Swizec

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by Swizec 3y ago
Here's a video about an intersection that had to be redesigned due to A-pillars. Vehicles approaching from opposite ends could hide in each other's blind spots and crash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpgpE6wjF30
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by Swizec 3y ago
Does crontab on a self-managed VM guarantee at least once delivery? For many, if not most, use-cases that guarantee is critical.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> which strongly implies you and only you fix it Asking for help is a perfectly encouraged way of fixing a problem. That's just a modality. You're still taking ownership of the situation and making steps to remedy. I'd go
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Misfortune isn't always our fault. How we respond to it is. In the motorcycling world we like to say "The cemetery is full of people who had right of way"
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by Swizec 3y ago
Distribution is a defendable moat however. Even for investors. Once you have a few thousand users giving you cold hard cash to use your service, you also have access to way _way_ better product development and marketing information. Not t
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Good execution remains differentiated. Levels is a good example of this. While we're sitting here waxing poetic about moat or no moat and what to do with these AI things, he's made some 7 figures in cold hard cash revenue fro
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by Swizec 3y ago
> > Works great in Singapore. > Heh. Where young people postpone marriage and continue to stay with their parents As opposed to USA where marriage rates are the lowest they’ve ever been? (still higher than all other OECD countries
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by Swizec 3y ago
Burnout doesn’t really come from too much work, you can be swamped to the brim and feel no burnout. Or you can be sitting bored for 8 hours at your desk stretching out 1 hour of responsibilities to last all day and feel super burned out. Th
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by Swizec 3y ago
Hiring a virtual assistant a few years ago was one of my best ever decisions. She's worth every penny and I don’t even use her services as much as I ptobably could.
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by Swizec 3y ago
I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm saying it's not a big part of public consciousness. You don't have movies that use identity theft as a plot point similar to how "teacher becomes meth dealer to pay for hea
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by Swizec 3y ago
Oh SSN as identification makes complete sense. But it can’t also be a password, that’s where these things go wrong. Growing up in Europe you never hear about identity theft as a thing that exists. I think it’s because you have to present of
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Very few companies have any way to differentiate between "person who has a SSN" vs "someone else who knows that SSN" Why is USA like this? The SSN thing has felt ridiculous ever since I moved here. “This is your SSN
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by Swizec 3y ago
> A lot of corporates still _kind_ of live in the past, hearkening back to a time when a three year old laptop was largely unusable With the amount of nannyware and spyware these corporations load up on your laptop it actually does fee
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by Swizec 3y ago
Software engineer is like a lawyer for JSON
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by Swizec 3y ago
> they will just integrate LLMs into Siri and across the iOS, macOS Latest autocorrect is already based on LLMs. https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/14/ios-17-2-disable-inline-text-... > just integrate the late
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by Swizec 3y ago
Apple is pretty good at long service life. I recently had to upgrade the OS on my moms Air and it was a pain in the butt because she ignored updates for so long that all the SSL authority certs expired and the internet didn’t work. Plus App
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by Swizec 3y ago
To give an obvious example, it seems every generation re-discovers the concepts of encapsulation and abstraction every 5 years or so. Each generation thinks we’re so smart for having figured this out and how much easier software development
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by Swizec 3y ago
> But I, like most people, am not actually forgoing paid work if I were to do them myself There’s more to opportunity cost than money. That’s time with family, time to just chill, time for hobbies, all sorts of stuff. Every time you pay
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I would've rather paid for them. You did pay for them. “Several hours of time” easily adds up to hundreds of dollars. Think about it this way: How much would you pay to get 1 hour of your time back? Like paying for takeout instead
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by Swizec 3y ago
> In small team environments, simple branching off of main and then committing prs directly to main is more than enough in my opinion. Interestingly enough, trunk based development is what all the big teams have arrived at also. It’s the
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by Swizec 3y ago
A smart man once said “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.” This would’ve been quite obvious to someone fleeing Germany in the 1930’s after seeing what happens when the people are panicked and afra
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by Swizec 3y ago
I have gotten two O1's and then the greencard version (EB2). It isn't easy in the "not a lot of work" sense, it's easy in the "not random" sense. If you put in the work (that also helps your career), tick
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by Swizec 3y ago
Vonnegut was right! Here’s a great lecture where he explains the 8 shapes of stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
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by Swizec 3y ago
> What had I missed from the 90s that didn't make it into the 00s? IRC was a big one. Back when you hopped on a server, typed in #cityname, and joined a lively realtime conversation with folks in your area. That was cool. I’m too yo
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by Swizec 3y ago
My lay-person understanding of stoicism is that it’s a philosophy that promotes an internal locus of control. Focus on the stuff you can control, let go of the stuff you can’t. Internal locus of control has shown up as a good strategy in se
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by Swizec 3y ago
> somebody showed transformers could generalize I read an interesting paper recently that had a great take on this: If you add enough data, nothing is outside training data. Thus solving the generalization problem. Wasn’t the main point
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by Swizec 3y ago
Yep this works great until it doesn’t. When I crashed after hitting a gravel patch it literally felt like a video game that skips a frame. My thoughts were “Gravel!” “Wait am I on the ground?” And a few moments later I stopped tumbling. The
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by Swizec 3y ago
> 128k context? Absolutely insane 128k context is great and all, but how effective are the middle 100,000 tokens? LLMs are known to struggle with remembering stuff that isn't at the start or end of the input. Known as the Lost Middl
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by Swizec 3y ago
The biggest problem for bikes when it comes to grip, in my experience, is that there is no redundancy. You brake hard, rear grip goes to zero, and you fishtail. Then you have to reduce braking force or you crash. This doesn’t happen in a ca
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by Swizec 3y ago
The silly/unfortunate part is that most people can’t threshold brake in emergency situations. It’s like saying “Doing the perfect thing every time is best”. Which is true but not useful. And they teach you about progressive braking in

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