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Comment · 2 years ago
Sounds like you're not a Scrooge after all.
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Comment · 2 years ago
We use Userfront and it's been solid
Comment · 3 years ago
What did John Muir do for you to label him a "horrible person"?
Comment · 3 years ago
I have one that has the FTX ad on one side and on the other side says "In hindsight, it was inevitable."
Comment · 3 years ago
That would be Nonederscore
Comment · 3 years ago
Missed a golden opportunity to call this Nodash.
Comment · 3 years ago
> No online course can ever teach you to become fluent.

I get your point, but with the pace of AI, there's a good chance this statement is not true in 5 years!

Comment · 4 years ago
I'm not a fanboy, and there are many things you could call Elon Musk, but incompetent isn't credibly one of them.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think they meant the charge lasts for 4 years, not the phone itself.
Comment · 4 years ago
> Maybe my cardiologist is just trying to make me feel good, but he says my leads will likely last 30-50 years. Intuitively that seems unlikely, but we'll see. It's got to be one of the most engineered cables in existence.

One of my favorite learnings in school was about the "Endurance limit".

Some materials, like aluminum, will eventually fail under cyclic loading even at tiny, tiny loads. This was a big problem when they built the first passenger jets. Other materials, like steel, have a threshold at which they can be cycled indefinitely without issue.

For something like a pacemaker, I like to imagine they dialed the materials and forces to be within such a threshold so you can keep on ticking!

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