owlglass

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by owlglass 2y ago
Hopefully without the latency, it's slow to respond on a 2022 M2 Macbook Air (tried Firefox and Safari)
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by owlglass 2y ago
The 'Status' in the product name has two meanings, with the second being the standing conveyed by being able to shell out $189 for a pomodoro timer.
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by owlglass 2y ago
I wrote some PowerQuery functions and VBA macros to facilitate client invoicing that cut down ~2 hours of work to ~10 minutes (and shrinking, as I toy around with the scripts to delegate more of the work to the machine each time). The billi
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by owlglass 3y ago
I am assuming that GP was not specific about Chinese investors' money due to national security concerns or sinophobia. More pressing, especially to anyone hoping to live anywhere near Vancouver, is the fact that Chinese investors accou
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by owlglass 3y ago
Why make it about race? It's about her being wealthy and connected; rich, well-connected minorities get away with things all the time
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by owlglass 3y ago
> At least the well-off folks won't have their lives ruined if they fail to get tenure So the downtrodden shouldn't ever attempt anything. Also why is this a binary between tenure and financial ruin?
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by owlglass 3y ago
What indicates that Google is "too scared" as opposed to merely lagging behind?
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by owlglass 3y ago
Does VSCode have anything like Emacs' zones mentioned in the article?
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by owlglass 3y ago
While loyalty to the craft can have the side effect of generating more value to an employer, I don't think the two notions are antagonists. Get better at your craft and you'll have more opportunity to operate as a mercenary.
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by owlglass 3y ago
From the GitHub repo: * A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus. All of the memory-safe features you love, now with 100% less bureaucracy! * I assumed with the 'oxide' and 'ferrous' references that Rust
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by owlglass 3y ago
Why should someone's respect for (presumably) achievements as a technologist or entrepreneur extend to opinions about events like these (or really any event outside of business/technology?)
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by owlglass 3y ago
Bio says "middle-aged software developer," so likely just hoping it's far enough that they'll be retired when it doesn't matter to them
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by owlglass 3y ago
> [This analysis] notes that the criminal justice system is more lenient toward white-collar offenders than nonviolent property offenders and that affluent offenders are less likely to serve prison sentences than poor offenders even when
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by owlglass 3y ago
You're right, we should just let inequality fester and wealth disparity grow. I'm glad that early doctors and engineers working on difficult problems didn't just shrug their shoulders while saying "what can you do?"
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by owlglass 3y ago
Money. Where else are likely to make hundreds of thousands of dollars with a PhD in comparative literature?
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by owlglass 4y ago
Per Wikipedia, he's the President of YC, he's essentially a politician (without the ostensible duty to the public)
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by owlglass 4y ago
They're asking to "be made whole," but are "not asking for a bailout." What exactly do they want, then?
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by owlglass 4y ago
Coming to a city near you, WaaS
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by owlglass 4y ago
Even if English is the lingua franca of the world, people master it to varying degrees. Also, it seems like 'quitted' was the more common form up until the ~late 1930s [1], so it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that, if
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by owlglass 4y ago
As far as I understand, universities' reasoning for differential tuition varies from demand for a particular major, projected earning potential, and the cost of providing the major itself (for example, a civil engineering student requi
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by owlglass 4y ago
I'd like to add my experience. I did a year of English in university, then switched to a software engineering major after internalizing all the "an English degree is useless" rhetoric. While I am glad I didn't spend the
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by owlglass 4y ago
While I do agree that a mid/low-level employee is very unlikely to be the cause (why risk a reasonably high salary at Uber and possibly being blackballed from the industry if detected?), I think Hanlon's Razor [1] could be used he
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by owlglass 4y ago
What of his endeavor has been miserable? He's still a billionaire who exercises his power as he wishes
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by owlglass 4y ago
It's an approach to reasoning and thinking used in philosophy and science [1]. It could be applied to any concept. The author's articles and those by Bartosz Ciechanowski [2] are good examples of first-principles explanations of v
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by owlglass 4y ago
TIL Roustem Karimov is Canadian
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by owlglass 4y ago
It'd be worthwhile for recreation, but software is kind of unique in eschewing credentials in favor of experience and ability. Civil engineers must be accredited to practice. While I don't think the requirements are as rigid for m
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by owlglass 4y ago
Looks to be an MIT PhD in AI [1] [1] https://meaningness.com/about-my-sites
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by owlglass 4y ago
Not research backed, but to add one data point, I bought into the whole "I need a three-step skincare routine" trend (which I think is positive, people should care for their skin as they should any other organ). However, after try
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by owlglass 4y ago
I think I might be able to close it here)
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by owlglass 4y ago
I found Sandspiel and its creator's blog a while back, and it was really humbling and inspiring. Max is clearly very talented and dedicated, and his projects served as a reminder to me, as a jaded person tired of seeking the profitabil

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