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Sam Lin

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  1. They're the perfect key fob for Hyundai! https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-thieves-are-stealing-hyundais-and-kias-with-just-a-usb-cable
  2. Cool story? Speaker is a ceiling penetration and certainly can have water leak around it.
  3. Holy fuck instant divorce right there.
  4. Meh, he only shot him in the buttocks, seems a reasonable trade for the last Hot Pocket.
  5. Long ago I told my wife to stop doing mine because she kept fucking it up. Too much soap, gave my skin itchy red patches, wrong temperature, damages colors, dries them too long, shrinking them, then leaves them in the dryer, wrinkling them. That said, I never understood doing laundry every day. Do it when you have enough for a full load, otherwise you just waste power and water and your own time.
  6. Just re-read All the Light We Cannot See. Jesus what a beautiful book.
  7. I'm with you here, and I've had some very good Wellingtons. Even a great one, I still think to myself "what a waste of a good steak and a good pastry crust."
  8. Narrator: she did not learn a life lesson.
  9. How are those Betabej Crujiente things in top right?
  10. You rang? I bring a variety for coworkers whenever I travel.
  11. Interstellar was marred by having the stupidest fucking robot design imaginable. Seeing this thing destroyed all suspension of disbelief; if you design a piece of key mission equipment like this you deserve for the mission to fail.
  12. It sounds like it's a known Google issue with sharing lists that have a large number of entries (1000+). My list is something around 1500 so that explain the issue. Not sure if there's a workaround, still reading.
  13. Hmmm, I get same error when I try from a different account. Trying to figure this out...
  14. 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.
  15. I don't even know how to get that few hookers.
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. Meh, every cooking surface in most restaurants has had rats on it at one point. Just wash it and keep cooking. Reseason if needed.
  19. Her: "To grab dinner, dipshit. I just told you that."
  20. Inspired by France, bitches.
  21. 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?
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
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