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If you haven't tried it, Small Gods is frequently recommended as a standalone, and it's very far in subject matter from the early tolkien-parody rincewind/guards books.

I thought that was maison d'errorier

> The plan called for the Navy to sneak a nuclear-powered submarine, nearly two football fields long, into the waters off North Korea and then deploy a small team of SEALs in two m…

Store your food in PLA containers and you can too

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Any tips or reading you would recommend about organizing the workspace to improve focus? I recently switched from a self-imposed 5 days in the office (obscenely short commute, home…

The deconstruction of falling stars.. the jailbreak plot device was implausible to me when I was younger, somewhat plausible when I was introduced to VMs, and now with LLMs we're p…

There were various internal Quality of Life modules during my time at amzn, but nothing public. I suspect that given enough time working with Lua, each team will create an ad hoc, …

Sounds like doing inventory but with an extra step.

Well, a good opportunity to say that I don't post here much but I do enjoy your stories.

My reading of what laeri wrote is "you seem to be proud of the work you did on that project so I'm not sure what is hindering you from talking about it". Not "you seem to be proud …

Thank you dang. There is a lot to debug/refactor for me on a personal level now.

Thank you for the reply. I did learn a few new words such as "normative ethics" and consequentialism. I'll start with googling them and see where it leads me.

Slightly tangential to the discussion, but are there any readings you would recommend on moral decision making? Background: I am(was?) a left-leaning israeli jew, and Oct7 and the …

Thank you for taking the time to write this out. Where I am, rising interest rates have at best slowed the rate at which prices were increasing and dried up the market. I felt like…

On aliexpress, there is an usbc adapter for the t420 power cable that will allow it to take charge from a 65w powerbank (maybe even 20w). No need to search for battery replacements…

That's the evolutionary leetcode portion of the interview.

It took me several frustrating years to figure it out, but eventually getting visibly fit and well groomed gave me enough leeway to bisect the bugs in my interpersonal communicatio…

Graduated into the 08 recession. Knowing what I know now , I would have drawn out my graduation date as much as possible until the market started to improve. See if there's a way y…

Thisstory about ebay's attempted takeover of craigslist might interest you. Even before Omidyar stepped down from Craigslist’s board, his appointed agent, Garrett Price, started bu…

If I remember correctly, 'The Halo effect' by Rosenzweig has a pretty critical retrospective on these two books.

Maybe he failed to breach the manager effort thermocline https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2015/02/22/theres-a-payof...

How do you decide which skills would look good on your resume?

> There were happy go lucky chemists that fell into projects that were smooth as butter If it makes you feel any better (I 'quit' at the start of my bioinformatics PhD), there's a …