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by tezzer 2y ago
Pensions pay (paid?) regardless of how the stock market is doing, and they pay for life. They grow with inflation, and you don't need to know anything about stocks, markets, funds, rebalancing or anything else to benefit. It was an ele
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by tezzer 3y ago
Mentos sugar free gum (since I have some handy) has xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol, aspartame, acesulfame, sucralose and "sucrose fatty acid esthers" I seem to recall most xylitol gums also have aspartame, but Mentos is the
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by tezzer 3y ago
I was working with a decoder for the LD-CELP voice compression algorithm. The machine it was running on was compute-bound and the playback stuttered a lot. I dug into the code, then went to the papers describing the algorithm, then went b
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by tezzer 4y ago
The centrifuge itself- you get a little nausea as it spins up, and then it feels like forward Gs; an elephant sitting on you or the bottom of a dip in a roller coaster that never stops. Even at higher Gs it's just a continuous crushin
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by tezzer 4y ago
Yes, in the experiment we had to touch highlighted groups of numbers on the screen during some phases, do simple math on groups of numbers, or read out numbers. One of the harder parts is repeatedly reaching out to touch the screen under G
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by tezzer 4y ago
I was a guinea pig for this experiment- they spun us up in the centrifuge, vibrated the chair in a simulation of launch forces, and had us doing reading and manual tasks. There are parts of your brain that nope out at certain frequencies,
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by tezzer 4y ago
Nobody talks about ozone because global cooperation led by science and public policy fixed the hole. Come to think of it, maybe we should talk about it more.
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by tezzer 4y ago
I play Walkabout Mini Golf weekly with a group of far-flung friends. The courses are interesting, the physics feel right, and the audio is good enough it feels like we're standing around a course having drinks and goofing off. It save
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by tezzer 4y ago
I think it was a fine retelling of "Fern Gully"
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by tezzer 5y ago
I'm with you, 100%
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by tezzer 5y ago
The optics of paying people in a culture not your own to not reproduce are problematic, yes? Besides, we know how to get people to have fewer children. Raise their standard of living.
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by tezzer 5y ago
For what it's worth, I agree with you. We've developed entirely new capabilities that grew out of tangential conversation after in-person meetings. A few of our technical folks prefer remote work, largely because it saves them f
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by tezzer 5y ago
Harper's and the Atlantic have been doing long-form journalism since the 1850s. I think the form clashes with modern attention spans and ability to focus, but I still enjoy it. Since it persists, I don't think I'm alone. Rec
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by tezzer 5y ago
I think that's an expense a company should be enthusiastic about paying- along with upgraded internet, sharing of power bills... maybe the occasional lunch delivery.
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by tezzer 5y ago
So instead I should personally shoulder the real estate and infrastructure costs of working from home? No thanks.
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by tezzer 5y ago
No, I'm not confusing anything. I'm stating my team made a great deal of progress when we got together in the office over a sticky problem; and attributing the progress to the random directions the conversation and problem solvin
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by tezzer 5y ago
I don't think I want to pay for a bigger house; I already pay to be close to work. I've never had more than a 15 minute commute, and that has occasionally been an expensive policy! I don't like co-opting my living space for
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by tezzer 5y ago
Several do, the few times I've gone into the office and done a little problem solving with the folks who were there, we accomplished like a week of work in an hour. There's something about putting heads together that's hard
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by tezzer 5y ago
I'm a software engineer. I can do my job 100% remotely. I can't wait to get back to the office. I like in-person collaboration, and I really like having separation between my work life and my home life. This year has been torture
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by tezzer 6y ago
Maybe I'm not suited for the modern world, but I paid for Office and Adobe Creative Suite and BBEdit and I expect to be able to use them indefinitely, unless I want a feature upgrade. I don't want a toothbrush subscription or a l
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by tezzer 6y ago
There's a Dunkin just built in Sunnyvale on El Camino, not open yet but they're moving in the furniture. First one I've seen outside of an airport here.
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by tezzer 6y ago
I got rid of mine when they started paying people to ask questions, and the quality of questions plummeted. Also, the clearly fake "so-and-so would like you to answer a question" email notifications annoyed me.
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by tezzer 6y ago
Great idea! You should specify a time zone in your selections, or identify which one you use, since the internet is available in a few different places these days.
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by tezzer 6y ago
The individual who lead the effort to mandate backup cameras (after backing over and killing his son) cited ~200 deaths and 15,000 injuries, annually, mostly small children and elderly [1]. I don't know if I'd call it overreach,
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by tezzer 6y ago
Oh good, I thought there was something wrong with my browser that was hiding a close button. That's a very strange design decision.
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by tezzer 6y ago
Call this anecdata, but here's part of a weekly update from a friend, ~45yo male, and his post-covid struggle: “I am trying to keep my weekly covid journal going. We are still in about month 4 post infection. Some good news is my breat
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by tezzer 6y ago
Crypto is its own category in the ITAR, one whose impact decreased over time as events made the restrictions less relevant. Most crypto is now EAR not ITAR, but treated as a special category. I'm not sure the software classification
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by tezzer 6y ago
22% of workers, 13% of private sector workers, and falling.
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by tezzer 6y ago
Ah, now I miss Meebo again, which was like adium but browser-based.
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by tezzer 7y ago
Unless the job is in a pharmacy, grocery store or hospital, your start date may have just moved right by at least a month Or at least you won't be going into the office.

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