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randlet

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    Comment #49007206

    This can easily just be gentle ribbing where the juggler and "critic" are familiar/friendly enough that the juggler understands the dude respects his juggling skills and knows the …

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    Comment #48570064

    Great book. I really enjoyed the audiobook version which is narrated by the author.

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    Comment #48477060

    The cadence and wording sure reads like AI to me. OP, personally I find this really off putting and does not make me want to learn more about your app.

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    Comment #48331042

    > Software has been transitioning from a craft into an industrial process for the last two decades or so This seems like a good insight and it feels true to me as well. My guess is…

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    Comment #47810103

    I assumed it was AI too "All of this happened over text—not an organized workflow system, but good enough to handle a weekend’s worth of work, one weekend at a time. For a moment, …

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    Comment #47522804

    House was also a wonderful read. In many ways I enjoyed it more than SoaNM due to the parallels with software development but in a completely different domain. Building a house is …

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    Comment #47358563

    > a job that wasn't that hard to begin with The more experience I get the harder the job seems tbh

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    Comment #47327176

    "bugs were appearing everywhere out of the blue. The codebase was a huge mess of nulls, undefined behaviour, bad error handling. It was so bad that we actually lost a client over t…

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    Comment #47277033

    This is one of the big reasons I won't travel to the US anytime soon, even for work events. I really don't want to be put in a situation where you have to give a border guard acces…

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    Comment #47254694

    Sudbury is 150k+ people so not exactly tiny in terms of Canadian cities (30th most populus).

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    Comment #47201316

    Wouldn't staying feel like implicitly condoning the actions of the "psychopaths"?

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    Comment #47200472

    > The only power you have is to quit. This is an incredible power when exercised en-masse.

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    Comment #47180311

    "Either you think that forced labour in Malaysia is OK in which case this seems bizarre" It would be an interesting poll to see what the populace actually things about this stateme…

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    Comment #47180269

    I considered this too, but I think it's unreasonable in the end, since there seems to be a fundamental difference/motive between an individual consumer and an entity trying to gene…

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    Comment #47101388

    Parent is making the point that people from the US often forget that other countries exist and adhere to different rules & regulations and it seems like you're unintentionally emph…

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    Comment #47003033

    /r/epstein post from the creator: https://reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1r3joqr/i_mapped_every... ------- A week ago I posted about an open database I’ve been building to cross ref…

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    Comment #46541506

    In your first link the narrator says he "doesn’t understand the physics of it" but there's really no physics involved (ignoring scatter). It’s just a consequence of the math. It’s …

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    Comment #46035307

    I have the same and really like them other than the BTE still require an induction loop necklace for Bluetooh.

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    Comment #45684684

    > This is just how *some* humans are.

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    Comment #45683431

    Gotcha. I should have realized you meant that from the rest of your post.

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    Comment #45683348

    > I understand the self-interested desire for the ultra wealthy to have lower taxes on an individual level, I don't. It seems like mental illness to me

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    Comment #45391906

    Kinesis Freestyle Pro? I've got the non mechanical version (mechanical wasn't available when I purchased) and it's held up for many years. It's a great keyboard IMO.

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    Comment #45363318

    With all due respect it sounds like you could use a refresher on motorcycle physics.

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    Comment #45359056

    Not to mention that the rear brake comes into play as applying the rear brake will transfer weight to the front allowing you to apply your front brakes harder.

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    Comment #44911290

    2% is quite low. Most of the FIRE community would consider even 3% quite conservative.