Swizec

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by Swizec 2y ago
> In my experience, typing speed is never the issue. I've worked with truly 10x and better programmers in my life and the road block for even them is thinking not typing. Thinking is a lot easier when your output is seamless and rel
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by Swizec 2y ago
I want to talk to my ISPs customer service about as much as I want to talk to my municipal water supply’s customer service. Just work, damn it.
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by Swizec 2y ago
When I was in high school, our cable out of the country got cut on the border with Austria. For a few hours we could only access domestic websites, which was a pretty interesting experience. 20 years later I wonder how many of those are hos
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I think it's simpler than that: we sold out. > Tech in the 80s and 90s was the land of curious geeks who played with it because it was interesting, or because they had a goal they wanted to enable For me it was tech in the 90’s
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I have a Tesla with AEB that drives me up the wall. I'm often driving in heavy traffic, and occasionally need to quickly, but smoothly, stop within a few feet of the vehicle ahead. My car decides I'm cutting it too close, eng
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by Swizec 2y ago
“for want of” in this context means “because of not having” or “for lack of” It’s an older way of writing English. But not like super old. Basically the kingdom was lost because of 1 missing nail.
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by Swizec 2y ago
> something far more valuable than the CAPTCHA system itsel In terms of CAPTCHAs being valuable – the other day I couldn’t for the life of me solve a captcha. It was one of those “Solve the implicit question in the picture” kind where it
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by Swizec 2y ago
> And most people don't do long trips every week Most people don’t own multiple cars and wouldn’t rent a car for those rare use-cases when they already own a perfectly fine car. It may be overall cheaper to do that, but people don’t
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by Swizec 2y ago
+1 to Cook’s choice of the MX Master series. I switched to that family of mice back when RSI first started showing up in high school / early college. It has been consistently fantastic for the past .. err .. 18 years. Whenever I kill o
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by Swizec 2y ago
They all do? Age of exploration was powered by finding new sources of slaves and materials in the East (india, asia, also eastern europe to an extent) The mongol conquest itself was capturing vast sources of wealth (easier to take from othe
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I am wondering how getting frozen in medieval like time is even possible. Like, what are they _doing_? Not discovering sources of cheap energy and other raw inputs. If you look carefully at history, every rapid period of growth was pre
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I wonder, what took place in the last few years that in 100 years time will be defined as “pedestrian”. mRNA vaccines
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by Swizec 2y ago
> At this point, I view the job search process as stochastic rather than deterministic. Yes, it is sales. You are doing sales. Leads -> chats -> due dilligence -> offers -> negotiation -> conversions. This is also how the
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I'm really curious to see where higher education will go now that we have LLM's. I imagine the bar will just keep getting higher and more will be able to taught in less time On the other hand, 54% of US adults read and write
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I think of them as 2 different nodes, 2 instances of the same type of ingredient. But this is inconvenient during the shopping step of the process. There you want all uses of an ingredient (possibly across multiple recipes) collapsed i
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Can you give examples? Are we talking evolution or addition? Not GP but I can share a personal experience from high school: I was extremely advanced in English class. Like would literally finish a 45min exam in 10min and get an A. This
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by Swizec 2y ago
> or those "stay back x distance" signs on large trucks This is also because the truck driver can’t see you, if you follow too closely. If you can’t see their mirrors, they don’t know you exist. Obviously that’s not safe.
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by Swizec 2y ago
It’s incredibly easy to found/start a business. It’s incredibly hard to build that beginning into a profitable money machine.
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by Swizec 2y ago
> There are many other possible ways to achieve this, but the point is that further contribution at this point usually needs a radically different way. I do see that many companies tend to grant a title of "Staff Engineer" to t
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by Swizec 2y ago
Exactly. All of those are choices you have the agency to make. There is no “can’t” unless you are literally a slave (and even then)
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I know you caveated that with the "if you can" but I'd say the vast majority of people can't Most people have a lot more agency than they give themselves credit for. It just doesn’t hurt enough yet to face the cost
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by Swizec 2y ago
> 1. You have to build your app twice. I don't have a team large enough to write it once in Python and again in JS or TS. I have not found this to be true in almost 15 years of doing this[1]. Would be very curious to hear where you’
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by Swizec 2y ago
> What were we thinking? You can make a mess or not a mess in any framework. The tech is not the problem. I bet in a few years you’ll have just as big a mess with alpine+htmx as you do right now with vue+rest. Ultimately the only thing t
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by Swizec 2y ago
> So it is kind of geared towards wealthy people? Or young enough that there’s not much more to lose than a few years. If you’re choosing between going to a masters/phd or YC, then you’re in the right place. Or if you got laid off f
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by Swizec 2y ago
My favorite tool when defining project timelines: What are we not doing? There's an infinite number of nice-to-haves. A nice good deadline makes it super easy to clarify what you actually need vs what you only want.
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by Swizec 2y ago
Similar to this, one of the most mind-blowing papers I’ve read was Life at Low Reynold’s Number about how at the microorganism level water is virtually solid and inertia does not exist. https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Why would I want to retire? /../ I like working, it is my hobby and life. So you can work on things because you want to not because you have to. At least that's my plan. Not quite there yet.
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by Swizec 2y ago
> You haven't even attempted to address whether various developments in society and technology might do this to literacy the way earlier trends did to musical skills. I think that result is quite likely, by the way. Fair, I was maki
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by Swizec 2y ago
This is trivially observable as untrue to anyone with an athlete level of physical activity. Eating enough food to sustain training for a marathon is work . Consuming enough calories every day during peak training for a marathon is exhaust
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by Swizec 2y ago
> It isn't anymore, not for newer generations - e.g. Gen Z spending most of their time on Tiktok and phones, and not knowing how to use a word processor. This is a classic fallacy as old as society. “Whatever the hoi polloi are doin

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