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by Swizec 3y ago
> I feel like no successful person would describe what they did before they became successful as "nothing" My favorite life motto that I stole from who knows where: Do things that, if they succeed, make the rest of your life&#x
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by Swizec 3y ago
Remember: Finding a job is a sales process. You are selling a $1,000,000+ product (yourself over N years of anticipated tenure). How would you approach making a million dollar sale if it wasn’t called a job? Do that. Your CV or resume is sa
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Once people try electric they won’t go back to the nightmare that is the internal combustion engine Infrastructure needs to catch up a bit more. I’ve tried electric and it was a nightmare if you don’t have a place to charge at home.
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by Swizec 3y ago
Yes. Same thing applies: the book is deeper and more nuanced than the movie. There’s just more room. Modern 8 to 10 episode series can get close to being as nuanced as a good book. You simply need space to go deep, no amount of cleverness w
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by Swizec 3y ago
Hey if you’re getting the depth of a book, it’s a book no matter the format. My objection is to surface level edutainment formats that feed your brain chicken nuggets but trick you into thinking it was steak. Lots of surface level books tha
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by Swizec 3y ago
The depth of a book is vastly different than the 10min youtube video summarizing said book. I’ve tried both modern and legacy form factors and honestly I’m on camp book more and more as the years go on. The modern stuff feels like total flu
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Nvidia's now worth as much as the entire Chinese stock market(morningstar.com)
8 points by Swizec 3y ago|1 comments
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> any piece of core logic is scattered over 102 code points in 34 modules — instead of just residing in a single, well readable and commented main function that would neatly self-explain The tragedy of McCabe metrics is that this is a to
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by Swizec 3y ago
I too have astigmatism and am a light mode enjoyer. Dark mode makes the letters dance in front of my eyes. Display brightness at 20% is life. Never made sense to me why you’d shine the light of a thousand suns in your eyes then put sunglass
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by Swizec 3y ago
Well growing up I got a Slovenian-centric perspective. Except in elementary and middle school it was still a little Yugoslavian-centric because we hadn’t yet quite decided what we wanted to highlight. Very interesting transformation to obse
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by Swizec 3y ago
> one of the worst applications i could imagine it being used for is helping develop young peoples' world views As opposed to straight up government propaganda in textbooks? At least chatgpt averages out everyone’s propaganda. edit
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by Swizec 3y ago
> IMHO, an exhaust modification that adds more than 10db to the factory provided one should be illegal. It's easy to think of next steps for cars that are made noisy in the factory, but it's incredible that nothing is being do
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Soup! Hens make delicious delicious soup. Meat comes out of a good soup tasting like sawdust anyway.
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by Swizec 3y ago
It’s certainly almost as heavy. Unfortunately iOS is very nerfed compared to MacOS even though my M2 iPad probably hs more compute than my i9 laptop.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I never used the iPad is anything more than a consumption device Same until I got the keyboard. Most of my iPads collected dust in a corner because I don’t really do that much consumption. Then I got the Magic Keyboard and my iPad basi
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Herman Potočnik – the man who invented space stations in 1929(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Swizec 3y ago|1 comments
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by Swizec 3y ago
> and the Austrians too Funfact: Nobody knows exactly how many people of Slovenian descent live in USA because until 1918 many of them just said "Austrian" on the immigration forms to avoid anti-slavic sentiment. And we were te
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by Swizec 3y ago
As a 0th gen immigrant from a low income country (Slovenia), I have been told many times that DEI is not for me. My minority is too small so I just count as white. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Swizec 3y ago
> both Polish-programmer and Polish-typist keyboard layouts Brilliant! Growing up in Slovenia there was only the typist locale, qwertz of course. Coding was full of altgr + <key> combos and it gets real annoying real fast. Most of
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by Swizec 3y ago
> give the interviewers their desired robotic answers As someone who has interviewed a lot of people – robotic answers are specifically not what I (we?) look for. The difference between hands-on experience and book knowledge is exactly
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by Swizec 3y ago
Just in case you didn't notice: patio11, author of the comment you're replying to, is also the author behind BitsAboutMoney, the source of this article/series.
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> The rules in my area are two spots per bedroom - mandatory Wait am I reading this right that a 3-bedroom family home would come with space for six cars ? How many families have 6 cars that's insane O.O Sounds like a regulation s
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> Does the flavor really permeate the meat? Or could we just added the spices during / after cooking? You can taste the difference. We’ve done blind tests in terms of rushing the process and people always notice the difference. “Did
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by Swizec 3y ago
Actually correct. Barbell investing: cap your downside (salary), go biggest bet you can find with the rest (early stage equity). Founders have higher max returns, but they also have bigger variance and often forget to cap their downside whe
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by Swizec 3y ago
> must sometimes be done in the least efficient way possible, as an image or a series of tweets Try tiktok and instagram, they’re to kids these days what twitter was to us 10 years ago. There’s a huge trend on those platforms of people s
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by Swizec 3y ago
> You want to jump, spin, crouch, crawl, lie down I played Squid Game VR at one of those whole room VR places recently. It was great! We could run, crouch, jump, spin, and interact with others. It all worked. It was even part of the game
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Usually when we select from a relational table, we select properties. In SQL, the drawer is not a thing Ah but that’s by convention! If we want to be super pedantic, they’re all just relations. The drawer table describes a relation bet
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by Swizec 3y ago
> he idea that the from clause is evaluated/executed/defined first is a pain point Maybe my brain is broken by years of SQL and from learning English as a second language. But isn’t this supposed to follow a fairly mundane Engl
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by Swizec 3y ago
> is the difference expensive equipment vs human lives? The difference is in safety margins. You really shouldn't drive a vehicle to within 2cm of any object on public streets. Not even while parking. 0.5m (2ft) is about the closest
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Could that be because for these machines, the pedestrian deaths are usually members of the tractor drivers' family I have a different guess after seeing tractors in use as a kid: Driving tractors is a high precision affair. You&#

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