wbrasky
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
I was in the process of a job search while working at a foundering startup back in December. Interview processes were paused over the holidays and scheduled to resume in early January. Jan. 2, first day back at the old job, I was laid off. Had my final interview at another startup the following week and got an offer. Started end of January. We're all WFH for at least 2 weeks, and it's beginning to look like much longer than that. We've got connections to the retail sector, so I do wonder about that, but we have seen at least a short-term uptick in activity, presumably due to hoarding. Fingers crossed we all make it through this.
wbrasky
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6 years ago
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on: Plaid Launches in France, Spain, and Ireland
I read that as "Paid lunches"
wbrasky
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6 years ago
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on: Endurance Running Hypothesis
The Lykov Family have been well-covered. VICE had a decent piece covering the sole remaining member: Agafia. Their speech did somewhat devolve, and children born out in the taiga had developed their own cooing pidgin that they spoke to each other, IIRC.
wbrasky
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6 years ago
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on: On Building My Own Artificial Pancreas
Insulin pumps (and their cannula; not a "needle") are installed 24/7. They can be "suspended" and the insulin delivery hose unhooked, but they are generally there, and active, at all times. Likewise, a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) will provide, as the name says, continuous monitoring. Both use adhesives to keep them attached and generally remain so, even while sleeping.
Hypoglycemia also may not lead to "waking". After all, a diabetic coma may result from low blood glucose, depending on how quickly it crashes.
Source: my girlfriend is Type 1.
wbrasky
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6 years ago
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on: No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happening Now
> The tendency to seed cloud formation is well documented
wbrasky
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6 years ago
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on: China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths
"termidity"
What exactly does that mean?
wbrasky
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6 years ago
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on: Lost Dog (2005)
WTF did I just read?
wbrasky
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6 years ago
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on: We Can Do Better Than SQL
You're right, it's far far worse now.
wbrasky
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6 years ago
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on: Apollo 15 postage stamp incident
why has the title been changed from "covers" (which is what they were) to "stamp" which is a less specific form of what they were? Why are we not just using the article title?
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: Winter War
probably because that was such a needlessly snarky reply.
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: Doomed Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Boeing Sold as Extras
Welcome to capitalism.
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: 5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anxiety
Why on earth would someone use an expensive, patent-encumbered drug when there's regular Ketamine that can do the same thing?
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: I lost my domain and everything that goes with it
I mean, it's a minor quibble, but ripoff would make sense. Usury does not, in any way. It's simply a misuse of usury.
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: I lost my domain and everything that goes with it
> But from €9.6 to €185 is an increase of 1827% or 19.27 times more. To me that's usury.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid
naming anonymous functions can provide some clarity in stack traces however
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: “Diagram of All Space and Time” by Carl Sagan (1960s?)
Ann is Carl's widow. McFarlane has championed his work and was big driver (and I believe financier) of the new Cosmos.
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters
citation needed
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25
instead of a raspberry pi and all that entails, might I suggest a simple outlet timer
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation
I am equally baffled by people's love of throwing money at cars. When I needed a "new" car two years ago, I asked my mechanic what sort of car they would want from a reliability/value standpoint. I was told Subarus or Toyotas not later than about 2007 were very nice. I spent 3 months watching used listings and wound up with a very low mileage 2006 Rav4 (for ~$10k) and it has been wonderful.
wbrasky
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7 years ago
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on: MKS: Mechanical Keyboard Simulator – Bogdan's Blog
"The sound is a form of feedback. On modern laptop keyboards there is so little feedback that every bit counts. The sound is like a reassurance. It’s your computer telling you, yes, you did indeed hit that key."
Oh, feedback like say...
* a character appearing on the screen?
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* the action you were attempting to effect happening
I have a few twee coworkers who insist on using these obnoxious things. Worse even than the physical keyboards, and their arguably beneficial tactile feedback, this is exclusively the worst attribute of these. Why would anyone who isn't basically cos-playing on a computer want this trash?
