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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I like your thought process here, but let me propose an alternative. I’m going to assume that we’re talking about Senior->Senior level reviews here. Junior engineers should obviously always get more guidance. But for Seniors, the alterna
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
At least with my AirPods or my fancy Master&Dynamic over-ear headphones, there is a pretty big difference in Apple Music vs others, but I don’t think it's necessarily about bitrate. I think Apple just gets higher quality masters of
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Yeah but how many people never ride a bike because of this danger? Or let their kids walk anywhere near a major street? Almost everyone that I know in the US shares that fear, and they aren’t entirely wrong to feel that way (due to the curr
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
This is also where the paid search engine comes into play. I get to pin Wikipedia so it’s always at the top whenever it’s relevant to my search, and there is almost zero SEO spam. And no ads. I use a mix of that and chatGPT together dependi
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Is it even possible for a sorta-non-profit-with-loopholes to IPO?
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Yes, in my case, but also fastmail includes unlimited @fastmail.com email addresses, delivered to your normal inbox, and can even be generated on the fly by password managers like Bitwarden.
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Very true, but I’ve still been interrupted a few times, and it’s always been positive. Makes me not want to wear earbuds, except that it can be really nice to listen to a podcast on the commute home. Once on a train, two women come up to me
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Agreed, except that nobody has done it. So SSN is your username and password anyways, despite everyone* knowing they’re all public knowledge at this point *: except judges and juries, apparently
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Density of the entire country is not super relevant — the vast vast majority of travel is within a city or two away from where you live. I’m not saying that nobody should ever drive, and if you have a long ways to go between obscure locatio
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Is buying old cars instead of new ones not voting with your wallet, as you suggest? I can’t think of a better way to convince car manufacturers to change than not buying newer cars. Especially if resale values of newer cars is lower than ol
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Very true! I’m positive that there are places that don’t fit my experience — but I think the majority does seem to match, at least in the places I’ve been (most of the popular Western European countries)
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Maybe not all, but there also aren’t really suburbs here anyways. The “suburbs” are their own mini cities which are also walkable with everything you need. I travel out there often for different things like unique shops. Each little “suburb
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I had a hard time reading this, but this quote really killed me: > public-transit options between distant suburbia and city centres are roughly comparable in America and Europe I used to live in America in four different cities, from eas
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
These things that you call Disney land parks, are where I’ve been living for the last year. It’s not Disneyland at all, though, since there is a bustling and productive economy (that I work in), even in the cities with minimal tourism. Actu
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I think your last paragraph ties this together. Every recent generation has felt like they have it harder than their parents, and it is usually brushed off as just hindsight bias. But I feel like we don’t look at it enough that maybe things
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I agree with you that car dependency is not the only problem that young people are facing. But it definitely exacerbates the other problems they’re facing. Financial insecurity, and needing to spend 30 mins and 2 gallons of gas just to se
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Yeah I totally get that. I’ve created projects that are used by the entire business and customer facing part of the company, which are so rock solid and user-friendly that the users and even developers who’ve come after me completely takes
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Living in a European city and relying 100% on public transit and walking, with occasional biking for longer distances, it’s easy. It does not require 5-10x the population density, maybe just 2-3x, at least compared to San Francisco (which i
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Wow I’ve listened to that album since I was a teenager and still never figured that out until right now
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I think their issue is that in standard Unix terminal you have to use Ctrl-Shift-C, since Ctrl-C is exit. This isn’t an issue in Mac because you use the Cmd key instead of Ctrl for copy, so there is no overlap
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I feel like the problem though is that people don’t trust their community, and they don’t trust that the kids will be safe. If the child’s playground is right next to a block of houses and shops with people walking around all day, it is muc
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
> Fast forward 10 years and the same problems will remain. I don’t have a strong opinion on UBI, but I want to challenge you on this. If everyone gets $20k per year, let’s say the median earner goes from $40k to $60k. An increase of 50%.
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I don’t know if that’s true. I currently live in Europe but lived most of my life in the US. I’ve had amazing Italian and Indian food, and more authentic, in Amsterdam, than I ever had living in the US (lived in multiple cities and regions)
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
This is the key. You can’t have a vacant building charging ridiculous rent because of “speculation” while there are 10 similar buildings nearby that charge half the price and have tenants. No sane investor would fund that
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
You can’t built a “$2k rental”. You can only build a rental that someone will pay for. Landlords are building luxury housing because it’s the only thing that’s profitable right now due to the immensely ridiculous laws that don’t help people
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I replied above to someone else about this same thing — you might be interested in that reply!
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Absolutely not! Just that it’s more likely for someone to be able to take a job like that without becoming homeless or hungry, since there are a decent amount of young people who don’t need a lot. I was mostly just trying to give a steel-ma
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
It’s totally relevant because someone in their 20s might be able to live with their parents, or has multiple roommates etc. The amount of money that they need is much less than that of someone more established. It is a really interesting co
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
It goes against their core principle though, of ensuring that their users are their customers, not the product. If advertisers become their customers, then the incentives might start to break just a little at a time. As long as you’re the (
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
The subheading says: > When prompted with an idea, ChatGPT will automatically generate tailored, detailed prompts for DALL-E 3 Then there’s a video of someone typing into ChatGPT and it responding with images

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