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As a Magnus fan this saddens me, but his reasons are understandable: you've got one life to live and he doesn't enjoy spending a quarter of it preparing for these grinding, stressf…

I strongly recommend people avoid health products (supplements, vitamins, etc.) and electronics from third parties on Amazon for this very reason. It's worth paying extra to get th…

This jives with what I observed as an intern some on an AWS team some years ago. The oncall rotations seemed absolutely brutal and the engineers were so busy and stressed out fight…

Reminds me of Hemingway's "Write drunk, edit sober."

Add that to the ever-growing list of reasons to get rid of the Electoral College.

For the "keep it fresh" part, I use Fellow Atmos containers for my beans (I'm sure there are other options too). They allow you to pump out the air by twisting the lid back and for…

My company has a personal development/education budget and I still have some left over. Any good books that came out this year? For reference, I'm a backend/ML engineer working pri…

I can +1 Sceptre. I got a Sceptre 65" 4k dumb TV on sale for $320 last year and have been happy with it. I hope I never have to join a smart TV; my experiences with them have been …

Any recommendations on whom to follow on that front?

I have the Sceptre 65" "dumb" TV recommended in this article and have been really happy with it. I also got it on sale last year so paid only ~$350 for it-- wait until Black Friday…

Mine is www.gautamnarula.com (or, if it's easier to remember, www.gautam.city, since my name is pronounced "Gotham"!). My elevator pitch: I'm curious about many different topics an…

The parent link has a link to a list of papers[1] that answer this question in the affirmative: For example, "Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory I…

This is a good point. How many people who got in a car accident might die when they otherwise wouldn't have because all the ICU units were taken up by COVID-19 patients? How many p…

I've seen 24 hours on cardboard[1] The best appears to be copper, which is 4 hours[1] which is why I bought some copper tape online and wrapped shared touch surfaces in my apartmen…

I've started wrapping shared touch surfaces (doorknobs, handles, etc) in my apartment with copper tape. It's pretty cheap ($12 for 66ft on Amazon). You do need to be careful about …

Twitter is currently profitable, and has been since sometime in 2018. To your bigger point, I actually think nowadays we're finally seeing fewer "me too" type companies--fewer knoc…

My evidence is mostly anecdotal too, but I have some insight into the new grad perspective both from being a recent new grad and running a site that aggregates new grad tech jobs […

I don't like/didn't like this practice from DD (I think they're finally phasing it out after much criticism), but it worked exactly the same way tipping at restaurants works, so th…

>There is no big picture. There is only hill climbing and getting stuck on local maxima constantly. This really nicely describes why I think so much software becomes bloated. You s…

Uber's greatest contribution has been losing so much money/having their share price performing so badly that SoftBank, and by extension the Saudis who poured money in the SoftBank …

That was also in 2008, when the majority was opposed to same-sex: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/change-doesnt-usually-c... The link only goes to 2015, but polling had alread…