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by shard 2y ago
Is it me or does this sound like a Project Manager and not a Product Manager? Where is the discussion and negotiation with customers and engineering teams on specs/targets/requirements? Where is the roadmap alignment with stra
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by shard 2y ago
Does this formulation work? You have 6 wooden blocks, each can be 1 of 6 colors. There will always be either (A) 3 blocks of the same color, or (B) 3 blocks of different colors. Iterating through all possibilities: 6 of 1 color - case A 5 o
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by shard 2y ago
I've learned to drink coffee only in the morning. If I drink coffee any time after 12PM, I'm not going to get much sleep that night. Therefore I have limited my coffee intake to medicinal purposes (i.e. as needed in order to stay
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by shard 3y ago
Whatsapp now has an AI chat feature which includes chatbots such as relationship coach, travel expert, career coach
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by shard 3y ago
Joke's on you, we're into that: Hongeo-hoe is a type of fermented fish dish from Korea's Jeolla province. Hongeo-hoe is made from skate and emits a very strong, characteristic ammonia-like odor Skates (hongeo) are cartilagino
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by shard 3y ago
At first read I thought the title was a secure password example along the lines of "correct horse battery staple": https://xkcd.com/936/
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by shard 3y ago
Thomas Riker was mentioned again in the animated show Star Trek Below Decks, when one of the characters gets doubled by a transporter accident.
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by shard 3y ago
I still see calculators being used by salesmen to show numbers and results of simple calculations. The most recent at a car dealership two days ago.
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by shard 3y ago
Have you heard of the women who would not date men using an Android phone, as well as the kids being pressured or excluded? In some social circles Apple devices are definitely status symbols.
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by shard 3y ago
> Given the billion of dollars at stake and thousands of human-years of R&D needed, none of these companies are "winging it" You'd be surprised. My personal knowledge of one major fab is that they have policies such a
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by shard 3y ago
I remember having to realign my Commodore 1541 floppy drive, which involved a lot of banging sounds if I recall.
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by shard 3y ago
Are there people paying for Google's weather predictions?
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by shard 3y ago
Are cans not all lined with plastics nowadays and therefore a source of microplastics and endocrine disruptors?
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by shard 3y ago
I don't know how contrarian I am but I thought the movie was about an upside-down world where the women held all the power and the men were oppressed, and when the men tried to change things, the women reasserted their oppression as th
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by shard 3y ago
Many also apply to life at certain multinational conglomerates. Although I suppose the pay is better than PhD life.
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by shard 3y ago
I have the same feeling regarding much of what you said, with the slight difference that even though my body didn't feel the need to go to bed, strangely enough, after lying in bed for 20 minutes or so, I often fall asleep without noti
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by shard 3y ago
I think is a combination of physical activity waking the recruits up and keeping them alert, as well as physical exhaustion helping them fall asleep. I suppose anyone who is chronically unable to stick to that schedule would get weeded out
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by shard 3y ago
I used to go out to my car and nap in the car during lunch, until I started working at a company that was close enough to not need to drive, and away went my nap time. With WFH, nap time is back on the table and I am a happy man.
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by shard 3y ago
I was in Shenzhen recently, walking around the shopping districts, and I was constantly feeling a sense of unusualness. Eventually I figured out that it was because that despite all these cars and scooters on the road, I felt like I was wak
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by shard 3y ago
Just want to be clear if you are looking for sales tips (converting potential customers into actual paying customers) or marketing tips (creating potential customers)? Because the tips are very different. As a starter: For sales, e.g. peopl
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by shard 3y ago
I think typically a company having shareholders all over the world does not make people think that it is stateless. However, ownership transfer does make a difference, especially when considering how much the new parent company alters the o
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by shard 3y ago
Why is auto routing a PCB so different from IC design? It's not reasonable to expect humans to route a full IC with hundreds of thousands of standard cells, so constraints are defined and the auto router is sicced on the mess. Do PCBs
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by shard 3y ago
> Yet we're not seeing Samsung massively moving institutional operations to US centers for instance. Culture matters a lot. Korea is a high context society, and relationship building is extremely important. Its very difficult to mig
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by shard 3y ago
As promoted by Famine in the book 'Foodless Dieting: Slim Yourself Beautiful ("The Diet Book Of The Century!")' https://wiki.lspace.org/Famine_(Good_Omens)
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by shard 3y ago
Working out give me a mood boost. I've found that if I skip workouts for a couple of months, I'm more prone to depressive moods, which is an alarm to get my ass back to the gym.
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by shard 3y ago
Sounds like the four stage strategy of the Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis in the BBC show Yes Minister: In stage one we say nothing is going to happen. Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should
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by shard 3y ago
Is that poem where the saying is from? It seems to be a 3rd category, separate from the two in the parent comment. Saying: For the set of all things that glitter, none of it is gold. Implied meaning: For the set of all things that glitter,
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by shard 3y ago
I read somewhere that it takes ten exposures to a new word before you learn it. After reading that, I started tracking how many times I see a new word before I recall what it means. Unsurprisingly, it falls along a distribution, but for har
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by shard 3y ago
Kids can keep themselves entertained very easily nowadays, YouTube/Tiktok/games can suck hours away in the blink of an eye. It's not like when I was young where going outside and hanging out with friends was the most fun choi
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by shard 3y ago
> wouldn't kids with more balanced extracurricular lives have an advantage over those who fill their day to the brim? Depends on what you mean. Afterschool activities often include sports, so there's some balance between academ

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