Swizec

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by Swizec 1y ago
Just send the damn bullet points! Everyone will thank you
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by Swizec 1y ago
> the comparison to smart contracts is a less-than-helpful lens Oh no that’s not what I meant. Sorry too much snark. I was trying to say that on-demand-AI-figures-out-whatever will be so eminently hackable/brickable that companies
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> There’s a future coming where every request execution could be through a different effective code path/base. Every CISO and legal department just had a heart attack. And every cryptobro went: “See! Big big market” (for paying rans
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> What?? What do you think we’re doing instead of handwashing clothes exactly? The average American spends almost 3 hours per day on social media. [1] The average American spends 1.5 hours per day watching streaming media. [2] That’s a l
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by Swizec 1y ago
Življenje in tehnika[1] – popular science magazine in Slovenia that's been running since 1950. Grandparents used to have my uncle's collection from I guess his high school years. Spanned from the mid 70's and into the 80&#x27
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by Swizec 1y ago
> The Soviet Venera program was really fascinating Reading my uncle’s old tech magazines and sci-fi from the 70’s was fascinating. Eastern European sci fi was all about colonizing Venus and the Venera landers. The way kids in USA are obs
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Has there been any big changes Yes and no. We’ll never know. There are small changes all the time . You and I wouldn’t even notice the difference. But if you compared today’s flavor to the flavor of 100 years ago side-by-side, I bet i
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by Swizec 1y ago
> How much ongoing effort should be put into handling the possibility that this particular requirement might change? How likely is it that the world freezes and stops changing around your software? This includes business processes, depen
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> Investors always encourage it because it reduces their risk... One of you can be fired and they still have the backup. But when it is all on you there is no passing the buck. The reason is reduces their risk isn’t firing 1 cofounder, i
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by Swizec 1y ago
There’s a nuance here that matters. Pursuing happiness means you use happiness as a leading indicator (I think). You do things that you predict will make you happy. This is commonly preyed upon by advertising, sales, managers, bosses, etc.
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by Swizec 1y ago
> 15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that Well put. Happiness is a byproduct not a goal. Lack of happiness can be a signal to change things up.
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> 2. Dont deport illegal immigrants who have USC kids (basically making birthright transitive to parents) Birthright is somewhat transitive. US citizens can sponsor family members for a green card once they’re 18.
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> We're a society where knowledge is power, and by using AI tooling to atrophy that knowledge, you reduce power into fewer hands. Knowledge isn’t power. Power is power. You can just buy knowledge and it’s not even that expensive. As
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by Swizec 1y ago
> write out the bullets of the points I want to make Just send those bullet points. Everyone will thank you
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> I wish I knew how I did it, because I've been unable to regain that same "this is just what I do now and it's fine" level of acceptance that seemed to be the key. Sometimes it’s as simple as “doesn’t hurt enough yet
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> wouldn’t want society to know we were about to collide with a star-sized mass I may be misunderstanding the distances involved but wouldn't such a collision take centuries if not thousands of years to play out? For the most part i
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by Swizec 2y ago
I went to a technical high school for software engineering in Slovenia and it was fantastic. We learned C/C++, SQL, relational data modeling, basics of OOP, assembly for microcontrollers, IT administrator stuff, networking/interne
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by Swizec 2y ago
> On the other side of this argument, I've seen "just run the dishwasher twice" used as shorthand for giving yourself permission to do whatever is needed to get the job done and not letting perfectionism paralyze you from
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I used to be uptight about how to load the dishwater until I put away a load that was packed by my partner, "like a raccoon on meth", and noticed there wasn't a difference in the cleanliness. My partner loads the dishwas
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by Swizec 2y ago
If only there were some way for websites to serve information and provide interactivity in a machine readable format. Like some sort of application programming interface. You could even return different formats based on some sort of 4-lette
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by Swizec 2y ago
> the perfect usable computer can't end up being a TV, right? And yet. From a few days ago: What if I just want a faster horse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43652723
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> The vast majority of cases stock options end up worthless My fav manager had a great way of phrasing this: "There are more ways for your options to be worthless than to make you rich" But I also personally know plenty of peop
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A lot of nuance in that question. The web doesn’t work quite like native – you generally don’t think about threads and blocking in the same way. Anything CPU-bound blocks the JS-based UI thread on web, but not necessarily the browser’s nati
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> why is the old version so slow In my experience of building consumer web applications, they all start fast. Then someone says “We need to track every interaction in mixpanel. What’s even the point if we don’t know it happened”. Then th
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> But developers need to go in with their eyes open when it comes to adopting these throw-away libraries and frameworks. For contrast: My entire company is less than 4 years old and any code from 6 months ago feels old because things (in
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Most European cars already have engine braking. EV regenerative braking just maintains the behavior that folks only used to automatics forgot about. Automatics I think are still not super common in Europe.
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> How does this theory show that birds didn't first become intelligent, and then started cheating because they're now intelligent enough to do it? I recommend reading the linked book from a bird expert who has been studying thi
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They do according to the source I linked. At least some species seem to, it's not all birds. You have to remember that "bird" is not like "human", it's more like "mammal". Lots of variation between sp
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> The better they get at predicting what the low animals on the surface are doing, the more opportunities that they have to sneak in and sneak out safely to get a meal The most compelling explanation for bird intelligence I’ve read[1] ar
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Trade wars lead to shooting wars and depressions (2018)(fee.org)
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