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by manachar 3y ago
Or: 4. Learn how to use the power setting of the microwave to ensure even heating.
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by manachar 4y ago
That's pretty much the space Wordpress thrives in, isn't it? How shit the product is for Wordpress is a matter of debate, but the documentation and ecosystem around it is robust enough to make it fairly easy to hack and use/a
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by manachar 4y ago
I often think of markets in pseudo-evolutionary terms. The types and sizes of companies that survive are those that fit the environmental pressures. One common trend in evolution is toward gigantism in places of intense competition. Whales,
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by manachar 4y ago
"Art that doesn't sell is just a storage problem." Had an artist tell me this once and it stuck with me ever since. He was referring to paintings, but has generally held for every other artistic endeavor. Looking through hist
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by manachar 4y ago
As many of these companies base their projections on a relatively small number of outside sources, it often strikes me as a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Big business and financial firms have been signaling a belief in a downturn for a
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by manachar 4y ago
If you enter a place it will provide a list of fossils potentially nearby. It seems limited and not quite as cool as as say, showing a field guide of dinos in your area during a time period.
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by manachar 4y ago
I've started hearing from non-tech people complaining about the spammy results in google results. Feels like "trust" that they're actually seeing the best results are going down. That said, many of these same people rare
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by manachar 4y ago
You joke about nukes, but since they're such an "unthinkable" weapon they've become almost useless for most people who have them. You need them so that others with fewer compunctions are not able to steamroll you, but as
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by manachar 4y ago
Humans are regularly surprised to discover that the preponderance of evidence strongly suggests the universe was not created exclusively for themselves.
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by manachar 4y ago
> The hurdles for starting up in the US market are astronomical, and there's only one contract manufacturer Perrigo Nutritionals which not surprisingly has a large minimum order size. ByHeart became the 4th brand to have its own fac
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by manachar 4y ago
A great example is sunrise at the peak in Haleakala National park on Maui. So many people were crowding the top that they started parking on critically endangered species and making an amazing experience something of a zoo. Something had to
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by manachar 4y ago
Analytics measures what you want. If you want sales, then you're also gonna want to evaluate the sales funnel to see where friction in the online sales process can be reduced, and if you're big enough do some fancier things like A
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by manachar 4y ago
I suspect the result shown here is part of the broader tendency for people to only adopt the parts of things that make them "feel better". Zen comes to America and it's adopted by self-absorbed people as a reason to be more l
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by manachar 4y ago
Google has become blinded by metrics focused on giving people what an algorithm things most people want. It's the digital equivalent of going to a restaurant and looking for vegetarian food only to be inundated with gluten-free and oth
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by manachar 4y ago
The interesting part of simulation genres is finding out what you need to change to make it fun. What makes a simulation game fun varies per game. Stardew Valley could be described as a boring loop. EVE Online just yesterday made fans happy
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by manachar 4y ago
I think the challenge here is that efficiency is always relative to the position the observer is measuring it from. In the case of Gloria, she should have some amount of slack to figure out how to do the big picture items of her job better,
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by manachar 4y ago
Baked clay is likely superior. Ceramics have fewer impurities that stone has that would cause data loss from standard things like erosion. Much of the oldest preserved writing is preserved on ceramics. For another expensive approach, I susp
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by manachar 5y ago
If you ever make it to Hawai'i, check out our Minit Stops - shockingly good food.
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by manachar 5y ago
I think it's one of those nature/nurture things. Lizards brain conditioned to infinite scroll crave it more. If you grew up without it and have avoided training that part of the mind, then it's easier to avoid getting hooked.
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by manachar 5y ago
Russia didn't hide their military buildup, they just lied and gaslit the world via their various disinformation channels into believing that Putin would have to be insane to actually invade.
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by manachar 5y ago
"Move fast and break things" with a healthy does of deep disrespect for the user mixed into a young and mostly self taught discipline (UI/UX) based on nice sounding pseudo-science that cherry picks usability studies to meet a
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by manachar 5y ago
The iPad selling well annoys me, as it's prevented a touchscreen/drawable MacBook. Apple and most others would rather us have broken and locked down operating systems that sell us apps, it's more profitable for them and incre
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by manachar 5y ago
That would take a lawsuit or a powerful battery manufacturing consortium to create a standard and convince DeWalt, Ryobi, Makita, etc. of the value. Right now vendor lock in to batteries (that have no guarantee of being available in 4 years
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by manachar 5y ago
An additional and worthwhile addition: Black Lives Matter. The movement was never ONLY Black Lives Matter, or Cops Lives Don't Matter, or any of the other ways various opponents have decided to interpret the name to justify ignoring th
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by manachar 5y ago
"Routinely run their own servers" That's doing a lot of work. Sure, it happens, but that vast majority of humans (including programmers) will not be in that category.
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by manachar 5y ago
The future is weird.
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by manachar 5y ago
Automate that work as much as possible and richly reward those who pursue it. One of the oddities of modern work is that the lowest paid jobs are mostly those nobody wants to do. Sure, we're not at replicator level, but farming of many
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by manachar 5y ago
What you choose to be a fulfilling pursuit is what you should get to do. For some, that's surfing. For others, that's building a rocket to Mars. My point is that ideally we build a society where as many people as possible get to c
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by manachar 5y ago
Reframe this critique: This should be the point of civilization and society. We should be working to free everyone to be able to go surfing when able. I dislike that some people get to be "privileged" enough to be able to do so as
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by manachar 5y ago
Moralization, as you put it is a fundamental question most humans have at some point. Is this thing/activity/etc good/bad/neutral? Additionally, any group of people basically ask the same question with the added problem

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