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Comment · 9 days ago
A layer of frozen burritos is probably your best defense.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you hide the left sidebar, and then print, then it is aligned correctly. Each H1 is on a separate page, which is certainly a choice, but on cursory inspection, it would seem as if all the content is there.
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Comment · 4 years ago
Some fave quotes:

“There are certainly conspiracies in capitalism, but the problem is that they are themselves only possible because of deeper level structures that allow them to function. Does anyone really think, for instance, that things would improve if we replaced the whole managerial and banking class with a whole new set of ('better') people? Surely, on the contrary, it is evident that the vices are engendered by the structure, and that while the structure remains, the vices will reproduce themselves.”

“The delusion that many who enter into management with high hopes is precisely that they, the individual, can change things, that they will not repeat what their managers had done, that things will be different this time; but watch someone step up to management and it’s usually not long before the grey petrification of power starts to subsume them. It is here that the structure is palpable — you can practically see it taking people over, hear its deadened/deadening judgments speaking through them.”

Comment · 6 years ago
I got curious about the airplane wheelie record. Seems it was set the day before this video was posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLRZDDORFcY

So, one runway filled with dozens of airliners, the other one has someone doing three-mile wheelies in a Cessna :)

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Comment · 6 years ago
So, what you're saying is if we can teach burnt-out medics to code…
Comment · 6 years ago
Got sick of dealing with assholes. One weekend, a director said that we all had to come in to finish the last features for a Monday launch, so we all came in ten hours both days and finished the parts necessary for the feature. He never showed up in the office. Monday rolls around and we find out that he knew on Thursday that the launch wasn't going to happen.

I had been at the company for over a decade, and had gotten quite lucky in the RSU lottery & thought, wait, I have enough money to last forever, so why do I do this to myself?

My health was bad, I was overweight, smoked, was depressed. I felt like it was going to kill me if I stayed another decade.

So I quit. In the years since, I stopped smoking, lost 1/3 my bodyweight & really got my shit together. I dink around on personal projects and learn new things. I follow HN because I'm genuinely interested in tech & now I can pursue what things I want, rather than those I need for $JOB or $NEXT_JOB.

I miss the good people I used to work with, but this is almost completely offset by how much I don't miss the assholes and the hassles (annual review, recruiting, meetings, explaining basic math to MBAs, etc).

Comment · 7 years ago
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." — Balzac
Comment · 7 years ago
2015s were the last good MBPs. I pray daily that mine will last forever.
Comment · 7 years ago
Not to shill, but with Amazon Wardrobe, they explicitly expect you to send some of the products back. The other differences are that you are not billed until you decide what to keep and (to me, the biggest innovation), they use a box that is perforated with peel-and-stick strips for you to use to mail back and also include a pre-printed return label.

That last one is huge for me because the local UPS store got wise to Amazon returns and now charges $1.50 for the first printout, but only if you email them, which neatly captures everyone who needs to print a return label, but doesn't have a printer of their own.

I recently lost a lot of weight and so I wasn't sure what size I was for a lot of items. So I just ordered a couple different sizes and sent back the ones that didn't fit. Such a better experience than trying to find multiple sizes of the same thing in a store, then going to the dressing room where everything is counted because I'm assumed to be a criminal.

Biggest down side is that they use their very lowest priority and slowest shipping for it. But for me, clothes are rarely urgent.

Comment · 7 years ago
The very next sentence after that quote is:

> This per-passenger profit is roughly double what airlines around the world make per passenger, according to the International Air Transport Association

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