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by Swizec 1y ago
> "did we build a vehicle faster than a horse, yes/no?" Yeah fair. There's also that famous human vs horse race that happens every few years. So far humans keep winning (because it's long distance)
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Firstly, automobiles are really impressive. Second, with that out the way, these cars are not playing the same game as horses Yes. That’s why cars don’t compete in equestrian events and horses don’t go to F1 races. This non-controversi
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by Swizec 1y ago
Croatia is in the EU so it's beyond unlikely that BiH and Serbia will cause any shenanigans. I'm very happy that Slovenia is 9th safest. And wondering wtf I'm doing in USA which is rapidly falling to the bottom.
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by Swizec 1y ago
For the record, the TanStack name comes from the community. Eventually Tanner stopped fighting back and made it official
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Do you have any advice for accumulating and sharing relevant anecdotes? For me blogging for the past 15 or so years has been the secret ingredient. I regularly sit down and distill things into an approachable form then send off to my a
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by Swizec 1y ago
> I'm truly impressed about others who can just come up with interesting or funny things to say on the spot. As Winston Churchill once said when asked “what are you doing” –> “Oh just preparing my off-the-cuff remarks for tomorro
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by Swizec 1y ago
> I generally agree, but they're focused mostly on 65+ age group Another aspect possibly driving this: In USA a lot of people get divorced immediately after a cancer (or similar) diagnosis. That way only one of you goes bankrupt and
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by Swizec 1y ago
> The less new activities are performed the faster time is perceived when looking back. During the events it might be the opposite and actually feel longer. There is another side to this: So much novelty that you have no time to consolid
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by Swizec 1y ago
> The Mini didn’t fail because it was too small. It failed because it wasn’t small enough. The size is fine. But why they gotta handicap cameras? All I want is a mini-sized phone with max's camera. Is that so much to ask for? At thi
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Spreadsheets don’t really have the ability to promote propaganda and manipulate people May I introduce you to the magic of "KPI" and "Bonus tied to performance"? You'd be surprised how much good and bad in the
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Sorry, you jumped a little here. Who is "we"? Right, this was in high school some 20 years ago in Slovenia and also in college after. Anything graded happened at school. All tests were open answer where you have to write 2 or
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Because that results in less education time. If you do homework in class then you have to give up lecture time. Homework is the real education time. The lecture is less than half the ingredients. You can't learn without engaging w
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by Swizec 1y ago
> By pure construction memory is always going to be faster than disk, right up to the point where disk is inplemented as memory You can get servers with terabytes of RAM these days. How many startups’ and small to medium businesses’ en
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by Swizec 1y ago
That’s the best part! Making decisions that keep you in good shape until 89 are also likely to help you live until 100. At that age if you can avoid cancer the rest is stuff like “Strong enough so you don’t break a hip when tripping on the
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by Swizec 1y ago
> I think anyone that thinks mudball is OK because business is messy has never seen true mudball code. I’ve seen and created some pretty bad stuff. Point is not that it’s okay, but that that’s the job: managing, extending, and fixing the
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by Swizec 1y ago
What about quality of life adjusted life years? I don’t want to live to 100 and be miserable for the last 30 But if you can get me 90 years where I feel like a spring chicken until 89, then that’s just fine.
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by Swizec 1y ago
> People are using them [LLMs] for everything Yeah and when I was in college, StackOverflow was full of questions like “how do I add 2 numbers with jQuery”. This is normal. The newbies don’t know what they’re doing and with time they wi
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by Swizec 1y ago
> So, is pile-of-if-statements the best we can do for business software? You’ll enjoy the Big Ball of Mud paper[1]. Real world systems are prone to decay. You first of all start with a big ball of mud because you’re building a system bef
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Does anyone read blogs anymore? Yes. We call them newsletters now. Podcasts, if they're audio. Many are both.
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by Swizec 1y ago
> while I’d love to go to conferences, taking time out of my own PTO and my own wallet to see them isn’t worth it I’ve been using PTO and my own dime for conferences this whole time! It’s been super worth it career-wise especially as a s
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by Swizec 1y ago
Question: How much is this impacted by people who read for pleasure but fool themselves into thinking it's useful? Many books are closer to edutainment than practical applicable advice. To a certain type of person these are easier to r
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by Swizec 1y ago
> It's rough watching kids try to multiply when they don't have their times tables memorized As someone who never learned my multiplication tables – it’s fine. I have a few cached lookups and my brain is fast at factoring. 8*6?
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by Swizec 1y ago
> In France, back when I went to school, not sure now, though I hope it hasn't changed, as a child, you'd only be allowed to use fountain pens. Kids learning to write have constantly stained hands while they learn to use it pro
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> For all the interviewee knows, you're going to ding them and ultimately fail them for asking too many questions and not exhibiting knowledge and experience. I start the interview with “I am here in the role of PM and co-engineer s
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> Do you tell people this explicitly? Yes and no. I give them rough scale numbers to design for. Part of the interview is knowing why I’m telling you this.
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> The interview is your chance to show you know the topics and when to apply them, not the time to argue that the startup shouldn’t care about such matters. A good way to answer these, I think, is some version of ”We probably won’t run
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by Swizec 1y ago
> These are not the answers they're looking for. These ARE the answers we are looking for. As the system design interview (I’ve done hundreds) I want you to start with these answers then we can layer on complexity if you’ve solved t
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by Swizec 1y ago
> Why does that feel naive to you, though? The 3 ladders. People on the sociopaths (Elites) ladder think of everyone else – the clueless (educated gentry) and economic losers (labour) – as naive. The clueless ladder comes off as most na
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by Swizec 1y ago
I know things are bad, we all know things are bad. But first you’ve got to get mad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug Here’s the thing: We’re in the complaining stage. It doesn’t hurt enough yet. When it does, we’
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> why certain people found believable in the first place Because Tesla’s brand perception is that of a shady company who would do something like this and nobody would be surprised. How they built that reputation I don’t know, lots of lit

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