tidbits

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by tidbits 2mo ago
Do you have a link to the previous comment?
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by tidbits 7mo ago
Except regulations are what got us here in the first place? At least in the US, zoning is a recent invention with racial motivations. Cities want to be dense because that is the cheapest way to build. That is why basically every city older
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by tidbits 10mo ago
Immigrants still do this. Except now they fill apartments and houses with bunkbeds. I know because my dad did this in the early 2000's and is still in contact with the local immigrant community.
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by tidbits 11mo ago
It's very team/org dependent and I would say that's generally not the case. In 6 years I have only had 1 team out of 3 where that was true. The other two teams I was expected to juggle feature work with oncall work. Same for
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by tidbits 11mo ago
City Nerd made a good video on how crime statistics often incorrectly compare to a cities overall safety: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m4jG1i7jHSM
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by tidbits 1y ago
You don't pay for the externalities of using a car. Nobody does. That's why people are hostile towards cars.
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by tidbits 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by tidbits 1y ago
Take a look at the voting data for Prop 1A. It is very likely HSR would not have been approved in the first place if the central valley had been excluded. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_...
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by tidbits 1y ago
Differentiating between them is impossible until things go wrong. They can treat you as family 99% of the time, but when the options are: take a pay cut or fire some employees, in my experience everyone goes with the latter.
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by tidbits 2y ago
Seasoning doesnt matter. In all 3 cases, the key factor is temperature control. I can make eggs in all three types of pans with no sticking and no seasoning. Seasoning is only to protect the metal from rust.
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by tidbits 2y ago
I have found seasoning doesn't affect the stickiness of the pan. My MIL left my carbon steel pan sitting in water, so I had to grind it to the bone to remove the rust. But even with no seasoning, I was able to cook eggs no problem. The
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by tidbits 2y ago
Books are not a finite resource? Obviously there is a finite number of trees but there are enough for it not to be a bottleneck. Land on the hand is a finite resource, especially in large, urban cities. There is no way to design a highway o
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by tidbits 2y ago
Gas tax doesn't even begin to cover the externalities of burning that gas. Vehicle taxes go entirely towards the administrative costs of vehicles (i.e. DMV) and also don't cover externalities. Sure the road is already built but it
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by tidbits 2y ago
And if the car is not ICE then you still have the problem of tire particle pollution. Trains are better.
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by tidbits 3y ago
I worked at such a place right out of college. Always claiming we were family and that they would take care of their workers. Then covid happened, they lost some money, and laid off 25% of their employees, including people who had been ther
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by tidbits 4y ago
Or extremes are bad?
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by tidbits 4y ago
"Because almost all people have more wall warts and cables than phones." Do you have a source to verify this claim? Anecdotally, I know 3 people that switched from old Androids to iPhones who could not charge their phones. You&#x2
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by tidbits 5y ago
I read this whole thread and your responses remind me of myself earlier this year. I dont have anything new to add, but I would like to repeat what others have said that worked for me: see a therapist, change up your environment, and come u
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by tidbits 5y ago
Toyota's safety sense system has saved me from minor accidents a few times. It has never auto applied the brakes, but the alarms and brake assist have been really helpful on freeways during abrupt stops. My girlfriend, on the other han
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by tidbits 5y ago
FAANG definitely has a high bar, but there are many factors that affect interviews. However, I think a big part of it is that they were willing to take a risk on hiring me since I had 3 years of experience and did solidly on the interviews.
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by tidbits 5y ago
Absolutely. I was laid off after PPP ran out last year from a small (~20) company. Applied to a bunch of companies, went through a couple of interviews, no offers. Gave in and replied to an FAANG recruiter that had been emailing me and got
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by tidbits 6y ago
It seems that it depends on the interviewer. I nailed 3 out of 4 of the rounds for a FAANG job earlier this year, but absolutely bombed the system design question. I was offered one more interview round to redeem myself (didn't know th
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by tidbits 6y ago
My Macbook pro still does this. Granted, it's a little wonky. If you alter the window in any way while disconnected then it might not return to the original location. It also doesn't preserve any new desktop environments created o
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by tidbits 6y ago
Except it's not... I grew up in a lower middle class, majority hispanic town in California and the racism towards black people and even their own race is very prevalent. Unsurprisingly, we had a few trump caravans drive through our tow
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by tidbits 6y ago
As a non-white person that actually lives in the US, this couldn't be further from the truth. You're comparing the ideologically extreme liberal to the moderate conservative. I've visited enough states and experienced enough
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by tidbits 6y ago
People underestimate how incredibly hard it is to pull yourself out of habits born from socioeconomic factors. Video games give you an alternate reality, likely much better than your own.