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kilbuzon My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time

LOVER BOXER POWER CODER... broke my steak of 90...

kilbuzon My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time

You might like Hurdle, which is a play on this idea.

kilbuzon How to sign off an email. Epistolary etiquette for the 21st century

Fussell's response to "Have a nice day".

"Thank you, but I have other plans."

kilbuzon Statistical Analysis with Lisp-Stat

Ah I did get confused. I have Luke's book from 1990 still!

kilbuzon The Twitching Girls: Is this the first illness spread by social media?

I believe it is meant to contrast with the first paragraph of the article, which does indeed state that typically this behavior is seen in boys. So half of the patients being female is noteworthy.

kilbuzon Incident: Air Asia A320 near Kuching on Feb 10th 2022, snake on the plane

Same with me: the Orpheum on State St. in Madison, WI. Great memories...

kilbuzon Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people

Do you think they also are running out of new customers in the luxury home gym market?

kilbuzon Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?

Yes, "it's not working from home, it's living at work" is how I feel and how I have heard it expressed.

kilbuzon World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded

Your first sentence is a tautology. We are by definition closer to the end than ever before, and always will be.

kilbuzon Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year

Usually doesn't hurt to ask, but if you really want a raise, in my experience the most reliable method is to have a better offer ready.

kilbuzon My worst tech interview experience

I guess Apple officially calls them complications. My bad, but ugh.

kilbuzon My worst tech interview experience

I am a mechanical watch collector. I stand by my opinion that the widgets on the Apple watch should never be called complications by anyone, ever.

kilbuzon My worst tech interview experience

Any (surely) dude who calls a feature on his glorified step counter a "complication" has already let you know everything you need to know about them.

kilbuzon California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

For the majority of parents, schools are "free daycare".

kilbuzon NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art

If you're talking about mass-produced watches sure. But visit, say, Rexhep Rexhepi's or the Gronefeld brothers' workshops, and you would be hard pressed to come away without an appreciation for hand-finished mechanical movements that border on art.

kilbuzon Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices

Exactly this. We got a house in hot market last Spring at 17% over asking. Did we overpay? Almost certainly. Did we lose out on 5 bids prior by "only" overbidding 5-15%? Yes. In a sea of exuberant buyers, you have to be the most exuberant. Not a great feeling at the time, but we plan on this being a keeper, and the timing was right for us.

kilbuzon Jury hands victory to Facebook and Oculus VR founder in Rift ownership trial

If they didn't love it there, wouldn't they leave? In this market, it's relatively easy to do so.

kilbuzon An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion

https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1343722582206377984

Multimillionaires are not people who joined Google 20 years ago. That's a different league altogether.

Multimillionaires are just normal people you've never heard of who work 9-5 and drink beer on the weekends with their friends and have a normal house in South Bay.

They joined Snowflake, Square, Airbnb, Lyft, Netflix, or any other of the hundreds of SV companies like those in the last decade, even the last few years.

They are the average homebuyers for 1500-2000 sq foot ranch houses in Bay Area right now.

kilbuzon An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion

My mid-career rank-and-file friends at FAANG have W2 income of $700k-1m a year. These are not high-powered individuals within their org, not even close.

kilbuzon Hackernews.com

Does anyone here remember what this URL used to serve in the 90s and 2000s?

http://web.archive.org/web/19990125090010/http://hackernews....

Was one of my favorites, classic.

kilbuzon What do people want in a co-founder?

Golf was big and is now bigger. Drawing in many younger folks, too.

kilbuzon What do people want in a co-founder?

What other side of a startup is there, besides "business"?

kilbuzon Don't give up on having kids because of climate change

Not in SF. For me, very rare to see a kid in my neighborhood, and no one talks about them. Pros and cons, sure, but it's been a while since I've heard a discussion like this.

kilbuzon Tesla Wanted $22,500 to Replace a Battery. An Independent Shop Fixed It for $5k

I don't know, there seems to be a lot of people who enjoy cars -- whether for looks, sport, status, collecting, fixing, restoring, etc. I don't think it's particularly surprising if I were chatting with folks at a party and someone would mentions cars as a hobby of theirs.

I think your charge could be leveled against most hobbies, especially collectibles. It seems a bit mean-spirited.

kilbuzon Adults with history of recreational cannabis use have altered speech production

I did not read the results, but this definitely depends on the effect size and the variance of whatever they are studying. If 31 people were raised from the dead, for example, it's plenty of sample size.

kilbuzon Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

Yes, this. I honestly don't know if I see things vividly or not well at all because there is no baseline for comparison, such as a traditional vision and color test.

kilbuzon Why can't software engineers work from home most of the time? (2016)

Or San Francisco.

kilbuzon Lina Khan: The 32-year-old taking on Big Tech

In both cases, young and old seem to believe what is in their self-interest.

kilbuzon Stripe Tax

Obligatory Office Space -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fGHaVn5rGo

kilbuzon Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests

I'll take being the last generation to experience childhood without the internet and mobile phones, and it's not even close.