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et-al

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About et-al

san francisco, ca

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    Comment #49199701

    Interesting, the NYT had a tip on flipping every 90s, but it was with a cast-iron pan and not a "cold sear". That was too smokey for our weak kitchen exhaust, so it was the last ti…

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    Comment #49072911

    I beg to differ: over-easy is more difficult because the egg whites stick more readily because there's no fat there. And you really can't mess up scrambled eggs. Everyone here seem…

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    Comment #49071391

    I can cook an over-easy egg with less than a teaspoon of oil on a non-stick. If I do it on cast-iron, it's easily twice that. That adds up to a lot of oil being throw away in a yea…

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    Comment #49071343

    If you watch the videos, folks use a generous amount of oil and butter. They basically "shallow"-fry their eggs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070419

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    Comment #49014164

    Logging in is enough friction to prevent me from browsing casually. Especially when I'm on a work computer. One benefit is my productivity had a temporary boost this week until I f…

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    Comment #48915950

    Unfortunately Germany phased out nuclear power, but continues to burn coal.

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    Comment #48719496

    Listeners will likely want to avoid it. But "creators" pushing AI music won't tag their slop as such because they want to monetize (surprise, they're not doing it for the love of t…

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    Comment #48694841

    > They are criminals, and they are committing crimes, but everyone knows that. 77.2 million people in America don't seem to know, or don't seem to care.

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    Comment #48464675

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    Comment #48297033

    Yubikeys could be cheaper. In addition to the two I have, I bought two more to store offsite with friends and family for redundancy (with access to my password manager + important …

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    Comment #48011447

    Michael... Bolton? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhxRAsnizbk

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    Comment #48010044

    I agree with you this was not Dale Carnegie's intent when he wrote the book, but alexmuresan probably takes issue because the "red pilling" crowd have used Carnegie's advice to man…

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    Comment #47949087

    Yeah, I don't know how this dupe is making it to the front page when the first-party blog post with mitchellh posting in the thread is right there.

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    Comment #47895194

    Unfortunately there's also a large subpopulation of people flying who wear noise-cancelling headphones and have their eyes glued to their phones; choosing to be disengaged from the…

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    Comment #47850397

    Luckily there are two lines: the Air and the Pro. The issue people had was from 2016-2019, the Macbook Pros sacrificed a lot of usability for thinness, when that should only happen…

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    Comment #47825791

    Yeah, this is highly dependent on the child and parent. Some kids just require attention, are more stubborn, or are just terrible sleepers and that's definitely gonna take a greate…

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    Comment #47713102

    > Skills are good for instilling non-repeatable, yet intuitive or institutional knowledge. Maybe I'm misinterpreting you, but can you explain this more? I've been using skills for …

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    Comment #47603828

    Keep in mind this is a Forbes "Site", so basically a personal blog with some minor vetting.

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    Comment #47546787

    One would hope there would be some sanitization of attachments to prevent this. I also wish there was a regular option in iOS Messages to disable link previews.

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    Comment #47252124

    In my experience, USB-C ports are more fragile than 3.5mm audio jacks for repeated plugging in / unplugging cycles.

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    Comment #47249350

    Hey, it took courage to remove that headphone jack. https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/courage/

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    Comment #47237857

    What’s MTE? I couldn’t find a reference to this anywhere in the press release or spec comparisons.

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    Comment #47200168

    Also, I think for a good number of people, their first job out of college is oftentimes one they will look fondly back on because they've just finished ~17 years of school, have fi…

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    Comment #47186576

    The same Sam Altman that brought us Worldcoin + The Orb?