the parent commenter’s point, why wander the streets grabbing random people when they could go straight to the employers? They would have far more success targeting farms, construction sites, restaura
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by jasonboyd 1y ago
I have wondered this myself. I can see how it would be useful if you missed your target and it returned to you. But the demonstrations I have seen, where the boomerang is thrown and returns, the boomerang is usually thrown at an angle up in
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by jasonboyd 1y ago
Are you sure? He certainly engaged in a lot of military operations in several countries without Congress's approval. He also ramped up drone strikes dramatically.
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by jasonboyd 2y ago
I feel seen.
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by jasonboyd 2y ago
Kolyma tales. It's a collection of essays from Varlam Shalamov, a Russian writer and reporter, who was imprisoned in the Gulag for nearly two decades. It was a shocking first hand account of human suffering and depravity.
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by jasonboyd 2y ago
I think if you are careful there is little risk of rupturing your eardrum. That being said... I have ruptured my eardrum with a q-tip. It wasn't my finest moment. My wife was behind me and said something. I turned to ask her what she
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by jasonboyd 2y ago
I commented to my wife this past week that I was suddenly contacted by multiple recruiters, seemingly out of nowhere. It had been many many months prior since that had happened.
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
Everybody would rather write Python than php or c++. It isn't because of the type system.
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
I use reusable food grade silicone bags I bought from Amazon. They are not vacuum sealed but I don't think that matters at all. As long as the portion of the bag containing the food is completely submerged the water pressure is suffici
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
I haven't touched a lawn dart since 1989. I was a nine years old and I tossed it as high and as far as I could. I realized it was coming dangerously close to a friend. Everybody had their backs to me. I yelled, but nobody heard me. In
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
Honest answer, I have no interest in doing that research. I wouldn't know how to make that determination with any degree of confidence. Even if I could, I feel like it would require that I constantly monitor how a site delivers its ads
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
I allowed ads for a long time, believing a site should be able to earn revenue for the content they provide. I started blocking ads when ad networks failed to properly vet their ads and allowed malicious ads to be distributed.
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
As somebody who has put a dog through training, that tracks with my experience. As I recall, the first lesson did not involve our dogs at all. It was just a long list of all the ways we had failed our dogs. Everything after that was address
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
Agreed. But I still laughed
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
Looks like somebody is gunning for a head writer role on Sharknado 4.
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
What the airline industry has done is amazing. Had they fixed the seats in place so they could not move at all people would be directing their ire at the airlines for the cramped conditions. Instead, they let you recline your seat one inch
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by jasonboyd 3y ago
I am not an expert in this field by any means but, Planet Money did a piece recently that suggested some people are putting forward a serious theory for how a profit-price spiral would work. Again, not an expert, but the reasoning ng seemed
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
How is Santa over a large body of water in a sleigh pulled by reindeer? Magic my friend.
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
I use Feedly Classic which is clocking in at around 37 MB. But I am looking at the other apps on my phone and the majority of them (maybe 90% roughly estimating) are well over 59 MB. Chrome, for example, is almost half a gig. What device ar
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
It's clear that one is a mirror image of the other with minor Photoshop edits. I think it's clear to just about everybody. I don't believe you are arguing in good faith.
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
> Git is the interface. What? That doesn't even make any sense. Aside from the CLI I can think of almost half a dozen GUIs off the top of my head. All different interfaces for Git.
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
> Try this - have the lowest ranking engineer announce they’re going to go have drinks and see who follows. Track that number for ten announcements. Out of curiosity, what outcome do you expect? This thought seems incomplete, I think, ma
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
Then it's a fixed point?
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
Damn. I didn't know he had passed. I liked him.
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
So instead of a hard coded url it's a hard coded reference to a url? How does it deal with a breaking changing? Say the order of the links changes? It doesn't seem like this works without some out of band information.
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
I don't know the answer but we have had some very tragic fires in California the last few years that can be attributed to the power _company's_ failure to maintain their equipment.
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
I had a similar experience on that drive from SF to LA. I remember a UPS truck driving by me and the man inside wearing a face mask (this was pre COVID). I thought it was the weirdest thing. A few miles later though and you hit stench. It&#
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
It's a little finicky but I got it to work eventually. I had to get my finger on the black tape at the end of the rope just right.
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
It was cancelled pretty quickly. There was a lot of hate for it. I enjoyed it for what it was and would have liked to see another season.
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by jasonboyd 4y ago
That is one way to look at it I guess. But if it means a substantial pay raise then the amortized cost of those hours is negligible.

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