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by Swizec 2y ago
> That’s what I’m going to tell myself when I stand on the bathroom scale in the morning. “I’m not fat, if I just compute my dry mass, I’m in superb condition.” So fun fact: I like to weigh myself before and after long runs on sunday (15
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by Swizec 2y ago
> The 2024 budget was $9.3b [1] versus $5.1b in 2011 [0] For context: Just keeping up with inflation puts the 2011 budget at $7.1b in 2024. They also claim to have "13 billion dollars contributed to the U.S. economy by visitor spend
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by Swizec 2y ago
> The greats are great because they enjoy the activity and would probably be doing it if no one was around or cared that they were. Do it for the fun, not the glory Dude is aiming for a 3h marathon so he’s already there purely for fun. T
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by Swizec 2y ago
I don’t remember the specific anecdotes too much, but the lessons make intuitive sense and feel useful. The one that sticks to mind most is that a good decision can have a bad outcome and that a good outcome doesn’t always mean the decision
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by Swizec 2y ago
Thinking in Bets has been one of the most useful books to how I approach software engineering. It’s not even about code, just how to make decisions effectively in limited information environments.
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by Swizec 2y ago
SOFA works great for marriage, if you tweak the params a little. Most secular people arrive at this by default: You marry your 3rd serious partner sometime in your late 20’s. Start a lot of long term relationships, finish the one that stick
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by Swizec 2y ago
Our parrot came with a crooked toe (probably dislocated when he was a baby) and he has a permanent pressure sore in his foot, to add even more nuance. It’s the foot he preferences when standing or sleeping so I don’t think it’s a big proble
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by Swizec 2y ago
> paying for part of the ticket is not an investment, as there's no residual value from this payment Disagree. There is a lot of residual value in reducing congestion and road usage. Roads need fewer repairs, CO2 impacts the atmosph
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by Swizec 2y ago
Here’s another way to think about it: Germany invested N billion into shifting behavior to rail. How many billions in subsidies has OpenAI gotten to build us a chatbot?
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by Swizec 2y ago
Yep that does happen and ultimately the goal of all this is that some sort of concensus is reached. The benefit is that you get a few seats representing curb setbacks and a few seats representing cancer kids and they both have to work toget
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Now, your neighbor just wants to talk to you about the rules for how far back new houses should be set from the curb, but every other sentence is about how sick those people are who think they have cancer, and how great party is with a
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by Swizec 2y ago
200+ base. The paper money is where it gets real interesting. Fingers crossed!
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by Swizec 2y ago
> But if one the people in that discussion is trans, and the other person doesn't believe that trans people are real ... Why tho? Just because we might disagree on the details of gender doesn't mean we can't discuss NIMBYi
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by Swizec 2y ago
> rather than through the lens of the broken US political parties / election system This is key, in my observation as an immigrant from Europe who's lived here ~10 years. Europe for the most part has multi-party democracies mea
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I'm over 15 years of experience, lost my job, and finding a job at 200k+ took months (Bay Area) Contrasting anecdata: I'm over 15 years of experience, started looking while employed, and got a 200k+ job in ~1 month. At an ear
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Should we also mandate that cars come with first aid kit Yes actually. Where I’m from cars are required to have a first aid kit and everyone who has a driver’s license needs to do a first aid course. You’ll be at the scene of an accide
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Singapore, which has an online visa process (traveler visa) which was a breeze to follow and was approved in under 2 days. Compare that to the US legal immigration system (USCIS) which if you ever have the misfortune of dealing with, i
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by Swizec 2y ago
I have done this ... and worse. Fun times. My favorite was waiting 2 days to compile Gentoo then realizing I never included the network driver for my card. But also this was the only machine with internet access in the house. Downloading
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by Swizec 2y ago
> If you can't attract an audience for your art, does it deserve funding? How do we decide that? Can anyone just make a papier-mache turd and get funding for it? If not, then who decides what is worth funding? On what basis? How do
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by Swizec 2y ago
> This is an oft-stated thing that I oft-disagree with. It states that engineers ought to be subordinate to PMs, which shouldn't always be the case. I think of it more as a partnership. If I’m in charge of getting groceries and you’
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by Swizec 2y ago
> For teams that don't have a good PM, you also need a tech champion Yes. And to add some nuance, you need a [trusted] engineer who can say “This will take 3 weeks because of tech debt items A, B, C. We can fix those in 1 week and t
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I have yet to visit this misterious universe you describe. The trick is to have 1 backlog. Tech debt and features live on the same list and it is up to the PM to prioritize. Engineering’s job is to argue cost. Good PMs will prioritize
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I wonder how long it has been since the drivers' championship was decided by a contest of driving superiority rather than the engineering the competing drivers were sitting in? I’ve been following F1 since the mid 90’s. It has alw
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by Swizec 2y ago
> 3.9k USD annually is a lot for a hobby. I'm not going to argue whether it's "just a bit much" or "ridiculous", but I think it's strange to imply that it's somehow not a lot. It adds up fast. Last
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by Swizec 2y ago
OpenAPI is only useful if you intend for your project to become bigger than what fits in your head or if you intend to keep a project alive for long enough to start forgetting things you did a while back.
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by Swizec 2y ago
The problem with hiring artisans is that most companies need a Honda Civic not an Enzo Ferrari. If they hire an artisan it’s just going to be frustrating for everyone involved. The business will pay more than the value received and wonder w
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by Swizec 2y ago
Let me share some recent experience. After 4 years of working remote, I changed to a new company that’s doing hybrid. Didn’t need to move or anything like that. The commute sucks just by virtue of existing. You can’t beat the ease of swappi
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Apologies for soapboxing, but I want to chip in my belief that this world is driven by those who see possibility & potential. Cynics never lose but optimists win.
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by Swizec 2y ago
> In what other world do we spend half of our time talking about and conforming to various 'methodologies Remember that this is largely about consultants selling advice to executives. This is not about getting stuff done. BUT softwa
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by Swizec 2y ago
> On the other hand, in my 50 years or so in this business, working with every size of company, I have never actually seen "waterfall" being done in practice. I'm sure it may have happened -- as you report -- but I don&#x2

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