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In the USA fast food companies are requiring non competes for burger flippers.

Article telling you to avoid queues and priorities advises you to implement a priority queue.

There are very few grid failures under regulated systems too. Also, was said, the grid itself is a heavily regulated service.

I beg to differ. Difficulty depends upon the recipe.

Lamb/mutton tagines are incredibly easy to make. They’re basically “throw it into a slow cooker and come back eight hours later” dishes. You can improve the flavor by browning, but the simplest versions are still wonderfully delicious and basically idiot proof.

You’ve been digging yourself a deeper hole rather than climbing out. I hope you start climbing soon.

It’s a great theory, but it has a problem. There are quiet motorcycles. For example, BMW motorcycles are quiet.

[BMW made a cruiser bike for a few years. They were trying to move into Harley’s market segment. In order to get the “right” sound they had to detune the engine, resulting in a massive decrease in horsepower.]

What i remember from my PDE class was a lecture which involved solving the wave equation for a particular bounded case and, with a slight transformation, the professor showing that the normal distribution was embedded in that solution.

Global warming is a direct result of technological change.

From looking around at the opposition to chemical industry regulations, it seems that knowingly poisoning people still isn’t considered wrong.

Incidents eventually resulted in the creation of Institutional Review Boards. All research on human subjects must now pass an IRB, and these are not rubber stamp organizations.

I’m an American. I lived in Switzerland. There is no glorification of the military. It’s a job that people have to do. It’s less, “I proudly serve my country,” and much more, “Aw crap. It’s time for my annual marksmanship certification.”

It’s super easy to parse until you have interesting higher order functions.

It’s amazing how hard the majority of poor people work. If effort was all that counted then the slums of the world would be overflowing with billionaires.

Garbage collected applications require 2x-4x more memory to run efficiently. Android apps use GC. IOS apps do not use GC. Therefore apple can ship devices with less memory to get the same effective functionality. Less memory means smaller batteries or longer battery life. It’s a good trade off that gives apple more flexibility in terms of hardware platforms.

And who is going to make that comprehensive information available?

Non human animals. Farmers feed massive amounts of antibiotics to their livestock. This used to increase their weight, but it’s no longer clear that this works.

And then there is the realists take with running your own: OH F*K. Another bug I have to deal with.

If it generates an artists signature when producing something in that artists style, then I’d argue against that idea. And frequently enough, they will generate a recognizable signature.

If I could upvote this a thousand times, then I would. Bad management makes any development methodology suck.

If I could upvote this 1000 times, then I would.

Hi end gas ranges will beat a good electric kettle in the USA. (kettle 7min, range <6 min). My wife picked up a used thermidor this last summer and it beats any kettle we’ve had in the USA so far by at least a minute. That said, the kettle is more convenient overall (auto shutoff, auto start, pour from same container), so we end up using it.

In the other hand the US kettle beat the crap out of our old gas range, and even the good range is not nearly as fast as a crappy electric kettle in germany, which clocks in at 4 min.

This article contains really good advice.

My current experience with hiring for remote positions says otherwise.

I think the metaphor is more apt than you’re giving it credit for. You just don’t have enough experience with the trade offs involved with “the best tphysical ool for the job”. :)

Sonic is pretty good. https://www.sonic.com/

If you are a german resident, and you make two or more long distance rail trips a year, then you a buy a bahncard 25 or bahncard 50 which give you (respectively) 25% or 50% ticket discounts.

Yup. Paul Graham doesn’t seem to have a very accurate memory of historical conditions.

> Up till about 1985 the window [of what you can say without being cancelled] had been growing ever wider. Anyone looking into the future in 1985 would have expected freedom of expression to continue to increase. Instead it has decreased.

In 1985 in most places in the USA a public school teacher openly supporting gay rights in the classroom would have been risking their job and possibly their entire career.

I know at least one of these people. When you give her an opportunity she hits the ball out of the park. Wherever you put her she quickly rises to the top, but she has been denied many opportunities because she doesn’t test well on standardized tests.