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by zimzam 6d ago
The trifold looks cool, and also solves the redundant screen problem - I hope we see more explorations of this form factor! I think I'd prefer it over having a phone with screens on two sides (and the cost of having two screens over on
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by zimzam 22d ago
How are they "making bank" by giving out 0% loans?
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by zimzam 1mo ago
So is it moral of me to destroy a copy of "Windows 95 for Dummies"? What if a person with small children and an elderly, incontinent pet with a penchant for peeing on books wants to buy it - can I sell this book to such a dangerou
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by zimzam 1mo ago
I'm not convinced safety is solved: given how often LLM's hallucinate and automated cars get confused, what happens when something unusual happens and the robot thinks a person's arm needs to be "folded" and breaks
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by zimzam 4mo ago
When I first moved to NYC I was enchanted and delighted by the various people singing or playing music on the subway but over time it became an annoyance - if I want to listen to music I’ll play it myself. Please don’t force me to attend yo
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by zimzam 6mo ago
This is only true if you assume users always scroll down while reading and the only reason they scroll up is to find the header... but many of us scroll up and down while reading and find the re-appearance of the header to interfere with ou
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by zimzam 7mo ago
I think I missed something: how do galaxies getting further away (divergence) imply that intelligent species will converge anywhere? It isn’t like one galaxy getting out of range of another on the other side of the universe is going to affe
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by zimzam 8mo ago
Correct, the person you are responding to is using it as a benchmark for the all-in cost of driving a vehicle on a per-mile basis.
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by zimzam 1y ago
What are you talking about? Inexpensive food is a boon to society. Cultivating food the 'old fashioned way' is incredibly labor intensive. We now have machines that allow us to cultivate far more food with far less labor. For exam
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by zimzam 1y ago
Yeah, the following has happened to me multiple times when I ask copoilot to fix something. It updates my code to version A, which is still broken. Then I share the error messages asking for a fix, resulting in version B, which is also brok
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by zimzam 1y ago
I think this is a framing issue. Is it fair to charge people with different sized families different prices (per unit) for toilet paper? vs. Is it fair to charge people different prices (per unit) for different sized packages of toilet pape
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by zimzam 2y ago
Parental leave is definitionally not working .
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by zimzam 2y ago
Capital-A Agile is for companies that want the benefits of agile (higher velocity) but don’t want to trust their employees or make any meaningful changes in how the management team operates (micromanagement, committing to rigid feature scop
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by zimzam 2y ago
I think that’s because glyphosate is used agriculturally not because people were mad about weed control for their lawns.
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by zimzam 3y ago
The expectation that engineers work overtime to hit arbitrary metrics can’t be fixed by a process like scrum or waterfall though. Process can’t replace competent management.
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by zimzam 3y ago
It isn't about the writing of G-d's name but rather about whether the written form will be treated respectfully or not. https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/486809/jewish...
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by zimzam 3y ago
Small correction: Hebrew for father is "ah-bah" (אַבָּא) not "bah-bah"
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by zimzam 3y ago
Most flights I've taken in the last 5+ years use group boarding, which roughly approximates filling outside in (not front to back). It only roughly approximates though because the first few groups are usually not outside-in (eg. first
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by zimzam 3y ago
In web development there is often a single place you can put a feature flag though. For example maybe the feature flag just shows/hides a new button on the UI. The rest of the code like the new backend endpoint and the new database col
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by zimzam 3y ago
Air travel is usually cheaper than Amtrak though. To travel from NYC to Chicago on Aug. 21st: Flight: $124 nonstop (2hr 40 min) or $85 with layover (7 hours) Greyhound (bus): $170 (23.5 hours) Amtrak: $144 (19.5 hours) If you value your tim
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by zimzam 3y ago
But this isn't necessarily proportional to the amount of wear-and-tear they cause on roads.
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by zimzam 3y ago
I know someone who's an actuary, and the reality is much simpler: people who consent to tracking tend to be safer drivers because they aren't afraid of the insurance company seeing their driving habits. It gives the insurance comp
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by zimzam 3y ago
This is missing context: Microsoft made their browser free at a time when Netscape cost $49. Apple giving away Safari for free at a time when all major web browsers are free is different. Sure, Apple might benefit from being the default but
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by zimzam 3y ago
I’ve had non-technical users, who used the application daily, ask me to implement a large form where every input was a radio button. When I suggested using a more appropriate mix of drop-downs, checkboxes and radio buttons they readily acce
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by zimzam 3y ago
It is a similar problem with retail space. When a dense, urban neighborhood like those in Manhattan has 30+% of their retail space unoccupied it has huge impacts on how it feels to live there. A block or two with empty retail space means no
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by zimzam 3y ago
Vision Pro wearers don't show up in FaceTime as wearing goggles though: they show a simulated face that responds to facial gestures (basically a high-res Memoji)
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by zimzam 3y ago
In my experience Humanities professors cared way more about the classes they taught. It was the Engineering / "Hard Science" professors cared way more about the research and treated teaching undergraduates as a chore and&#x2F
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by zimzam 3y ago
FYI on your jobseeker's page the copy reads "Finding a new jpb" instead of "Finding a new job"
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by zimzam 3y ago
According to articles I've read polling indicates 80% support amongst the Finnish population
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by zimzam 4y ago
Some bad managers also want to be able to walk over to your desk, ask what you are working on, and tell you to work on something else. When things are remote this kind of sloppy management doesn't work anymore, which makes bad managers

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