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by ptmcc 11d ago
> I still don't know why all the clothing suddenly developed that smell - I went my whole life without needing to do anything special to my athletic clothes until then. It's the takeover of synthetic fibers (i.e., plastic) for
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by ptmcc 2mo ago
That's what the https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/backdoor-roth-ira.asp is for, assuming you don't have any existing traditional IRA balances
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by ptmcc 2mo ago
They are largely congressional jobs programs, not traditional business investments
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by ptmcc 3mo ago
Introvert doesn't mean one doesn't enjoy socializing, just that one needs quiet down time to recharge from it. Extroverts tend to be energized by socialization. It's also not always so cleanly binary, either. I really hate th
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by ptmcc 3mo ago
1:1s don't have to be strictly manager:report I'm a staff eng and have 1:1s with other managers I don't report to and my peer staff/principle engs in other reporting chains and they are some of the most valuable meetings
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by ptmcc 4mo ago
$499 2007 dollars when the first iPhone launched is about $820 in 2026 dollars The basic iPhone 17 starts at $799 The 17e is only $599 If anything the iPhone is getting cheaper in real terms, not more expensive
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by ptmcc 5mo ago
Sounds very similar to The Heroes Journey, which was a heavily modified EverQuest emulation server that got destroyed in court by Daybreak Games, the current owners/operators of EQ. THJ was sort of like arcade mode EQ and became wildly
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by ptmcc 5mo ago
Which is short for "How do you do?"
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by ptmcc 8mo ago
You've never had a manager or product person take estimates, even clearly communicated as low confidence or rife with unknowns, as gospel truth? Lucky you.
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by ptmcc 11mo ago
The majority of Americans are W2 wage earners that take the standard deduction.
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by ptmcc 11mo ago
QA and SDET has been gutted as a role more or less industry-wide over the past 10-15 years. Nobody in charge cares about quality. Devs doing their own QA is like Boeing doing its own FAA certifications. Even with the best of intentions it&#
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by ptmcc 11mo ago
Resources or the care, tbh. FOSS is a big umbrella and a lot of it simply isn't meant for "customers". Some FOSS apps clearly are trying to build a user base, in which case yeah the points this post makes are worth thinking a
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by ptmcc 1y ago
If manufacturers in general were serious about improving efficiency they'd stop putting huge heavy wheels on everything, instead of chasing fractions of a percent with overcomplicated and failure-prone door handles. Side bonus, smaller
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by ptmcc 1y ago
I've run many hundreds of hours with two variations of AirPods and they've never once fallen out
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by ptmcc 1y ago
Yeah something is very CPU intensive on this otherwise plaintext site. The cutesy concurrent visitor cursors perhaps?
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by ptmcc 1y ago
My home fiber is symmetric gigabit in Seattle, for $65/mo
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by ptmcc 1y ago
Me too, the hard part is showing that this slower, more methodical process is more valuable than the flashy, quick shallow approach. And it means I might have to chew on a problem for a bit before delivering anything, even a proposal or des
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by ptmcc 1y ago
Having worked full time and saving for the past 15+ years
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by ptmcc 1y ago
Honestly I'd love to check bags more often, but it's too frequently an inordinately slow and risky proposition. I get free checked bags through my preferred airline's credit card, but still almost never do it because it adds
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by ptmcc 1y ago
Yes, and out in the world there are many things that are called "consulting", which adds to the ambiguity of what it even means
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by ptmcc 1y ago
"Consulting" is a term so generic and ill-defined it almost doesn't mean anything at all. When I did software consulting, I was basically a decent "modern" web dev brought into crusty old companies to bring some new
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by ptmcc 1y ago
To some extent, yes. Most notably, I published a little browser extension I created to scratch a personal itch. It got a little bit of attention and users, and then the feature requests started coming. Among a couple reasonable ideas were b
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by ptmcc 1y ago
SMAC was a really great game, ahead of its time in many ways and laid some groundwork for ideas later worked into Civs 3+. It's a shame the totally-not-a-SMAC-sequel Civ: Beyond Earth did not not do it justice.
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by ptmcc 1y ago
It's not about belief, it's about observing, collecting data & evidence, and proposing possible explanations. As new observations and evidence are found the possible explanations are refined. No one credible is claiming hard p
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by ptmcc 1y ago
If LLMs aren't already doing this, they certainly will soon. And it'll be even more insidious and "invisible" than sponsored search results.
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by ptmcc 2y ago
I meant more in the general operations of running and stocking a grocery store, which Amazon Fresh struggled with for a while but has also improved significantly. Now it's on par or better than most of my local Safeway/Kroger type
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by ptmcc 2y ago
I use the dash carts at the Amazon Fresh near me and they are pretty slick and problem-free. The overall Amazon Fresh experience with selection and stock has had some teething pains but they've been getting a lot better recently, proba
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by ptmcc 2y ago
This has been my experience of successful usage as well. It's not writing code for me, but pulling together the equivalent of a Stack Overflow example and some explaining sentences that I can follow up on. Not perfect and I don't
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by ptmcc 2y ago
The flip that switched for me to make me practice something TDD-adjacent is to replace most manual verification with writing a test. Once I got in the habit I find it so much faster, more consistent, and then I have lasting tests to check i
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by ptmcc 2y ago
This seems cool, if a bit over my head. But I fully support high-efficiency software that bucks the general trend of the past 30 years. Could this sort of tool have applications in more general software dev? Like as a performance profiler p

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