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Sam Lin

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  1. That's really a tough one, as it depends more on the technical guy and not on how you ask. Yes you can ask and frame it better, but it ultimately comes down to the techie being able to give you a TL:DR or not. Many of them simply don't have that editing/writing ability; it's possibly the entire reason they became techies. The way you can help it yourself is...to become more technical, or at least ask more technically,, so you can ask them more specific questions that they can answer with specific answers, and you use that info to generate your own TL:DR. Old boss used to say "don't write me a novel." EDIT: Start with Why, your statement totally nails it. In keeping a company's focus, esp in a product role, it is absolutely key. My issue with it is as you say, that he's marketing it as an "end all be all," and it just isn't.
  2. I don't even know how to get that few hookers.
  3. Goddammit, I was just in Bangkok 3hrs ago, now have driven north a bit. Woulda bought you a beer or 4. Let me know if you have Bangkok questions.
  4. See if this is useful. It's all my food bookmarks, which is worldwide but includes most of the BBQ recs on here as well as burger, hole in the wall, and random other dining recs. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vf7UHPQ8ZopG3WncA
  5. Meh, every cooking surface in most restaurants has had rats on it at one point. Just wash it and keep cooking. Reseason if needed.
  6. Her: "To grab dinner, dipshit. I just told you that."
  7. Inspired by France, bitches.
  8. Not only that, but brands fucking with their established sizing and fits! Ralph Lauren managed to push me away by adjusting, adding, and removing random fit options every few years to the point where I now don't know wtf size actually fits me, and gave up on trying. Custom Fit, Custom Slim Fit, Slim Fit, Regular Fit, but a Regular M is not the same size as a Regular M from 5 years ago is not the same as a Regular M from 10 years ago. I can somewhat forgive lack of standardization across different brands, but within a brand??? WTF are you doing?
  9. Fuggin' love Ochs and Junior for the simplicity (low number of parts) with which they are able to add complications to a very basic movement, and how clever and clearly they display the complication. There isn't an easier to read complication face on the market. Results in a fairly "tall" movement, which is unfortunate for my small wrists, but as an engineer I'm a huge fan.
  10. Finished Start with Why, and Radical Candor. Start with Why was weak and definitely fits the Emu method you mentioned above: find some cheese analogy, find some examples to fit, and blather on and on. Use it to sell Ted talks and corporate seminars. Part of the weakness is because so many of the examples are now poor examples due to the tides of change in history. He repeatedly cites examples like Harley, SW Airlines, Apple, Walmart, GM, Microsoft, and in many cases like Harley and SW, the "today version" of the example actually refutes his point. But my overall reaction to it was "what is his point?" On the surface it seemed to pass the Emu test, but think more about the statements he makes, try to apply more examples, and it just has no substance. Yes a company should have a clear goal or mission statement and employees should know it and feel it, but that is not the secret sauce that has allowed some companies to succeed and others fail. Radical Candor is a useful one. I think it is too wordy and needs editing, it would be easier to implement and if it had a clearer statement, and it gets a bit lost explaning how to handle edge cases, but the message and techniques are applicable and useful for most. Of what I've read in the past month (sort of cramming management books), I'd recommend Turn the Ship Around and The Undoing Project to anyone/everyone (and bought copies of Turn for some of my staff), Radical Candor to some, TF&S to some. Would not recommend Start.
  11. Why remove them? They're signs of great soil and they don't hurt anything. They typically vanish in a day on their own and are biomass.
  12. Risks of random juice jacking have been fairly well debunked by now. And phones have gotten harder to hack via USB, newer ones all prompt the user to log in and allow data access before any data connection is allowed. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/fearmongering-over-public-charging-stations-needs-to-stop-heres-why/
  13. I thought that was months ago news?
  14. Nope, not sure who you're thinking of.
  15. You sure? Because Alpo definitely looks like my brain on drugs.
  16. You never go wrong with flowers. Don't question, just get them. Not sure? Get them. Sure? Get them. Think there's zero reason to get them? Get them.
  17. Don't reply at all, just toss it. I thought I read somewhere that if you get in contact it may reset some sort of collection timer in their system so they keep trying instead of abandoning the collection sooner. (This is based on random shit I read on Google, so it is worth less than you paid for it and may have come out of my ass after coming out of someone else's ass first.)
  18. You didn't let Roflbox borrow your car for years, did you?
  19. The feature you are looking for is called "pass-through charging" and is somewhat rare. Anker doesn't do it any more, here's their explanation why: https://support.anker.com/s/article/Do-Anker-power-banks-support-pass-through-charging Their wall plug power banks like linked above will not simultaneously charge the power bank and your connected device, they will finish charging your device first and then to back to charging their internal battery.
  20. If that's the goal, have a local metal shop laser cut you a piece of steel to fit your grill. Much less fiddly than a bunch of griddle pans, and you don't have the lost cooking space from the joints between pans. Or, even easier and cheaper, just buy a griddle insert that fits your grill: https://www.amazon.com/SQ180-Stainless-Universal-Griddle-Tailgating/dp/B000HQHBSQ
  21. This. Criteria #1 when I bought was no HOA. I dgaf what my neighbor does with his property, because it's none of my damn business.
  22. You need to watch Ping Pong Playa. It is stupid and hilarious.
  23. Snakes on a Plane
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