kempbellt

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by kempbellt 2y ago
This isn't an "end run around 1A" - the law doesn't target any speech or content at all. TikTok can keep operating with all the same content, they just need to separate from Chinese ownership first. If this was about cen
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by kempbellt 2y ago
Power consumption varies significantly based on what's being displayed, on top of brightness settings. I have a 42" 4k LG OLED. With a pure black background and just a taskbar visible (5% of screen), the TV draws ~40W because OLED
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by kempbellt 4y ago
That's what we recommended. Print something that uses all the colors at least once a week to keep the ink moving. I believe some printers have a "test" print that does exactly this.
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by kempbellt 4y ago
> I print A4 full color page every day This is really a key point. Inkjet printers are great for printing photos and will work great if you do so frequently. But if you don't, they have issues. Unless you print something in "fu
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by kempbellt 4y ago
Also a cloud engineer. I use a similar setup professionally and for various personal projects. For someone who isn't familiar with standing up cloud resources the diagram can look overwhelming but once you play around with AWS for a bi
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by kempbellt 4y ago
Hotels, mostly. It can definitely be expensive depending on where you stay, but there are some things that help me justify the cost in some situations. The freedom to come and go at any time - no lease/contract/mortgage, etc. Usua
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by kempbellt 4y ago
Same type of job (software), different circumstances. The most burnt out I've felt was when I needed to be in an office from about 9-5 every day. I lived in a town I didn't really like where there wasn't much to do besides ch
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by kempbellt 4y ago
This. When you start asking questions like "What's a sign of burnout?", that's usually a sign of burnout. Other obvious signs: - experiencing less and less enthusiasm about work, making it difficult to want to go to work
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by kempbellt 4y ago
When I lived in NYC, I frequently saw these things being used as urinals by homeless people. I'd rather just walk in the rain.
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by kempbellt 4y ago
I would imagine that "adding value to the user" translates to "adding value to the business" in a lot of ways for Google. If, on average , users perceive more value from Google, they use Google more, and Google earns mo
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by kempbellt 4y ago
At every company I've worked at any time someone has asked "How many active users do we have?" it was a difficult question to answer because everyone's idea of "active user" was different. "Active, as in
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by kempbellt 4y ago
> right to a quiet, safe, pleasant city center Wait...these are rights now? Who do I sue for not having any of these?
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Wherever you want. Make margaritas. Put some on your steak. Throw the rest back in the ocean if you want. We're talking, maybe a couple pounds of salt per person per day. It's not an unmanageable amount. You're not going to
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Desalinization does not have to be complicated. You can build a simple desalinator (aka, a solar still) with a couple bins, some glass/plexiglass, and access to sunlight. Preferably in an enclosed system to better contain heat and prev
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by kempbellt 5y ago
It isn't the push-button setup that you've built, but PiHole is a decent option for this purpose as well. Occasionally I add social media sites (including HN) to the block list. It's very easy to bypass when I really want&#x2
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by kempbellt 5y ago
A problem worthy of an innovative solution.
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by kempbellt 5y ago
If you can't track your users/views/etc, it's hard to sell sponsors on the idea that your video is worth sponsoring.
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Distillation. - Salt water is poured into a reservoir that is exposed to the sun. - The salt water evaporates due to the heat from the sun. - Leaving the salt behind (and most other impurities), the water vapor rises until it lands on the g
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by kempbellt 5y ago
> "+$50K for candidates with a long track record of .NET and Oracle work" This also allows discrimination based on "race, gender, and other things" since "long track record" is completely open to interpretat
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Requiring titles and pay to be interchangeable doesn't solve any of the real problems trying to be solved here. Instead of offering to pay you less, company suggests you apply for a less valuable role (or demotes you), and then pays yo
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by kempbellt 5y ago
In the real world, companies can't go down to the local "Employee Store" and order up a 12 year engineer with a PhD whenever they want, even if that's what they would prefer. In many cases hiring is an organic process wh
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by kempbellt 5y ago
I mean, I feel like that's fairly obvious, and the playful pedantry of my comment in a discussion on the very definition of basic unit of measurement was overlooked. If we are going so far as to rigidly include "sea level" in
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Sea level when the tide is in, or out?
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Go one step further and respond with "One million dollars...mmmm" Asking someone what they made at a previous employer seems like a cheap way to try and pay someone as little as possible. A fun snarky response feels justified. B
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Not sure how "read history" is a contribution to a discussion about the cost-effectiveness of abusing workers vs investing in better work conditions. A history lesson on "we used to do things this way, but then we made a law
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Got anything to actually contribute to the conversation besides a trite lazy dismissal? OP suggested that I had "noticed" their perspective and I shared my opposing experience.
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by kempbellt 5y ago
> You might have noticed that most companies don't care about these things I've noticed the opposite. Even when I worked retail jobs (minimum wage) in high-school and college, those employers considered morale the be an importa
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Fascinating. TIL. Thanks for the link. Such a strange situation, where a company has to walk away from letting people work for them because they can't verify their working conditions are good enough. I suppose these are the tricky side
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by kempbellt 5y ago
Saying I'm "very very" wrong and need to read history/some book isn't a good counter argument. It is the opposite, and a lazy retort at best. If I am wrong, I'm sure your history lessons should be able to provi
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by kempbellt 5y ago
There would probably need to be a case study to see if overworking, booting, and hiring new workers is more cost effective than investing in better work conditions. My money is on better work conditions being a better investment long term.

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