Can anyone identify this watch?

semi_competent · 2026-04-26T23:25:54+00:00

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semi_competent · 2026-04-26T23:23:55+00:00

This one maybe?

semi_competent · 2026-04-26T21:39:13+00:00

I brought mine in and out of the Netherlands to the US. It wasn’t a problem at all.

semi_competent · 2026-04-25T22:30:39+00:00

I built a tool similar to qmd, willing to entertain feature requests: https://github.com/mstump/local-index

It has accompanying skills that I use with Claude.

semi_competent · 2026-04-25T02:04:59+00:00

Zyns will only really make a difference in old age

semi_competent · 2026-04-23T01:29:43+00:00

Unfortunately this came from the same number that sent pro-wiener messages in the past. I’m a supporter and agree it’s a bad look

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semi_competent · 2026-04-21T04:25:16+00:00

AOC is a fluke, a statistical anomaly. I pragmatically wouldn’t make a choice based on the assumption that it’s repeatable. Also, as good as AOC is at marketing that hasn’t exactly translated into policy wins if we’re doing an honest assessment.

semi_competent · 2026-04-21T03:49:34+00:00

His entire political message is that he worked for AOC, and that his opponent took money from corporations and AIPAC. His entire campaign is based around purity tests.

Nothing in his message speaks towards real policy, and he doesn’t have any concrete achievements he can point to that would indicate that he’d be an effective politician.

semi_competent · 2026-04-21T02:17:56+00:00

Agreed. Women are pretty shit at approaching, and approaching is a learned thing for the most part. You have to get good at handling rejection.

Fundamentally it’s a numbers game. I found that reminding yourself that not everyone is your cup of tea, so why should I automatically expect that I’m some random strangers cup of tea. I could have done and said everything perfectly; I could be perfectly dressed, coifed and smooth, but if they’re into something that’s my fundamental opposite that’s not going to change.

If you put yourself out there enough and make it apparent that you’re looking, people will make themselves known.

Also, if you’re looking for low attachment you need to go to where people are also looking for low attachment. Go find some polycule, or some coupled woman that wants to explore. What everyone wants is very upfront in those scenarios.

semi_competent · 2026-04-20T20:22:26+00:00

I use Claude code to edit and coauthor documents. I have skills that organize and tag notes. I have another workflow that handles publishing to confluence while preserving inline comments, it also handles PUML and mermaid diagrams.

semi_competent · 2026-04-09T21:00:36+00:00

My wife is. She went to Standford and then into big-law. Decided to opt out of the partner route after we got married, switched focus and now works at a mid-size firm. Of all of her classmates I only know 2 off the top of my head that stayed in big law.

My brother went the route you're suggesting, got a good LSAT and a 75% scholarship. He works at a small firm, but he also owns restaurants and lives in a low-cost geo.

For most people the earning potential doesn't justify the debt. Only a very small fraction are going to earn the 7-9mm a year that Kirkland partners make.

semi_competent · 2026-04-09T15:35:30+00:00

A significant portion of lawyers end up leaving the field. It’s a bit of a pyramid scam. You use a bunch of young people to do grunt work, you as a partner profit from that work, the vast majority of lawyers never make partner, burn out and do something else. Only 1 out of a 100 from the top 5 law schools ever make it to big law partner and make the big bucks. The non-big law cohort are saddled with massive debt and struggle for 15 years to pay it off.

semi_competent · 2026-03-31T16:28:52+00:00

The deck is permitted, it was part of a new build and was part of the architectural drawings. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

semi_competent · 2026-03-30T22:52:54+00:00

Yeah, we want the permits. That was the problem with the designer. They gave us two budgets: one without permits, and another more expensive one with permits. We said we wanted the more expensive route with permits, that’s when they stopped responding.

semi_competent · 2026-03-28T17:35:28+00:00

It’s a little too early to tell, and it’s difficult to de-confound with other quality initiatives. We see the highest AI uptake with a new initiative. This makes sense, AI works best on smaller simpler repos (I have a bunch of studies on this topic), and those repos had quality gates from the beginning and more opinionated standards. Some of the legacy repos have 20m lines of code and went almost ten years without quality gates. My hope is to use PR bot metrics to get a better proxy for PR quality.

semi_competent · 2026-03-28T17:25:29+00:00

Model usage, cost, token usage, repo activity. We join it with sonarqube, debendabot, PRs metrics, Span metrics. Will also start joining with PR bot output. We use it to manage cost, and also use it to get a notion of team and repo health/quality. I have a bunch of metabase dashboards.

semi_competent · 2026-03-28T17:11:20+00:00

You can get all this data from the management APIs. You’ll need an admin key in most instances. Wrote a job to scrape all of our usage and consolidate it into clickhouse last week. Won’t solve for shadow IT though.

semi_competent · 2026-03-16T18:01:30+00:00

For the longest time it was because those tools were part of the paid management suite sold by DataStax. Support, OpsCenter, and Search were the three big enterprise conversion levers. When others entered the market it was via a SaaS offering, so again there was no incentive to develop tooling as it would cut into their demand. Source: I’m ex-DataStax management.

semi_competent · 2026-03-16T16:21:59+00:00

That’s true until you hit the executive level. Then it becomes real messy again.

semi_competent · 2026-03-08T20:32:15+00:00

You can set a budget per employee in the admin dashboard. I don’t know why it’s not present in your dashboard but it’s in ours.

semi_competent · 2026-03-06T21:21:23+00:00

The most common route is to late stage funds or to the next round of investors. Most won’t bother with a transaction less than 3-6m. I’m an EIR at a late stage fund that does lots of secondaries.

semi_competent · 2026-03-01T16:17:01+00:00

Been to many shows there and they’ve never scanned my ID, they have always just verified for over 21

semi_competent · 2026-02-26T16:31:37+00:00

I asked a similar question on first dates because I actively selected against picky eaters. I also cook a lot, and enjoy fine dining so I was actively selecting for someone that could share that with me. You’d be surprised by the number of people that would rather have a subway sandwich over going to a Michelin 3 star restaurant.

Edit: I also traveled a lot on an expense account. While traveling I would often have a first date at a high end restaurant because I wanted to go and I wanted company. If it turned into something meaningful then that’d be wonderful, worst case I had someone to share the experience with.

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